Awards

JMIR Medicine 2.0 Award 2013

As in 2009, 2010, and 2011, and 2012, JMIR Publications, publisher of the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the leading peer-reviewed journal for health and health care in the Internet age (Impact Factor: 4.7), is once again sponsoring an annual award for the best paper presented at Medicine 2.0. This award goes to a presentation of unpublished research and is designed to encourage and facilitate publication in the Journal of Medical Internet Research or another JMIR journal. If a full paper based on the presentation at Medicine 2.0 is submitted within 2 months after the conference and subsequently accepted by JMIR, the Submission Fee and the Article Processing Fee is waived entirely for the awardee; alternatively, the awardee can opt to pay the APF in case of acceptance and instead receive a cash-award of US$500.

Previous winners

2009: Jeanna Frost and colleagues from Patientslikeme for the presentation and paper "Patient-reported Outcomes as a Source of Evidence in Off-Label Prescribing"

2010: Shannon Hughes and colleagues, for her presentation and paper "Can online consumers contribute to drug knowledge? A mixed-methods comparison of consumer and professional psychotropic medication reports on the Internet"

2011: Bassam Kadry and colleagues, for his presentation and paper "Analysis of 4999 online physician-ratings indicates that most patients give physicians a favorable rating".

2012: Colleen Young for "Community Management That Works: How to Build and Sustain a Thriving Online Health Community".

Eligibility:

Eligible candidates are presenters (first authors) at the Medicine 2.0 conference
The research or discussion paper must be unpublished and not be under consideration for publication in a journal at the time of the conference
Non-research papers from the practice track or other tracks are eligible, as are panel contributions
Recipients of the IMIA Medicine 2.0 Award are eligible

Criteria:

The decision will be made by the JMIR editor-in-chief and editorial board members. The sole criterion is potential impact of a written paper. The judging panel may decide not to make an award.

Presentation of the Award:

This award will be presented at the closing session of the Medicine 2.0 conference. A certificate or similar will be presented to the recipient of the Award, or sent to them after the event. The Award consists if the following: Either a) the Article Processing Fee will be waived (submission within 2 months) if the paper has been accepted by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, or b) an honorarium / cash award of $500 will be awarded to the author in case of acceptance in JMIR. The paper will undergo a regular peer-review process. The award has no cash value if no paper is submitted to JMIR or if the paper is rejected after peer-review (which is unlikely).

Deadline:

For abstract submission deadline for Medicine 2.0'13 see Call for Abstracts, Interactive Demos, Startup Pitches and Panel Proposals. To be considered for the award, please check the respective checkbox when submitting your abstract.

Further information & abstract/proposal submission:

Please go to http://www.medicine20congress.com

IMIA Medicine 2.0 Award 2013

Background:

As in 2009, 2010, and 2011, IMIA (the International Medical Informatics Association) will once again sponsor an "IMIA Medicine 2.0 Award" for the best paper in the research track of the Medicine 2.0'13 conference (http://www.medicine20congress.com). In 2009 -2011 the award consisted of a US$ 500 award for the winner, to be used to facilitate development of a paper to be submitted to a peer reviewed journal for publication. There will be a similar award for 2013 (NEW: possibly a second award for the best poster).

Eligibility (provisional - subject to change for 2013):

Eligible candidates are presenters (first authors) in the research track at the Medicine 2.0 conference
Presenters must be under the age of 40 at the time of the last day of the conference
The research must be unpublished and not be under consideration for publication in a journal at the time of the conference
Candidates must indicate on the Medicine 2.0 submission form that they wish to have their abstracts and presentations considered for the Award.
Panels or panellists are not eligible.
Previous recipients of the Award will not be eligible.

Criteria:

The award will be given to recognise the best or most promising use or discussion of Web 2.0 for providing actual or potential benefit in medicine, healthcare, and/or health and biomedical informatics. All eligible abstracts will be considered by the judging panel (drawn from IMIA and the Medicine 2.0 organisers) and a shortlist of the most promising abstracts will be developed. Each presentation will then be judged and a winner determined from the scores.

Final criteria may be subject to change, but will cover:

Scientific quality of the accepted abstract
Quality of the presentation
Interaction of the presenter through questions or discussion
Relevance to the conference themes and to the actual or potential use of Web 2.0 in medicine, healthcare, and/or health and biomedical informatics.

Any queries should be directed to Dr Peter Murray, IMIA Executive Director (imia at imia-services. org).

Presentation of the Award:

Deadline:

Further information & abstract submission:

Please go to http://www.medicine20congress.com

iMedicalApps & Medicine 2.0 mHealth Award 2013

In partnership with the Medicine 2.0 congress, iMedicalApps is sponsoring an award for the best paper on mobile health presented at the 2013 Medicine 2.0 conference in London. iMedicalApps.com is the leading on-line publication for health professionals on mobile health and medical apps. The award will consist of $500, a medical app bundle worth more than $200 and a feature article on iMedicalApps after the conference.

To qualify for this award, the submitted abstract (which can be presentation proposal submitted in the research, practice, or business track) should pertain to the use of mobile or wireless technologies in the diagnosis or treatment of disease, healthcare professional communication/care coordination or clinician-directed wellness behavior modification. Papers on telehealth or remote health monitoring will also be considered.

A requirement of the award is that the nominees adapt their abstract into an 750-1000 word "blog", suitable for publishing at iMedicalApps submitted within six weeks after the abstract submission deadline (nominees will be provided with more details within 2 weeks after the submission deadline).

Eligibility:

Eligible candidates are presenters (first authors) at the Medicine 2.0 conference

Non-research papers from the practice track or other tracks are eligible, as are panel contributions, as well as rapid fire talks and exhibits (tradeshow tabletop demos)

Previous recipients of the Medicine 2.0 awards are eligible, but only with a different research or technology development

Criteria:

The decision will be made by iMedicalApps editors, JMIR editor-in-chief and selected members of the Medicine 2.0 Scientific Program Committee. The main criterion is the potential impact of a written paper. Other criteria will include novelty of the research and technology.

Presentation of the Award:

This award will be presented during the closing session of the 2013 Medicine 2.0 conference. A certificate or similar will be presented to the recipient of the Award, or sent to them after the event.

Deadline:

For abstract submission deadline for Medicine 2.0'13 see Call for Abstracts, Tabletop Demos, Startup Pitches and Panel Proposals. To be considered for the award, please check the checkbox for the iMedicalApps mHealth Award when submitting your abstract.

Further information & abstract/proposal submission: Please go to http://www.medicine20congress.com.

Interested in sponsoring a Medicine 2.0 award? Please contact the conference producer or see our sponsorship opportunities page.

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