• Models of trust for health websites - August 19, 2007 in Brisbane, Australia
• World of Health IT - October 22-25, 2007 in Vienna, Austria
• Global best practices in implementing chronic care programmes - December 3-4, 2007 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• World healthcare Innovation and technology congress - December 9-11, 2007 - Washington DC, USA
• Best practices for improved delivery and outcomes in Europe - March 10-12, 2008 in Berlin, Germany

This year HON is actively participating in the Medinfo 07 conference in organising and chairing the workshop "Models of trust for health websites". The objective of this workshop is to address different aspects related to the problem of controlling the reliability of health websites.

Program and Participants:
• Towards higher quality health search results: Automated quality rating of depression websites. David Hawking (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia)
• Presentation of various models of trust used at HON Foundation. Arnaud Gaudinat (HON, Switzerland)
• WRAPIN: finding trusted health information on the Internet and empowering patients within personal health records. Michel Joubert (Lertim, France)
• Text Categorization Models for Identifying Unproven Cancer Treatments on the Web. Yin Aphinyanaphongs (Vanderbilt University, USA)
• CISMeF: Catalog & Index of Health Resources in French on the Internet. Stefan Darmoni (CISMeF, France)
• More information: http://www.hon.ch/medinf07.html

The World of Health IT 2007 Conference & Exhibition will focus on the role and impact of Health IT on the health sector in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
http://www.worldofhealthit.org/

The European Leadership Summit on Chronic Care is the forum where government and industry leaders share successful initiatives and global best practices in the implementation of chronic disease management programmes.
Special pre-registration rate for HONcode members from Hospital/Government/NGO/Academic organisation. Mention that you are coming from the HON Foundation.
http://www.hon.ch/Conf/WHCC/HL07080-HON-8-14-07.htm

The Third Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT 3.0) is designed to dispel the confusion that reigns at the intersection of health care and technology. Health care practitioners, whether providers or payers are faced with a myriad choices in technology solutions and are responsible for the daunting task of developing a roadmap on integrating these technologies within real-world constraints of budgets, legacy systems and limited staffing.
Special pre-registration rate for HONcode members from Hospital/Government/NGO/Academic organisation. Mention that you are coming from the HON Foundation.
http://www.worldcongress.com/events/HT07010/

The 4th Annual World Health Care Congress Europe to be held 10-12 March, 2008 in Berlin, Germany is shaping up to be the must-attend healthcare event of 2008 in Europe.
Special pre-registration rate for HONcode members from Hospital/Government/NGO/Academic organisation. Mention that you are coming from the HON Foundation.
http://www.hon.ch/Conf/WHCC/HR08015-HON-8-14-07.htm

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