NI2006 is over - feedback still welcomed
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The main NI2006 conference is now over, as is the associated post-conference event. I will post something about the post-conference when I get back home, but I am uploading this from Incheon Airport, Seoul, as I wait for my flight.
Many thanks to everyone who has already looked at the blog, and provided posts and comments and photos. Thanks in particular to Rod Ward and Karl Oyri.
There is still plenty of opportunity to add comments to existing posts, and for bloggers to add their reflections on the event, once they get home.
If you have photos you would like to share, please email me on peterjmurray[at]gmail.com to discuss (don’t just send them to me) - and I will be happy to work something out.
If you are reading this for the first time (especially if you were at NI2006), please let your friends and colleagues know about this blog.
Peter Murray
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The team, from the Finnish Nurses Assocation, who will be providing the next NI conference in Helsinki, Finland in June 2009 invited delegtes to their country - further detail
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The final keynote presentation was given by Dame June Clark - with a title of “The impact of ICT on health, healthcare, and nursing in the next 20 years”. June tried to draw together many of the themes of the conference in her consideration of where we are now and where we might be going.
At the end of Tuesday afternoon, a workshop was held titled ‘Developing nursing informatics globally: the Croatian, Cuban and South African experiences and some issues for future IMIA-NI activity’. Unfortunately, several of the planned presenters were unable to be present; Yoadis from Cuba was unable to get the NI2006, as was the case with Nolwazi from South Africa. Patti Abbott, from the USA, was feeling unwell and unable to participate. Nevertheless, with a reasonably sized audience, Robyn Carr, Aleksandar Radenovic and Peter Murray provided an overview of the issues affecting the countries mentioned in the title.
Robyn Carr, incoming Chair of IMIA-NI, did a superb job of moderating the session, and gave some background to her visits to South Africa to work with Nolwazi and colleagues. Aleksandar Radenovic gave an overview of the status of nursing and nursing informatics in Croatia, and ofr some of the issues that currently influence the development, or lack of development, of nursing informatics in his country. He identified lack of education opportunities at post-graduate level as one major issue, a theme echoed in the presentation about the situation in Cuba.
The conference Gala Dinner was held on the Tuesday evening (when Korea were playing their first match in the worldcup). The dinner was soup, salad, steak and a mouse & quite pleasant (although they had problems with deleagtes who were vegetarian or on Gluten free diets etc). The wine (possibly rice wine) didn’t taste too good to some western palates & alternative wine/beer had to be purchased at high prices.
Kathleen Smith and Carol J. Bickfordled this workshop and started by getting everyone to introduce themselves & saying what they wanted to get out of it.
They got delegates into groups to look at case studies which brought out lots of experiences and ideas for the future, and triggered further questions. Kathleen and Carolprovided references and concluded with some questions and discussion.
After my own presentation on the use of ICT to support students in practice - which I will let someone else comment on - I attended a presentation by 
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