受英国医学信息学会奖学金资助,我参加过2002年的会议,一直记忆犹新,收获很多。如果国内的朋友有兴趣,希望你们能够参加。
HC2005 Conference
Shaping Sands, Shifting Services
HC2005 is the 22nd annual conference of Health Informatics in the UK, the longest running conference of its type, and the largest of its kind in Europe. The recent years of this BCS conference have seen the positing of strategies, the posturing of solutions and the primacy of safety-oriented systems based on evidence. Evidence based informatics is to us as important and as elusive as evidence based medicine is to the clinical professions. Health Informatics is the discipline and profession charged delivering to acceptable standards.
The HC2005 conference is the place to be, not just for the informal networking, important as that undoubtedly is, but also as a nation-wide standard to assess how far we have come, and equally valuable, as an indicator as to how far we still have to go. '
The theme 'Shaping Sands' highlights the difficulties that our profession faces, the futility of constructing permanent, too-rigid structures and inflexible systems when confronted with relentless waves of change in healthcare delivery. 'Shifting Services' conversely provides us with the certainty that change is inescapable, a necessity and a constant precursor to success; a demand of the more critical service user to be heard within explicit and reasonable constraints.
HC2005 then is a challenge to complacency, or, to make it more personal, a challenge to you and to any organisation that you might belong to, if you wish to make a difference. The conference provides the forum for learning about what is going on now, not just in the UK as a whole, but further afield too. It is also the meeting for considering innovation, for understanding change and for strategies to manage its impact from a variety of stakeholder' perspectives. HC2005 is the place to be, to examine the current information structures, to assess the current system solutions and for anticipating the new waves that are about to crash down upon us.
The BCS is a learned society and it is keen to promote learning at all levels and to facilitate the transfer of knowledge between stakeholders. However, it can only achieve its aim by engaging those who are active in the field.
Europe's largest,
and most comprehensive,
health informatics event
Shaping Sands, Shifting Services
Health Informatics and Change
21-23 March 2005,
Harrogate, England |