It's too bad that we didn't get on the agenda for
this conference. We should definately consider
attending, however - particularly since the conference
is in Toronto. The timing is bad since it's right
after our conference, but ...
Jennifer
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Subject: Digital Knowledge II: Building Electronic Space for Communit
Author: Canadian Network on Health in International Development
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Date: 7/8/97 3:58 PM
>DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE II CONFERENCE:
>BUILDING ELECTRONIC SPACE FOR
>COMMUNITY HEALTH INFORMATION
>
>Planning Our Community Networked Health Care Future
>
>Metro Toronto Convention Centre
>Monday, October 20 &
>Tuesday, October 21, 1997
>
>
>Presented by:
>Canada's Coalition for Public Information
>
>Sponsors:
>CANARIE INC.
>HEALTH CANADA
>INDUSTRY CANADA
>
>Supporting Organizations:
>Canadian Health Record Association
>CANADIAN INFORMATION PROCESSING SOCIETY
>CANADIAN LIFE AND HEALTH INSURANCE ASSOCIATION INC.
>Canadian Organization for Advanced Computers and Health
>Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario
>SMART TORONTO
>
>
>CONFERENCE GOAL:
>To create a model for the delivery of digital health
>information to every Canadian community.
>
>
>WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
>
>* Community Leaders working to establish local
> consumer health information networks.
>* Decision Makers from health institutions and
> organizations working to provide content, and
> to design systems for the consumer health
> information highway.
>
>THIS CONFERENCE IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT FOR:
>
>* Communications Professionals
>* Community Access Program Co-ordinators
>* Community Health Service Providers
>* Consumer Health Information Service Providers
>* Elected Municipal Officials
>* Federal and Provincial Policy Makers
>* Health Association Executives and Volunteers
>* Health Professionals
>* Information Access and Retrieval Specialists
>* Information Technology Researchers
>* Librarians
>* Local Internet Service Providers
>* Medical Researchers
>* Municipal Association Executives and Volunteers
>* Systems Developers
>
>CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES:
>
>* Sketch a blueprint for future public health
> electronic community services, resources, and
> policies.
>* Spotlight key public policy issues; privacy,
> equitable access, and content.
>* Examine the concept of community electronic space.
>* Define the health information people need.
>* Develop a national forum for health associations
> and volunteers that will help them apply resources
> to our health information networks, the content
> and the services.
>* Define a health information safety-net to prevent
> the development of information haves and have nots
> in Canada's healthy, knowledge society.
>* Provide Critical Input to CANARIE's "Canadian Health
> Iway" proposal.
>
>THE CHALLENGE:
>
>* To provide each citizen with access to the body of
> health advice, information and diagnostics available
> through existing electronic networks.
>* To provide a community infrastructure that brings a
> new focus to existing health-related initiatives.
>* To use available technology and content to prepare for
> a "wide band-width tomorrow" that will better serve
> every Canadian community.
>
>WHAT THIS CONFERENCE IS ABOUT
>
>Delivery of Health Care Services -
>The Role for Information-Enabled Communities:
>* National and Provincial Strategies
>* Special Needs: Special Concerns
>
>Access to Information
>* Public and Professional Access to Information
>* Who Gets What; Who Needs What; Who Uses
> Information and Why
>
>Let's Deal with Key Issues:
>* Privacy
>* Technology
>* Cost
>* Access to networks
>
>WHAT WORKS: COMMUNITY EFFORTS DELIVER NETWORKED
>HEALTH INFORMATION
>* Descriptive community projects
>
>DELIVERING HEALTH INFORMATION TO CANADIANS
>* What is currently available, and how good is it?
>* What does it take to make health information
> really understandable?
>
>WHAT ARE WE AFRAID OF?
>SHOULD WE FEAR A DIGITAL HEALTH CARE INFORMATION FUTURE?
>* Public opinion and community health information services
>
>=======================================================================
>DAY 1
>=======================================================================
>
>AGENDA - DAY 1 - Monday, October 20, 1997
>
>9:00 am CONFERENCE OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS
> - Dr. Mamoru Watanabe, CANARIE (Canadian Network for
> the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education)
> CANARIE'S HEALTH IWAY: ACCESS FOR CANADIANS
>
>10:00 am - 10:30 am Refreshment Break
>
>10:30 am - 12:00 noon Sessions 1A and 1B
>Session 1A - PUBLIC POLICY ON HEALTH INFORMATION:
> A NATIONAL VISION FOR CANADAOS HEALTH
> INFO-STRUCTURE
>
>Speakers: - Mary Catherine Lindberg,
> Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Insurance,
> Ontario Ministry of Health
> - Trudy Amirault, Director, Western Counties
> Regional Library, Yarmouth, N.S.
> - Jackie MacDonald, Librarian, Yarmouth Regional
> Health Sciences Library - A CONSUMER HEALTH
> INFORMATION SERVICE FOR RURAL CANADA
> - Alma Boyd, Canadian Health Record Association
> - David Robinson, Canadian Organization for Advanced
> Computers and Health
>Chair: - Frank White, White and Associates, Toronto
>
>Session 1B - DE-INSTITUTIONALIZING THE DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE
>
>Speakers: - John Rowlandson, Project Manager, Rural On-Line
> Cardiac Education Project (ROCEP), British Columbia
> - PRE-SURGICAL AND POST-OPERATIVE PATIENT/SPOUSAL
> EDUCATION TO HEART SURGERY PATIENTS
> - Igor Jurisica, University of Toronto, Department
> of Computer Science - KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS FOR
> DECISION SUPPORT IN HEALTH CARE
>Chair: - Rosemary Kavanagh, Director, CNIB Library for the
> Blind
>
>12:00 noon - 1:30 pm KEYNOTE LUNCHEON ADDRESS
> - Alan B. Nymark, Associate Deputy Minister, Health Canada
> DEVELOPING A HEALTH INFORMATION HIGHWAY FOR CANADIANS
>
>1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Sessions 1C and 1D
>Session 1C - MAKING IT HAPPEN: THE DELIVERY OF PUBLIC HEALTH
> INFORMATION
>
>Speakers: - Dr. Joanne Marshall, Professor, Faculty of Information
> Studies, University of Toronto - BUILDING A NETWORK FOR
> THE DELIVERY OF CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION
> - Darlene Fichter, Saskatoon FreeNet - COMMUNITY NETWORKS
> AND HEALTH INFORMATION PROVIDERS
> - Rita Vine, Marketing and Instruction Coordinator,
> Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of
> Toronto - HOW VALUABLE IS "FREE" MEDLINE ON THE INTERNET?
>Chair: - Fred Wardle, Publisher, Copp Clark Professional
>
>Session 1D - FROM ATOMS TO BITS: THE TECHNOLOGY OF HEALTH INFORMATION
>
>Speakers: - Professor Yuri Quintana, Graduate School of Library and
> Information Science, University of Western Ontario
> - AUTOMATED INDEXING AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH
> INFORMATION
> - Margaret Coshan, President, Counsel, Inc. Toronto
> - THE DESIGN OF A HEALTH APPLICATION IN A BROAD BAND,
> RESIDENTIAL TRAIL - INTERCOM ONTARIO
> - Simon Mielniczuk, Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse
> - BUILDING THE HEALTH PROMOTION INTRANET
>Chair: - Barbara Clubb, Chief Librarian and CEO, Ottawa Public
> Library
>
>3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Refreshment Break
>
>3:15 pm - 4:45 pm PLENARY SESSION
> FOCUS ON RESULTS: PRIVATE/PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS AND HEALTH
> INFORMATION
> A cutting-edge panel of industry and public sector leaders,
> including John Williams, President & CEO of SmartHealth,
> Winnipeg. The session is chaired by Andrew Bjerring,
> President & CEO, Canadian Network for the Advancement of
> Research, Industry and Education (CANARIE)
>
>========================================================================
>DAY 2
>========================================================================
>
>
>AGENDA - DAY 2 - Tuesday, October 21, 1997
> OPENING PLENARY ADDRESS
> - The Hon. Ron Duhamel, Secretary of State, Science,
> Research and Development and Western Economic
> Diversification (Invited)
> THE CANADIAN WELLNESS NETWORK AND THE ROLE OF THE COMMUNITY
> ACCESS PROJECT (CAP) IN SUPPORTING COMMUNITY ACCESS TO
> HEALTH INFORMATION
>
>10:00 am - 10:30 am Refreshment Break
>
>10:30 am - 12:00 noon Sessions 2A and 2B-Part One
>Session 2A - WOMEN AND HEALTH INFORMATION
>
>Speakers: - Madeline Boscoe, Canadian Women's Health Clinic, Winnipeg,
> Manitoba - WOMEN AND THE HEALTH INFO I-WAY
> - Mary Neill, Director of The HealthWatch Program, Womens'
> College Hospital and Centre, Toronto, Ontario
> - Karen Cairney, Associate Director of Development, Womens'
> College Hospital Foundation - "REALITY CHEQUE": FUNDING
> STRATEGIES FOR WOMENS' HEALTH INFORMATION NETWORKS
>Chair: - Dora Dempster, Information Consultant, Toronto
>
>Session 2B - Part One - A FRAMEWORK FOR MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
> SYSTEMS (in 2 parts)
> Part One will feature presentations, and question and
> answer sessions. Part Two (afternoon) will extend the
> discussion to the audience, extrapolate a Framework
> Summary and set the course for collaborative next steps.
>
>Panelists: - Dr. Kalyan Moy Gupta, Atlantis - KNOWLEDGE BASE MANAGEMENT
> SYSTEMS FOR HEALTHCARE: DIAGNOSIS, COOPERATION; DISTANCE
> EDUCATION FOR HEALTHCARE
> - Dr. Ben Barkow, Behavioural Team - MEDICAL INFORMATION
> SYSTEMS, ORGANIZATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES
> - Kent Hawkins, Base4 Bioinformatics - KNOWLEDGE
> ACQUISITION, INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MEDICINE AND BIOINFORMATICS
> - Arthur Leader, MD, Division of Reproductive Medicine, CPC
> - DIAGNOSIS, PREDICTION, ANALYSIS IN IN-VITRO FERTILIZATION
> USING COMPUTER MODELS
> - Robert Macura, MD, Medical College of Georgia - ARTIFICIAL
> INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS;
> INTELLIGENT LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS USING WWW; PICTURE
> ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELERADIOLOGY
> - Dr. Vimla Patel, McGill University - CONCEPTUAL
> UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE FOR CLINICAL
> REASONING; MEDICAL AND HEALTH EDUCATION
> - Jochen Moehr, MD, University of Victoria - DIDACTICS IN
> MEDICAL INFORMATICS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN HEALTHCARE,
> COMMUNITY HEALTH; COMPUTER-BASED PATIENT RECORDS
>Chair: - Igor Jurisica, Department of Computer Science,
> University of Toronto
>
>12:00 noon - 1:30 pm KEYNOTE LUNCHEON ADDRESS
> - Senator Patrick Leahy, (D) Vermont
> via Video from Washington D.C.
> THE INTERSECTION OF HEALTH CARE, INFORMATION, ACCESS
> AND PRIVACY
>
>1:30 pm - 3:15 pm Sessions 2B-Part Two and 2C
>Session 2B-Part Two - A FRAMEWORK FOR MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
> SYSTEMS
>(continuation of Session 2B-PART ONE, from morning 10:30 AM to NOON)
>
>Session 2C - COMMUNITY HEALTH AND THE INTERNET
>Speakers: - Nadia Diakun-Thibault, PhD., Webmaster for The
> Alzheimer Society of Ottawa-Carleton - COMMUNITY CASE
> STUDY: THE INTERNET AS A TOOL FOR NEUROSCIENCE
> - Dr. H. Skinner, Principal Investigator, TeenNet,
> Department of Behavioral Science, University of Toronto
> - USING THE INTERNET TO ENGAGE TEENS IN SMOKING PREVENTION
>Chair: - Gail Dykstra, Director, Publisher & Gov't Relations,
> Micromedia Ltd.
>
>3:15 pm - 3:45 pm Refreshment & Networking Break
>
>3:45 pm - 4:15 pm PLENARY SESSION
> THE NEXT STEPS: CONTINUING THE DISCUSSION,
> ENCOURAGING THE DEVELOPMENT
>
>Conference Closing
>
>=======================================================================
>REGISTRATION INFORMATION
>=======================================================================
>
>DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE II CONFERENCE:
>BUILDING ELECTRONIC SPACE FOR
>COMMUNITY HEALTH INFORMATION
>
>October 20 & 21, 1997
>Metro Toronto Convention Centre
>
>REGISTER NOW
>SPECIAL RATES FOR EARLY BIRDS!
>
>EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION BY JULY 31, 1997
>Coalition Members: $250. Cdn. (plus $17.50 GST = $267.50)
>Non-Members: $395. Cdn. (plus $27.65 GST = $422.65)
>
>AFTER JULY 31, 1997
>Coalition Members: $350. Cdn. (plus $24.50 GST = $374.50)
>Non-Members: $495. Cdn. (plus $34.65 GST = $529.65)
>
>
>FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER:
>
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>FAX: (416) 593-0249
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>
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>
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>
>DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE II CONFERENCE:
>BUILDING ELECTRONIC SPACE FOR
>COMMUNITY HEALTH INFORMATION
>
>October 20 & 21, 1997
>Metro Toronto Convention Centre
>
>
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>
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>
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>Conference Registration
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>
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>
>
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>
>PROGRAM MATERIALS:
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>
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>
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> rates for conference delegates at the 2 hotels listed
> below. Please make reservations by calling the hotel
> directly and referring to the special rate under Digital
> Knowledge II Conference.
>
>NOVOTEL HOTEL, 45 The Esplanade
>(416) 367-8900
>$125 per night for single/double room
>(4 blocks away from the Convention Centre)
>
>QUALITY HOTEL, 280 Bloor Street West (Yorkville)
>(416) 968-0010
>$82 per night for single/double room
>(10 min. subway or $8 cab ride to the Convention Centre)
>
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