From evardell at email.unc.edu Mon Jun 6 11:24:55 2016 From: evardell at email.unc.edu (Vardell, Emily J) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 15:24:55 +0000 Subject: [Sighlth-l] PhD funding opportunity at Aix-Marseille University, France References: Message-ID: <987dae7e677e447580a0fa2e0fc28d00@its-msxmbs8m.ad.unc.edu> Forwarding upon request. Looks like a great opportunity for a SIG-HLTH member. -------------- PhD FUNDING OPPORTUNITY at AIX-MArseille University, FRANCE -------------- We are seeking PhD candidates for a thesis proposal entitled "Healthcare Associated Infections Prevention and Reduction: Info-communication tools and processes for hand hygiene" (Project ID: 2016-21) which has passed the first selection phase in the context of a competitive DOC2AMU, a H2020 COFUND MSCA project financed by the European Commission under Grant Agreement 713750 and the Provence-Alpes-C?te d?Azur Regional Council, with a financial support from A*MIDEX Foundation. DOC2AMU is an innovative doctoral programme with the aim of financing 30 3-year doctoral contracts from 2016 to 2021 at Aix-Marseille Universit? (AMU) in Marseille, France. The PhD proposal (topic) can be found here: http://doc2amu.univ-amu.fr/en/healthcare-associated-infections-prevention-and-reduction-info-communication-tools-and-processes-for PhD candidates should hold a Masters' degree in one of these fields: Anthropology, psychology, sociology, communication science or Information Science. The Master's degree must be completed at the time of commencement of the PhD (Dec. 2016). Candidates with prior experience of field work in the health care sector and with a knowledge of mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) are particularly sought. Eligible candidates must have excellent communication skills as s/he will have to interact with health care workers. More information on the the funding framework can be found here: http://doc2amu.univ-amu.fr/en/what-is-doc2amu. Eligibility criteria and selection process are specified here: http://doc2amu.univ-amu.fr/en/application-information/overview-of-the-selection-process-and-guidelines-for-evaluators If awarded, the candidate will receive financial support and training. More details can be found here: http://doc2amu.univ-amu.fr/en/why-apply The complete application package should be submitted by 24th june on the call's website. Interested candidates, please get in touch with "fidelia.ibekwe-sanjuan at univ-amu.fr" as an introduction letter is required from the PhD supervisor for every application. -- ----------------------------------------------------- Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Ph.D.) Full Professor (Professeur des Universit?s) School of Journalism & Communication (EJCAM) http://ejcam.univ-amu.fr/en Aix-Marseille University - France. Homepage: http://fidelia1.free.fr/ IRSIC research team: http://irsic.univ-amu.fr/ ----------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From evardell at email.unc.edu Mon Jun 6 11:16:12 2016 From: evardell at email.unc.edu (Vardell, Emily J) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 15:16:12 +0000 Subject: [Sighlth-l] FW: Learn Practical Skills for Answering Health Insurance Reference Questions In-Reply-To: References: <6929977.27241465224947503.JavaMail.root@localhost> Message-ID: [http://www.mlanet.org/media/hrzxztgq.jpg] What?s New with the Affordable Care Act and What You Need to Know About It [http://www.mlanet.org/media/llnsshlt.jpg] We asked Affordable Care Act (ACA) expert and author Emily Vardell how she got interested in the ACA. Her answer shows how attending her webinar on ?What?s New with the Affordable Care Act? can help you learn practical skills for answering health insurance reference questions. ?I attended a lecture by Donna Shalala, former Secretary of Health and Human Services, who presented on the Affordable Care Act. She spoke about how most individuals didn't truly understand what the ACA meant for them. That argument stuck with me and made me think about how even really well educated people find health insurance and health policy overwhelming.? Vardell is the editor of The Medical Library Association Guide to Answering Questions about the Affordable Care Act (2015) and a researcher in the areas of health insurance literacy and decision-making. The live event is Wednesday June 8, 1:00 p.m.?2:30 p.m., central time. Register now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From evardell at email.unc.edu Tue Jun 7 14:35:45 2016 From: evardell at email.unc.edu (Vardell, Emily J) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 18:35:45 +0000 Subject: [Sighlth-l] Join Us for Part 2 of the ASIS&T SIG-HLTH Mixed Methods Webinar Series Message-ID: <3bdd5847468e45bbb739ed1d86a4b134@its-msxmbs8m.ad.unc.edu> SIG HLTH Webinar - Part 2: Mixed Studies Reviews Monday, June 20, 2016, 12:00 noon - 1:00 PM EST Following the webinar on primary mixed methods research, this webinar provides an overview of mixed studies reviews. These two approaches are used to combine the strengths of quantitative and qualitative methods and to compensate for their respective limitations. This webinar will describe the main types of mixed studies reviews and synthesis designs. Access to a wikitoolkit and examples will be provided. Here is the link to register: https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/sig-hlth-webinar-part-2-mixed-studies-reviews/ Webinar sponsored by SIG HLTH: https://www.asist.org/groups/health-informatics-hlth/ Moderator: Emily Vardell Presenters [Pierre Pluye MD PhD]Pierre Pluye Pierre Pluye MD PhD is FRQS Senior Research Scholar, Full Professor at the Department of Family Medicine (McGill University, Montreal, Canada), and Director of the Methodological Developments for the Quebec SUPPORT Unit. He is Associate Member of the School of Information Studies (McGill). Pierre is a specialist in Public Health and Social Medicine (PhD in Health Promotion). He obtained Investigator Awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the 'Fond de la recherche du Qu?bec Sant?' (FRQS). He has expertise in mixed methods research and complex literature reviews including quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods studies (mixed studies reviews). His current CIHR-funded studies examine the application of information derived from electronic knowledge resources (email delivery, information retrieval, social media) and subsequent patient and consumer health benefits. [QN_Hong]Quan Nha Hong Quan Nha Hong is an occupational therapist with research training in clinical sciences (M.Sc., Universit? de Sherbrooke) and health technology assessment and management (M.Sc., Universit? de Montr?al). She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University under the supervision of Dr. Pierre Pluye. She holds a doctoral fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). She is interested in literature reviews, methods of knowledge synthesis and quality appraisal. Her doctoral research project is on the validation of the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT), a critical appraisal tool for assessing the quality of studies included in mixed studies reviews. 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Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 6396 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Wed Jun 8 04:14:57 2016 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 10:14:57 +0200 Subject: [Sighlth-l] CFP: The 8th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems, Hendaye, France (ACM MEDES 2016) Message-ID: * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * The 8th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'16) In-Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/16/ November 1-4, 2016 Hendaye, France Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES),previously named "The International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems", aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. MEDES 2016 calls for full papers presenting interesting recent results or novel ideas in all areas of Emergent Digital EcoSystems. At the same time, the conference calls for short papers presenting interesting and exciting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that are not quite ready, and preferably include a system demonstration. Topics ------- MEDES 2016 seeks contributions in the following areas: - Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure - Data & Knowledge Management - Computational and Collective Intelligence - Semantic Computing - Big Data - Services - Trust, Security & Privacy - Software Engineering - Internet of Things and Intelligent Web - Internet of People - Cyber Physical Systems - Systems of Systems - Social and Collaborative Platforms - Human-Computer Interaction - Open Source - Applications (Logistics, Energy, Healthcare, Environment, Smart Cities, Digital Humanities, Robotics, etc.) - Complex Systems and Networks Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Deadline (extended): July 20th, 2016 - Notification of Acceptance: September 5th, 2016 - Camera Ready: September 15th, 2016 - Paper Registration: September 15th, 2016 - Conference Dates: 1-4 November 2016 Advisory Chairs ---------------- Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Conference Chair ---------------- Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France Program Chairs ---------------- Ismail Biskri, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Trois-Rivi?res, Canada Rajeev Agrawal, North Carolina A&T State University, USA Local Organizing Committee --------------------------- Philippe Aniorte, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Philippe Arnould, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Haritza Camblong, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain Ionel Vechiu, ESTIA, France Laurent Gallon, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Sebstian Laborie, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Philippe Lopisteguy, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Manuel Munier, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Khouloud Salameh, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Nathalie Charbel, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Lara Kallas, NOBATEK, France Irvin Dongo, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Chinnapong Angsuchotmetee, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Regina Ticona, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France Solomon Asres, University of Pau and Adour Countries (UPPA), France International Program Committee -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list)