Call for papers

The Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) is pleased to invite you to respond to our Call for Submissions for HIC 2013, Australia's Health Informatics Conference.

"Make sure your research, your project, your innovation, your experience, your learnings
are a part of the biggest health informatics and e-health event on the 2013 calendar"

HIC will be bringing together a range of international and national experts and leaders to share, inspire and evolve our e-health and health informatics community. We look forward to you being part of the official proceedings and sharing your work, ideas and innovations to contribute to this evolution. All submissions will be double-blind peer reviewed to ensure that only the best content ends up on the HIC program.

HIC 2013 has two categories of submission:

HIC 2013 has two categories of submission:

Scientific Papers Industry/Clinical Case Study Abstracts

Topics

Authors are encouraged to submit under the following HIC 2013 core themes and health informatics specialty areas:

• Patient journeys / patient centred care - Actual patient journeys that focus on the collection and management of health data, especially within mental health, oncology (cancer management), chronic non communicable diseases and aged care.
• New technologies / social media / mobile devices - The emerging use of technologies and social media for care, education and communication by clinicians and consumers.
• Digital health service delivery - the influence of and need for innovative approaches to the design and delivery of healthcare to improve health and wellness. Technology is enabling healthcare to becoming progressively 'boundary-less', and to meet the demand from consumers for inclusive and contributory approaches to their health and wellness
• Self-management - The integration of Web 2.0 technologies and mobile health (m-health) to facilitate patient self-management.
• HIT innovation - The health information technology (HIT) industry's adaptation to patient centred demand for self-managed care.
• Remote and/or resource poor - International and local use of HIT in remote and resource poor locations.
• National e-health policies

Health Informatics Speciality Areas

• Nursing Informatics
• Aged Care Informatics
• Indigenous Informatics
• Personalised medicine
• Consumer health informatics
• Research health informatics - particularly outcomes directed research

Scientific Papers (full papers, 4-6 pages, 2000-3000 words):

Scientific submissions require a full written paper using the guidelines and templates provided below. Selected Scientific submissions will be published as a monograph in the prestigious IOS Press series on 'Studies in Health Technology and Informatics' and all abstracts will appear in the HIC 2013 Proceedings.

Industry/Clinical Case Study Abstracts (650 word overview):

Industry/clinical case study submissions require a 650 word abstract describing what you would like to speak on. Presenting at HIC is a fantastic way to partner with healthcare facilities, clinicians, vendors and others to present a compelling case for the value of 'on the shop floor' implementations and issues and to get feedback from your peers. Guidelines are available below