Southern Institute for Health Informatics

5th Annual Conference

Thursday 12th June 2003, Portland Building, University of Portsmouth

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this notice.)

After four tremendously successful SIHI conferences, we are holding this
year's one in Portsmouth on Thursday 12th June and we would like to invite
you to participate. The venue will be the award-winning Portland Building,
on the main University of Portsmouth campus.

The themes of the conference include:
        ICT helping to meet Government priorities and targets
        New applications of clinical information
        Electronic patient records / electronic healthcare records
        Telemedicine, especially innovative applications
        E-booking of appointments
        Issues surrounding the security and confidentiality of patient data
        New applications of the Internet in healthcare
        Primary care computing
        Developments in new information and communication technologies
        ICT and the professions allied to medicine
but other topics relevant to health informatics are also welcomed.

The conference will consist of a number of keynote speakers, oral and
poster presentations and workshops. Vendors will be able to exhibit their
products and services.

If you would be interested in attending or participating in any way, please
email us at [log in to unmask], write to us at the address below or telephone
us on 023 9284 6445.

More details can be found on the conference website:
http://www.disco.port.ac.uk/hcc/sihi/sihi2003/index.htm

Please forward this message on to colleagues who may not have seen it.

Dr Jim Briggs
Conference Chairman

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SIHI 2003, Healthcare Computing Group
Department of Information Systems and Computer Applications, University of
Portsmouth
Burnaby Terrace, Portsmouth, PO1 3AE, UK
Tel: +44 (23) 9284 6445/6438 Fax: +44 (23) 9284 6402 Email:
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