Call for Paper and Participation

The EFMI STC 2011 is the latest one in a series of successful conferences held in in Bucharest, Romania (2001), Nicosia, Cyprus (2002), Rome, Italy (2003), Munich, Germany (2004), Athens, Greece (2005), Timisoara, Romania (2006), Brijuni Island, Croatia (2007), London, UK (2008), and Antalya, Turkey (2009), and Reykjavik, Iceland (2010).

The theme of the STC 2011 is “E-salus trans confinia sine finibus – e-Health Across Borders Without Boundaries”.

Objectives of the conference
The objective of the conference is to highlight health-related communication and collaboration at regional, national, and epsecially at international level. Achieving and maintaining cross-border interoperability of electronic health record systems implies managing the continuous process of change and adaptation of a multitude of elements within and across electronic infrastructures in neighbored countries. To achieve this, there is a need to undertake several actions at political, organizational, technical, semantic, and educational level. At the conference, there will be a multitude of scientists gathered to add value to several practical issues regarding the topics discussed.

The conference addresses, but not limited to, the following topics:

Inter-regional health information systems and applications
Cross border e-Health projects
The Patient and cross-border e-Health systems
Multi language and cultural issues in e-Health system
Legal issues with interconnected international e-Health systems
Standardization issues with international e-Health systems
Assessment of e-Health systems
Safety and security issues in interconnected e-Health systems
E-communications in a global community
Cross border education in health informatics
Conference programme
The conference programme will include keynotes, invited speeches, oral presentations of both accepted papers submitted by single authors or teams as well as selected individual PhD students papers, but also poster sessions accompanied by short presentations to the plenary. Furthermore, there will be a parallel track with topic-related workshops or panels.

Submission of papers
You are cordially invited to participate actively and submit a paper, or – if you meet the status requirements – a PhD students paper within the limitation of 4-6 pages, but also electronic versions of A0 posters. Furthermore, proposals for topic-related workshops or panels may be submitted, proposing title, involved speakers, intended duration, objectives, detailed content to be discussed, and results expected. All submissions must strictly follow the Instructions to Authors published on the Conference Website as downloads for the different submission types.

All submission will be reviewed by three domain experts. Accepted papers will be published within the Series “Studies on Health Technology and Informatics at IOS Press. This requires that at least the presenter has to register for the conference. Furthermore, the submission has to be revised according to the recommendations of reviewers and the SPC.

For enabling a broad participation and representation at the conference, just one submission in the position of the corresponding (presenting) author is permitted.

Please use the following instructions and templates to design your paper or poster.
Instructions to authors
templates
Poster template

Please click on the link below to submit your paper online.
https://stc2011.online-registry.net/

Conference Materials
All materials presented to the conference (including posters, workshops and panels presentations) will be published on the EFMI Website for downloads.

Important dates:
Deadline for the submission of papers: 1 November 2010
Notification of acceptance: 30 December 2010
Resubmission of accepted papers: 15 February 2011
Conference: 14-15 April 2011

More information
For more information please contact the Scientific Program Committee or the Local Organizing Committee through spc@stc2011.si or info@stc2011.si, respectively.

Lacramioara Stoicu – Tivadar, SPC Chair

Bernd Blobel, SPC Co-Chair

Tomaž Marčun, SPC Co-Chair

Mojca Paulin, LOC Chair