At 10:18 AM 4/8/98 -0400, you wrote:
>     Law, Cyberspace and Medicine - Post Conference Workshop
>                              at HII98
>                  Managing Change Through Information
>   Sponsored by Friends of the National Library of Medicine (FNLM)
>                      and Proskauer Rose LLP
>
>                             April 29, 1998
>               Georgetown University Conference Center
>                           Washington, D.C.
>
>
>HII98 (April 27 - 29, 1998) is a senior-level national conference organized
>by the Friends of the National Library of Medicine to examine the
>opportunities and pitfalls of leveraging the emerging national information
>infrastructure to improve health.  In addition to this year's powerful
>programming, HII98's post conference will examine the increasingly relevant
>issues regarding health in the digital age.
>
>"Law, Cyberspace & Medicine" is a one day POST-CONFERENCE workshop that
>will explore:
>
>     * Copyright, Intellectual Property and Trademarks in Cyberspace
>     * Licensure and Telemedicine and Telehealth
>     * Privacy, Security and Confidentiality Requirements of Electronic
>Health Data
>     * Minimizing Potential Liability of Healthcare or Telemedicine
>Computer Systems
>
>The cost of this workshop is $125.00 if postmarked before April 10, 1998
>and $150.00 thereafter.  The full conference schedule, registration forms,
>accomodations, and travel information can be found on our conference website:
>
>                        http://www.fnlm.org/HII98.HTML
>
>Other questions regarding the HII98 Conference or Workshop can be referred
to:
>
>Josie Jordan, HII98 Conference Registrar
>Friends of the National Library of Medicine
>1555 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 200
>Washington, D.C. 20036
>
>(202) 462-0992 ext. 27
>(202) 462-9043 FAX
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>http://www.fnlm.org
>
>
>April 29 1998 - "Law, Cyberspace and Medicine" (subject to change)
>
>8:45 - 9:00 Welcoming Remarks:
>     Christopher Wolf, Proskauer Rose LLP
>
>9:00 - 10:30 Copyright, IP & Trademark Law/Millenium Bug Issues
>     Christopher Wolf, Alec Farr, Denise Gough, Orrie Dinstein from
>Proskauer Rose LLP
>
>a) Brief legal framework
>b) Application of the legal issues to cyberspace
>     - what is protected
>     - how to protect materials
>     - what to do when infringed
>c) Millenium Bug: What it is, what will happen, how to protect yourself
>d) Hypothetical applications
>
>10:30 - 10:45  Break
>
>10:45 - 12:15 Licensure and Telemedicine
>     Barry Cepelwicz and Jeff Berkowitz from Proskauer Rose LLP
>     Bill England, HCFA Project Officer for Telemedicine Research and
>Demonstration
>
>a) Requirements for licensure and definition of practice of medicine
>b) Telemedicine applications - practice of medicine - positives of Telemed.
>Hypothetical    case studies
>c) Licensure and liability issues raised by practice of medicine through
>telemedicine
>d) Federal and state initiatives for nationwide licensing requirements -
>present models
>
>12:15 - 1:30 Lunch and Learn
>     Joe Casson & Ian Portnoy from Proskauer Rose LLP: Presentation of WEB
>based technology
>
>1:30 - 3:00 Privacy and Confidentiality Requirements of Electronic Health
Data
>     Moderator: Pam Small, Proskauer Rose LLP
>     Panelists: Janlori Goldman, Director, Health Privacy Project,
>Georgetown University
>                Professor Larry Gostin, Georgetown University
>
>a) Definition of electronic health data and Clinical Data Management Systems
>b) Privacy and Confidentiality issues from a legal standpoint
>c) Survey of how privacy issues are being handled in an electronic medium
>d) Legal requirements, state survey, federal initiatives
>
>3:00 - 3:15 Break
>
>3:15 - 4:45 Minimizing and Tracking Potential Security, Access and
>Potential Liability of Healthcare or Telemedicine Computer Systems
>     Moderator: Joe Casson, Proskauer Rose LLP
>     Panelists: Lori Bartholomew, Physician Insurers Association of America
>- Risk Management Group
>     Frank Roys, V-ONE: Technology presentation
>
>a) Possible solutions
>     Security measures: access controls, audit trails, organizational
>education, user agreements
>b) Labor issues: Employer/employee liability
>
>
>HII98 will attract key national and state policymakers, representatives of
>leading health and medical associations, the library and informatics
>communities, medical and health sciences schools, and the private sector.
>
>As advanced information technologies increasingly play important roles in
>the medical and health sciences community, your support of this Emerging
>Health Information Infrastructure (HII98) Conference will help us better
>understand the promise and challenges of healthcare information on the
>Information Superhighway.
>
>   PLEASE MARK APRIL 27-29 ON YOUR CALENDAR FOR THESE IMPORTANT EVENTS
>
>
Keith R. Krueger
1555 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. #200
Washington, D.C.  20036

Tel - (202) 462-9600 ext. 18
FAX - (202) 462-9043