HIE Meeting Place Announce index

MEDNET2003 — call for participation

Health On the Net Foundation (HON) is pleased to invite your participation in MEDNET 2003 — the 8th
Annual World Conference on the Internet and Medicine, taking place in Geneva from 4–6 December 2003.

MEDNET is an international meeting bringing together researchers, developers and users of applications of
the Internet in Medicine. This year's edition will be held in connection with the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS 10–12 December 2003).

The theme of MEDNET 2003, "Internet in Health for All", emphasizes Internet-based medical and health
applications for citizens, patients, medical practitioners and researchers in developing countries as well as in wealthier nations.

Principal themes include:

• access to health and medical information;
• trustworthiness, security and legal Issues of online medical information;
• online health information and the consumer; and
• international cooperation in Internet medicine.

The call for participation is now open. Your contribution in the form of a paper, poster, tutorial
or workshop should be described in an abstract of 300–1000 words and submitted through the HON/MEDNET website (www.hon.ch/Mednet2003/003_Papers.html ).

MEDNET is an opportunity to review recent developments and meet the innovators, to reflect on
ten years of the Web and how it has changed the world, and to look ahead to bringing the benefits of
new information and communication technologies to communities around the world. MEDNET welcomes
participants from all the many disciplines which together have made the Internet an important new tool
in the promotion of health.

We look forward to seeing you in Geneva for MEDNET 2003.

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