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SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | November 12, 2025 | Comments Off on SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners

SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Long Paper Award Title: When Chatman Meets Chinese Rural Older People with Health Anxiety: From Life in the Round to Concentric Life Circles Authors: Lin Wang, Xinyi Wu, and Huajian Zhu, Chinese Academy of Science and Education Evaluation, Hangzhou Dianzi…

SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Paper & Poster Awards

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | August 20, 2025 | Comments Off on SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Paper & Poster Awards

Call for Submissions SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Paper & Poster Awards SIG-HLTH, ASIS&T’s Special Interest Group on Health Informatics, is pleased to open submissions for the SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Long Paper Award, the SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Short Paper Award, and the SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Poster Award. We define health broadly to encompass research…

SIG-HLTH Webinar: Cripping Conferences – Rethinking Accessibility and Participation in Academic Spaces

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | June 6, 2025 | Comments Off on SIG-HLTH Webinar: Cripping Conferences – Rethinking Accessibility and Participation in Academic Spaces

Webinar Description This webinar, Cripping Conferences – Rethinking Accessibility and Participation in Academic Spaces, will feature Rhys Dreeszen Bowman and Leah Dudak, co-authors of Cripping Conferences: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Disability in Academia. Drawing from their personal and scholarly insights as disabled scholars, they will critically examine how academic conferences often fail to meet accessibility…

Please Respond by EOD 2/27: ASIS&T SIG-HLTH Values Survey

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | February 19, 2025 | Comments Off on Please Respond by EOD 2/27: ASIS&T SIG-HLTH Values Survey

Dear SIG-HLTH members, All SIGs were tasked by ASIS&T leadership this month to develop a list of up to five values that characterize ASIS&T as an organization: its members, events, and staff. This activity is aligned with the development of ASIS&T’s next strategic plan. On Wednesday, February 19, the SIG-HLTH executive board met and drafted values.…

SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2024 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | February 17, 2025 | Comments Off on SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2024 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners

SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2024 Annual Meeting Paper Awards Title: Standardizing Vehicle Travel Speed Data for Road Safety Authors: Liliana Salas, College of Information Science and Arlie Adkins, College of Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture and the College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Abstract: In 2022, almost 50,000 people died in road crashes in the United States, with speeding…

SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2023 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | November 3, 2023 | Comments Off on SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2023 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners

SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2023 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners Congratulations to the winners of the inaugural SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2023 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Awards!   SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2023 Annual Meeting Paper Award   “What Is a Wave But 1000 Drops Working Together?”: The Role of Public Libraries…

2023 Annual Meeting SIG-HLTH Co-Sponsored Panel

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | August 22, 2023 | Comments Off on 2023 Annual Meeting SIG-HLTH Co-Sponsored Panel

SIG-HLTH is please to co-sponsor the panel “Building a Bigger Table: Food Research, Methods, Policy, and Action in Library and Information Science” for ASIST’s 2023 Annual Meeting. The panel features Xiaotong Du, Rutgers University, USA; Sarah Polkinghorne, RMIT University, Australia; Melissa Ocepek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; and Kaitlin Costello, Rutgers University, USA.  …

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Member Spotlight, September 2014

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | October 17, 2014 | Comments Off on Member Spotlight, September 2014

Professor Nancy K. Roderer MLS, AHIP, ACMI, FMLA Nancy Roderer is a Professor Emerita of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, having retired in 2013 from the positions of Director of the Welch Medical Library and the Director of the academic Division of Health Sciences Informatics (DHSI). She has pursued her interests in understanding and facilitating…

Brochure Design Competition

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | September 20, 2014 | Comments Off on Brochure Design Competition

SIG HLTH will be distributing letter sized one page brochures/posters at health informatics related sessions at ASIS&T 2014. The purposes of these brochures are to promote attendance at health informatics related sessions and enhance member recruitment. These brochures will be designed by SIG HLTH members and selected through public voting. Please contribute your design talent! Prize: $50 for first place,…

SIG-HLTH 2014 Annual Business Meeting

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | August 24, 2014 | Comments Off on SIG-HLTH 2014 Annual Business Meeting

The SIG HLTH business meeting is scheduled on Tuesday, November 4th from 2:00pm – 3:00pm. Information regarding the location is forthcoming. During the meeting, we will brain storm potential new activities such as workshops, competitions, panels, and networking events. We will also appoint new officers at the meeting as necessary, depending on the workload sketched out. We look…

Need Your Input: Time for SIG-HLTH Dinner on Monday, Nov 3

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | August 24, 2014 | Comments Off on Need Your Input: Time for SIG-HLTH Dinner on Monday, Nov 3

We are having a SIG HLTH member dinner on Monday, Nov 3. Please indicate what time you would be available to come. Here is the link to the Doodle poll:http://doodle.com/bbb3f9gnbm2242xm#table The dutch treat dinner will be at a local restaurant with diverse options. We are looking for a good restaurant, and if you have any recommendations, please let…

SIG-HLTH 2013 Annual Business Meeting

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | September 17, 2013 | Comments Off on SIG-HLTH 2013 Annual Business Meeting

The SIGHLTH annual business meeting will be held during the ASIS&T Annual Meeting from 4-5PM on Monday, November 4, 2013 at Le Centre Sheraton, Montreal, Canada. Please join us there!

SIG-HLTH Facebook Page and Group; We’re Also on Twitter

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | December 27, 2011 | Comments Off on SIG-HLTH Facebook Page and Group; We’re Also on Twitter

SIG HLTH now has both a Facebook page and a group.  For distinguishing them from each other, see this post. Please check them out and get involved! You can also tweet or follow us at https://twitter.com/#!/sighlth.

SIG-HLTH 2012

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | December 21, 2011 | Comments Off on SIG-HLTH 2012

Welcome to SIG HLTH’s web presence.  We’ve requested lots of funding this year for scholarships and more so please ‘follow’ this blog, check out our Facebook page and/or follow us on Twitter for the latest updates.