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[Scientific presentations] (1: Networking and telemedicine). Factors to consider when establishing a Europe-wide network for exchange of health information. Teleradiology system MEDICUS. DIABTel: a telemedicine service for diabetes care. Medical emergency aid through telematics(MERMAID). ELCANO: European and Latin-American countries associated for a networked database of outstanding guidelines in unusual clinical cases. The European Health Telematics Observatory. Interactive access to clinical and epidemiological cancer data. INTERMED: a telemedical council on rheumatic diseases for primary health care. Telematics in community pharmacies to support responsible self-medication: the TESEMED project; etc. (2: Medical concepts and language). Medico-economic patient encoding in the University Hospital of Geneva / C. Lovis [et al.]. - LOINC: a freely available coding scheme for clinical and laboratory measurements. International classification of primary care converted to ICD-10: extended Danish ICPC. Conversion table between ICD-9 and ICD-10. Assigning SNOMED codes to natural language pathology reports. Towards a new generation of terminologies and coding systems. The Danish National Health Classification System (DHCS), nursing interventions classification. (3: Infrastructure and standards). HERMES: Telematic HEalthcare - Remoteness and Mobility factors in common European Scenarios - CEC project HC 1021. AORTICS: Advanced Open Resources Telematics in Critical care Situations. Aspects of integrating a disease specific system into a hospital information system. ITHACA telematics for integrated client centred care. FRAME: a framework for the development of GUI-Based Hospital information system applications. OOMM: Object-Oriented Matrix Modeling: a framework for hospital information system modeling; etc. (4: Quality and IT systems) Success through evaluation: PROBE.: Clinical audit structured method and clinical audit structured toolset. DADIVOX; etc (5: Patient data handling). The PEN & PAD data entry system. MEDICA: 9 years of development and use of a clinical information system... HVEPS: the process of installing and - using an electronic healthcare recors system within a university hospital. .. - The DIABCARD feasibility study; etc. (6: Knowledge and information systems). Knowledge representation and clinical practice guidelines: the DILEMMA and PRESTIG projects; etc