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IMIA Institutional Membership for the University of Surrey

Institutional membership of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) & publications in this year’s IMIA year book

The Department of Health Care Management and Policy has been elected an institutional member of IMIA (International Medical Informatics Association - http://www.imia-medinfo.org/new2/).   This took place at the IMIA General Assembly in Oslo in August 2011.   Prof Simon de Lusignan received the certificate of membership on behalf of the Department.  Simon is also the Co-chair of the IMIA Primary Health Care Informatics Working group (http://www.imia-medinfo.org/new2/node/149 ); this highly successful working group have produced two papers in this years IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics. (http://www.imia-medinfo.org/new2/node/110).

 

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[Academic membership certificate presented by: Prof Fernando Martin Sanchez (Vice President of IMIA and Head of the Health-Biomedical Informatics Research at Melbourne University)]

 

Dr.Charitini Stavropoulou (Lecturer) and  Prof Chris Pearce (Australian academic GP and visiting senior research fellow to University of Surrey) were co-authors of one of the yearbook submissions: 

de Lusignan S, Pearce C, Kumarapeli P, Stavropoulou C, Kushniruk A, Sheikh A, Shachak A, Mendis K. Reporting Observational Studies of the Use of Information Technology in the Clinical Consultation. A Position Statement from the IMIA Primary Health Care Informatics Working Group (IMIA PCI WG). Yearb Med Inform. 2011;6(1):39-47. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21938323]

Prof Paul Krauser (Softeware Engineering at Univesity of Surrey) and Georgios Michalakidis (University of Surrey Department of Computing) were co-authors of the other working group paper:

de Lusignan S, Liaw ST, Krause P, Curcin V, Vicente MT, Michalakidis G, Agreus L, Leysen P, Shaw N, Mendis K. Key Concepts to Assess the Readiness of Data for International Research: Data Quality, Lineage and Provenance, Extraction and Processing Errors, Traceability, and Curation. Contribution of the IMIA Primary Health Care Informatics Working Group. Yearb Med Inform. 2011;6(1):112-20. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21938335]