MEDNET'99

4. WORLD CONGRESS ON THE INTERNET IN MEDICINE

in Heidelberg (Germany)

Tutorial/Workshops

Tuturials and workshops

A series of tutorials and workshops will be held at the MEDNET99 congress venue.

Tutorials are teaching workshops, there is an extra participation fee not covered by the normal congress fee. They are organized as pre-congress tutorials on Saturday, 18. September, 1999.
Workshops are workshops for informal discussions or presentations around a narrow topic. They are usually free for the registrants of mednet99. They make take place on any of the congress days (Sunday - Tuesday).

The usual language is English (), though some Tutorials are offered in parallel sessions in English () and German (). In addition, there is a series of presentations especially aimed at German clinicians (in German), see German Track (Satellitensymposium Internet und Medizin).

For the schedule of the tutorials view the programm for Saturday!

To register for the tutorials fill in the registration form.

Pre-congress Tutorials (Saturday)

EN=English, DE=German

Code	Titel, author	Summary	Duration, Costs
T1/EN	Medline and beyond: finding high quality health and medical information on the Internet Betsy Anagnostelis Medical Library, Royal Free Campus, Royal Free and University College Medical School of UCL Reinhard Wentz Cochrane Injuries Group, Institute of Child Health Alain Besson Systems Librarian, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry (Tutorial)	Defining quality of information in health and medicine: the importance of peer review, research synthesis and currency. Making the most of databases, electronic journals and other sources of peer reviewed and high quality, critically appraised information on the Internet. Principles of searching online databases, including Medline; the range of databases available to search on the Internet; making the most of Web search tools. A series of presentations with the option of hands-on.	Duration: 4 hrs 150 Euro
T1/DE	Medline und mehr: Medizinische Informationen suchen und finden im Internet Dr. Gunther Eysenbach Abt. Klinische Sozialmedizin, Cybermedicine Group, Uni Heidelberg Dr. Reinhard Merz Produktmanager "Internet", Smith-Kline Beecham, München Dr. Wolfgang Kirsten Zentrum der Medizinischen Informatik, Klinikum der J.W.Goethe-Universität Frankfurt	Einführung und Überblick (ey) MEDLINE-Recherche im Internet (ey) Informationen suchen und finden im Internet (rm) Thesaurusbasierte medizinische Suchmaschinen (ki)	Dauer : 4 h 150 Euro
T2/EN	How To Create Dynamic Interactive Medical Websites I. Introduction and overview Robert A. Pretlow, M.D. II. Dynamic Web applications with PHP3 and MySQL Dr. med. Wilhelm Schröttle Klinikum Ingolstadt	Introduction and Overview (Pretlow) This tutorial will cover the design of websites for patient interaction with health professionals as well as patient to patient interaction. Applications will include: disease monitoring and management patient education message boards and chat room support groups. Programming methods such as HTML, animated graphics, CGI, Dynamic HTML, JavaScript, JAVA, and multimedia technology will be explained as they relate to the design of such interactive sites. Security, confidentiality, and legal issues will also be briefly covered. Examples of current medical interactive web sites will be demonstrated, as well as exciting future possibilities. Dynamic Web applications with PHP3 and MySQL (Schröttle) PHP Version 3.0 is a server-side HTML-embedded scripting language. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. The strongest and most significant feature in PHP3 is the integration of SQL databases. Writing a database-enabled web page is incredibly simple. Participants of this tutorial will learn how to write dynamic Web applications for the edition and report generation of MySQL databases.	Duration: 3 hours, 100 Euro
T3/EN	Wavelet-based coding of medical data: JPEG2000 and the future of image compression Gloria Menegaz Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS), Department of Electrical Engineering (DE), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)	cancelled!	cancelled!
T4/EN	Money Matter$: Assessing and implementing advertising and sponsorship opportunities on your medical website. Roberta Speyer J.W. van der Slikke, M.D. OBGYN.net	I. Introduction a. Who I am, and why I can speak authoritatively on this subject b. OBGYN.net and how we support it with advertising dollars c. Assessing the needs of the tutorial group II. Money-that ugly word; or who's paying for this anyway? a. Assessing your options for financially supporting your website b. Why you should consider accepting paid advertising and sponsorship c. Pros and cons; how to decide what's right for you III. How to sell to potential clients a. What constitutes a good market opportunity for medical advertisers b. How to connect with potential advertisers c. Demographics and statistics you'll need and how to get them d. Proposal writing e. closing the deal f. persistence pays off g. Sponsor vs Advertiser; What's the difference? IV. Putting your clients on your website a. Banners that work and how to track their results b. Using multimedia c. The cost of making money d. Setting standards and priorities V. Ethical Issues a. Maintaining editorial freedom b. Identifying advertising on your site c. Gaining support for advertising $$$ from your members/viewers VI. Keeping your sponsors on board and online at your website a. Managing sponsor/advertisier expectations b. Getting 'Killer' results that keep clients happy c. Reporting mechanisms d. Handling renewal contracts VII. Problems, pitfalls and their solutions a. Managing your expectations b. Your sponsor as a friend and member of the community c. Take your sponsors for granted and you won't have any d. The Exclusivity Trap and how to avoid it. VIII. Conclusion a. Free question and answer period b. distribution of hand-outs c. group networking and experience sharing	Duration: 2 hours 75 Euro
T5/DE	Effektive Web Page Design Techniken für Ärzte: Einführung in HTML Winfried Bantel <bantel@stgt.de> wiss. Mitarbeiter am Zinfo der Uni Frankfurt, Dozent für Informatik an den Berufsakademien in Stuttgart und Horb	Inhalt u.a. - Homepage- und Internet-Provider - Wie entsteht eine Homepage - Anmelden in Suchmaschinen - Praxishomepage	Dauer: 3 Stunden 100 Euro
T5/EN	Effective Web Page Designs for Health Care Professionals: Understanding HTML enough to try it Yourself! Kirsti A. Dyer, MD, MS, BCBT Physician, Domain Designer California Medical Associations Young Physician Website http://www.kirstimd.com/yps The Medical Oasis http://www.journeyofhearts.org/medoasis Cole D. Thompson, MA Unix Engineer San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California	Read more details on the Tutorial Homepage The goal of the workshop would be to provide the participants with some background on creating a webpage--from creating the underlying code, to layouts and using graphics. We would not anticipate everyone being able to leave being able to create their own pages immediately, since much of website authoring is being done with different authoring tools, and as such, the specifics would depend on the tools used. The primary goal is to give those in the health care profession some basic understanding to be able to ask more intelligent questions of those who are creating webpages, and hopefully to inspire some to try it themselves. Our plan would be to create a laptop program with supplemental handout and an on-line version of the presentation for later reference. The topics we feel are important to cover include: Our Top 10 (+) Things Not to do with a Webpage Basic HTML page layout Text - Fonts, Headings, Sizes, Creating additional characters Color - including some basics of color theory, color coding Graphics - images, aligning, borders, where to get Examples of using basic JavaScript and CGI to enliven web pages Basic Unix and Internet Protocols - how to ship files, locate problems Copyright information Concerns about reliable medical resource website – providing resources for medical site guidelines References - books, websites for more information	Duration: 3 hours 100 Euro
T6/EN	Internet and Psychiatry Dr. med. Oliver Seemann Psychiatrische Klinik LMU, Munich, Germany	First of all, an introduction to worldwide communication networks and their origin is given. Some relevant basic features are briefly explained. Actual and future aspects of the Internet for psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychosomatic medicine are afterwards highlighted. There is a variety of possible advantages in World Wide Web telemedicine for patients, clients, consultants, clinicians and scientists. Useful tools and established opportunities are discussed regarding proper Web-sites. The systematic review gives access to the most important fields of mental health on the Internet. Finally, some of the risks of this kind of communication for Therapy and society are visible and intended to be discussed. The participants will receive a manual, guiding through the workshop.	2 hours 50 Euro
T7/EN	BSCW a Web-based groupware system for international collaboration Dr. med. Wilhelm Schröttle Klinikum Ingolstadt	International medical research groups mainly exchange information by personal e-mail or mailing lists. The BSCW workspace allows storage and retrieval of documents and sharing information. This functionality is integrated with an event mechanism to provide each user with an awareness of the activities of others within the workspace. It comprises numerous features, e.g., support for threaded discussions, version management of documents, group management, search features and many more. A public BSCW server (http://bscw.gmd.de) is open free of charge to the general public. Educational and academic organizations who intend to extend their own Web Server with BSCW CGI scripts will receive a royalty free licences for an unlimited number of users. We will present the main features of this groupware system. Participants will learn how to organize the BSCW workspace suitable for a medical research group.	2 hours 50 Euro
T8/EN	XML: Introduction, overview and practical applications Prof. Dr. Joachim Dudeck Institute for Medical Informatics, Giessen	XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and its associate proposals XSL, XLL XQL, XPath etc, are going to become important tools in the management of medical record data and will be used as a more flexible interchange format in communication standards. XML itself is already quite stable. It is substantially extended by the Schema proposal. Most of the other proposals will become recommendations up to the end of this year. In the tutorial the concept of XML, the application of XML elements, attributes and entities will be explained and demonstrated by examples using the Internet Explorer 5. The extensions of the Schema proposal and the usage of Stylesheets (XPath, XSL. XSLT), Linking Language (XLL) and Query Language (XQL) will be described. Current applications will be mentioned. Participants will become familiar with the XML approach and will understand to what extent XML will influence the future developments in Medical Informatics.	3 hours 100 Euro

Workshops (Sunday-Tuesday)

W1/EN	Store-And-Forward Telemedicine Through The Internet Vincenzo Della Mea Institute of Pathology, University of Udine	Attention to Store-and-Forward telemedicine is fastly growing, due to its low-cost and easy implementation. Internet seems to be particularly suited for this kind of telemedicine applications,either through multimedia e-mail or web-based tools, although it presents some problems that refrain people from fully using it in practice. Aim of this workshop is to point out methods for implementing store-and-forward telemedicine through the Internet, current applications, and problems related to the use of Internet in telemedicine. The Workshop is open to contributors (please contact the organizer), on the topics related to store-and-forward telemedicine: experimentations in specific clinical fields, Internet protocols, data formats, image/data compression (methods and validation), security issues the future	Duration : 3 hours Free
W2/EN	From regional to global medical image communication Dr. Michael Walz Department of Clinical Radiology, Klinikum Mannheim, University of Heidelberg	We want to discuss this wide topic with participants from different countries as we have recognized that the following issues are the main obstacles to electronic image communication, telemedicine and its further integrated development almost anywhere. So, we would like to ask participants to prepare short statements related to the listed areas and email your interests, opinions and statements in advance to the organizer (Dr Walz). A) The legal and financial environment and the demand for teleradiology Differences between countries Top scenarios for medical image communication via Internet Examples for good conditions and solutions Prerequisites to global teleradiology (Dis)advantages and chances of global teleradiology B) Requirements to teleradiology systems and networks of global interdisciplinary image communication Standardized image communication via Internet: E-Mail, WWW, DICOM, XML - or what else? Technical solutions for privacy, data security and authentification in image communication: VPR, cryptography, health cards, ... Integration of teleradiology and image communication into telemedicine	Duration : 3-4 h Free
W3/EN	Electronic Publishing on the Web Bill Silberg, Editor, formerly JAMA, now Medscape Tony Delamothe, Editor, BMJ	Details forthcoming	Free
W4/EN	Managing a web-site for a clinical department and scientific society Thomas Kleinoeder, MD Dept. of Nephrology and Rheumatology, University Hospital Goettingen, International Medical Informatics Association Götz Jonas Europäische und Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nuklearmedizin	The workshop gives a step by step overview of the realization of a web-site for a clinical dept. and scientific society. The technical requirements will be outlined as well as the choice of the web-provider. A focus will be on the organization of the content. Evaluation techniques will be described. As an example the management of the web-site of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) will be described with its online-version of the membership database.	Duration: 1,5 hours Free
W5/EN	Promoting Heart Health in G7/G8 Countries: The G7/G8 Telematics Project Organised by a subgroup of the G7 Global Health Care Applications Project (Sub-project 3: Improving Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease) [http://www.med.mun.ca/chhdbc/]	Details forthcoming	Duration: 2-3 hours Free
W6/EN	Setting up a web-site for healthcare consumers: Packaging Your Online Communications for Maximum Power, Maximum Effectiveness Anne Rose, RN, MS Director of Content & Community, Mediconsult.com	Consumer health websites are cropping up at lightening speed. But sites that truly teach consumers how to apply that information to their own particular lifestyles are rare. Yet that's the crux of consumer empowerment and the key to better health outcomes. Despite the Web's incredible ability to touch consumers in innovative ways, it's surprising how many websites miss their mark. In this interactive panel presentation replete with case scenarios and virtual-world examples, you will learn how to establish and nurture a connection with your consumer audience that builds loyalty, educates and motivates your visitors to act, and ensures a steady stream of revenues.	Duration: 1,5 hours Free
W7/EN	Internet in developing and emerging countries Gunther Eysenbach MD	One major challenge of the use of the Internet for medicine is the problem of social equity: How can we avoid that a global health network stays limited to the first world and does not reach populations and areas that are most in need of improved health? This problem is not confined to developing countries, but even if we look at users of the Internet in the "first-world", where the Internet is well established, ethical minorities are underrepresented and low income as well as poor education remain real barriers to accessing health and medical content online. Invited participants (doctors and medical students) from developing and emerging countries will share their experiences and views: Rudolfo Stusser (Cuba), Ome Eruvbetine (Nigeria), J. Woodall (Brazil), Ahmed Geneid (Egypt), Hany Aziz (Egypt), Shimelis Assefa (Egypt)

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