Telematics applications in the health care sector

An international workshop on user acceptance of telematics applications by healthcare professionals will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 11 and 12 December 1998. It will be organised and supported by the European Commission and Parliament, and will focus on the educational and training aspects of healthcare telematics. Key features of the workshop will include opening addresses from representatives of both these institutions.

The workshop will discuss the many challenges impeding the wider implementation of health telematics applications and services in the context of the technical, legal and organisational challenges. The challenge of the user acceptance of telematics applications will provide a particular focus for discussions. Examples of health telematics education programmes and their impact so far, as well as training experiences, will be presented during the workshop. Particular emphasis will be given to new developments in the area of human computer applications and the expected impact on future training.

Examples of the topics to be addressed during the plenary sessions of the conference will include:

- Health telematics education and training: the critical factor of user acceptance;
- Education of health professionals in an era of electronic patient records and teleconsultation;
- Biomedical engineering and telematics in health care;
- Utilising multimedia for training merchant mariners as paramedics;
- Designing for user acceptability in health telematics;
- Towards an information society for all: challenges in health telematics.
For further information, please contact:

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