Southern Institute for Health Informatics 6th Annual Conference

Friday 1st October 2004, Portland Building, University of Portsmouth

After five tremendously successful SIHI conferences, we are holding this
year's one in Portsmouth on Friday 1st October and we would like to invite
you to participate. The venue will be the award-winning Portland Building,
on the main University of Portsmouth campus.

The themes of the conference include:
NPfIT - where are we now and where are we going?
Information for performance management and evaluation
Patient information and choice
E-health as the catalyst for modernisation

Speakers include:
Mark Outhwaite, NHS Modernisation Agency
John Powell, Chair, BMA IT Committee
Toto Gronlund, Acting Head of Patient and Public Involvement, NHSIA
Elizabeth Murray, Royal Free and University College Medical School
Paul Johnson, Telemonitoring Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Nicholas Robinson, NHS Direct
Bill Shields, Director of performance management, Portsmouth NHS Hospitals
Trust
Roger Killen, MD of The Learning Clinic
Kingsley Manning, CEO of Newchurch
Jo Stuttard, East Hants Primary Care Trust

The conference is aimed at healthcare professionals, senior managers and
system developers both within the NHS and in companies supplying products
and services to it. Academics with research or teaching interests in the
above areas will also find plenty to hear and talk about.

The cost of early registration (bookings made before 1st September) is only
£75 (with discounts for multiple attendees from the same organisation),
which includes lunch.

For more details and a registration form, go to the conference
website http://www.disco.port.ac.uk/hcc/sihi/sihi2004/index.htm
Email enquiries to sihi@... or phone Angela Muscat on 023 9284 6445
(mornings only).

Please bring this to the attention of any colleagues that may also be
interested. Apologies to anyone who receives multiple copies of this message.

Dr Jim Briggs
Conference chairman