14 - 15 April 2011, Zreče, Slovenia.The EFMI STC 2011 is the latest one in a series of successful conferences held in in Bucharest, Romania (2001), Nicosia, Cyprus (2002), Rome, Italy (2003), Munich, Germany (2004), Athens, Greece (2005), Timisoara, Romania (2006), Brijuni Island, Croatia (2007), London, UK (2008), and Antalya, Turkey (2009), and Reykjavik, Iceland (2010).
The theme of the STC 2011 is "E-salus trans confinia sine finibus - e-Health Across Borders Without Boundaries".
The objective of the conference is to highlight health-related communication and collaboration at regional, national, and epsecially at international level. Achieving and maintaining cross-border interoperability of electronic health record systems implies managing the continuous process of change and adaptation of a multitude of elements within and across electronic infrastructures in neighbored countries. To achieve this, there is a need to undertake several actions at political, organizational, technical, semantic, and educational level. At the conference, there will be a multitude of scientists gathered to add value to several practical issues regarding the topics discussed.
The conference addresses, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Inter-regional health information systems and applications
- Cross border e-Health projects
- The Patient and cross-border e-Health systems
- Multi language and cultural issues in e-Health system
- Legal issues with interconnected international e-Health systems
- Standardization issues with international e-Health systems
- Assessment of e-Health systems
- Safety and security issues in interconnected e-Health systems
- E-communications in a global community
- Cross border education in health informatics
The conference programme will include keynotes, invited speeches, oral presentations of both accepted papers submitted by single authors or teams as well as selected individual PhD students papers, but also poster sessions accompanied by short presentations to the plenary. Furthermore, there will be a parallel track with topic-related workshops or panels.
You are cordially invited to submit a paper, or - if you meet the status requirements - a PhD students paper within the limitation of 4-6 pages, but also electronic versions of A0 posters. Furthermore, proposals for topic-related workshops or panels may be submitted, proposing title, involved speakers, intended duration, objectives, detailed content to be discussed, and results expected. All submissions must strictly follow the Instructions to Authors published on the Conference Website as downloads for the different submission types.
All submission will be reviewed by three domain experts. Accepted papers will be published within the Series Studies on Health Technology and Informatics at IOS Press. This requires that at least the presenter has to register for the conference. Furthermore, the submission has to be revised according to the recommendations of reviewers and the SPC.
For enabling a broad participation and representation at the conference, just one submission in the position of the corresponding (presenting) author is permitted.
All materials presented to the conference (including posters, workshops and panels presentations) will be published on the EFMI Website for downloads.
Important dates:
Deadline for the submission of papers - 1 November 2010
Notification of acceptance - 30 December 2010
Resubmission of accepted papers - 15 February 2011
For further information, please visit:
http://www.stc2011.si
About EFMI
The European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) was formed in 1976 with assistance from the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Orgnisation (WHO). Formed as a nonprofit organization, the EFMI is concerned with the theory and practice of information science and technology within health and health science in a European context. The objectives of the EFMI are to advance international co-operation and dissemination of information in medical informatics on a European basis; to promote high standards in the application of medical informatics; to promote research and development in medical informatics; to encourage high standards in education in medical informatics; and to function as the autonomous European Regional Council of IMIA. For more information, visit www.efmi.org.