2005

FEBRUARY 2005

February 13-17, 2005, Annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition, Dallas, TX. Sponsored by Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, 230 E Ohio St, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60611. FMI, visit the Web site: http://conference.himss.org/ASP/index.asp.

MARCH 2005

March 21-23, 2005, Shaping Sands, Shifting Services: HC2005, 22nd Annual Healthcare Computing Conference and Exhibition, Harrogate, UK. Sponsored by the British Computer Society Health Informatics Committee, 1 Sanford St, Swindon, SN1 1HJ, UK. FMI, visit the Web site: http://www.health-informatics.org/hc2005/index.htm.

APRIL 2005

April 14-17, 2005, 23rd Annual International Nursing Computer and Technology Conference, Atlanta, GA. Sponsored by Rutgers University College of Nursing, Ackerson Hall, Room 102, 180 University Ave, Newark, NJ 07102. FMI, visit the Web site: http://nursing.rutgers.edu/cpd/onlinecat/course-detail.asp?id=257.

April 21-23, 2005, The Omaha System International Conference: a Key to Practice, Documentation, and Information Management, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN. Sponsored by Martin Associates and the College of St. Catherine Department of Nursing, J218 Whitby Hall, 2004 Randolph Ave, St. Paul, MN 55105. FMI, telephone: 1-320-202-1832; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.omahasystem.org.

MAY 2005

May 21-27, 2005, Nursing on the Move: Knowledge, Innovation, Vitality, 23rd Quadrennial Congress of the International Council of Nurses, Taipei, Taiwan. Sponsored by the International Council of Nurses, 3, Place Jean Marteau, 1201 Geneva, Switzerland. FMI, visit the Web site: http://www.icn.ch/congress2005.htm.

JUNE 2005

June 13-15, 2005, Institute on Nursing Informatics and Classification, Iowa City, IA. Sponsored by the University of Iowa College of Nursing, Center for Nursing Classification & Clinical Effectiveness in collaboration with the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinical and Genesis Medical Center. FMI, contact Sharon Sweeney, University of Iowa, College of Nursing, 101 NB, Iowa City, IA 52242; telephone: 319-335-7051; e-mail: [email protected].

JULY 2005

July 20-23, 15th Annual Summer Institute on Nursing Informatics, Baltimore, MD. Sponsored by the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Office of Continuing Education, 655 West Lombard St, Baltimore, MD 21201. FMI, contact Sonia Smith, telephone: 410-706-3767; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://nursing.umaryland.edu/informatics/.

July 29-31, 2005, Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics, Fairview Heights, IL. Sponsored by the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Nursing. FMI, contact Dr Karen Kelly, Coordinator of Continuing Education, telephone: 618-650-3908; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.siue.edu/NURSING/conedu.html.

AUGUST 2005

August 28-September 1, 2005, Connecting Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics: MIE2005, XIX International Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics, Geneva, Switzerland. Sponsored by EFMI, http://www.efmi.org. For more information, contact Symporg SA, Congress Organizers, 7 Ave Krieg, CH 1208 Geneva, Switzerland; telephone: +41-22-839-8484; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.mie2005.net/.

SEPTEMBER 2005

September 17-19, 2005, Fifth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication, Chicago, IL. Cosponsored by the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal. FMI, contact Annette Flanagin, Director of JAMA Programs International Activities and Editorial Processing, 515 N State St, Chicago, IL 60610; telephone: 312-464-2432; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.jama-peer.org.

OCTOBER 2005

October 22-26, AMIA Annual Symposium 2005, Washington, DC. Sponsored by the American Medical Informatics Association, 4915 St. Elmo Ave, Suite 401, Bethesda, MD 20814. FMI, telephone: 301-657-1291; Web: http://www.amia.org/meetings/fmeet.html.

2006

JUNE 2006

June 11-14, 2006, NI2006: 9th International Congress on Nursing Informatics, Seoul, Korea. Sponsored by the Special Interest Group in Nursing Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA-NI SIG), IMIA, 5782-172 St, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6M 1B4, and the Korean Society for Medical Informatics NI SIG. For more information, contact NI 2006 Secretariat, K&K B/D #201-811-4 Yeoksam-dong Kangnam-gu, Seoul 135-080, Korea; telephone: +82-2-566-6067; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.ni2006.org. Call for submissions ends August 31, 2005.

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