Medical Informatics Europe 85

The European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) is a regional coordinating body for the National Informatics Societies of Europe. EFMI has organized a number of congresses. The Congresses in Cambridge 1978, Berlin 1979, Toulouse 1981, Dublin 1982 and Brussels 1984 were all successful in providing the wide variety of people in the caring and specialists in the computing profession with up-to-date inform ation from the expanding multidisciplinary field of medical inform atics. We hope that the sixth European Congress on Medical Informatics, MIE-85 in Helsinki will be equally successful. You have in your hand the pre-publication of papers to be presented at MIE-85 as well as the short abstracts of the posters. The proceed ings enable the participants to follow work presented at sessions that they are unable to attend. It also provides a permanent record with relevant bibliography for workers in the field of medical com puting. All the papers have been refereed and the referees' suggest ions incorporated in the final text. Rapid publication, using camera ready paper, reduces the time required for editing and indexing. The editorial board has worked hard to improve the standard of the communications and to reduce the number of errors. Very few papers did not arrive in time to be included in the proceedings: these are marked with * in the table of contents.

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Keynote Speeches.- Session A1: Hospital Information Systems.- Session A2: Departmental Patient Data Systems.- Session A3: Decision Support and Expert Systems.- Session A4: Medical Record Management and Classification Problems.- Session A5: Application Development and Software Tools.- Session A6: New Technology.- Session B1: National Policy and Management.- Session B2: Privacy and Data Protection.- Session B3: Medical and Clinical Research and Epidemiology.- Session B4: Ambulatory Care and General Practice.- Session B5: General Practice Office Systems.- Session B6: Mathematics, Statistics and Modelling.- Session C1: Clinical Records and Data Bases.- Session C2: Perinatal and Child Computing Applications.- Session C3: Clinical Laboratory and Intensive Care Systems.- Session C4: Education and Training.- Session C5: Data Processing in Physiology.- Session C6: Quality Assurance Applications.- Session D: Nursing Applications.- Keynote Speech.- Posters.