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Call for papers for MEDNET 2002

From the World Congress on the Internet and Medicine

We have the pleasure to invite you to submit your work and to participate to MEDNET 2002 — the 7th Annual World Congress on the Internet and Medicine, 4–7 December 2002, with the theme Qualit-e-health.

We focus on ehealth applications that enhance not only the quality of medical care but of quality of life as well.

This year we start a collaboration with The Internet Healthcare Coalition (IHCC) Together we will search the boundaries of consumer education, commercial websites and the dangers of quackery. We want to educate the consumer in order to empowering him or her. This will lead in our opinion to empowering of the doctor as well. The afternoon programme on Friday 6 December is devoted to IHCC.

The programme includes a workshop on medical knowledge management on 4 December. Another category of sessions this year is the 'medical specialism in focus'. We choose Women's´health and we will discuss in the sessions e-obstetrics, e-gynaecology and e-(in)fertility the applications in these fields of medicine.

Submission

Deadline for submission — now extended to August 25, 2002.

Each paper should include a disclosure statement, indicating ties with commercial companies.

All communications including pre-registration, submission and notification of acceptance will be made through the Web (via email).  Accepted abstracts will be published in a supplement to the Journal of Technology & Healthcare (IOS Press).

After the reviewing process, selected full papers from MEDNET2002 can be published in a special issue of Medical Informatics & Internet in Medicine, the official journal of the Society for the Internet in Medicine

The deadline for submission will be 31 December, 2002.
In addition, authors may also submit their full papers to the other SIm-related journal: The Journal of Medical Internet Research

MEDNET 2002 special topics:

• Medical specialism in focus: Women´s health
• Web-supported education and teaching
• empowering the patient AND the doctor
• can commercial health websites be trusted?
• scientific publishing on the Internet
• knowledge management in medicine
• Internet and law

Other MEDNET 2002 topics include, but are not limited to:

• Internet in primary care
• Internet and medical information exchange
• telemedicine
• access to health and medical information
• hospital management and the Internet
• Intranet for medical applications
• International medical collaboration
• basic and clinical research using the Internet
• semantic Web
• quality of Internet information
• Internet usage statistics and demographics
• the Internet and the developing world
• ethical and legal issues
• Internet technologies and standards
• specialized Internet tools for medicine (search engines, filtering, etc)
• Internet security and privacy
• mobile web

More information from: info@mednet2002.org