Call for Abstracts is Now Extended. Extended Submission Deadline: May 29 at midnight EST
APRIL 1, 2015, BOSTON, MA -- The Connected Health Symposium, hosted annually by Partners HealthCare, today announced it has established a joint program with JMIR Publications to feature up to 50 poster presentations at this year's Symposium. JMIR Publications is the leading ehealth publisher, with over ten academic journals covering digital health, technology and innovation in health. Its flagship journal, the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), is the leading publication in the fields of medical informatics, health sciences and services research.
"There is important research being conducted throughout the connected health ecosystem that we can learn from and which deserves recognition. Academics, startups and other innovators will now have a stage to showcase their work at our annual Connected Health Symposium," said Kamal Jethwani, MD, MPH, Senior Director of Connected Health Innovation at Partners HealthCare. "We are very pleased to be working with JMIR Publications, publisher of the largest and most cited journals in ehealth."
As part of this new joint program, JMIR, along with members of the Partners Connected Health Innovation team, will review and select abstracts to be featured in a new poster session at the upcoming Connected Health Symposium. Poster presenters will receive complimentary registration to the Connected Health Symposium. Authors of accepted abstracts will also have an opportunity to submit papers for review and possible publication in JMIR and its sister journals (e.g. JMIR Medical Informatics, JMIR mHealth, JMIR Serious Games, JMIR Rehab, JMIR Mental Health, JMIR Public Health, JMIR Research Protocols and others) at a highly discounted rate.
"The Connected Health Symposium is a destination for discussion, learnings and innovation to advance the adoption and integration of connected health strategies," added Susan Lane, RN, MSN, MBA, Senior Director, Connected Health Operations, Partners HealthCare. "With the addition of this poster session, we are furthering our mission to highlight cutting-edge, novel and scalable programs to over 1,000 attendees at our Symposium, including clinicians, investors, innovators and academicians."
Abstracts must be submitted by May 29, 2015 (midnight EST) at http://iproc.org/author. An extended abstract (up to 5 pages) must be also be submitted (template at http://tinyurl.com/xabstract).
For full submission details, please see the call for papers at http://www.jmir.org/content/chs2015.
“We are thrilled to be involved in selecting the best research submissions for the Connected Health Symposium and to be the official publisher of this conference,” said Gunther Eysenbach, MD, MPH, FACMI, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Internet Research and its ten sister journals. “The partnership with the Connected Health Symposium is a logical extension of our strategy to partner with the leading knowledge translation initiatives in this field with the ultimate goal to advance ehealth and to expand our unique network of leading researchers in this field.”
The 12th Annual Connected Health Symposium, being held October 29-30 in Boston, is a change-agent conference that promotes innovative thinking and the application of personal consumer health technologies, with a focus on trends at the intersection of technology and new models of health care delivery. Over 1,200 technology leaders, industry execs, Fortune 500 employers, policymakers, clinicians and health plan execs will come together to define the future of care delivery and impact the day-to-day lives of patients.
JMIR PublicationsJMIR Publications is the leading ehealth publisher, advancing progress in the health, engineering and social sciences to ultimately help people to live happier and healthier lives using technology. JMIR Publications helps innovators in the health technology space to collaborate and disseminate their innovations, ideas, and research results to the widest possible audience, in a timely manner, adding value to the quality of the work and adhering to the highest ethical and quality standards. We achieve this by using the Internet and the latest available technologies as well as by producing conferences and social media, and other innovative knowledge translation products. We also innovate in the scholarly communication space itself, experimenting with new business models, new models of peer-review and dissemination, and new technologies. Visit http://www.jmir.org
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