'Call for Abstracts' for Colombo-based eHealth Asia conference in Oct

    A three-day Health Informatics conference to kick off on October 12, 2015, at the Cinnamon Grand hotel in Colombo, has started accepting abstracts for research papers to be presented at the conference. Abstract submissions are open upto July 15.   Organised by the Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka (HISSL), along with the Asian eHealth Information Network, the conference has put forward the following tracks for abstract submissions: "Post 2015 challenges for ICT: Global burden of diseases and UHC; Health Administration Informatics; mHealth, Telemedicine and Ambulatory Monitoring; Consumer Health Informatics and Patient Portals; Nursing and Pharmacy informatics; Integrated care pathway and interoperable EHR/EMR; Ethics, Law and Information security in Healthcare IT; eHealth Policy and Standards; Visualisation of clinical and epidemiological data; Open Source adoption and governance in healthcare domain; and ICT for medical and health education".   Additionally, also offered; "Inter-sectoral collaboration and stakeholder engagement in eHealth; eHealth Innovation; Big data, Decision Support Systems and Knowledge Management; IT governance and enterprise architecture in healthcare domain; Imaging Informatics and Lab Information Systems; Simulation, modeling and Data Mining in healthcare; and Bio-surveillance, pandemic preparedness and disaster management".   Interested parties are encouraged to visit hissl.lk for more information. (JH)