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2006

JANUARY 2006

January 9-May 1, 2006, Nursing Informatics Certificate Program-Introduction to Nursing Informatics: Web Course. Sponsored by the Office of Lifelong Learning, Indian University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, IN. For more information and to register, visit http://www.nursing.iupui.edu/LifelongLearning/CertificatePrograms/Informatics/Nu

 

January 9-May 1, 2006, Nursing Informatics Certificate Program-Consumer Health Informatics: Web Course. Sponsored by the Office of Lifelong Learning, Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, IN. For more information and to register, visit http://www.nursing.iupui.edu/LifelongLearning/CertificatePrograms/Informatics/Nu

 

January 24-27, 2006, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14-Accelerating Change in Healthcare: Next Medical Toolkit, Long Beach, CA. Sponsored by Aligned Management Associates, in partnership with Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, US Army Medical Research and Material Command, http://www.tatrc.org; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, http://www.darpa.mil/dso; Acceleration Studies Foundation, http://www.accelerating.org; and Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies, http://summit.stanford.edu. For more information visit the Web site http://www.nextmed.com/mmvr_virtual_reality.html.

 

FEBRUARY 2006

February 12-16, 2006, Annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition, San Diego, CA. Sponsored by Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, 230 East Ohio Street, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60611-3269. For more information, visit the Web site http://conference.himss.org/ASP/index.asp. Nominations for the Nursing Informatics Leadership Award are open; visithttp://www.himss.org/asp/industryawards_nursing.asp for more information.

 

MARCH 2006

March 6-31, 2006, E-learning for Staff Educators: Web Course. Sponsored by the Office of Lifelong Learning, Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, IN. For more information and to register, visit http://www.nursing.iupui.edu/LifelongLearning/OnlineCourses/E_LearningStaffEdu.h.

 

March 9-10, 2006, Changing the Culture of Care with Evidence-based Practice: 17th Annual Rocky Mountain Regional Multidisciplinary Research and Evidence-Based Practice Symposium, Denver, CO. Sponsored by the University of Colorado Hospital, Evidence-Based Practice Council; University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, School of Nursing; Denver VA Medical Center, Nursing Service. For more information, contact Kathy Oman, PhD, RN, CNS, University of Colorado Hospital, 4200 East Ninth Avenue, Denver, CO 80262; telephone 303-372-5634; e-mail [email protected].

 

March 15 -18, 2006, NNN '06: Electronic Use of Nursing Clinical Data, 4th Biennial Conference of the NANDA, NIC & NOC Alliance, Philadelphia, PA. Sponsored by NANDA International, 100 N. 20th Street, 4th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103. For more information, telephone 215-545-8105, toll free: 800-647-9002; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site http://www.nanda.org/html/nnn-conference.html.

 

March 20-22, 2006, HC2006, 23rd Annual Healthcare Computing Conference and Exhibition, Harrogate, UK. Sponsored by the British Computer Society Health Informatics Committee, 1 Sanford Street, Swindon, SN1 1HJ, UK. For more information, visit the Web site http://www.healthcare-computing.co.uk/hc2006/conference/index.htm.

 

APRIL 2006

April 9-11, 2006, Third Annual Connecting Communities for Better Health Learning Forum and Exhibition, Washington, DC. Sponsored by Foundation for eHealth Initiative, 1500 K Street, N.W. Suite 900, Washington, DC 20005. For more information, telephone 202-624-3270; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site http://ccbh.ehealthinitiative.org.

 

April 20-22, 2006, ENRS 18th Annual Scientific Sessions, Philadelphia, PA. Sponsored by the Eastern Nursing Research Society, 1211 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. For more information, telephone 215-599-6700; e-mail: [email protected], 215-599-6640; Web http://www.enrs-go.org.

 

April 21-22, 2006, Automated Patient Care: Innovations in Nursing Informatics-ANIA 13th Annual Conference, Nashville, TN. Sponsored by the American Nursing Informatics Association, 1908 S El Camino Real, Suite H, San Clemente, CA 92672. For more information, contact ANIA, e-mail [email protected], Web site http://www.ania.org.

 

MAY 2006

May 20-24, 2006, Toward Electronic Patient Records 2006: 22nd Annual TEPR Conference and Exhibition, Baltimore, MD. Sponsored by Medical Records Institute, 425 Boylston Street, 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02116; Phone: (617) 964-3923; fax: (617) 964-3926; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://www.medrecinst.com/conferences/tepr/2006/index.asp.

 

May 21-24, 2006, Emerging Trends and Challenges in Information Technology Management: 2006 Information Resources Management Association International Conference, Washington, DC. Sponsored by IRMA, 701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Suite 200, Hershey, PA 17033. For more information, contact Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Program Chair; e-mail [email protected], Web http://www.irma-international.org/.

 

May 23-24, 2006, 4th International Symposium on Appropriate Healthcare Technologies for Developing Countries, London, UK. Sponsored by the Healthcare Technologies Professional Network of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL. For more information, visit the Web site http://www.iee.org/events/aht2006.cfm.

 

May 26-29, 2006, 24th Annual International Nursing Computer and Technology Conference, Toronto, Ontario. Sponsored by Rutgers University College of Nursing, Ackerson Hall Room 102, 180 University Avenue, Newark, NJ 07102. For more information, visit the Web site http://nursing.rutgers.edu/cpd/onlinecat/slisting.asp?id=54.

 

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 Street, Edmonton, AB, 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], or visit the Web site http://www.ni2006.org.

 

JULY 2006

July 19-22, 2006, Advancing Clinical Practice Through Nursing Informatics: Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics, Baltimore, MD. Sponsored by the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Office of Continuing Education, 655 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. For more information, contact Sonia Smith, telephone 410-706-3767; e-mail: [email protected]; Web http://nursing.umaryland.edu/informatics/. Call for abstracts ends February 1, 2006. Preconference sessions will be held July 16-18, 2006.