AIS SIG-Health

Please find the April 2012 newsletter attached in a pdf format.  This newsletter issue details our SIGHealth President’s report, as well as AMCIS 2012 and ECIS 2012 accepted papers and posters.  The newsletter also highlights upcoming networking and publication opportunities.

Newsletter April 2012

New launch from Elsevier in collaboration with the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine (FPM)

• Health Policy and Technology (HPT) is a peer-reviewed, cross-disciplinary journal which focuses on past, present and future health policy and the role of technology in clinical and non-clinical health environments
• HPT publishes relevant, timely and accessible articles and commentaries to support policymakers, health professionals, health technology providers, patient groups and academia interested in health policy and technology

HPT invites online submission of papers on a range of policy and technology themes including:

• Country studies on health policy to determine the outcomes of technologydriven initiatives
• Cross-national comparisons on health policy using evidence-based approaches
• Health technology, including drug discovery, diagnostics, medicines, devices, therapeutic delivery and eHealth systems
• Health technology assessment (HTA) methods and tools for evaluating the effectiveness of clinical and non-clinical health technologies
• Stakeholder engagement with health technologies
• Regulation and health economics

About the FPM—educating medical professionals

The aim of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine (FPM) is to promote international calibre excellence in postgraduate medical education through its publications, clinical and scientific meetings, and other activities. The FPM is a British medical charity that was founded at the end of World War I, when it pioneered development of post-graduate educational programs in all branches of medicine.

Its foundation was the result of a merger between the Fellowship of Medicine and the Postgraduate Medical Association, with Sir William Osler the first president of the new organization. The FPM is supported by Fellows with expertise in the practice of medicine, medical education and publishing, and research in medicine and related disciplines.

For further information visit http://www.fpm-uk.org

For your free sample copy visit: http://healthpolicyandtechnology.org

Wendy Currie, Founding Editor-in-Chief