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International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies – IWEEE 2010

Monday, October 19th, 2009

IWEEE 2010 – International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies, February 10-12, 2010 – Las Palmas, Canary Islands (Spain)

“IWEEE brings together a multi-disciplinary team representing NGOs, Academia, Government, Church and Industry to share their experiences and to try to find ways to improve the lives of millions of human beings from the developing world.

IWEEE is not a pure technical conference. It will focus on the human factor and in raising awareness about the actual situation. We will discuss the tools that we can provide today to doctors and institutions to improve their habitants health and education”

Registration and accommodation’s information at: http://www.iweee.org

*IWEEE is a non-profit event. The resulting balance will be donated to charity.

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News: Open source software eyed for use in more Philippine health centers

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

More Philippine local government units are now installing locally developed, open source software for health centers. The Community Health Information Tracking System or CHITS has been deployed in at least 12 municipalities, according to Dr. Alvin Marcelo, project manager of CHITS.”

CHITS is an information system for rural health units developed by Dr. Herman Tolentino and his team at the University of the Philippines Manila.

Read More: Open source software eyed for use in more health centers

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Open Access Journal: Electronic Journal of Health Informatics, Vol 2, No 2 (2007) Special Issue on HIC 2006 now online

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

The electronic Journal of Health Informatics has just published its latest issue at http://www.ejhi.net

The issue is a special issue on HIC 2006, the Australian Health Informatics Conference that took place in Sydney last year. This year, this conference was incorporated in the international Medinfo conference, which took place in Brisbane last week.

The special issue as been guest-edited by Joanne Callen and Johanna Westbrook.

The authors of the Top 10 papers from the conference were asked to submit extended versions of their research to this journal and 5 papers were accepted after full peer-review.

In addition, this issue also features two unsolicited fully peer-reviewed papers.

The Table of Contents and the papers are at:
http://ejhi.net/ojs/index.php/ejhi/issue/view/4

The electronic Journal of Health Informatics is an international journal committed to scholarly excellence and dedicated to the advancement of Health Informatics and information technology in healthcare. It is a journal for all health professions and informaticians of all levels.

eJHI is a truly open access journal – it provides open access both for authors (i.e. no publication fee or page charges) and for readers (i.e. free access to all papers).

This announcement came from:
Dr Sebastian Garde
Managing Editor - electronic Journal of Health Informatics
Faculty of Business and Informatics, Central Queensland University
Austin Centre for Applied Clinical Informatics

Reference: http://www.ejhi.net
http://healthinformatics.cqu.edu.au

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