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VII International Congress on Health Informatics
Palace of Conventions, Havana, Cuba
February 9th– 14th, 2009
Information and Communication Technologies (ITC) and Knowledge Management in Health Development
The Cuban Ministry of Informatics and Communication and the Ministry of Public Health of the Republic of Cuba are pleased to invite you participating in VII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON HEALTH INFORMATICS, to be held at Palace of Conventions, Havana, Cuba, on February 9 – 13, 2009, as part of the Informatics Convention 2009.
We, Cubans, as hosts, are preparing ourselves to share the experience of our country that has seriously betted for improving its people health, and in such purpose has underlined the use of technologies for informatics and computing from the human development perspective.
We invited colleagues from all over the world to joint us in this objective of interchanging and showing experiences and ideas in this encounter, so we can approach together this purpose of improving health in our countries.
The congress motto: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Knowledge Management in Health Development sensitizes the effort for achieving concrete answers to help us consolidating and enwinding cooperation and development networks for better use of informatics and communications to favor health.
We will continue moving ahead in constructing Health Virtual Library and other regional and global networks that will be attending Havana.
Procedures for participation:
This event will meet in two modes, Personal and Virtual
Persons wishing to participate in the event as speakers in either of two ways (personal and virtual) will send their papers through this website.
The Scientific Committee will evaluate and decide which works will be presented at the presence event at the Palacio de Convenciones. Those papers because spare capacity may not appear to be presented at the Palace, will participate in the Congress in its virtual version via the website.
The sessions of the virtual version of this event will take place from February 9th to March 9th, 2009 through this website.
All accepted papers will be published on this website grouped by themes.
The forms of participation in the present event will be:
- Masterful Lectures
- Roundtables
- Panels
The forms of participation of the virtual version are:
- Lectures
- Papers
Participants in the virtual version of the Congress will receive a Certificate of Participation by email
Topics
1. Informatics and health services.
• Informatics for Primary Health Care
• Informatics in isolated communities
• Open Systems for Health
• Hospital management and automation
• Telemedicine
• Informatics for Infirmary
• Quality guarantee
2. New technologies of information and clinical practices.
• Clinical Research
• Processing of images and medical signals
• Equipments for monitoring and diagnosis
3. Information and knowlege management for health.
• Health informatics and education
• E-learning in health
• Data mining and pattern recognition
• Health Virtual Libraries
• Modeling, simulation,and artificial intelligence
• Statistical Processing
• Content Management Systems
• Application artificial intelligence in Health
4. Internet, networks and web services aiming health.
• Telematics.
• Data Base Management
• Internet as a tool for health
5. Informatics, society, and health.
• Informatic for public health
• Advanced integrated systems of information in health
• Informatics and STD/HIV/AIDS
• Surveillance in Health
6. Bioinformatic, Bioengineering, and Medical equipment.
Contact
Dirección Nacional de Informática en Salud.
Calle 23 No. 117 entre N y O, Vedado, Ciudad de La Habana, CP 10400
Teléfonos: (537) 838 3336, 838 3325 y 838 3403
Fax: (537) 835 4650
E-mail: informaticasalud@infomed.sld.cu
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