MEDNET'99 4. WORLD CONGRESS ON THE INTERNET IN MEDICINE

General Information

Introduction - General Information - Scope - About the SIM - Timeline - Related Conferences

Introduction

It gives me great pleasure to invite you to MEDNET 99 - The Fourth Annual World Congress on the Internet in Medicine of the Society for the Internet in Medicine (SIM).

MEDNET 99 is an international meeting which aims to bring together researchers, developers and users involved in the application of the internet in medicine. The Congress will provide a forum for exploration of the rapidly developing relationship between medical sciences and the internet, and 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 the world wide web.

This year's Congress will take place over three full days, 19th - 21st September 1999, in the small and beautyful town of Heidelberg, one of the most famous tourist destinations in Germany and the town with the oldest German university.

It will be preceded by a series of tutorials and workshop on Saturday, 18th September. In workshops researchers with an interest in Internet and Medicine will discuss the latest developments and future projects in Internet communication and Telemedicine and in tutorials experts will transfer their knowledge to colleagues.

MEDNET 99 follows on from three successful MEDNET meetings (1996, 1997, 1998) all held in the United Kingdom, which were attended by large international and multi-disciplinary groups of delegates. Mednet98 was attended by more than 250 participants.

After these three successful conferences in the United Kingdom, this years MEDNET will for the first time be hosted outside of the UK. It will therefore hopefully be the first in a long series of World Congresses of Internet in Medicine hosted in different countries around the globe.

Gunther Eysenbach, MD

Chairman, Organizing Comittee
4th World Congress of Internet in Medicine

General Information

MEDNET 99, the World Congress on the Internet in Medicine, is an international meeting which aims to bring together researchers, developers and users involved in the application of the Internet in Medicine. The Congress, 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 introductory and advanced levels.

The Congress language will be English.

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, selected full papers will in addition be published in the  Journal of Medical Internet Research.

For details on how to pre-register and how to submit your abstract, see page submit.htm.

About the SIM

The Society for the Internet in Medicine was formed in 1996 at MEDNET 96. The purpose of the Society is to promote the education of the public and of the medical community in the applications of the Internet and related technologies in the fields of the medical sciences, healthcare practice and management.

The main activities of the Society to date continue to be the organisation of the World Congress on the Internet in Medicine.

Further information including details on how to become a SIM member can be found on the SIM Homepage.

Timeline

Note that we have extended the deadline for abstract submissions for one month (originally schedule: April 30th, new schedule: May 31st). Subsequently all other deadlines have been postponed for one month.

Related Conferences

Delegates attending MEDNET99 may also be interested in the following conferences, both at the same venue in Heidelberg:

• 44. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS), 13-16 Sept. 99 [Annual Meeting of the German Society for Medical Informatics]
• 20th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB), 14 -17 Sept. 99

For details regarding ISCB-GMDS-99 see http://www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/biostatistics/iscb-gmds-99

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Last update of this page: 1999-07-07

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