NYU WEB
NYU Medical Center Holds Conference on Uses of the World-Wide Web
More and more, the World-Wide Web is becoming an essential tool for academic institutions. Its uses are diverse with potential applications ranging from student instruction to university administration. On September 25, the NYU Medical Center will hold a conference to inform participants of the various roles that the Web can play in teaching hospitals. While the focus of the conference will pertain specifically to the academic medical community, it should prove informative to anyone looking to utilize the World-Wide Web in an educational or administrative environment.
Topics to be covered at the conference include the following:
- Clinical research (e.g., through remote patient registry, data entry, and data analysis tools)
- Medical education (e.g., through multimedia presentations for medical, nursing, and postgraduate audiences)
- Disease-based patient support groups (e.g., cancer-patient information resources)
- Disease-state management (coordination of patient services; tracking through care)
- Patient self-referral to physicians and hospitals (e.g., using the results of programmed questionnaires)
- Universal medical records (globally accessible, secure records shared between regional hospitals, private physicians, and payors)
- Laboratory-test and procedure ordering, result access, and billing (serving both in- and out-patients)
- Advertisement of hospital and physician services
- Secure distribution of credentialling databases
- Purchase of services (e.g., payment of tuition, hospital bills)
The one-day conference on September 25 seeks to familiarize participants with actual and possible roles for the Web in these areas; update them on the progress of Web implementation in the academic medical enterprise; and clarify the potential legal issues that pertain to the use of the Web in academic medicine. The conference will include presentations, roundtable discussions, and question and answer sessions.
Speakers include
- Martin Nachbar, M.D., Director of the NYU Hippocrates Project.
- Carey R. Ramos, J.D., Partner; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Warton & Garrison.
- Mark Selby, Executive Director; Health on the Net Foundation, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Betty G. Smith, M.S.N., R.N.C., N.N.P., Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing; Columbia University School of Nursing.
The conference fee is $75 or $35 for students with valid ID. You can register via the World-Wide Web at http://rcr-www.med.nyu.edu/rcr/web_conf.html. For more information please call 263-5295.
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Posted 23 September 1996; revised 22 October 1996
