JANUARY 2003

January 16-18, 2003, ASAP Technology Conference, Amelia Island, FL. Sponsored by the American Society for Automation in Pharmacy, 492 Norristown Road, Suite 160, Blue Bell, PA 19422; FMI telephone ASAP: 610-825-7783; Web: http://www.asapnet.org.

January 22-25, 2003, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 11, Newport Beach, CA. Sponsored by the University of California, Irvine College of Medicine, and Aligned Management Associates, Inc., 1835 South Centre City Parkway, PMB 513, Escondido, CA 92025; telephone: 1-760-839-1200; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.nextmed.com/mmvr_virtual_reality.html.

FEBRUARY 2003

February 9-13, 2003, HIMSS 2003 Annual Conference & Exhibition, San Diego, CA. Sponsored by Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society, 230 East Ohio St, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60611-3269; FMI contact HIMSS, telephone: 312-915-9273; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.conference.himss.org/asp/registration.asp.

February 13-15, 2003, Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Southern Nursing Research Society, Orlando, FL. Sponsored by SNRS National Office, University of Alabama College of Continuing Studies, Box 870388, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0388; FMI telephone: 1-877-314-SNRS (7677); Web: http://www.snrs.org.

February 16-19, 2003, Stop Surfing-Start Teaching 2003 National Conference, Las Vegas, NV. Sponsored by University of South Carolina Continuing Education, 937 Assembly St, Suite 108, Columbia, SC 29208; FMI telephone: 803-777-9444; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.rcce.sc.edu/ssst.

MARCH 2003

March 14-16, 2003, Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics (WINI), Tampa, FL. Sponsored by University of South Florida Health Sciences Center, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd, MDC 47, Tampa, FL 33612-4799; FMI contact Dr Patricia Gorzka, [email protected], or Susan K Newbold, [email protected]; Web: http://www.nursing.umaryland.edu/~snewbold/wini.htm.

March 20-22, 2003, Making Nursing Visible: 4th European ACENDIO Conference, Paris, France. Sponsored by Acendio, the Association for Common European Nursing Diagnoses, Interventions, and Outcomes, 20 Cavendish Square, W1M0AB, London, UK; FMI contact the conference organizer, Oud Consultancy c/o Synopsis, PO Box 93, 2000 AB Haarlem, the Netherlands; telephone: +31-23-551-8631; e-mail: [email protected], Web: http://www.acendio.net.

March 24-26, 2003, HC 2003, Harrogate, England. Sponsored by the British Computer Society and BJHC Ltd; FMI contact HC2003 Conference Secretariat, PO Box 357, Worcester, UK WR3 8WT; telephone: +44(0) 1905 759560; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.health-informatics.org/hc2003/index.htm.

APRIL 2003

April 4-7, 2003, 27th Annual Research Conference of the Midwest Nursing Research Society, Grand Rapids, MI. Sponsored by MNRS, 10200 West 44th Ave, Wheat Ridge, CO 80033; FMI telephone: 720-898-4831; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.mnrs.org.

April 27-29, 2003, 21st Annual International Nursing Computer and Technology Conference, Orlando, FL. Sponsored by Rutgers University College of Nursing Center for Professional Development, 175 University Ave, Conklin Hall 244, Newark, NJ 07102; FMI contact Dr. Gayle Pearson, telephone: 973-353-5895; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.nursing.rutgers.edu/cpd/default.asp.

MAY 2003

May 3, 2003, Evidence-Based Nursing Practice: Needs, Tools, Solutions, San Diego, CA. Sponsored by the Nursing and Allied Health Section of the Medical Library Association, 65 East Wacker Place, Suite 1900, Chicago, IL 60602-4805; FMI telephone: 312-419-9094; Web: http://www.nahrs.library.kent.edu/annmtg/index.html.

May 4-7, 2003, The New Navigators: From Professionals to Patients, Medical Informatics Europe 2003 Congress, St. Malo, France. Sponsored by European Federation for Medical Informatics, Web: http://www.efmi.org; Association d'Informatique Medicale, Web:http://www.hbroussais.fr/Broussais/InforMed/AIM.html; and International Medical Informatics Association, Web: http://www.imia.org. FMI and to view conference materials, visit http://www.med.univ-rennes1.fr/mie2003/mie2003_eng.html; travel arrangements, contact Conference Tours Ltd., Palais des Congres, 1, Quai Duguay Trouin, 35400 St. Malo, France; telephone (33) (0)2 99 20 60 20; fax: (33) (0)2 99 20 60 30; Web: http://www.pgl-congres.com.

May 6-8, 2003, InfoToday 2003, New York, NY. Sponsored by Information Today, KMWorld, Online, and Searcher; FMI contact Information Today, Inc., 143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford, NJ 08055; telephone: 609-654-6266; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.infotoday.com/it2003/.

May 16-28, 2003, Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics (WINI), Chicago, IL. Sponsored by Midwest Alliance in Nursing Informatics (MANI), P.O. Box 48 Mount Prospect, IL 60056-0048; FMI contact Angela Lewis, [email protected], or Susan K. Newbold, e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.nursing.umaryland.edu/~snewbold/wini.

May 28-30, 2003, Bridging the Digital Divide: Informatics and Vulnerable Populations, AMIA 2003 Spring Congress, Philadelphia, PA. Sponsored by the American Medical Informatics Association, 4915 St. Elmo Ave, Suite 401, Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone: 301-657-1291; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.amia.org/meetings/annual/f1.html.

JUNE 2003

June 8-12, 2003, Fifth Annual Institute on Nursing Informatics and Classification, Iowa City, IA. Sponsored by the University of Iowa College of Nursing, Iowa City, IA; FMI contact Jennifer Clougherty, telephone: 319-335-7119; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.nursing.uiowa.edu/orgsyscom/index.htm.

June 20-25, 2003, 8th International Congress on Nursing Informatics: e-health for All, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, SA. Sponsored by NI 2003, Rua Napoleao de Barros, 754 Sao Paulo - SP 04024-002; FMI or to preregister, visit the Web site at http://www.ni2003.com; e-mail: [email protected]; or telephone: (55 11) 96290217.

JULY 2003

July 14, 2003, International Mobile Informatics Conference in Healthcare (IMICH 2003), Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sponsored by PDACortex, the Journal of Mobile Informatics, online at http://www.pdacortex.com; PDA Verticals Corporation, 11415 NE 128th St, Suite B, Kirkland, WA 98034; FMI contact Ken McGowan, e-mail: [email protected].

July 16-19, 2003, Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics, Baltimore, MD. Sponsored by the University of Maryland School of Nursing, 655 West Lombard St, Suite 375, Baltimore, MD 21201; FMI telephone: 1-410-706-3767; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://nursing.umaryland.edu/informatics/.

SEPTEMBER 2003

September 7-9, 2003, On Par With Quality-National Association of Healthcare Quality 28th Annual Educational Conference, Phoenix, AZ. Sponsored by NAHQ, 4700 W. Lake Ave, Glenview, IL 60025; FMI telephone: 800-966-9392; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.nahq.org/conference/.

September 18-20, 2003, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Automation in Pharmacy, Washington, D.C. Sponsored by ASAP, 492 Norristown Road, Suite 160, Blue Bell, PA 19422; FMI telephone: 610-825-7783; Web: http://www.asapnet.org.

OCTOBER 2003

October 8-11, 2003, Fashioning the Future: Enhancing Care Through Nursing Health Services Research-National Nursing Administration Research Conference, Chapel Hill, NC. Sponsored by the University of North Carolina School of Nursing Continuing Education Program, CB 7460, Carrington Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7460; FMI telephone: 919-966-3638; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://nursing.unc.edu/lifelong/narc/.

October 9-11, 2003, MedInf'2003, Craiova, Romania. Sponsored by the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Romania, in cooperation with the International Medical Information Association, European Federation of Medical Informatics, and the Society for the Internet in Medicine; FMI e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.umfcv.ro/medinf2003.html.

October 18-23, 2003, AHIMA 75th Anniversary National Convention and Exhibit, Minneapolis, MN. Sponsored by American Health Information Management Association, 233 N. Michigan Ave, Suite 2150, Chicago, IL 60601-5800; FMI contact AHIMA, telephone: 312-233-1100; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.ahima.org/convention/2003call.html.

NOVEMBER 2003

November 8-12, 2003, American Medical Informatics Association 2003 Symposium, Washington, DC. Sponsored by AMIA, 4915 St. Elmo Ave, Suite 401, Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone: 301-657-1291; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.amia.org/meetings/annual/f1.html.

JANUARY 2004

January 22-24, 2004, American Society for Automation in Pharmacy Technology Conference, St. Pete Beach, FL. Sponsored by ASAP, 492 Norristown Road, Suite 160, Blue Bell, PA 19422; FMI telephone: 610-825-7783; Web: http://www.asapnet.org.

SEPTEMBER 2004

September 7-11, 2004, MedInfo 2004: Triennial Meeting of the International Medical Informatics Association, San Francisco, CA. Sponsored by the American Medical Informatics Association, 4915 St. Elmo Ave, Suite 401, Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone: 301-657-1291; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.amia.org/meeting/annual/f1.html. FMI or to join the conference mailing list, visit the Web site: http://www.medinfo2004.org/.

September 30-October 2, 2004, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Automation in Pharmacy, Carefree, AZ. Sponsored by ASAP, 492 Norristown Road, Suite 160, Blue Bell, PA 19422; FMI telephone: 610-825-7783; Web: http://www.asapnet.org.