4 - 7 December 2003
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December, 7-9 2003

Special MedNet issues!



Programme

Online abstracts and presentations are avalaible solely at authors' discretion; HON could not be considered responsible for their content. To access abstracts and presentations, just click on the title.

MedNet: Thursday 4 Friday 5 Saturday 6 Sunday 7 OSHCA 7-9

Saturday 6 december
9H00

Keynotes speaker:
Serge Vaudenay
, EPFL, Switzerland

“Security over the Internet” will be discussed by Professor Serge Vaudeney of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technologies (EPFL), where he is Director of the Security and Cryptography Laboratory (LASEC).

9H30

9H30

 

 

9H45

 

 

WRAPIN evaluation by the patient and individuals,
Philippe Uziel, MISS
French Ministry of Employement and Solidarity , Mission for
Informatisation of the Health System ( MISS ).

Access on the Internet to an innovative Information System in
Gastroenterology:
the OESO Foundation Pr Giuli R. (France) and HON Boyer Celia (Switzerland)

9H30 A virtual patient record implementation for emergency medical services
Poulymenopoulou M., University of Piraeus, Athens Greece
9H45 An interoperable, graphical environment for the capturing of medical information
Dotsika F., University of Westminster, London UK
10H00 Development of a methodology to evaluate the impact of a medical digital library on user knowledge, attitude and behaviour
Madle G., City University, London UK
9H30 Workshop: Conducting an Effective privacy and security assessment of protected health information
Ingram-Muhammad S.L., Enlghtened, INC., Stone Mountain USA
10H15
Coffee Break
10H30 Mr Guy-Olivier Segond, former President of the State Council of the
Republic and Canton of Geneva, is the Special Ambassador for the World
Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the first phase of which is to
held in Geneva from 10 to 12 December 2003.
11H00

Citizen open session: Patient empowerment

-Stop-Tabac: Dr. Etter JF. (Switzerland)

-Pr. Golay Alain - Patient Education for improving quality of life and complications (Switzerland)

-Ligue Genevoise contre le cancer Antille Marierose (Switzerland) (in english) (in french)

-Search reliable information on the Internet. Boyer C. (Switzerland)

-Women on line: The Internet in Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Infertility - Hans' van der Slikke MD (Amsterdam)

 
11H00 AGM session - Annual General Meeting of the Society of Internet and Medicine
11H30 Workshop ActiveHealth : disease prevention and health promotion
Michael Cooper Greengage, (United-Kingdom)
Sergio Guillen ITACA (Spain)
Teresa Meneu ITACA (Spain)
Tony Lam Net Union (Swiss)
11H30 Workshop: Cybermed.it, the new medical-scientific portal in Europe dedicated to the medical profession
Cleverley R.J., BA(Hons) Humanities, Cybermed.it, Anguillara Sabazia Italy

 

12H15

Geneva escalade, the "Marmite"
The symbol of the Escalade

Chocolate and swiss specialties

More information on the Escalade
14H00 - 16H00

Pannel discussion on Medical/Health Community Networks

With the participation of:

European Commission,
Octavian Purcarea, Bruxelles, Belgium
IST programme

Rete Sanitaria
Ticino, Switzerland
(Speaker to be announced)

E-toile: Medical / health informatics network
Thang Dao,
Fondation IRIS -Genève

Catalan Comunity Networks
M. Cerda, Vic, Spain

CHU Lyon - Université : Lyon 1- Département d'Imagerie - Hôpital Louis Pradel
Pr Michel AMIEL , Lyon, France

Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche en Informatique Médicale (CERIM)
Régis Beuscart, Professor of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

THALES IS, Juan Bonal, Director Public Administration and Health

Social Events
14H00 - 17H00

Visit of CERN
- CERN is the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics centre. Here physicists come to explore what matter is made of and what forces hold it together.
CERN Website
19H00

Get together dinner (upon registration) :

Eaux Vives restaurant

Eaux Vives Restaurant

Don't forget other events following directly our conference in Geneva:
Sunday 7 december (14 H)
Wednesday 10 december

 

Scientific Sessions: The parallel scientific sessions will begin with introductory lectures by the keynote speaker, followed by presentations with selected abstracts for oral delivery. The overall program includes about 70 oral presentations.
Poster Presentations: Selected submitted papers will be displayed in the conference center. Maximum Poster size: A0 (84,1 x 118,9 cm)
Technical support: Computer projection for MS Powerpoint presentations and overhead projection will be available. We highly recommend the authors to send us their Powerpoint presentations before the November 25. After November 25, please bring your presentation on CDrom or on a memory stick.
Meeting Language: The official language of the congress is English.
Oral presentation+discussion: 15 mn     Workshop: 45 mn
Presenters: Please hand in a copy of your presentation three hours prior to your intervention.
The total amount of time allocated to each presentation is fifteen minutes. Please limit your oral presentation to ten minutes, and leave five minutes for a question and answer session. Due to the large number of contributions and time constraints, we will be obliged to remind presenters if they overrun the allotted time. Thank you for your cooperation.

The Mednet 2003 congress is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education of
20 credits, acting on mandate of the AMG (Association of the doctor of Geneva).

 

 

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