Persian health informatics experts sought

Visitors to the British Journal of Healthcare Computing website were in for a surprise over the weekend.  A link to next week’s healthcare computing conference in Harrogate  took viewers not to the health informatics site where they could view a list of speakers but straight to a site in Persian with accompanying pictures of ancient religious sites and clerics.

This correspondent is not an Persian reader and unable to comment on the site’s contents although it seemed highly unlikely that workshops in Harrogate would cover radical Islamic politics’ influence on Connecting for Health.

A call to the BJHC’s webmaster on Monday revealed that the misdirection was not a sinister plot but a typing error [something EHI is by no means immune to itself].

"We’d typed in healthcare-informatics instead of health-informatics," said a bashful Harry Wood. "We forgot to check the links."  The domain is registered to a doctor in tehran.

So, for the record, information about Europe’s largest and most comprehensive Health Informatics event, the 23rd Annual conference and exhibition organised by British Computer Society Health Informatics Forum can be found at http://www.health-informatics.org.

We’d love to know what is on view at http://www.healthcare-informatics.org, or more details about health informatics in Iran, so any readers fluent in Persian please get in touch email the editor.