The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) is the world body for health and biomedical informatics. As an 'association of associations', IMIA acts as a bridging organisation, bringing together the constituent organisations and their members. IMIA provides leadership and expertise to the multidisciplinary, health focused community and to policy makers, to enable the transformation of healthcare in accord with the world-wide vision of improving the health of the world population.

Inherent in IMIA’s role is to bring together, from a global perspective, scientists, researchers, users, vendors, developers, consultants and suppliers in an environment of cooperation and sharing.

Medinfo2013 - First Call for Papers, Posters (http://wp.me/pvCUS-1fn)

On behalf of Medinfo2013 Scientific Program Committee (SPC) Co-Chairs Dominik Aronsky, MD, PhD (dominik.aronsky[at]vanderbilt.edu) and Tze-Yun Leong, PhD (leongty[at]nus.edu.sg), we are pleased to announce the first preliminary Call for Papers, Student Papers, and Poster Submissions.

The closing date for submission will be: 10 December 2012 See http://wp.me/pvCUS-1fn for further information and call document

Information on calls for other forms of submission, and on the opening of the submission system, will be made in the near future.

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Special theme: e-health, May 2012 (http://wp.me/pvCUS-1dk)

The Special Theme issue on e-health of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Volume 90, Number 5, May 2012, 321-400) has been published today, 01 May, 2012. The full content is available online via http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/90/5/en/index.html

Individual articles are readable and downloadable in a variety of formats (including HTML files, PDF files, and e-reader formats). Includes editorial Establishing an evidence base for e-health: the proof is in the pudding, by Najeeb Al-Shorbaji & Antoine Geissbuhler.

IMIA Working Group ‘Security in Health Information Systems (SiHIS) Event: 03-05 August, Australia (http://wp.me/pvCUS-1bP)

The next meeting/event of the IMIA Working Group ‘Security in Health Information Systems (SiHIS) will be held on 03-05 August, 2012 in the Gold Coast, Australia. The theme of the SiHIS meeting will be: Global Citizens - Accessing and sharing health data across International Borders. This will immediately follow the HISA (Health Informatics Society of Australia) conference, which is being held on 30 July to 02 August in Sydney - http://www.hisa.org.au/page/hic2012

Call for Papers: APAMI-2012 Conference (http://wp.me/pvCUS-16Z)

The 7th Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics Conference (APAMI-2012) will be held at the Crowne Plaza Beijing Sun Palace, Beijing, China on October 22-25, 2012.

The Call for Papers is now open - closing date for submission of FULL PAPERS is June 10, 2012. See http://wp.me/pvCUS-16Z for current information and updates.

IMIA News is available at http://news.imia.info

Peter Murray, IMIA CEO - 17 May, 2012