-------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth Brazilian Congress on Health Informatics Porto Alegre, Brazil, 12-16 October 1994 -------------------------------------------------- The Brazilian Society for Health Informatics, an official affiliate to the International Association of Medical Informatics (IMIA) announces its premier technical and scientific meeting, to be held in the Hospital of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil's southernmost state capital, from October 12th to 16th, 1994. Following the successful promotion of previous meeting in Campinas (1986), Sao Paulo (1988) and Gramado (1990), the objective of this year's Congress is to provide a lively forum for specialists as well as for users of computers in Medicine and allied sciences. Previous attendances have been around 500-600 participants per meeting, with 120 to 150 papers. The congress main activities will be: - Pre-congress tutorials - Invited foreign and Brazilian lectures - Panel and symposia on specific themes of Health Informatics - Presentation of papers in oral and poster form - Software demonstration sessions - Meet-the-expert sessions Submission of technical papers is invited for the following topics, in the areas of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Biology, Veterinary Medicine and allied Health Sciences: - Information infrastructure (networks, remote dabases,technical aspects) - Standards, coding, nomenclature and classification - New frontiers of man-machine interaction (interfaces, multimedia, etc.) - Image and signal processing - Knowledge-based systems, expert systems and medical decision making - Database technology in health care and biomedical science - Hospital and clinical automation - Medical workstations - Ethics, legislation, patient confidentiality, reliability and safety - Education and training in Health Informatics - Computer-based education in the Health Sciences - Informatics in the integration of healthcare systems at the municipal, state, regional and national levels - Other areas of applications Technical Exhibit A technical exhibit, featuring new products (hardware, sofware, services and publications) will be held simultaneously in the congress area. Submission of Papers The congress proceedings, containing full-length papers (2 to 5 printed pages) will be published and made available during the meeting. The official publication languages are Portuguese, Spanish and English. An author instruction kit is available for potential authors, from the congress' secretariat. Deadlines 30 June 94 submission of full papers 31 August 94 mailing of letters of acceptance or rejection 31 August 94 registration at reduced rates for general attendance 16 September 94 registration at reduced rates for authors of accepted papers Registration and Information: IV CBIS Secretariat Nucleo de Informatica em Saude FAMED/UFRGS Rua Ramiro Barcelos, 2600 4º andar 90035-003 Porto Alegre RS, Brazil Fone : (+55 51) 330-55-00 extension 5360 or 5161 Fax: (+55 051) 330-2185 E-mail: CBIS94@vortex.ufrgs.br ___________________________________________________________ Promotion: Brazilian Society for Health Informatics Organization: Porto Alegre Clinics Hospital Medical School, Nursing School and Dentistry School of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Institutional Support: - Porto Alegre Clinics Hospital, Federal Univ. Rio Grande do Sul - Institute of Cardiology of Rio Grande do Sul - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - Center for Health Informatics, Paulista School of Medicine - Center for Biomedical Informatics, State University of Campinas - Data Processing Center, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - National Council of Research (CNPq) - Rio Grande do Sul State Foundation for Research Support Kernell Informatica IBM do Brasil Brazilian Society for Health Informatics Board of Directors (1992-1994): President: Mariza Kluck Stumpf - UFRGS/Porto Alegre Vice- President: Peter Arnold Rosemberg - Albert Einstein Hospital Secretary: Renato M.E. Sabbatini UNICAMP, Campinas Treasurer: Jaime de Oliveira Ilha - UNICAMP, Campinas Organizing Committee President: Mariza Kluck Stumpf Technical Fair: Jose' A. R. Martinez Secretariat: Jose' R.Guimaraes Logistics: Guillermo D.de Mello Luciano Degrazia Fernando Torelly Rubia Wendt Victor Odorcyk Area Coordinators Nursing: Lia Brandt Funcke Dentistry: Joao Antonio Caminha - ODONTO/UFRGS Scientific Program Commitee Beatriz de Faria Leao (President) Alui Barbisan Candido Pinto de Melo Daniel Sigulem Debora Feijo Vieira Jose Roberto Goldim Lincoln de Assis Moura Jr. Rita Farias Besson Renato M.E. Sabbatini Umberto Tachinardi --------------------------------------------------------------- PRE-REGISTRATION FORM NAME: ...................................................... AGE:.... Profession: .......................... Area: ........................................... Institution: ............................................... Postal Address:............................................ ZIP: ........ CITY: ................. STATE/PROVINCE: ...... COUNTRY:............................. Phone: ........................... Fax:..................... 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