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This book marks a transition between two eras in the use of computers for health. Before 1994, the field was characterized by small isolated computer clusters, found mainly in hospitals and restricted to administrative functions such as staff salaries and patient billing, but after this time, healthcare entered the era of worldwide high-speed computer networks and their newly heralded social revolution, the information society, which promised higher quality and more efficient care by virtue of the almost instantaneous world-wide availability of information on all aspects of best practices in the domain. This book presents the proceedings of the conference Health Care Telematics for the 21st Century, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in December 1994. The conference had the objective of hastening the pace of implementation of health telematics in Europe. To this end, it offered two different worlds the opportunity to meet: on the one hand, the world of researchers, developers and leading-edge or innovative users, and on the other, the world of health decision makers and budget providers. It was also the first conference of its kind to allow more than 50 European Union sponsored research and development projects to exhibit and demonstrate, not as standalone projects, but integrated in six ‘villages'under a common theme. The book offers the opportunity to study the state of the art in Health Care Telematics in Europe at the time of publication, make comparisons with the situation as it was in the USA and Canada, and learn how opinion makers in the field at the time were looking to the future. |
