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Recent, Current, and Upcoming Events
Please add your events in reverse chronological order. Crosslisting by Date, Month, Year and by Location and Region is encouraged.
By Date, Month, Year
August, 2007
July, 2007
Sunday July 29th 2pm-5pm
The HPSIG plans to hold a HPSIG Session on Chronic Illness at the ISDC2007 Boston conference on July 29-Aug 2 2007
November, 2006
- Methodological Issues in Measuring Population Health
- November 1 to 3, 2006 - Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
- http://www.statcan.ca/english/conferences/symposium2006/index.htm
- This international event addresses statistical methodology issues relevant to the work of a government statistical agency, as well as to a broader statistical community in the health care industry, government, universities and other research organizations.
- Abstracts must be submitted by e-mail to: symposium2006@statcan.ca or by regular mail to:
- Symposium 2006 Attn: Dr. Milorad Kovacevic
- Statistics Canada
- 17th Floor, R.H.Coats Building, Tunney's Pasture Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - K1A 0T6
September, 2006
- The Games for Health Project http://www.gamesforhealth.org is proud to announce its third annual conference. Slated for September 28-29,2006 at the University of Maryland School of Medicine this conference will be the largest gathering of health and healthcare professionals,game developers, and researchers.
Content submissions are due by Monday June 19, 2006. Final content
will be announced July 1
- The International Society for Equity in Health, ISEqH 4th Biennial Conference, Creating Healthy Societies through Inclusion and Equity, Adelaide, Australia from September 11 - 13, 2006.
- http://www.iseqh.org; Conference
- Themes: The overarching theme for the ISEQH's Fourth International Conference, Creating Healthy Societies through Inclusion and Equity, reflects the central role of social, political, and economic determinants in creating health. In addition, the conference will focus on two new topics, to encourage the presentation and discussion of research and evaluation on the achievement of equity: - aboriginal health, acknowledging the need to address the inequities experienced by many indigenous communities; and - arts and equity in health, exploring ways to evaluate how working through the arts improves social inclusion and enhances equity in health.
August, 2006
- GENEVA FORUM - TOWARDS GLOBAL ACCESS TO HEALTH, August 30- September 1st, 2006, International Conference Centre of Geneva, Switzerland
- http://www.hcuge.ch/genevahealthforum.
- THEMES: Access to health systems, Access to drugs, vaccines & diagnosis, Research & training, Communication and new technologies, International mobility and Health, Humanitarian crisis and development, Civil society and community based initiatives.
July, 2006
April, 2006
March, 2006
February, 2006
July, 2005
Winter, 2006
By Country or Region
Australia
- September, 2006
- The International Society for Equity in Health, ISEqH 4th Biennial Conference, Creating Healthy Societies through Inclusion and Equity, Adelaide, Australia from September 11 - 13, 2006. http://www.iseqh.org; Conference Themes: The overarching theme for the ISEQH's Fourth International Conference, Creating Healthy Societies through Inclusion and Equity, reflects the central role of social, political, and economic determinants in creating health. In addition, the conference will focus on two new topics, to encourage the presentation and discussion of research and evaluation on the achievement of equity: - aboriginal health, acknowledging the need to address the inequities experienced by many indigenous communities; and - arts and equity in health, exploring ways to evaluate how working through the arts improves social inclusion and enhances equity in health.
By Project
Open Healthcare Projects
This project addresses the need to improve the levels of interoperability between applications and systems within and across healthcare organizations – corporate and regions.
The project will implement extensible frameworks and exemplary tools for implementations of key health informatics standards based component and support the objectives of many government health departments to encourage the use of interoperable open source infrastructure to lower integration barriers.
The frameworks, components and tools created by this project can be used to build workstation applications, gateways and server applications in healthcare infrastructures.
This project is a collaborative effort between Health Level Seven and the Object Management Group to identify and document service specifications, functionality, and conformance supportive and relevant to healthcare IT stakeholders and resulting in real-world implementations. In addition, several other groups have joined the HSSP effort. The Eclipse Foundation Open Healthcare Framework and the Medical Banking Project have each committed support to this project and are participating.
Specifications include: Common terminology service, Decision support service, Entity identification service, Infrastructure, Record location and update service, Service oriented architecture (SOA) for HL7.
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