HIMAA Calendar of Events is an easily accessible guide to What's On for health information management professionals. 

Covering more than just events and seminars within HIMAA, here you will find details for relevant conferences and events from a range of health information and IT events globally.
These pages are regularly updated with current and future events related to Health Information Management, along with the necessary links to more information.

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2009

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2009

Members of the healthcare community are invited to attend the third annual Connectathon Conference, a one-day event including a luncheon and tour of the IHE Connectathon. The day will include presentations by leaders in driving the adoption of electronic health records, personal health record systems and national health information networks. Attendees will also learn about IHE's support for these critical improvements in healthcare and receive an introduction to the IHE interoperability testing process.

The IHE Connectathon is the healthcare IT industry's only large-scale interoperability testing event. More than seventy healthcare IT organizations, have registered to test over 130 systems at this year's event. Attendees will have the opportunity to observe the Connectathon as it takes place and learn about its significance in enabling the connected health system.

Registration is limited. There is a fee of US$150 each for conference attendees.

Click here for online conference registration. 
Click here for information on hotel reservations at the Hyatt Regency - Chicago.

The Early Bird registration ends Friday 30 January (extended from 10 December). 
We invite you to register either online or by means of the registration form included in attached conference brochure.

The NCCH conference will present some notable speakers including:

• Gavin Andrews 
• Kent Spackman 
• Olafr Steinum 
• Gunnar Henriksson 
• Ulrich Vogel 
• Rosemary Roberts 

Topics will include:

• Status of development of ICD-11 including: 
  • a keynote presentation on the mental health aspects of ICD-11 
  • developments in the injury and external cause chapters of ICD-11 
• SNOMED CT - more about it and its use in a hospital intensive care unit research project Developments in traditional medicine classification 
• How the German modification of ICD was developed Singapore developments in classification and casemix 
• Insight into the use of ICD and ACHI coded data in patient safety, child abuse research and injury prevention 
• Clinical updates on infectious diseases and cardiovascular procedures 
• Practical applications of coding audit mechanisms and PICQ

Download the registration brochure (PDF) here

The Med-e-Tel conference program will feature an exciting opening session with contributions from the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth, European Health Telematics Association, Russian Telemedicine Association, European Commission, International Telecommunication Union and others who will provide insights into current initiatives and future directions in telemedicine and ehealth.  
For further information and registration, please visit: http://www.medetel.eu 

Pervasive healthcare is an emerging research discipline, focusing on the development and application of pervasive and ubiquitous computing technology for healthcare and wellness. Pervasive healthcare seeks to respond to a variety of pressures on healthcare systems, including the increased incidence of life-style related and chronic diseases, emerging consumerism in healthcare, need for empowering patients and relatives for self-care and management of their health, and need to provide seamless access for health care services, independent of time and place.

For further information and registration, please visit: http://www.pervasivehealth.org 

Healthbeyond is a one day event focusing on how technology can be used to improve the health and wellbeing of consumers. It is going to be a fast paced and engaging series of lectures and demonstrations looking at new areas such as games and online communities, as well more traditional areas such as home monitoring and personal health records. Healthbeyond has an outstanding line up of speakers contributing to a very strong program, more details are available on the Healthbeyond website at www.healthbeyond.org.au. 

The day has been developed for healthcare professionals and we expect a wide coverage of delegates across, physicians, nurses, allied health professionals and carers. Our hope is to provide healthcare providers with the information they need to better guide their patients in the use of these new technologies.

With the significant support of the National EHealth Transition Authority (NEHTA) we have been able to make the day extremely low cost, with full day attendance being set at $25 and the availability of a two for one offer for CeH member organisations.

Visit http://www.healthbeyond.org.au/program to view Healthbeyond program or http://www.healthbeyond.org.au/register to register. Alternatively visit the Healthbeyond web site at http://www.healthbeyond.org.au for further information.

We look forward to seeing you at Healthbeyond.

The workshop will be conducted in conjunction with Statistics New Zealand's forum on The Injury Information Program Friday 4 December 2009.

The Australasian Mortality Data Interest Group (AMDIG) invites submissions for oral presentation at this popular workshop.

The theme for this year's workshop is "External Causes of Mortality".

Paper selection will be based on innovation and relevance from national, international and regional perspectives.

Authors from countries working toward or with an interest in developing mortality data systems are encouraged to submit abstracts.

Information about AMDIG can be located at: http://nis-web.fhs.usyd.edu.au/ncch_new/AMDIG.aspx 

Format of the Conference The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line).

For further information, please visit: http://www.ehealth-conf.org/ 

Click HERE to download the Program and Registration forms in PDF

The theme "Striving 4 Balance" will address and discuss the challenges and issues in meeting the balance between individuals, business and government needs in relation to records, information and data management and related business requirements.

We have planned a dynamic and exciting program which includes presentations in two streams "New Thinking" and "Harnessing Technology" as well as vendor case studies, panel and round table discussions, workshops, site visits, special interest group meetings, a large trade exhibition and as always, many great opportunities for networking, including a fantastic social program.

Please see the Convention site: www.rmaa.com.au/natcon2009/ for more information about the event and to download the Registration Program.