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Mark your calendars to attend the Friends of the National Library of Medicine's
Fourth Annual Conference, HII99: Improving Health in a Digital Age, April
26-28, 1999 in Washington,
D.C. This year's program will be held in conjunction with an important
international telemedicine conference -- the Fourth G7/G8 SP-4 FORUM: Clinical
and Technical Standards for Telemedicine/Telematics on April 29-30, 1999.
HII99 will focus on:
* Telemedicine/Telehealth
* Consumer Health Information
* Privacy and Portability
* Equity and Access
G7/G8 Forum will focus on:
* Technology Standards in Telemedicine and Telematics
* Clinical Standards in Telemedicine and Telematics
Also, great Pre-and-Post conference workshops:
* Underserved Populations and Telehealth -- Monday, April 26
* Law, Cyberspace and Medicine -- Monday, April 26
* Privacy, Security and Confidentiality: Helping Your Institution Comply With
New HIPAA Requirements -- Thursday, April 29 - Friday, April 30
Such luminaries as Wyoming Governor Jim Geringer, U.S. Congressman Rick Boucher
(VA), Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, and others will be speaking at the conference.
See live demonstrations of a Pre-Natal Telehealth initiative and new computer
simulation for bronchoscopy training.
The conference banquet will be a Town-Hall Debate on "What is Health Data and
When Should It be Protected?" moderated by Dennis Melamed, Editor of the Health
Information Privacy Alert. This wide-open and frank discussion will clarify
when
data is and is not health information, and how different circumstances and
contexts should change the way we manage privacy and confidentiality in the
healthcare industry.
Visit our conference area at http://www.fnlm.org for more details and the
latest
conference information!
"These conferences are a must to attend to keep up with the latest and to learn
about the new applications in health information technologies."
Tenley Albright M.D.
Chair of the NLM Board of Regents and HII99 Honorary Chair
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