Volume 4. No 7
Information Technology News of the University of California, Davis April 1996
Information Technology News of the University of California, Davis April 1996
How emerging information technologies will be used to improve health care will be the topic of discussion at the 1996 Highman Symposium in Medical Informatics. Hosted by the UC Davis Medical Informatics Consortium, the symposium will take place April 19 & 20 at the UCDMC Cancer Center in Sacramento.
Keynote speaker is Dr. Donald Lindberg, director of the National Library of Medicine and the former director of the National High Performance Computing and Communications Coordinating Office. He will discuss "Medicine and the National Infrastructure."
Other guest speakers will discuss topics related to the use of networking technology and medicine. "The Internet and Medicine," "Dissemination of Medical Knowledge on the Internet: Opportunities and Obstacles," and "Developing the Primary Care Physician Desktop," are among the topics to be discussed.
Speakers from UC Davis will explore a variety of topics:
Dr. Arthur Huntley, associate professor of Dermatology, will talk about "Using the Internet Applications to Provide Medical Education Resources."
"Telemedicine at UCD - Past, Present, and Future" will be the subject explored by Dr. Thomas Nesbitt and Jana Katz.
R.L. "Skip" Kennedy, Department of Radiology, will speak about "Implementation of DICOM-based Picture Archiving and Communication Systems at UCDMC: Clinical and Architectural Perspectives."
Dr. Jose Galvez will discuss, "Telecytology of Breast Fine Needle Aspirations."
The symposium also will feature hands-on demonstrations in digital radiography, telepatholgy, telemedical review of diagnostic testing at remote sites, and computer-based patient education resources.
There will be a "Multimedia Electronic Abstract Poster Session" and Word Wide Web stations for those interested in learning what the Internet has to offer.
For further information about the event, contact Anita Moore at (916) 752-2710 or 752-9816. Send e-mail to afmoore@ucdavis.edu
The Web address is http://www.informatics.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/