SIHI 2004 conference — registration now open

Southern Institute for Health Informatics 6th Annual Conference
Friday 1 October 2004, Portland Building, University of Portsmouth

After five tremendously successful SIHI conferences, we are holding this year's in Portsmouth on Friday 1 October and we would like to invite you to participate. The venue will be the award-winning Portland Building, on the main University of Portsmouth campus.

The themes of the conference include:

• NPfIT — where are we now and where are we going?
• information for performance management and evaluation
• patient information and choice
• ehealth as the catalyst for modernisation

Speakers include:

• Mark Outhwaite, NHS Modernisation Agency
• John Powell, Chair, BMA IT Committee
• Toto Gronlund, Acting Head of Patient and Public Involvement, NHSIA
• Elizabeth Murray, Royal Free and University College Medical School
• Paul Johnson, Telemonitoring Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
• Nicholas Robinson, NHS Direct Bill Shields, Director of performance management, Portsmouth NHS Hospitals Trust
• Roger Killen, MD of The Learning Clinic
• Kingsley Manning, CEO of Newchurch
• Jo Stuttard, East Hants Primary Care Trust

The conference is aimed at healthcare professionals, senior managers and system developers both within the NHS and in companies supplying products and services to it. Academics with research or teaching interests in the above areas will also find plenty to hear and talk about.

The cost of early registration (bookings made before 1st September) is only £75 (with discounts for multiple attendees from the same organisation), which includes lunch.

For more details and a registration form, go to the conference website www.disco.port.ac.uk/hcc/sihi/sihi2004/index.htm