Technology Challenges and Global Opportunities in the New Millennium

ITAB 2000 – ITIS 2000 Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine - IEEE EMBS Third International Conference

in collaboration with the Third Workshop of the International Telemedical Information Society 9-10 November 2000 – Arlington, Virginia, USA

The IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society will be hosting its Fourth Special-Topic International Conference focusing on information technology applications in medicine and healthcare. The event will mark the continuation of the previous three successful conferences held in Pra-gue, Washington DC, and Amster-dam (ITIS-ITAB 1999 Conference).   

ITAB 2000 is held jointly in co-operation with the Third Workshop of the International Telemedical Infor-mation Society, ITIS 2000. The conference venue is Key Bridge Marriott Hotel.

Programme Tracks

  • Collaborative Technologies: Telemedicine, Telehealth and Home Care Delivery
  • Web-Based Clinical and Health Information Systems including Electronic Patient Records
  • Bioinformatics, Genomics, Biological Pathways and Systems Modelling
  • High Performance Computing, Communications and Next Generation Internet Initiatives
  • Public Health Information Networks, Education and Training
  • Multimedia, Virtual Reality, Visualisation, Advanced Imaging and Robotics in Medicine
  • Information Technology Issues: Standards, Security, and Ethical and Legal Issues
  • Digital Libraries, Data Mining and Distributed Computing
  • National and Global Information Infrastructure Developments

Call for Papers

High quality original papers are solicited from interested participants in areas listed above. All papers are subject to a peer review prior to acceptance and will be published in the conference digest. Those interested in organising special workshops should submit a brief one-page proposal to either of the programme chairs.

Deadline for the submission of manuscripts is 1 August 2000

Conference Executive Committee

Swamy Laxminarayan, USA, Conference Chair

Andy Marsh, Greece, Conference Co-Chair

Metin Akay, USA, Programme Chair

Ilias Iakovidis, Belgium, Programme Co-Chair

Luis Kun, USA, Publications Chair

Christian Roux, France, International Chair

Conference Secretariat

Laura J. Wolf
Technical Activities Manager
EMBS Executive Office, IEEE
445 Hoes Lane, Box 1331
Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, USA

E-mail: lwolf@ieee.org

Web:http://www.hoise.com/vmw/conference/ITAB-ITIS2000