| Triennial World Congress on
Health Informatics (Medinfo 2001) comes to UK
The British
Computer Society Health Informatics Specialist
Groups Co-coordinating Committee successfully won
the right to hold the triennial International
Medical Informatics Association MEDINFO Congress
in London in Autumn 2001. The UK was awarded the
event at the IMIA General Assembly in Sydney in
August.
Proposed innovations in MEDINFO UK will include
enhanced utilisation of pre-event electronic
discussion groups and mechanisms for virtual
attendance, extensive support to delegates from
countries in transition and to students in health
and related disciplines. The event is expected to
attract well over a thousand delegates and
visitors.
The UK has an unmatched track record in the
management of events of the scale of a MEDINFO,
having managed the Healthcare Computing annual
event (HC), latterly in Harrogate, North
Yorkshire, for the last 15 years. The HIC is
looking to work with all the major participants
in the health and informatics fields in the UK to
provide a showcase for operational healthcare
informatics, academic and scientific developments
from the over 50 countries represented in IMIA.
Jean Roberts, previously UK IMIA national
representative and chair of the MEDINFO 2001
Organising Committee, who lead the team said that
’Bringing MEDINFO to London will give those
in healthcare informatics in the UK the
opportunity to display developments at the
leading edge and sound operational systems to a
wide audience of their peers, and also to
evaluate potential benefits of world-wide
innovations presented by delegates from other
countries. MEDINFO has never previously been held
on UK soil, so this will be an excellent
opportunity to stimulate synergy between IMIA
members internationally.’
The event is expected to attract audiences from
all areas of health and related technologies,
including:
- all health
disciplines and specialties;
- information
scientists, computing technologists and
end-users;
- operational,
academic and research bodies;
- the health
community and governmental sources;
- commercial
vendors and the health services in the
UK;
- specialist
press and the healthcare professions;
- direct
patient care, management and academia
The chosen
location is in the London Docklands and will
provide extensive fully configured exhibition
space and conference facilities which will be
utilised by MEDINFO 2001.
'Health
Informatics Europe' will be reporting on Medinfo
2001 developments throughout.
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