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We have the pleasure to invite you to submit your work and to participate to MEDNET 2002 - the 7th Annual World Conference on the Internet and Medicine with the theme 

Qualit-e-Health

we focus on e-Health applications that enhance not only the quality of medical care but of quality of life as well. 

This year SIM starts 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.

This years' ¨Medical Specialism in Focus¨ will be Womens' Health. We will discuss in the sessions e-obstetrics, e-gynaecology and e-(in)fertility the applications in these fields of medicine.

Submission for abstracts and tutorials

The deadline for abstracts submission is extended to Augustus 25, 2002.

Extended abstracts (between 300-1000 words in the text body) are welcome on the topics found below for oral and/or poster presentation.

The submission forms are available here.

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 e-mail).  Accepted abstracts will be published in a supplement to the Journal Technology & Healthcare (IOS Press).

After the reviewing process, selected full papers from MEDNET2002 are invited to publish their full paper in a special issue of (hard copy publication) Medical Informatics & Internet in Medicine, or (web based and Medline indexed) The Journal of Medical Internet Research, both official journals of the Society for the Internet in Medicine.  The deadline for that submission will be 31th December, 2002.

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

The submission forms are available here.

for additional information: info@mednet2002.org