SOCIEDAD ESPAÑOLA DE INFORMÁTICA DE LA SALUD

13th WORLD CONGRESS ON MEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS
12 TO 15 SEPTEMBER 2010
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 15 OCTOBER 2009 

Submit your paper on-line www.medinfo2010.org

The conference theme is "Partnerships for effective e-Health solutions", with a particular focus on how innovative collaborations can promote sustainable solutions to health
challenges.
Submissions are sought for papers, posters, panels, workshops and tutorials which may embrace this broad theme or may be focused on other areas of biomedical informatics. The contributions should relate to one of the following topic areas:
 Health information systems design and architecture
• E-health infrastructures
• Health informatics evaluation
• Education and building health informatics capacity
• Consumer health informatics
• Translational bioinformatics 
• Emerging technologies
• Decision support systems
• Knowledge management
• Ontologies and terminologies
• Data and text mining
• Organizational, economic, workflow and policy issues
• Standards
• Electronic health records 
• National and international health IT efforts and implementations


SCHEDULE & DEADLINES
 
Paper submission for those who wish to participate in the Scientific Mentor Scheme 1st July 2009
Feedback from mentors for the Scientific Mentor Scheme participants 1st August 2009
Paper submission for ALL MEDINFO papers 15th October 2009
Authors notified of acceptance 15th February 2010
Publication of scientific program 28th February 2010
 

New initiative:
THE SCIENTIFIC MENTOR SCHEME
 
The Scientific Mentor Scheme is a new initiative for this Congress.  The aim of this scheme is to
provide additional support to early career researchers and non-native English speakers.  Participants
will submit their papers early and will be provided with feedback about their papers from a member of
the panel of international health informatics experts.  Those wishing to participate in this scheme must
submit their paper by 1st July 2009.  Authors will then need to submit their final paper by the Congress
paper deadline of 15th October 2009.  The papers will then proceed through the normal Congress
review process.