HIE Meeting Place Announce index

SIHI 2003 conference — call for participation

Southern Institute for Health Informatics
5th annual conference
Thursday 12 June 2003, Portland Building, University of Portsmouth

After four tremendously successful SIHI conferences, we are holding this year's in Portsmouth and 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:

• ICT helping to meet Government priorities and targets
• new applications of clinical information
• electronic patient records/ electronic healthcare records
• telemedicine, especially innovative applications
• ebooking of appointments
• issue surrounding the security and confidentiality of patient data
• new applications of the Internet in healthcare
• primary care computing
• developments in new information and communications technologies
• ICT and the professions allied to medicine

But other topics relevant to health informatics are welcomed.

The conference will consist of a number of keynote speakers, oral and poster presentations and workshops. Vendors will be able to exhibit their products and services.

If you would be interested in attending or participating in any way, please email us at sihi@port.ac.uk write to us at the address below or telephone on +44 (0)23-9284 6445.

More details can be found on the conference website: www.disco-port.ac.uk/hcc/sihi/sihi2003/index.htm

Dr John Briggs
Conference Chairman

SIHI 2003, Healthcare Computing Group
Department of Information Systems and computer Applications
University of Portsmouth
Burnaby Terrace
Portsmouth PO1 3AE
UK
Tel: +44 (0)23-9284 6445/6438
Fax: +44 (0)23 9284 6402
Email: jim.briggs@port.ac.uk