CHIRAD and CHIRAD Africa will be sponsoring Barcamp Africa UK, to be held in London on 07 November, 2009.

See http://barcampafrica.com/uk further information here later once it is on the Barcamp site.

CHIRAD is changing and its administrative centre will be moving. We will provide further updates soon.

Prof. Graham Wright now works at Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, South Africa and lives in South Africa; Dr Helen Betts will be moving there soon.

We will be discussing the changes with CHIRAD Fellow and Members first, and then will publicise the nature of the changes.

CHIRAD.ORG - the CHIRAD portal

CHIRAD changes - CHIRAD is changing and moving. Watch out for updates.

 CHIRAD is the Centre for Health Informatics Research and Development.

Our aim is to provide an environment for the development of Health Informatics as an academic subject. CHIRAD is a company limited by guarantee that is a non-for-profit organisation. It is probably the first virtual R&D centre for Health Informatics.

CHIRAD is proud to be an Academic Institutional member of IMIA, the International Medical Informatics Association (www.imia.org), and is the first Institutional member of EFMI, the European Federation for Medical Informatics (www.efmi.org)

This site will be the portal to the other CHIRAD websites.

Contacting CHIRAD

For general enquiries about CHIRAD, email: Prof. Graham Wright - This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Site development by: Peter Murray

CHIRAD's websites

For more information on CHIRAD's activities, see our other websites:

the CHIRAD portal for free/libre and open source software is at www.chirad.info

the CHIRAD education portal is at www.chirad.org.uk

the CHIRAD in South Africa portal is at www.chirad.co.za

the CHIRAD resources site for Fellows and Members is at www.chirad.net

the CHIRAD blog is at chirad-at.blogspot.com

Conference presentations by CHIRAD members will be added in the chirad@ presentations section

CHIRAD also maintains the website of the IMIA Open Source Working Group - www.chirad.info/imiaoswg

10 September, 2009  Dr Peter J. Murray, webspinner

The Medicine 2.0 Congress will take place in Toronto, Canada on September 4-5th, 2008. This is an international conference, with the focus on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine. CHIRAD is proud to be a supporting/sponsoring organisation for this event - it is organised and co-sponsored by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the International Medical Informatics Association, the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, and a number of other sponsoring organizations.

The Call for Abstracts is now open for abstracts, speaker and panel proposals - go to http://www.medicine20congress.com and pre-register. The conference invites academic and international contributions, and also covers areas such as Science 2.0, Peer-Review 2.0, and social networking for consumers and health professionals. 

Several CHIRAD members were involved in the writing and editing of 'Nursing Informatics 2020: Towards Defining Our Own Future", published by IOS Press (>>> ).

The book forms the Proceedings of the  NI2006 Post Congress Conference, which was held in Korea in June 2006, immediately following the NI2006 9th International Congress on Nursing Informatics. The book is edited by, among others, CHIRAD members Peter Murray and Scott Erdley, while other CHIRAD members (Karl Oyri and Graham Wright) contributed to the event and to some of the chapters.

As Peter notes in the Foreword (written in his capacity as IMIA Vice President for Working Groups and Special Interest Groups): 

Over the past three years, Heather Strachan, immediate past Chair of IMIA-NI, and myself have been members of the IMIA Strategic Planning Taskforce ... As part of the work of the Taskforce, we had to think about what its members would like to see IMIA being and doing in the year 2015. It seemed natural, therefore, for IMIA-NI to formally think about the future of nursing, of nursing informatics, and the needs of both our own organizations and the wider nursing community. Hence, it was an opportune time to use the NI2006 Post Congress Conference to focus on these discussions; and, as nurses always like to think a little further ahead than their colleagues, we selected 2020 as our target date. ... 

GGG the original 3g - Graham's Great and Good Interviews

Graham Wright has conducted the first of a sseries of iinterviews with the 'great and the good' from the world of health informatics. They were conducted at medinfo2007 in Brisbane and are on the chirad.org.uk website (>>> )

Many of our health informatics colleagues form around the world agreed to be interviewed - and the results are available for anyone to listen to as mp3 files (maybe technically not quite podcasts). The interviews will act as a valuable resource for the international health informatics community, and cover people with diverse expertise in many aspects of health informatics.

Further interviews will be conducted at future health informatics events - hopefully, starting at MIE2008 .