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The first World Congress on Telemedicine was held in Toulouse, France, on 30 November/1 December 1995, with over 300 participants.
A French-speaking conference on Medical Informatics and Public Health will be held in Paris on 6 & 7 June 1996. The main subject will be the legal and ethical aspects of medical informatics and confidentiality.
In 1995, the French Hospital and Health Informatics Commission (CIHS) launched a call for projects on telemedicine. Thirty-three proposals were received and
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a first-phase evaluation selected twenty- two for expert consideration. The projects were classified within the following themes:
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| teleradiolgy |
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| specialised telemedicine e.g. telecardiology |
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| community information network, health information network |
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| tele-emergency |
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| telemonitoring of patients |
Final decisions about those selected for funding will be made in March 1996.
New MESH terms in Healthcare Telematics
Each year, Medline, the most used bibliographic database in the world, updates its thesaurus.
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The following MESH terms in health telematics are new in 1996:
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| the three sons' of telemedicine: - teleradiology, telepathology (which reflect the fact that these two medical fields are the leaders in telemedicine) and remote consultation. |
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| one son' of information systems: - community information network. |
There is an argument that the Medline indexers should have added a father' to community information network, telemedicine. The view is that community information network is a merger between the telemedicine and information system fields.
Information supplied by Dr. Stefan Darmoni, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rouen
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