Successfully Concluded Health Informatics 2007. Virtual Sessions to Continue

The closing session of  Health Informatics 2007 was carried out successfully with the participation of  Professor Pedro Andrés Urra González, Director of CNICM/INFOMED; Dr. Esperanza O'Farrill, President of Cuban Medical Informatics Society; Dr. Ariel Delgado, Chief of Informatics Area in  MINSAP; and Ph. Sc. Luis Carlos Silva, President of the Scientific Committee of the VI Congress of  Health Informatics 2007. Details of the ceremony. It is already available in our site papers and masterful lectures presented in this event, as well as the minutes of session. It is possible to comment and communicate with their authors in the very same page.   

During the last day of activities, a round table was held on  The work focus by specialties in Infomed Portal as model to improve navigation architecture. We had the participation of Dr. Mirta Núñez Gudás, Webmaster of INFOMED Portal ; Dr. Luis Carlos Silva of the Cuban Journal of Public Health; Dr. Octavio Manuel de la Concepción Gómez, Urology site; Dr. Santiago Almeida, editor for the Embryology site; Dr. Mario Hernández Cueto, Hypertension site, and  Dr. Solángel Hernández; Rehabilitation site. Summary of the Round Table.

Concerning the Virtual Congress , there are already almost 2500 registrations. This Congress will last until March 12.  It is expected to have a sustained increase of interaction between participants and authors. In our event site, we are placing , all the papers presented. During this last day, there were also presented the lectures:  
 
Workforce development and educational programs, by William Hersh, University of Health and Science, Oregon, United States.

Knowledge Media in Health Informatics: From Semantics to Social Software, by Marc Eisenstadt, Scientific Director, the Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK.

The First Meeting of Developers of America Health Virtual Library networks concluded its sessions with the discussion and approval of recommendations for starting the developer networks for BVS. This meeting was held with the particiaption of Dr. Abel Packer, director of BIREME, and Professor Pedro Urra, director of CNICM/Infomed.