Author Archives: Maria Skeppstedt

A visit at the Department of medical informatics at Hokkaido University

I visited the Department of medical informatics at School of medicine, Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. The topics of their research range from telemedicine to hospital management. They also do research that is very close to what is done in … Continue reading

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Global Center of Excellence Symposium Poster Session at Hokkaido University

The Global Center of Excellence Symposium poster session at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, was held October the 5th 2011. All researches from Hokkaido University that are part of this center showed their work. The language media laboratory, that I am visiting, is … Continue reading

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AIME conference in Bled

Our research group, IT for Health, was very well represented at the AIME conference (Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2-6 July, 2011). This year the conference was located at the idyllic village Bled in Slovenia. At the main conference, Aron Henriksson … Continue reading

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Seminar on “Designing the secondary user experience”

On 2 March Ole Andreas Alsos gave a seminar with the title “Designing the secondary user experience”. The seminar was both about the secondary user experience in general and about a study on mobile electronic patient record systems, used by physicians … Continue reading

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The fourth HEXAnord meeting, Trondheim January 10-12, 2011

The fourth HEXAnord meeting took place in Trondheim in January 10-12, 2011, with participants from Lithuania, Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The three-day meeting included lectures and discussions on annotation, machine learning, medical terminology, natural language processing and other topics … Continue reading

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AMIA symposium

In November (13-17), I was in Washington at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, which is one of the largest conferences in medical informatics. The talks and posters presented at the conference covered many aspects of medical informatics … Continue reading

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Paper accepted to the 2nd Louhi Workshop on Text and Data Mining of Health Documents

My paper “Negation Detection in Swedish Clinical Text” has been accepted after a double blind peer-review to the 2nd Louhi Workshop on Text and Data Mining of Health Documents in L.A., June 5 2010. Later, the paper will be on my dsv-home … Continue reading

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Report from the HEXAnord network meeting in Vilnius

The 13th of January, the IT for Health group at DSV went for a three day HEXAnord network meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania. Apart from Hercules Dalianis, Martin Hassel, Sumithra Velupillai, Elin Carlsson, Helen Allvin and me from DSV, there were … Continue reading

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