Prague, Czech Republic, 12–15 April 2004.

Website: www.euromise2004.org/

The International Joint Meeting EuroMISE 2004 in Prague, Czech Republic, is composed of the IMIA working conference and three symposia running in parallel. The IMIA conference and three symposia will be held in the city centre and located in the House of Physicians, hotel Novotel and in the premises of Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague.

The International Joint Meeting EuroMISE 2004 is held under the partronage of Ivan Wilhelm, Rector of the Charles University in Prague and Helena Illnerova, President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

The International Joint Meeting EuroMISE 2004 is held in the frame of the EuroMISE. The European Centre for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (EuroMISE Centre) of Charles University and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic was set up on 12 April, 1994 with the support of the European Commission as the joint Teaching and Research Centre of Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics and the Academy of Sciences, Institute of Computer Science. Since these days the EuroMISE Centre has been developing a broad co-operation with European universities and research institutes and with international organizations, eg EFMI, IMIA and Biometric Society, in the field of education and research.

Since July 2000, the EuroMISE Centre has been enlarged as the national research centre with the support of the Czech government into the joint workplace EuroMISE Centre — Cardio, concerned mainly in the application of research results in cardiology. The EuroMISE Centre — Cardio is the joint workplace of Charles University (First Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Science), Institute of Computer Science of the Academy of Sciences CR, University of Economics and two hospitals (General University Hospital in Prague and Municipal Hospital in Caslav). The local scientific and organizing committee of the meeting is composed of scientists and managers of the EuroMISE.

On Thursday April 15 the full day satellite workshop "RTD Potential in Central and Eastern Europe for Building Information Society in Healthcare" will be organized. The workshop will focus on building a European Research Area and the expectations of Newly Associated States on the RTD co-operation in the European Union.

On Friday, April 16, 2004, the HL7 Road Show will be organized at the House of Physicians, Sokolska 32, Prague 2, Czech Republic (9:00 am – 3:00 pm).

All IJM EuroMISE 2004 and Satellite Workshop delegates may participate free of charge.

Local Scientific and Organising Committee

Zvárová Jana, chair
Přibík Vladimír, vice-chair
Semeráková Lenka, secretary

Members