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MARCH 2003

March 14-l16, 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, P.O. 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 Avenue, Wheat Ridge, CO 80033. FMI telephone: 720-898-4831; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.mnrs.org.

 

April 13-16, 2003, Nursing 2003: The Conference for Clinical Excellence, Lake Buena Vista, FL. Sponsored by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 530 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106. FMI contact Kelly Landis, Conference Coordinator, 1-800-346-7844, ext. 7798 or visit the Web site: http://www.nursingsymposium.com.

 

April 24-26, 2003, The Omaha System: A Key to Practice, Documentation, and Information Management, Milwaukee, WI. Sponsored by Martin Associates and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Nursing Continuing Education and Outreach Program, 1921 E. Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53211. For more information, telephone: 1-414-229-5617; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://uwm.edu/dept/nursing/cemain.htm or http://www.omahasystem.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 Avenue, Conklin Hall 244, Newark, NJ 07102. FMI contact Dr. Gayle Pearson, telephone: 973-353-5895; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://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://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 9-10, 2003, Nursing in the Digital World: Using Technology to Optimize Patient Care, Chicago, IL. Sponsored by the American Nursing Informatics Association, 10808 Foothill Boulevard, Suite 160, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730. FMI e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.ania.org/.

 

May 10-16, 2003, Toward an Electronic Patient Record: Electronic Patient Management, San Antonio, TX. Sponsored by Medical Records Institute, 255 Washington Street, Newton, MA 02458. FMI telephone: 617-964-3923; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.medrecinst.com/conferences/tepr/.

 

May 18-21, 2003, Advanced Healthcare IT Strategies, Ypsilanti, MI. Sponsored by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, 3300 Washtenaw Avenue, Suite 225, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4250. FMI contact CHIME, telephone: 734-665-0000; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.cio-chime.org/services/serv1.asp.

 

May 26-28, 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, [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 Avenue, 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 9-12, 2003, Fifth Annual Institute on Nursing Informatics and Classification, Iowa City, IA. Co-sponsored by Organizations, Systems, and Community Health Area of Study and the Center for Nursing Classification and Clinical Effectiveness at 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/conted/conferences.htm#3.

 

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 pre-register, visit the Web site: http://www.ni2003.com; e-mail: [email protected]; or telephone: (55 11) 96290217.

 

JULY 2003

July 1-4, 2003, Nursing in a Technological World: International Nursing Conference 2003, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Sponsored by Queensland Health, the Joanna Briggs Institute, MS Australia, Royal College of Nursing, Australia, and the Queensland University of Technology, P.O. Box 2434, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia. FMI contact Conference Secretariat, telephone: (07) 3864 1451; international +61 7 3864 1451; Web: http://www.hlth.qut.edu.au/nrs/inc2003/.

 

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 Street Suite B, Kirkland, WA 98034. FMI contact Ken McGowan, [email protected].

 

July 16-19, 2003, Making Informatics Work for Nursing: 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 Avenue, 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.

 

September 22-24, 2003, 2003 Online Learning Conference and Expo, Los Angeles, CA. Sponsored by VNU Business Media, 50 South Ninth Street Minneapolis, MN 55402. FMI telephone: 1-612-333-0471; toll-free: 800-328-4329; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.vnulearning.com/ourevents.htm.

 

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 Avenue, 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.

 

October 26-29, 2003, Nursing Management Congress 2003, San Diego, CA. Sponsored by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 530 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106. FMI contact K. Cousart, telephone: 1-800-346-7844, ext. 7798; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.nmcongress.com.

 

NOVEMBER 2003

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

 

November 12-15, 2003, National Conference for Nurse Practitioners, Baltimore, MD. Sponsored by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 530 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106. FMI contact Kelly Landis, telephone: 1-800-346-7844, ext. 7798; e-mail: [email protected]; Web: http://www.ncnpconference.com/.

 

2004

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 Avenue, Suite 401, Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone: 301-657-1291; e-mail: mail@mail. amia.org; Web: http://www.amia.org/meetings/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.