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 ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Digital Knowledge II: Building Electronic Space for Communit Author: Canadian Network on Health in International Development <[log in to unmask]> at InternetSMTP 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: > >CALL: (416) 593-7352 >FAX: (416) 593-0249 >EMAIL: [log in to unmask] >WEB: http://www.rileyis.com/ > >Please fill out the Registration Form and e-mail, fax or mail. >Mail cheque or money order to the address below. > >=================== >REGISTRATION FORM - >=================== > >DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE II CONFERENCE: >BUILDING ELECTRONIC SPACE FOR >COMMUNITY HEALTH INFORMATION > >October 20 & 21, 1997 >Metro Toronto Convention Centre > > >Name:___________________________________________ >Title:__________________________________________ >Organization:___________________________________ >________________________________________________ >Address:________________________________________ >________________________________________________ >Postal Code:_________________________ >Telephone:___________________________ >Fax:_________________________________ >Email:_______________________________ > > >Please make cheque payable and send to: > >Canada's Coalition for Public Information >Conference Registration >c/o 633 Bay St., Suite 2207, >Toronto, Ontario M5G 2G4 > >GST Registration # 8943 1790 RT0001 > > >CONFIRMATION: > All registered delegates will receive a confirmation > letter by return mail before the conference. > >PROGRAM MATERIALS: > An information kit will be available to all delegates > upon registration at the conference. 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