Hi all. The deadline for speaker slots for EHRCON25 is the end of this month, so please - even if you’re just considering presenting - get your application form in so we can start compiling the programme. Thanks to all who’ve already submitted - it’s going to be fantastic.
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Eduction/sec is the track for technically oriented talks?
Yes but don’t worry if you have a proposal that doesn’t fit perfectly into any of the categories - any and all submissions are welcomed.
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Well. I’ve got a technical presentation and I was a bit confused where it should go. Because education is usually not technical. And not all speakers will understand SEC means this is the technical track.
Joost there is a category for ‘other’ also.
Could you please explain “strategic futures” ? I’d like to put in a proposal on value-based care and research and not sure if it’ll fall under this or other category. Thanks
Hi Koray, I think your proposal would fall under strategic futures, which is really aimed at encompassing anything relating to the future direction of the standard/ strategy for progress etc. But don’t worry if it’s not a perfect fit as we will look at all submissions individually.
OK thanks, good to know
Hi @Pete_Bouvier & @Abi! For some of us in publicly funded healthcare organisations with tight budgets it is easier to get permission to go to a conference if we are going to be speakers rather than only listeners. Would it be possible to offer the “early bird” price to speakers after we know if the application was accepted or not?
Many other conferences do have an even more reduced price or even free (Vitalis and Highmed) entrance for speakers. I find the openEHR conference price hard to motivate at a publicly funded university hospital organisation when it does not even result in a peer reviewed scientific conference publication (like Medinfo etc do).
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To add more fuel to the fire of questions…
I received today the call for scientific publications related to EHRCON25 and have several questions about it.
The email mentions two types of contributions: posters and short papers.
- Are these publication types mutually exclusive with the speaker presentation?
- Will the short papers be published in a peer-reviewed journal?
- For speaker presentations, will a written paper also be required and published in the conference proceedings?
- When will speaker contribution applications be reviewed, and when can we expect notifications? (The deadline for short paper abstracts is set for July 15.)
- Additionally, if the speaker contribution is not published but the short paper is, would it be possible to submit both on the same topic?
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Hi Giovanni. The speaker slots and the call for scientific publications are exclusive, and written papers are not required for speaker slots.
The deadline for speaker applications closed on Monday, so we’ll be reviewing those over the next couple of weeks as we draft the programme.
As far as I know, Jordi Piera is covering the posters and short papers… perhaps you would like to jump in here @jpieraj?
Just to add we are looking to publish either in an academic journal or other publication but these details are to be firmed up.
The peer review will be completed by 15th August although the dates for the review are not yet set.
Yes it is possible to submit both short paper and speaker contribution on the same topic.
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Thanks @erik.sundvall: there are a small number of free or reduced-rate places available for public health system staff, we are accepting applications or recommendations now.
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To make life easier for whoever is going to compile the final submissions into something coherent it is likely a good idea to publish short paper and poster abstract templates (for Word etc.) farily soon so people can use them while working on final versions of submissions. Personally I am a fan of the old two column formats like the Medinfo 2007 one seen in the PDF available from https://ebooks.iospress.nl/volumearticle/11136, but what should be guiding is actually the format used by the academic journal (or similar) that is going to publish papers later so that authors do not need to do reformatting. Try publishing in something that is Open Access and also indexed in Medline. When IHTSTDO/Snomed had one of the initial Smomed conferences they managed to get the papers into a Proceedings supplement of
https://bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com/, see Selected contributions to the First European Conference on SNOMED CT | BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (where you also find an openEHR-related paper 
)
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