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The
eHealth Forum 2006, held on 15-16 September 2006, was graced by the
attendance of over 550 elite scientists, top government officials,
key executives of major corporations, healthcare and IT
practitioners, and guests
from
13 countries and regions.
A total of 42 high quality papers were presented by renowned
speakers.
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About
the eHealth Forum 2006:
In
the wake of the SARS outbreak in 2003, the world is under severe
threat of the H5N1 avian flu virus that has a mortality rate of
up to 50%, a much higher rate than the SARS virus. Scientists worldwide
are convinced that a pandemic is imminent which may result in a
death toll in hundreds of millions if a H5N1 outbreak cannot be
contained quickly at the source location. The inevitable consequential
economic and social collapse of such a catastrophe, should it be
allowed to happen, is unthinkable.
Recognizing
the important role of information and communication technologies
in support of health care, the Fifty-Eighth World Health Assembly
called on its member states to implement plans for eHealth services
for cost effective health administration, to mobilize multi-sectoral
collaboration for determining evidence-based eHealth standards and
norms, and electronic public health information systems for surveillance
of and rapid response to disease and public-health emergencies.
The
eHealth Forum 2006 is the signature event of the eHealth Consortium,
a multi-sectoral collaboration in Hong Kong to make
recommendations on measures to respond to the pandemic threat and
answer the call of the Fifty-Eighth World Health Assembly.
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