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Paideia Academy 2007

November 29-December 2, 2007
Paideia Academy 2007: VISTA Expertise Network launches MUMPS/VISTA intiative to create a new generation of VISTA experts. Click for more information.

Human Factors Engineering in Health Informatics

Second International Conference on Human Factors Engineering and Usability for Healthcare Information Technology Applications
June 7-8, 2007, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
www.HFEinHI2007.org

The Danish Socity for Medical Informatics is Denmark's medical-informatics professional association and its national member organization in IMIA. This conference will explore how to drive down medical errors with good user-interface design for medical software.

Fifteenth VistA Community Meeting

June 15-17, 2007, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
www.worldvista.org

WorldVistA is a nonprofit organization formed to improve healthcare worldwide by making medical information technology better and universally affordable. This is WorldVistA's periodic conference for VISTA community members and others interested in VISTA. Webpage, agenda, and other meeting details to be announced.

HIMSS Summit 2007

Transformational IT Governance
June 25-26, 2007, The San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina, San Diego, California, USA
www.himsssummit.org/?src=hwebadv&camp=sitetraf

The Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is a nonprofit, international healthcare membership organization focused on providing leadership for the best use of healthcare information technology and management systems to improve health. The educational track at HIMSS 2007 includes the future of healthcare information technology (IT) from strategy to practice; management methods and skills relevant to healthcare IT; effective integration of healthcare technology to achieve business goals and improve clinical processes; and the impact of electronic health records (EHR) on the healthcare IT industry.

CARS 2007

Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 21st International Congress and Exhibition
June 27-30, 2007, International Congress Center, Berlin, Germany
www.cars-int.org

CARS is an international symposium on computer-assisted radiology, surgery, imaging, and diagnosis, drawing between 1,000 and 1,400 participants annually from Europe, Asia, and the United States. With up to four parallel tracks representing the different specialties and an exhibit hall, this congress explores and demonstrates the state of the art for these medical-informatics disciplines.

2007 VHA eHealth University

August 20-23, 2007 (or possibly August 13-16, still to be decided), location to be announced
www1.va.gov/CPRSdemo/

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the branch of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) responsible for providing America's veterans with primary care, specialized care, and related medical and social support services; the VHA's Office of Information is responsible for the ongoing support and development of VISTA within VA. This is the annual training conference of the VHA, the best training available for CPRS and related VISTA packages. Webpage, agenda, and other meeting details to be announced.

AIME 07

Eleventh Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
July 7-11, 2007, De Rode Hoed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.aimedicine.eu/aime07

The European Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) was established to foster fundamental and applied research in the application of AI to medical care and medical research and to provide a forum for reporting at biennial conferences about significant results achieved. The conference itself will mainly consist of doctoral consortia, workshops, and presentations about the state of the art in medical AI.

Twelfth International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (iSHIMR)

From Research to Development to Implementation: Challenges in Health Informatics and Health Information Management
July 18-20, 2007, St. Pauls Hotel, Sheffield, UK
dagda.shef.ac.uk/ishimr07/index.html

The Centre for Health Information Management at the University of Sheffield is the original creator of this event and hosts it again this year. ISHIMR 2007 brings together people who are carrying out or are interested in research and progress in health-information management and health informatics, and it provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of their research activities.

CIMED2007

Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare
July 25-27, 2007, Sherwell Centre, Plymouth, Devon, UK
biopattern.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/CIMED2007/

The university of Plymouth is hosting and co-sponsoring CIMED2007. This strongly interdisciplinary conference focuses on the application of intelligent computational methods and systems to support all areas of biomedical, clinical, and healthcare practice, bringing together healthcare specialists, clinicians, biomedical engineers, bioinformaticians, computer scientists, communications and computer network engineers, and medical/biostatisticians. It will include poster and paper sessions, exhibits, and special sessions.

MedInfo 2007

Twelfth World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics: Building Sustainable Health Systems
August 19-24, 2007, Brisbane Convention Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
www.medinfo2007.org

The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) is the premier international professional association for medical informatics; IMIA's mission is the promotion and advancement of medical informatics in an environment of cooperation and sharing. The Medinfo conference is IMIA's triennial international meeting; the four tracks at this conference will be sustainable health systems, national health challenges for the developed and developing world, knowledge informing safe and effective health care, and social and political change.

AMIA 2007

Biomedical and Health Informatics from Foundations to Applications to Policy
November 10-14, 2007, Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Chicago, Illinois, USA
http://www.amia.org/meetings/f07

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is the USA's primary professional association for medical informatics professionals, and the USA's national member of the International Medical Informatics Association; AMIA's mission is to develop and use health information technology to improve the health of Americans. The annual conference of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) will include medical-informatics overviews, panels, demonstrations, papers, posters, and in-depth tutorials.