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                         IMIA Working Conference on
                    HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL WORKSTATIONS
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                         June 1993, Washington DC, USA
                         
                         
The strategic plan for this working conference is to bring together experts
in Medical Informatics and Information Sciences from many countries.
Conference attendees will be limited to 80-100 individuals, and will be by
invitation only. Their tasks will be to prepare a vision statement for the
health care professional workstation, to describe the functional specificat-
ions that meet that vision, and to define a pragmatic approach to realize
the vision.

The working conference will consist of four groups:

- The "User and Uses Group" that will define the users of a professional
  workstations and the functions that should be supported; and define the
  requirements for interoperability and connectivity between the workstation
  and external systems;
  
- The "User Interface Management Systems Group" that will describe the current
  and future models of the computer human interface; and address new technolo-
  gies to collect and display information;
  
- The "Applications Group" that will discuss the applications that reside
  within the workstations;
  
- The "Strategy and Implementation Group" that will evaluate the workstation
  from the perspective of a business plan.
  
  Each group will be tasked to develop hardware and software requirements which
relate to specific functions.


INFORMATION

John S. Silva, MD
Uniformed Services University Health Sciences
4301 Jones Bridge Road
Bethesda, MD 20814
USA

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