International Federation for Information Processing	Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka	University of Colombo Sri Lanla

The Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka, in collaboration with Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, and the IFIP 9.4 Working Group on Social Implications of Computers in Developing countries, sub continent chapter, is pleased to announce a regional conference on "The role of open source software to support public health systems in developing countries" on 3rd and 4th July 2012.

This conference will be held in conjunction with the 125th Annual Scientific Session of the Sri Lanka Medical Association. The aim of the conference will be to bring together researchers and practitioners from the fields on health information systems from developing countries with a focus on the sub continent, to discuss the opportunities and challenges related to the use of open source software. Practical examples of such applications will be especially welcomed.

Important dates:
Call for papers announcement: October 30th 2011

Last date for submission of papers: January 15th, 2012

Comments and feedback to short listed papers: February 29th, 2012

Camera ready papers to be received by April 1st, 2012

Conference chair:

Prof. Vajira H. W. Dissanayake MBBS (Colombo), PhD (Nottingham)
Professor, Department of Anatomy
Medical Geneticist, Human Genetics Unit
Chairperson, Specialty Board in Biomedical Informatics
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
President, Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka
President Elect, Sri Lanka Medical Association

Programme committee: To be announced

For further information, please contact: Professor Vajira Dissanayake at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Please look out for further announcements on www.hissl.lk and http://www.ifipwg94.org