EUMIE'96

• Mr. Peter McNair
  

  Hvidovre Hospital
  Hvidovre Hospital Kettegaard Alle, 30 DK-2650 Hvidovre Denmark	tel: 45 36 32 23 45 fax: 45 31 75 09 77 mcnair@inet.uni-c.dk
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The objectives are :

1. To establish a foundation for provision of travel grants to participants from Eastern European countries and from EU regions with similar economic conditions. Furthermore, the objective is to support students participation from all over Europe in order to boost the awareness of potentials and challenges in medical informatics.

2. to secure a broad and deep competence in the main programme delivered to the conference participants by inviting a broad range of keynote speakers covering
   
   • the Information Society and national and European health strategies
   • User needs and requirements
   • European industry's potential, and
   • Derived challenges in research and education.

It shall be stressed that the administrative staff related with administration of the above mentioned grants is 100% sponsored by the European Federation for Medical Informatics and the Danish Society for Medical Informatics. The cost claimed are to 100% used for direct payment of grants and other similar direct expenses.

• the industry or projects which develop new services and need an opportunity to present themselves and their prospects
• the helathcare providers who uses new services needs to hget acquainted with the possibilities of the near future
• especially the Eastern / Central European medical informatics communities and the medical informatics students from all of Europe, who are both weak groups in the economic sense, needs support for attending a State-of-the-Art conference like MIE'96, in order to pave the way for rational development of their helathcare systems.
• the EU Commission itself, for whom this conference may constitute a first year milestone for the Health Telematics Applications Programme.