Conference Announcement: 4th Annual Houston Conference on Health Informatics

[Donald A. Barclay]

This announcement is being posted to several lists.

     4th Annual Houston Conference on Health Informatics
    Digitization: Designing the Future, Preserving the Past

                                  Monday, June 5, 2000
                                  9:00AM to 3:30PM
                                  Kleberg Auditorium
                                  Baylor College of Medicine
                                  Texas Medical Center
                                  Houston, Texas

To register or get more information: http://lib200.library.tmc.edu/conf2000


Join us for the Houston Conference on Health Informatics. This year's theme 
is "Digitization: Designing the Future, Preserving the Past."  Conference 
program highlights and speakers include:

Dennis Dillon
Dennis Dillon, the head of Collections and Information Resources at The 
University of Texas at Austin General Libraries, has spoken and written 
extensively about electronic information resources.  He has been 
interviewed about digital library collection trends by the New York Times, 
Wall Street Journal, and other print and online publications.  He currently 
heads the University of Texas System Academic Library Collection 
Enhancement Program, and has previously served as a corporate librarian for 
a high tech firm, and as an academic map librarian, bibliographic 
instruction librarian, reference librarian, and electronic services 
librarian all at the University of Texas.

Kim Dunn
Dr. Kim Dunn, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Health Informatics at the 
University of Texas Houston,  is head of the largest TeleMedicine program 
in the United States and has an international reputation in TeleMedicine. 
Dr. Dunn has been exploring the use of hand held computer devices as a way 
to structure medical knowledge and to ensure that proper data has been 
captured. This work focuses on the structured nature of health data and 
user interface issues, which optimize the use of such systems

Paul Theerman
Dr. Paul Theerman, Ph.D.,  Head of Non-Book Collections for the National 
Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Division, will speak on 
digitization projects underway at the National  Library of Medicine.


PLUS
Exhibits and Demonstrations

To register or get more information: http://lib200.library.tmc.edu/conf2000

Donald A. Barclay
Houston Academy of Medicine-
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dbarclay at library.tmc.edu                                               who asks a more beautiful question
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