AFRO-NETS> MEDNET 99 - 4th World Congress of Internet in Medicine

[Dieter Neuvians MD <neuvians@harare.iafrica.com>]

MEDNET 99 - 4th World Congress of Internet in Medicine
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September 18-21, 1999 
Heidelberg, Germany


FINAL call-for-papers - deadline for abstract submissions in 10 days!

BACKGROUND

MEDNET 99, the World Congress on the Internet in Medicine, is an inter-
national meeting annually organised by the Society of Internet in Medi-
cine (SIM). MEDNET aims to bring together researchers, developers and 
users involved in the application of the Internet in Medicine. The Con-
gress, which will provide a forum for the exploration of the rapidly 
developing relationship between medical sciences and the Internet, is 
relevant to all medical and health care professionals, as well as those 
involved in the development and application of the new technological 
opportunities offered to the medical field by the Internet and through 
the use of the World Wide Web. 

The programme will include workshops and teaching tutorials at both in-
troductory and advanced levels, exciting plenary sessions and keynote 
speeches - and a great social programme in the romantic, historic Ger-
man town Heidelberg.

SCOPE
MEDNET 99 will be focusing on the following themes: 

- applications of the Internet in medical information exchange and
   medical education
- role of Internet and information exchange in evidence-based
   healthcare
- use of the Internet for Consumer Health Promotion and impact of the
   Internet on Public Health
- Global and Regional Health Information Networks
- commercial information systems and portal sites for physicians
- eJournals and scientific publishing on the Internet, online peer-
   review, impact of Internet on traditional medical publishing
- Telemedicine  
- search engines, search agents and other search tools  
- electronic mail  
- using the Internet for medical research and clinical trials  
- quality of Internet information  
- Internet usage statistics and demographics  
- clinical information systems and Intranets  
- system design issues  
- security and Y2K issues  
- legal and ethical issues 
- free topics 

All accepted abstracts will be published in a proceedings volume, se-
lected full papers will in addition be published in the Journal of 
Medical Internet Research:
http://www.symposion.com/jmir


SUBMISSION DETAILS
For details on how to pre-register and how to submit your abstract, see
http://yi.com/mednet99/submit.htm

All abstracts must
- constitute original, unpublished work (abstracts may not be published
   in or submitted to a scientific journal) 
- contain a maximum of 3,000 characters 
- usually contain the sections INTRODUCTION, METHODS, RESULTS and
   DISCUSSION.

We accept abstracts for 
- oral presentation 
- poster presentation 
- controversy corner (PRO & CONTRA) (usually consists of two authors,
   one presents the PRO, one the CONTRA side) 
- panel discussion (must consist of more than two authors).

HIGHLIGHTS
Some highlights from the preliminary congress programme

Keynote speakers:

1. Ted Shortliffe, Stanford University 
Ted Shortliffe, Professor for Medical Informatics from Stanford Univer-
sity, is one of the leading scientists in this field and is (among 
other activities) member of the US Presidential Information Technology 
Advisory Committee and the Advisory Committee on Internet-2 (University 
Consortium for Advanced Internet Development). He will hold a keynote 
speech on the "Future of the Internet" at mednet99 -- what are the pos-
sibilities that are just out of reach, in part because of limitations 
in Internet technology today, what effects will the Next Generation 
Internet efforts have on medicine?

2. Ron LaPorte, University of Pittsburgh, School of Public Health, 
Global Health Network;
The Global Health Network (GHNet) is an alliance of experts in health 
and telecommunications who are actively developing the architecture for 
a health information structure for the prevention of disease in the 
21st century. The professionals involved in GHNet bring together exper-
tise from the essential areas of government, international organisa-
tions, business, and academia. Represented are experts from the World 
Bank, NASA, AT&T, IBM, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and 
the World Health Organization (WHO) and from the field of epidemiology. 

3. Alejandro Jadad, Director, Canadadian Cochrane Centre. Consumers and 
the Internet (invited - details forthcoming)

... and other leading experts in this field.

Interesting panel discussions will be held such as "Quality of Internet 
information" and "Impact of the Internet on consumer health". Bill Sil-
berg (JAMA/Medscape) and Tony Delamothe (BMJ) will organise a workshop 
on electronic publishing.

For further information: see http://yi.com/mednet99/

Tutorials

1. (English) Medline and beyond: finding high quality health and medi-
    cal information on the Internet 
2. (German) Medline und mehr: Medizinische Informationen suchen und
    finden im Internet 
3. (English) How To Create Dynamic Interactive Medical Websites I. In-
    troduction and overview 
4. (English) Wavelet-based coding of medical data: JPEG2000 and the fu-
    ture of image compression 
5. (English) Money Matter$: Assessing and implementing advertising and
    sponsorship opportunities on your medical website 
6. (German) Effektive Web Page Design Techniken f?r Aerzte: Einfuehrung
    in HTML 
7. (English) Effective Web Page Design Techniques for Health Care Pro-
    fessionals: Understanding HTML enough to try it yourself! 
8. (English) XML: Introduction, overview and practical applications 
9. (English) Store-And-Forward Telemedicine Through The Internet 
10.(English) From regional to global medical image communication 
11.(English) Electronic Publishing on the Web 
12.(English) Managing a web-site for a clinical department and scien-
    tific society.

For further information contact:

MEDNET 99 Congress Secretariat
University Heidelberg
Institute for Clinical Social Medicine
Bergheimerstr. 58 
D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany  
Tel: +49-6221-568-897 or +49-172-8249-086
Fax: +49-6221-565-584
mailto:mednet99@hotmail.com
http://yi.com/mednet99/

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