Moderator: Johan Lundin
  Part 1: Information and Knowledge Retrieval
9.00 Jukka Englund, Director R & D
Terkko- National Library of Health Services
Professional internet-based information retrieval - "Give us the Tools"
-digital information services, PubMed, customized alerts, handbooks
9.30 Ilkka Kunnamo, MD
Duodecim Medical Publications Ltd
Electronic handbooks and clinical guidelines - "Wisdom in a Web"
-YKT and EBM guidelines
Coffee break
10.15 Johan Lundin, MD
Biomedical Informatics Research Group, University of Helsinki
Web-based systems for personalised risk prediction - "the Future is in the Past"
- a novel strategy for secondary use of large clinical databases
10.45 Mauno Vihinen, PhD
Institute of Medical Technology, University of Tampere
Advanced online education - "Experiences and Lessons"
-distance learning in bioinformatics
11.15 Jari Sarasvuo
Trainers' House Ltd
On-site education and live lectures - "the Power of Presence"
-the advantage of transferring information and knowledge by person to person consultations and giving live lectures
12.00 Lunch
Part 2: Information in Practice
13.00 Jari Forsström, MD
University of Turku
The electronic medical record - "the More You Give, the More You Get"
-information input and output in the digital health system
13.45 Jorma Isola, MD
Institute of Medical Technology, University of Tampere
The virtual microscope - "a Picture and a Thousand Viewers"
-shared and annotated digitized images of complete histologic slides
Coffee break
14.30

Harry B. Burke, MD
Department of Medicine, George Washington University, Washington DC
Decision support systems in practice - "Hold My Hand Held"
- implementation of expert systems in the clinical workflow
15.15 Jeremy C. Wyatt, MD
Knowledge Management Unit, School of Public Policy, University College London
Successful clinical information and communication tools - "Putting the Doc in a Box"
-what makes an information tool useful and reliable