Thursday 4 december

13H00 Welcome and registration 13H30 Introduction - Antoine Geissbühler - Professor and Chairman, Service of Medical Informatics, Geneva University Hospitals 14H00 Two thematic parallels sessions 14H00 ISABEL: The Use of a Web-Based clinical support system Briggs J.S., University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth UK Live webcasting 14H00 Digital-divide in eHealth applications in the city of Chicago Ramaprasad A., University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago United States 14H15 A Framework for Medical Costanalysis in XML and Cocoon Elsner C., Heart Center Leipzig, Leipzig Germany Live webcasting 14H15 Improving access to on-line health information for Australian men with prostate cancer Pinnock C., Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Park Australia 14H30 Universal accessibility to personal medical data: issues for future development of health services Hurtado J.M. de, Fundacion Hospital Alcorcon, Alcorcon, Madrid, Spain Live webcasting 14H30 Complementary and alternative medicine and the Internet Schmidt K., Peninsula Medical School, Complementary Medicine, Exeter United Kingdom 14H45 Design and Implementation of a Real Concept-Based EMR for the Heart Failure Patient Management Purin B., ITC-irst, Centre for Scientific and Technology Research, Trento Italy Live webcasting 14H45 Consumer Informatics: The Elderly and the Internet Campbell R.J., Duquesne University, Pittsburgh United States 15H00 Speech Acts, Documents, and Medical Phenomena: An Investigation in the Ontology of Organizations. Vizenor L., Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Infromation Science and University at Buffalo, Leipzig / Buffalo Germany / USA Live webcasting 15H00 Empowering patients and professionals by moving electronic health learning into other media to increase access, relevance and equity. Baldwin B., NHSDirectOnline, Hedge End England 15H15 workshop Suicide and the Internet Hsiung R.C., University of Chicago, Chicago USA Barak A., University of Haifa, Mount Carmel Israel, and Silber D., Basil Strategies, Paris France 15H15 Patients use of health information on the Internet: the impact on primary care consultations Dolan G.C., University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd UK 15H30 Internet and Patient Education: the current evidence for chronic disease management Doupi P., Centre of Excellence for Information & Communication Technology, OSKE/STAKES, Helsinki Finland 15H45 Disseminating evidence-based health information - bytes, paper or both? Lampe K., Finnish Office for Health Care Technology Assessment (FinOHTA), Finland 16H00 Coffee break 16H15 Two thematic parallels sessions 16H15 Misinformation on the NET: Using Hereditary Hemochromatosis as a Model Alexander R.S., Iron Disorders Institute, Greenville USA Live webcasting 16H15 GlycoScience.com: The Nutrition Science Site: Innovations in Web-based scientific literature reviews for scientists, health professionals, and the public at large. Vennum E., Mannatech, Inc, Coppell USA 16H30 A descriptive analysis of strategies in Spain for internet biomedical content evaluation García S., Health on The Net Foundation, Geneva Switzerland Live webcasting 16H30 Low cost telemedicine using cable TV Network & TV Set Junaid M., Kongu Engiineering College, Erode India 16H45 Use of and Trust in Health Information on the Internet among the Finnish Population Ek S., Department of Social and Political Sciences/Information Studies, Abo Finland Live webcasting 16H45 Status of the telemedicine under its various aspects application in Mali. What are the expected outcomes from this discipline. Bagayoko C. O. , keneya Blown, Mali 17H00 The Initial Development of the WebMedQual Scale: Domain Assessment of the Construct of Quality of Health Web Sites Provost M., Department of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy, The University of Georgia, USA Live webcasting     17H15 WRAPIN (Worldwide online Reliable Advice to Patients and Individuals) Gaudinat A., Health on The Net Foundation, Geneva Switzerland   Web Service to Support the Prostate Cancer Diagnosis using Expert System Marcos Aurelio Pereira, Jefferson Luiz Brum Marques, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Florianopolis, Brazil 16h15 Workshop: Workshop and Tutorial on the Use of Open-Source Software in HealthCare Applications Elsner C., Heart Center Leipzig, Leipzig Germany 17H30 Keynotes speaker: Richard Smith (Editor, BMJ) Live webcasting Richard Smith, editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), will present his vision of the future of electronic biomedical publishing. The speaker will address ethical issues including partnerships with pharmaceutical companies and the role of advertising, research misconduct and evolution of the peer-review process. 18H15 Opening reception

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.
Meeting Language: The official language of the congress is English.
Oral presentation+discussion: 15 mn     Workshop: 45 mn