ENDORSED BY

• KEYNOTES
  • KEYNOTE 1
  • KEYNOTE 2
  • KEYNOTE 3
  • KEYNOTE 4
  • Special Lecture
• TUTORIALS
  • TUTORIAL 1
  • TUTORIAL 2
  • TUTORIAL 3
  • EXCURSION: DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
• EVENTS: 
  • RECEPTION CITY HALL BY MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF AMSTERDAM
  • SINTERKLAASAVOND (SOCIAL)
• PRE CONGRESS SYMPOSIUM:

Pre Congress Symposium: PROGRAMME

Applying clinical knowledge in practice: 

How can we help health professionals ?

Applying clinical knowledge in practice: how can we help health professionals?

Scope of the Symposium

• Paper or computer based decision tools, eg. practice guidelines, risk calculators, care pathways, checklists, reminders or decision support systems
• Knowledge resources for health professionals on intranets, web sites, electronic libraries, personal data assistants (PDAs) etc
• Focused postgraduate learning activities, eg. outreach visits, opinion leaders, e-learning, or telemedicine
• Ethnographic, qualitative, socio-technical or other studies of clinical knowledge needs or barriers to health professionals seeking or using knowledge

There is no special focus but this year the symposium scope excludes:

• Tools for communicating health knowledge to patients or the public

• Undergraduate health professional education

• Patient data, record or documentation systems, unless these include reminder or decision support systems

(these topics will be covered by the main MEDNET 2002 meeting)

Although the symposium is associated with MEDNET2002, strategies and applications using non-internet technologies will be included.

Aims and Objectives of the Symposium:

To explore and improve knowledge use by health professionals looking after their patients, by:

• Providing a platform for health professionals and others to exchange views and collaborate on solving problems of clinical knowledge use
• Reporting the results of clinical knowledge management research studies
• Identifying new research questions and stimulating new studies
• Raising the European profile of clinical knowledge management as an important new field for all concerned with practice guidelines, the quality of care or making clinical knowledge work for health services

Intended audience

• Health professionals developing, updating or supporting the use of practice guidelines or other methods to improve knowledge use and quality of care
• Clinical librarians and information scientists
• Medical informatics, telemedicine, workflow and decision support system developers and researchers
• Everyone interested in or studying innovation, barriers to change, social networks, tacit knowledge or communities of practice in clinical professionals
• Those running knowledge systems for health professionals, such as editors of health intranet / internet sites or email list moderators
• Those responsible for continuing health professional development or life long learning programmes, including e-learnin
• Those in public health and policy concerned about improving knowledge use
• Electronic or paper clinical journal or newsletter editors and publishers
• Others with an interest in the problems of managing medical knowledge

Call for abstracts for scientific papers or workshop proposals

Your details: name, appointment, institution, e-ddress, web site 

For a scientific paper: paper title, project background and aims, methods used, evaluation results, conclusions, 3-10 references or URLs 

For a proposed workshop: workshop title, aims and learning goals, workshop scope, intended audience and presumed experience or knowledge, references to material for discussion, 1-paragraph description of workshop organiser  

Send abstracts by a firm deadline of  Friday 13/9/2002 by completing the forms. Authors will be notified of acceptance and any changes suggested after refereeing by an international panel. 

No full papers will be required – accepted abstracts will be reproduced in the conference pack and placed on the conference web site, together with speaker’s slides, after the conference.    

For further information: Dr Jeremy Wyatt, Dept. of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Centre, UVA, Amsterdam