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Events: 2006

February 2006

Medical Imaging 2006 International Symposium
International Society for Optical Engineering
San Diego: 11 - 16 February 2006
e-Health Research Centre's Dr Birgit Planitz presents "Perceptually-limited Modality-adaptive Medical Image Watermarking"

HIMSS 2006 Annual Conference and Exhibition
San Diego, USA: 12 - 16 February 2006


March 2006

AFR 8th Annual Health Congress 2006
Sydney, Australia: 1 - 3 March 2006
Day 3 is chaired by e-Health Research Centre CEO, Gary Morgan. Gary will also present a case study, "Investigating Health Data Integration (HDI): providing private and secure access to an integrated virtual data repository".

Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering Seminar - e-Health Research Centre
Dr Mohan Karunanithi will be describing his work at the e-Health Research Centre.
The University of New South Wales, Sydney: 9 March 2006

HC2006: Health Informatics Making the Difference
Harrowgate, UK: 20 - 22 March 2006

2006 e-Health Research Colloquium
Bringing together clinicians and researchers, the 2006 e-Health Research Colloquium aims to showcase recent research trends and developments in the field of e-Health through technical presentations and technology demonstrations.
Brisbane, Australia: 29 March 2006

World Health Care Congress Europe 2006
Chantilly, France: 30 - 31 March 2006


April 2006

Health-e-Nation 2006
Melbourne, Australia: 5 April 2006


May 2006

ACIC'06 Aged Care Informatics Conference 2006
Hobart, Australia: 8 - 10 May 2006

CeBIT Australia 2006
Sydney, Australia: 9 - 11 May 2006

ACHSE (QLD) 2006 State Conference
Theme "Shifting Sands in Health - Managing Cultural Change and Diversity"
Gold Coast, Australia: 19 - 20 May 2006


June 2006

9th Annual Electronic Health & EH Records Congress
Sydney, Australia: 5 - 7 June 2006

2006 Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology
The e-Health Research Centre's Dr David Hansen will present on e-Health, health data and knowledge integration at the Queensland Bioscience Precinct at the University of Queensland.
Brisbane, Australia: 30 June 2006

Australian Lung Cancer Conference
Cairns, Australia: 30 June - 2 July 2006


August 2006

Life Sciences Society Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference
Stanford, United States: 14 - 18 August 2006

14th Health Informatics Conference - HIC2006
Sydney, Australia: 20 - 22 August 2006

The following e-Health Research Centre authored and co-authored papers have been accepted for HIC2006:

  • Privacy Compliance – Managing the Risks when Integrating Health Data, Peter R Croll and Jasmine Croll
  • Improved Record Linkage for Encrypted Identifying Data, Chaoyi Pang and David Hansen
  • Automated Cancer Stage Classification from Free-text Histology Reports, Iain McCowan, Darren Moore and Mary-Jane Fry

And the following posters:

  • Access to Distributed Data While Preserving Patient Privacy, David Hansen
  • Benefits Realised by the EHRC Ambulatory Monitoring Project, Justin Boyle, Mohan Karunanithi, Wilbur Chan and Christine Colavitti
  • The Use of Agent Technologies for Preserving Privacy with Health Records When Linking Federated Databases, Zim Chan, Peter Croll, David Hansen and Anthony Maeder

4th Australasian Conference on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Melbourne, Australia: 21 - 24 August 2006

World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006
Seoul, Korea: 27 August - 1 September 2006

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual International Conference
New York, USA: 30 August - 3 September 2006
e-Health Research Centre's Dr Iain McCowan presents "Classification of Cancer Stage from Free-Text Histology Reports"
e-Health Research Centre's Dr Justin Boyle presents "Quantifying Functional Mobility Progress for Chronic Disease Management"

September 2006

SimTecT Health Care Simulation Conference
Queensland Health Skills Development Centre, Brisbane, Australia: 11 - 14 September 2006
CSIRO BioMedIA Lab's Dr Sébastien Ourselin presents "Advances in Simulation Technology"

eHealth 2006
Hong Kong, China: 15 - 16 September 2006
e-Health Research Centre CEO Gary Morgan presents "A Unifying Environment for Data-Dependent Healthcare Software"


October 2006

MICCAI 2006
Copenhagen, Denmark: 1 - 5 October 2006

The World of Health IT
Geneva, Switzerland: 10 - 13 October 2006

Australian Gastroenterology Week (AGW) 2006
Adelaide, Australia: 11 - 14 October 2006

CAST/NIST A National Summit: Moving Toward Interoperability — Technologies for Accessible, Affordable Healthcare
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA: 18 - 19 October 2006
e-Health Research Centre CEO Gary Morgan will be presenting a poster session on the Centre's clinical trials of ambulatory monitoring devices for stroke patients.

HIMAA National Symposium
Hobart, Australia: 19 - 20 October 2006

ehPASS-06 - National e-Health Privacy and Security Symposium
Brisbane, Australia: 24 - 25 October 2006
e-Health Research Centre presentations:

  • Dr Qing Zhang & Dr David Hansen: Approximate Health Data Linkage with Secure Guarantee
  • Simon McBride: A Governance Framework Supporting Access to Health Information
  • Zim Chan, Prof Peter Croll & Dr David Hansen: Using multi-agents to protect data in the privacy-sensitive health environment

November 2006

2nd Annual Australian Falls Prevention Conference
Brisbane, Australia: 5 - 7 November 2006

Australian Healthcare Association Congress 2006
Brisbane, Australia: 8 - 10 November 2006

The 2006 Biennial Health Conference
Exploring and Debating Acute Care Provision
Sydney, Australia: 14 - 16 November 2006

ACEM 2006 Annual Scientific Meeting
Sydney, Australia: 19 - 24 November 2006

6th Annual Health and Medical Research Conference of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia: 23 - 24 November 2006


December 2006

The Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2006)
Hobart, Australia: 4 - 5 December 2006