[Insight-users] Upcoming NIH meeting on software... June 21-22

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BECON/BISTI Symposium
Biomedical Informatics for Clinical Decision Support: A Vision for the
21st Century
June 21-22, 2004
Natcher Conference Center
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
http://www.becon.nih.gov/symposium2004.htm

This symposium should be of great interest to the imaging community, the
device, informatics and drug industry community. One of the objectives
is to explore how imaging can be quantitatively integrated into clinical
decision making. The targeted research community includes software tool
developers, database developers, imaging scientists, industry R and D
scientists and physician researchers.

Registration is now open for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
symposium titled "Biomedical Informatics for Clinical Decision Support:

A Vision for the 21st Century." The symposium is the seventh in a series
of annual events coordinated by the Bioengineering Consortium (BECON).
For the first time, this year's symposium will be a joint effort between
BECON and the Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative
Consortium (BISTIC). The event will be held on June 21 and 22, 2004, at
the William H. Natcher Conference Center on the NIH main campus in
Bethesda, Maryland.

The symposium focuses on software tools and approaches needed to deliver
biomedical information technologies to clinicians and patients at the
time and place where decisions are made regarding risk, diagnosis,
treatment, and follow-up. The meeting will provide a vision of the
scientific future where healthcare information technologies will be
fully deployed in the clinical workflow to improve efficiency and
outcomes. As healthcare accommodates the individual variation in the
population, mass customization using comprehensive life information
records will be needed.

In addition to increasing communication among software and computer
scientists, researchers, clinicians, and the device and drug industries,
the symposium will identify major challenges and opportunities that
should be addressed by NIH policies and funding programs, including
partnerships with the private sector.
For more information about the symposium, including the agenda,
scientific poster session, and on-line registration, please visit
http://www.becon.nih.gov/symposium2004.htm.