What is Health Informatics?
Health and biomedical informatics is the body of knowledge that concerns the acquisition, storage, retrieval and use of information in, about and for human health, and the design and management of related information systems to advance the understanding and practice of healthcare.
The discipline of health and biomedical informatics sits at the intersection of at least four fields of research – health science, computer science, information science and knowledge management.
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Events
Funding Opportunity - IBES seed funding round for Personalised and Participatory Medicine now open!
For further information on the Personalised and Participatory Medicine topics of interest, go to Prof. Martin-Sanchez's workshop presentation.
Details of the general seed funding, including criteria and application forms can be found on the IBES website.
Closing date: 5pm 22nd June 2012
Colloquia Series at University of Ballarat - June 13, 2012
Prof Fernando Martin-Sanchez is giving a talk at the University of Ballarat School of Science Information Technology and Engineering on June 13th at 11.30am. Fernando's talk is about information processing for preventative medicine, specifically how health and biomedical informatics is contributing - estimating risk factors and analysing data for personalised profiles. For further info: s.venkatraman@ballarat.edu.au or z.dzalilov@ballarat.edu.au
World Tech Jam - Collaborative Healthcare Stream - June 5-7, 2012
A large-scale digital brainstorm session where 20,000 IT users will discuss innovations and actions that governments, businesses and society can adopt to improve healthcare in the digital age. You are invited! It's free and you can register and then participate online, from the comfort of your desk.
Two eHealth and Biomedical Informatics Subjects offered in 2012
eHealth and Biomedical Informatics Systems elective will be offered again in June (intensive) after the success of last year's course.
In October, a second intensive-mode elective, eHealth and Biomedical Informatics Methods, will debut. Building on topics covered in the first subject, this subject develops familiarity with some core informatics tools and methods used in ehealth, translational research, simulation and modelling, biomedical knowledge management. More details to come.
News
Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) project funded
"Exploring Information, Interface and Interaction in Blended Environments" project has been seed-funded by Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society. Researchers on this project are developing a prototype MAR application for smartphones, to be trialled in Melbourne's Parkville Precinct for healthcare and biomedical science research. The application aims connect and engage the wider community in Parkville with the scientific community. The concept will utilise smartphone cameras to link information about and produced from, a particular building or site. If you have ever wondered "What happens in there?", soon there will be an app for that! Watch this space.
Conferences and Calls for Papers
HIC 2012 Sydney July 30 - August 2
HISA invites registrations for Australia's largest Health Informatics Conference. For more information see the conference website HIC 2012.
Oral Health Meets eHealth Symposium November 9, 2012
Reschedule date for the Oral Health Meets eHealth Symposium has been set. Please see the Symposium flyer for preliminary details, HBIR will publicise more information as it becomes available.
IADIS International Conference eHealth 2012 - Portugal, July 17-19
The Scientific Program Committee (SPC) for eHealth 2012 are accepting papers until submission deadline on 30 April.
2012 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM12) - Philadelphia, October 4-7
The BIBM12 Program Committee Invite submissions of scientific research papers via the conference website until May 10.
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In the Health and Biomedical Informatics Research Unit at the University of Melbourne our goal is to build collaborations that advance human health through the shared development and application of expert knowledge about information and communication technologies for healthcare and biomedical research. [read more]