MIE2011-User Centred Networked Health Care

Welcome to MIE2011

On August 28-31, the Norwegian Society for Medical Informatics (FDH) and the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) will host the 23rd European Medical Informatics conference (MIE2011) in Oslo, Norway. The program states:

The objective of the conference is to highlight the broad range of health informatics achievements at regional, national, and at international level. We invite the full range of submissions of original work in health and biomedical informatics research and innovation. Your submission can discuss health records, social media, standards,  social care, telemedicine, software development, as well as strategies for user involvement, usercenteredness, benefits for patient care, development for sustainable use, and new challenges when health professionals collaborate in (virtual) teams with colleagues and patients.

The conference's theme this year is "User Centred Networked Health Care." In addition to keynote speeches and "parallel tracks with oral presentations of accepted contributions: papers, panels and poster," there will also be an application-oriented track with EFMI corporate members.

The conference will start at Akershus University Hospital, one of the technologically most advanced health facilities in Europe:

During the opening Day, interactive workshops will feature the hospital’s extensive experience with advanced health technologies, complemented by tours through the hospital, focusing on Health Care of the Future (HP Global Centre of Excellence), Integrated EHR, digitalized radiology and laboratory.

Additionally, there will be several presentations concerning open source healthcare at the conference. One of the keynote speakers is Kirsten Haaland, a strong advocate of open source methods and technology:

Ms. Kirsten Haaland, is a senior researcher at the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology...She is a member of the Collaborative Creativity Group (CCG), a leading research group on open source software, open content, and collaborative creativity and innovation. She has extensive project experience, including the FLOSSIMPACT study on the impact of open source on innovation and competitiveness of the European Union; the EUX2010SEC project aiming to improve the security level and awareness for open source VoIP/PBX/multimedia solutions; the "Open Source Study for the European Space Agency (ESA)"; the EU-funded "Free/libre/Open source software metrics and benchmarking study (FLOSSMetrics)" and the "QUALity in Open Source Software” (QualOSS) project...

To register, please visit: http://www.mie2011.org/index-filer/Page911.htm.