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.

IMIA 'Wearable Sensors' WG Co-organising PervaSense Workshop (http://wp.me/pvCUS-13S)

The IMIA Working Group “Wearable sensors in healthcare” (http://www.wearable-sensors.org) will co-host the 4th international workshop PervaSense “Situation recognition and medical data analysis in Pervasive Health environments” (PERVASENSE2012, http://www.pervasense.org) in San Diego on 21 May, 2012. Call for submissions closes on 01 March.

HIC 2012 (Sydney, Australia) - Call for Submissions Closes February 23 (http://wp.me/pvCUS-12Q)

HIC 2012, Australia's Health Informatics Conference, to be held from 30 July - 2 August 2012 at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. Full information on the Call is at http://www.hisa.org.au/hic2012 - the deadline for paper submissions is 23 February, 2012.

AMIA 2012 Annual Symposium - Submission Deadline March 15 (http://wp.me/pvCUS-12G)

The AMIA 2012 Annual Symposium takes place this year in Chicago, Il, USA on 03-07 November - full details are at http://www.amia.org/amia2012

The submission deadline for all forms of proposal is March 15, 2012 - for full details on types of proposal (including new and revived formats) see http://www.amia.org/meetings-events/amia-2012-annual-symposium/proposals

MIE2012, EFMI STC2012 - Calls for Participation Close in January (http://wp.me/pvCUS-12A and http://wp.me/pvCUS-129)

The Call for Papers and other forms of contribution to MIE2012 (Pisa, Italy - August 26-29, 2012) is available on the MIE2012 website (http://www.mie2012.it/). January 30, 2012: Submission deadline for full papers and posters. March 1, 2012: Submission deadline for panels, workshops, short communications, tutorials. See http://wp.me/pvCUS-12A

The next Special Topic Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI STC2012 - http://www.stc2012.eu/) is be held on April 18-21, 2012 in Moscow, Russia. See http://wp.me/pvCUS-129

IMIA News is available at http://imianews.wordpress.com 

Peter Murray, IMIA CEO - 30 January, 2012