MHISIG publishes the newsletter
Connect on an occasional basis. We welcome
contributions from any of our members or indeed from anyone at
all.
Articles may cover any aspect of mental health informatics,
information governance, technology, media, communications and user
experience. They may be targeted at any level of informatics
experience or computer user from absolute beginner to the most
advacned. We also publish hardware, software and website reviews as
well as letters from members.
Submission
Article length is ideally 400 to 900 words. Longer articles
should be discussed with the editors prior to submission. Authors
should include a list of bullet points for inclusion in a 'summary
box'. Contributors are also encouraged to provide website addresses
(either included within the article or as a separate list) so that
readers can find further information on the topic. Reviews should
be half a side of A4 and include a picture of the reviewed article.
Letters may be up to 250 words. We are also able to publish brief
notices relating to events appropriate to our readership.
Please note that we are no longer sending out printed
newsletters due to the costs involved. All newsletters are now
downloaded in PDF format. If you sign up to the discussion forum you will be notified when the
newsletter is released.
The editors are Matt Evans & Fionnbar Lenihan.
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February 2006 newsletter
(17) Contents: Editorial, Simulations
of Psychopathology,
Pacts, predators and plans: the
growing link between the Internet and suicide, Effects of
cyberworld
on the human, File Synchronisation -
Everything But The Kitchen Sync, Making the most of a multi-user
clinical system, Report from Edinburgh Annual Meeting
2005, Important Announcement about MHISIG activities
January 2004 newsletter
(16) Contents:
Editorial, Telepsychiatry: off the train, on-line, A Place Of Your
Own: Creating a Web Presence for Junior Doctors, Update from HEALTH
INFORMATICS COMMUNITY The Specialist Library in Health Informatics,
RETROCOMPUTING - BACK TO THE FUTURE, CIPSIG Annual Conference,
Review: Handheld Computers for Doctors by Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
May 2003
newsletter (15) Contents:
Editorial, Handhelds for Psychiatrists, CIPSIG 2003 Conference,
Glossary of Terms, Software testing controls in a regulated
environment, IT Strikes Back!, Spam, Gizmo City, About...
November 2002
newsletter (14) Contents:
Welcome, CIMH 2003 Conference, IT for the 21st Century, the Mental
Health Perspective, Clinical Networks, Electronic Prescribing in
Psychiatry, Free Software Roundup
June
2002 newsletter
(13) Contents:
Welcome, Cardiff 2002, clinican.com, The use of videoconferencing
in mental health, Introduction to free software, Database or
databoss, Packups & backups, F40.2 technophobia