What will the healthcare society of the 21st century look like? Will it be based on the Internet or World Wide Web? Who will provide the technology and how will the system be co-ordinated?
Jointly organised by Euromed and HPCnet.
What will the healthcare society of the 21st century look like? Will it be
based on the Internet or World Wide Web? Who will provide the technology
and how will the system be co-ordinated?
ITIS '98 is the first International conference on the Telemedical Information Society. This three day event will be an important forum leading to the development of a common vision of telemedicine's role in the future of world healthcare. Invited speakers from around the globe will talk about their experiences and give their expert opinions. The objective of ITIS '98 is to lay some firm foundations on which to build a telemedical information society for the future.
The conference will include scientific papers, demonstrations, forums and opinion/future vision papers. The organising committee are confident that ITIS '98 will be a truly memorable experience for all participants.
ITIS '98 is open to anyone concerned about the healthcare society of the 21st century. This includes academics, people from industry, technology providers, medical professionals and the general public, all of whom will have the opportunity to express their views.
The list of distinguished speakers includes members of the European Parliament, the European Commission and leaders of national projects. Their presentations will stimulate three forums with a panel of 30 experts that will tackle the major questions related to 21st century healthcare:
Healthcare is a major candidate for improvement in any vision of the kinds of ìinformation highwaysî and ìinformation societiesî that are now being visualised. The (interactive) communication between healthcare providers and their patients or other healthcare providers, regardless of geographic distance, namely telemedicine, will become of central importance. The objective of any telemedical information society that can be imagined for the 21st century must be to provide a global uniform level of healthcare.
To facilitate the possibilities for any international collaborations, standardised approaches must be adopted. It is foreseen that the World Wide Web (WWW) will become the important communication medium of any future information society, especially if this is combined with the concept of telemedicine which captures much of what is developing in terms of technology implementations. The WWW could then be regarded as the (meta) operating system for the 21st century telemedical information society. If the development of such a society is to be on a global scale it should not be allowed to develop in an ad hoc manner. For this reason 20 building blocks resulting in 39 steps requiring multi-disciplinary collaborations have been identified.
FURTHER INFORMATION ON ITIS
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/conference/ITIS98
PRE-CONFERENCE FORUM ON-LINE DISCUSSION
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/conference/ITIS98/forum
CONFERENCE ORGANISERS