BCS Health Scotland Conference: Empowering Patients to gain more from eHealth

21st and 22nd September 2009, Scottish Health Service Centre, Edinburgh.
The conference will draw together clinicians, IT, Academia, Informaticians, developers and industry from across Scotland and the wider UK and Europe. Themes include Patient Portals, Patient Access to Health Records and Personal Health Records, Information consistency, Sharing and Security and Governance of Patient Records. Portal technologies, Clinical portals and standards. Both days will include presentations from the international standards organisations OpenEHR, HL7-UK, Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise and the new Prorec-UK as well as papers about information governance related to patients sharing records and accessing health services.

Both days will have two parallel sessions running most of each day. One session will be clinical and patient focussed, the other will be mainly technology focussed.

For further information and registration, please visit: http://www.scotshi.bcs.org.uk

About BCS Health Informatics Scotland
The British Computer Society, Health Information - Scotland (BCS HIS) is a multi-professional group that aims to promote the development and use of Health Informatics in Scotland to support effective, evidence based, efficient health and social care in areas of research, education, practice, and management decision making. This is intended to benefit the health of individuals, communities, and populations that receive health and social care services and the staff and organisations that deliver health and related services.

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