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The Call for Abstracts is also available as PDF here.

Presentations can include:

• Single papers (abstract max of 500 words)
• Panel Proposal (one abstract for all 4 speakers) (abstract max of 500 words)

Call for Abstracts and Presentation Proposals

Medicine 2.0 will contain a mix of traditional academic/research, practice and business presentations, keynote presentations, and panel discussions to discuss emerging issues. We strive for an interdisciplinary mix of presenters from different disciplines (e.g. health care, social sciences, computer sciences, engineering, business) and with a different angle (research, practice, and business).
Participants are invited to either submit a 500 word abstract to propose a 15 minute single-presenter talk, or can submit a a 500 word panel proposal to present or discuss a topic in a 45-60 min session with 3-4 colleagues from other organizations/institutions (panel proposals with all authors from the same institution or organization are not permitted). Panel presentations are the preferred format for non-research presentations.


All submissions will be considered for one of the Medicine 2.0 Awards, if eligible. To nominate your work for one of the awards, read the award criteria and prepare the abstract as outlined below. Note that in order to be considered for the IMIA Medicine 2.0 Award, a checkbox must be checked on the submission form (consideration for all other awards is automatic).

Topics

(you will be asked to submit your panel proposal or scientific single-presenter abstract under one of the following broad topic headings)

• Blogs


• Building virtual communities and social networking applications for
  health professionals


• Building virtual communities and social networking applications for
  patients and consumers


• Business models in a Web 2.0 environment



• Collaborative biomedical research, academic / scholarly communication,
  publishing and peer review


• Consumer empowerment, patient-physician relationship, and
  sociotechnical issues


• Ethical & legal issues, confidentiality and privacy


• Health information on the web: Supply and Demand



• Innovative RSS/XML applications and Mashups


• Personal health records and Patient portals


• Public (e-)health, population health technologies, surveillance


• Search, Collaborative Filtering and Recommender Technologies


• Semantic Web ("Web 3.0") applications


• The nature and dynamics of social networks in health


• Usability and human factors on the web


• Virtual (3D) environments, Second Life


• Web 2.0 approaches for behaviour change, public health and biosurveillance


• Web 2.0 approaches for clinical practice, clinical research, quality monitoring


• Web2.0-based medical education and learning


• Wikis


• Youth and Digital Learning


• other

What's different from last year?

• only 3 tracks (research, practice, business) instead of five


• only the research track is peer-reviewed


• first author should be the presenter (except for panels)


• max 1 submission per first author allowed


• no references in the abstract please


• best paper awards


• unconference session allows for unscheduled discussions and presentations with no abstract


• submission titles and authors are fed into RSS feeds and twitter allowing others to see in (near) real-time what is being submitted

General Submission Instructions

Note that all abstracts and panel proposals must be submitted on this site only. Submissions by email will be ignored.

Note that after submission you can NOT edit or change your abstract (a note in a previous version of the Call stating the opposite was incorrect - we apologize).

Note that before you can submit you have to pre-register! You will need to enter your preregistration username and password when you submit you paper. If you have already preregistered (for this or a previous Medicine 2.0 conference) and you forgot your password, go to lost password / reset password.

Please also note that for submissions in the research track you will be asked to nominate two peer-reviewers (who should not be working with you or have any other conflicts of interests). In order to identify peer-reviewers, go to pubmed.gov, search for published articles that are in the broadest sense similar to your abstract/proposal, and make a note of the name and email address of the corresponding author. You will need the email address, which is listed in some (but not all) publications in PubMed (affiliation field). If you have a name/affiliation but not an email address, you may try to Google it.

Presenters must be listed as first author of the abstract (except panels).

Note that we will only consider one submission/presentation per participant. Do not submit multiple abstracts (unless there is another first author/presenter).

Policy on simultaneous or previous publications/other conferences. Results presented at the Medicine 2.0 congress should preferably be new results, but overlaps with prior publications or prior/simultaneous submissions to other conferences is not a problem.

The conference language is English. No simultaneous translation will be provided. All abstracts and proposals must be submitted in English.

For all tracks and presentation formats

Do not use any HTML or attempt to hyperlink to websites.

Do not cite references in the abstract.


On submission, authors can select one of the following presentation formats:

• Oral presentation only
  
  
• Oral or poster presentation (let organizers decide)
  
  
• Poster presentation
  
  

Call for Single-Presenter Abstracts

Submit abstracts here to propose a single-presenter 15 min talk.


All abstracts have a word limit of 500 words, with no references allowed. Abstracts will have to be pasted into an online abstract form and should NOT contain any special formatting (bold, italics), special characters (eg. Greek characters), tables, or figures. DO NOT USE ALL-CAPS FOR THE TITLE OR ANY PART OF THE ABSTRACT. The Title Should be in "Title Case", Meaning That All Words Except Articles and Prepositions Should Be Capitalized Like in This Sentence.



Abstracts are invited in 3 tracks - please submit your contribution in any of those tracks according to the envisioned primary target audience of a talk: research, practice, and business.



Abstracts in the research track have higher acceptance standards and must be structured into Background, Objective, Methods, Results, and Conclusions. Each section should start with the respective heading in the same line (e.g. "Background: The Internet has become..."), with a new section starting on a new line. DO NOT CAPITALIZE THE SECTION HEADINGS (e.g. do not write "BACKGROUND:", but "Background:"). In the results section, make sure to include relevant statistics, if applicable, such as sample sizes, response rates, P-values or Confidence Intervals.



NEW (different from Medicine 2.0'08): Do not cite references in the abstract.

Call for Panel Proposals

Submit panel proposals here.

Panels are 45-60 min presentations or debate sessions of a group of leaders in a field discussing a broad issue of general interest from various perspectives. The panel chair/organizer should be listed as first author. The first author should submit one abstract on behalf of all panelists. The abstract should briefly describe the topic and panelists. Panels are the preferred format for non-research presentations. If you have an idea for a panel topic, please approach 3-4 colleagues from other organizations/institutions/companies and make sure that all potential speakers are available (please also ask your fellow panelists to preregister). Then draft a short panel proposal, and submit it.


Panel titles should preferably have the word "panel" in the title, e.g. "PHR 2.0 Panel", "Accelerating Research with Web 2.0 Panel", "Consumer Empowerment Panel", "Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs Panel", etc.

Please note that normally we will not be able to cover the registration fee, travel and accommodation for any of the panelists. Panelists will have to come up with their own funding.


Please note that research abstracts are better suited to be submitted in the research track as "single abstract/paper submission", not as panel contribution. We will not accept panels consisting of coauthors or collaborators of a single research project. Each panelists must come from different organizations. Panel topics should be broad and appeal to a wide audience.

Posters / Poster Format

In addition to oral talks, we accept poster presentations. Posterboards are 6 feet wide and 3 feet tall. Only use Velcro to mount your posters, no push-pins please!