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Challenges of Change for an Information Manager

Lois Ann Colaianni, former Director of Operations at the U. S. National Library of Medicine), is one of the most anxiously awaited speakers at CRICS V. Her lecture will focus on an issue that affects everyone: how to manage accumulated knowledge in a context of change and migration in information bases.
Dr. Colaianni began her work at the NLM in January 1981 and served as Director of Operations from 1984 to 1998. The department she headed is the oldest and largest in the NLM. Among other responsibilities, she was in charge of building and preserving the Library's collection, developing and maintaining the Library's indexing and cataloguing capability, and providing organizational support for research, including the on-line format. Lois Ann Colaianni's name is a legend in the health information management sector, and her contribution to the panel discussion on April 27 from 09:00 to 12:00 AM will provide a unique opportunity for participants to learn from her extensive experience.

Early registration at the following e-mail address: http://www.bireme.br/crics5ins/I/inscrnacional.htm
More information on the National Library of Medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

Codes of Ethics and e-Health in Practice

How does one maintain quality standards for health information in an area as competitive and new as the Net? To discuss practical perspectives on this issue, John Mack, President of the Internet Healthcare Coalition (IHC), from the United States, will be giving a talk on April 25, 2001, as one of the highlights on the day the plenary sessions begin at CRICS V.
Mack's presentation will include key information from the annual IHC meeting this past October. He will expound on the main initiatives already under way in this area, including codes of ethics proposed by the Coalition, URAC, Hi-Ethics, and others.

His talk will be held at the Palace of Conventions, with prior registration available at: http://www.bireme.br/crics5ins/I/inscrnacional.htm

Introduction to WWWISIS XML

This Tutorial will feature a presentation on WWWISIS, version 4.0. WWWISIS is an ISIS data base server operating in the client/server format characteristic of the Web. Together with an overview of the program and language, there will be a presentation of Bireme's methodology in developing and operating Internet/Web information systems. The tutorial will be given on April 25 up to 27 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM

More information on this tutorial in the Continuing Education session at:
http://www.bireme.br/crics5/I/continuingEd.htm

More information on WWWISIS at:
http://www.bireme.br/wwwisis.htm

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