Dear Colleagues

The Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) invites the submission of papers, panels and workshops for the 2009 Health Informatics Conference (HIC '09) to be held in August, 2009 in Canberra, at the Canberra Convention Centre.  Submissions for papers are due on March 9.

Healthcare brings together both practitioners and information technologists in unique partnerships that fuel rapid advacements in the delivery of care. In this field of constant discovery, healthcare's use of information and communication technology continually expands the limits of the domain and has led to stunning innovations and intensely practical outcomes. 

"Frontiers of Health Informatics - Redefining Healthcare" seeks to capture this diversity of achievement in linking science and medicine with information technology. Importantly, it looks at the practical systems and process issues that need to be addressed now, to meet the challenges of the future.

HIC'09 is built around four key information technology themes that are driving change and innovation in Australian healthcare. Each theme looks to analyse the leading edge technologies that are being implemented and the opportunities they create. The HIC '09 themes are:

This conference highlights the multidisciplinary nature of health informatics and provides a unique opportunity to bring together the finest minds from the health care, academia, industry and non-profit organisations. It aims to forge new industry collaborations and identify potential avenues of research and development across all models of healthcare and human diseases. 

This is a truly exciting time for health informatics.

See you in Canberra in August 2009!

Dr Peter Croll
Chair, Conference Organising Committee

Critical Information

Click on the hyperlinks below to download the key information for paper submission

• Call for Papers Brochure
• Paper Content Guidelines
• Paper Structure Guidlines

Conference Objectives

• To present the latest progress on health informatics research and development
• To showcase new implementations of leading edge technologies

• To demonstrate synergies between health informatics and bioinformatics, how biomedical informatics can enhance clinical research, genetic medicine and personalised health care delivery

• To identify the current challenges of health informatics and to explore the future directions

The Conference is relevant to:

• Clinicians and public health professionals
• Health care IT professionals
• Biomedical and health informatics researchers
• Government officials and policy makers
• Medical software and systems developers
• Molecular biologists, bioinformaticians and computational biologists
• Health and healthcare standards developers

Categories of Submission

Paper Presentation
The Scientific Program Committee (SPC) solicits papers on the latest progress in health informatics practice and research, especially those focusing on the Conference themes:

• Theme 1: Personalised medicine and bioinformatics
- Decision support for clinicians and consumers
- Knowledge discovery and translation in biomedicine 
- Computational approaches to finding mechanisms and therapies for disease

• Theme 2: Next Generation Electronic health records
- Personal health records, privacy, security and confidentiality
- Integration of new healthcare data sets, 
- Data management, visualisation and analysis

• Theme 3: Innovative healthcare environments
- Innovative care delivery and assistive technologies
- Telehealth, telecare, smart homecare and virtual reality applications
- Education and training

• Theme 4: Preventative healthcare and wellness
- Population monitoring and surveillance systems
- Chronic disease management
- Engaging and supporting the health consumer and social networks

Papers can be submitted online through the HIC' 09 Paper Submission page.

The Conference will include scientific paper and poster presentations as well as panels and workshops related to the theme of the Conference.

Panels

Panel topics may be on a specific aspect of health informatics practice or applications, or about interdisciplinary viewpoints that cut across traditional themes. Panels should be limited to four participants and a moderator. Panel sessions will typically consist of four 15-minute presentations, each followed by 5 minutes of questions, with 10 minutes for closing discussion.

Workshops

For proposals, include title and brief description of the workshop; names of workshop organiser and each presenter including affiliation; address, email address and phone numbers for all. Also include audio-visual equipment needs for the session, and whether or not session presenters will provide their own equipment.

Important Deadlines

Paper submission: 9 March 2009
Notification of paper Acceptance: 6 April 2009
Final revised paper: 11 May 2009

Conference Registration opens 5 December 2008
Early bird registration deadline: 30 June 2009
Standard rates apply from 1 July 2009