Peter Murray's opening session at Medicine 2.0, Sept 2008

1. Welcome to Medicine 2.0 TM Conference Social Networking and Web 2.0 Applications in Medicine and Health

2. Peter J. Murray PhD, RN, CertEd, FBCS CITP Vice President Strategic Planning (Implementation and Communication)‏ Director and Founding Fellow www.imia.org www.chirad.org

4. The basic aims of IMIA shall be: - to advance international cooperation; - to stimulate research, development and routine application; - to move informatics from theory into practice in a full range of settings, from physician’s office to acute and long term care; and - to further the dissemination and exchange of knowledge, information and technology.

5. IMIA - the world body for health/biomedical informatics: National Member Societies - 49 Working Groups and Special Interest Groups – 20 Academic Institutional Members - 49 Corporate Institutional Members - 11 Regions; Corresponding Members; Affiliates .... www.imia.org

6. http://www.differance-engine.net/imia20/

7. CHIRAD is an Academic Institutional member of IMIA www.chirad.org

8. MSc Health Informatics Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa

9. 13-16 September, 2010 Cape Town, South Africa www.medinfo2010.org

10. Presenters from over 15 countries Crowdvine social networking site Online paper rating system JMIR – Medicine 2.0 Theme Issue - www.jmir.org/2008/3 Physician 2.0 Award – sponsor: Medting (formerly MDPIXX)‏

12. Bertalan Meskó Berci If you give me a normal English word for apomediation, I will buy you a drink... about 17 hours ago from web

13. Further information and contact www.peter-murray.net [email_address]