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ITIS-ITAB'99 Conference - Highlights

April 12-13, 1999 - Rai Conference Centre, Amsterdam - The Netherlands

Highlights

In this section, we are providing the coverage of the different lectures presented at ITIS-ITAB'99. The first article offers a general impression on the whole of the conference.

Newly available from 01-08-99 at the ITIS-ITAB'99 Discussion Platform: the contents of the three discussion forums at ITIS-ITAB'99, addressing crucial issues with regard to the creation of the Telemedical Information Society for the 21st century.

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ITIS-ITAB'99 breathes fresh spirit of community and collaboration

Two days filled with presentations, discussions, many questions asked and few answers given, forum talks, announcements made, and piles of information exchanged... All this has left the truly motivated ITIS-ITAB'99 Conference participants with a rich feeling of satisfaction but also with the sound knowledge that there remains still a lot of work that needs to be done. Co-chair, Dr. Swamy Laxminarayan noted that all the issues that have been tackled with relation to Information Technology applications in biomedicine and telemedicine services, are in the process of development. The second co-chair, Dr. Andy Marsh fused the different themes, which emerged during the discussions, into an energetic acrostichon. Privacy, Legal issues, Evaluation, Applications, Standards, Environments, Security, Telecommunications use, Accessibility, Resources, Technology are all items which are being dealt with, so PLEASE START !

Curious to read the full coverage of the ITIS-ITAB'99 event? Below, you find a click-through menu which links you to all the reports of the presentations, held at ITIS-ITAB'99. Please, select your articles of choice out of the list:

• What influences physicians to adopt medical innovations, such as telemedicine?
• From digital dawn to the Next Generation Internet in biomedical Information Technology
• Which strategies are we to deploy for the 21st century Global Health Network challenge?
• A warm invitation to next year's ITAB-ITIS 2000 Conference in Washington DC, USA
• The newly emerging concept of next generation wireless and mobile telemedicine systems
• Business aspects of Trusted Third Party services in Europe
• Artificial intelligence teaches nurses how to make the right decision in diagnosis
• The integration of DICOM medical images into Euromed's Virtual Medical Worlds
• HPC technology to minimize modelling time of 3-dimensional cardiac structures
• Web based service for automated interpretation facilitates diagnosis of cardiac images
• HealthLine Internet Corner to provide integrated information to telemedicine networks
• The embedding of telemedical services in a method of continuous evaluation
• Success of "hospital without walls" depends on systematic methodology
• Creation of a Web-enabled prediction model for tumour growth in vitro using meta-computing
• Advanced medical decision support system applied for early breast cancer detection
• Web technologies to enable remote brain tissue classification and visualization
• Emergence of the Virtual Medical Worlds Community on the European telemedicine and IT scene
• Euromed at the turn of an exciting process of re-birthing

If you like to receive the full ITIS-ITAB'99 coverage in e-mail version, please, forward your request at vmw@hoise.com

ITIS-ITAB'99 Discussion Platform

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Here is your chance to confront your views with those of the ITIS-ITAB experts with regard to the birth of innovative ways for health care delivery. We invite you to read their discussions and share your experiences, in order to join forces.

1. The integration of information technologies within telemedicine has to benefit the patient
2. Standardization process in telemedicine only slowly evolves at the cost of hard effort
3. Weighing the thousand ways and worries to establish an International Telemedical Information Society

Conference programme

General Information

ITIS-ITAB '99 is the joint meeting of the Second International Workshop on the Telemedical Information Society and the Second International Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine. As such, this event is the successor of the successful ITIS'98 Conference,  held last year in Amsterdam.

The objective of ITIS-ITAB '99 is to promote stimulating discussions provoked by interesting presentations and forum sessions. The presentations cover a diverse range of topics, which all have a direct input on how a multi-disciplinary information society for health care can be created.

During the two-day event, eighteen keynote presentations have been offered by a balanced selection of invited speakers from around the world.

• Invitation Letter
• Organisation
• Registration and Accommodation

The audience who has benefited most from ITIS-ITAB'99 includes biomedical and clinical engineers, physicians, surgeons, health care workers, biomedical educators, researchers and students, and the general public.