The Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine (NST), the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES), Finland, the Norwegian Federation of Organisations of Disabled People (FFO) and the Norwegian Cancer Association are organising an international conference on telemedicine and eHealth with the title:

"Citizen participation in eHealth: Challenges for research, technologies and healthcare organisations".

The focus of TTeC 2004 is on people using eHealth for their own health purposes, addressing information and communication technologies for health from the perspective of citizens and patients.

The TTeC aims to be a meeting place for researchers, policy-makers, patients, citizens and health professionals. The conference will combine future perspectives with state-of- the-art research and practice, and will encourage debates from a wide range of perspectives.

Keynote speakers include: Angela Coulter (Picker Institute Europe), David Gustafson(Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis), Ishii Hiroshi (MIT Media Lab) and Jeremy Wyatt (AMC Amsterdam).

Submission of abstracts

You are invited to submit an abstract of your work on topics along the following lines:

• policy, organisation, strategy: what should we strive for?
• technology; applications and practice: what do we have?
• research: what do we know and need to know?

Deadline for submission of one-page abstracts: 2nd February 2004.

Further details

More details about the conference topics, keynote speakers, organisation and social activities can be found at the conference website: http://www.telemed.no/ttec2004

The website also offers the possibility to subscribe to the conference Newsletter, in order to be kept informed of latest developments and updates.

Persephone Doupi, MD, DSc.
Senior Researcher
STAKES-Centre of Excellence for Information and Communication Technology (OSKE)
PO Box 220 - Lintulahdenkuja 4
FIN-00531 Helsinki
Finland