Session A1: Hospital Information Systems.- Design implications for database management systems supporting hospital information systems.- Hospital information system with interconnections to a district.- Organization of a cooperation for further development and and implementation of an integrated hospital information system.- The information system of the Gottingen Hospital.- The extension of the MSH Basic Medical Documentation System to allow for interactive data acquisition.- Wilson, M., Burns, A. The Meath, Adelaide, National Childrens' Hospital Patient Administration System.- A computer assisted radiology reporting and retrieval system.- A computer assisted patient record system.- A meal distribution system in an integrated hospital information system.- Information about patients in hospital. English recommendations for a national minimum data set.- Clinical experience with RADOS.- Session A2: Clinical Laboratory Systems.- A fundamental database design for clinical laboratory information systems.- Computer aided evaluation of High Pressure Liquid Chromatography with Fluorimetric detection.- Structured Analysis. A method to document Clinical Laboratory Systems.- Automation of a number of similar laboratories within a single hospital.- Experience with a MUMPS based system for Clinical Chemistry.- Monitoring antibiotic sensitivity and bacterial infections in a hospital.- Distributed information processing in Histopathology.- Computerisation of a non-invasive method for the determination of cardiac output.- Portable microcomputers in Pathology: Surgical Pathology in the electronic laboratory.- Interdependence of information processing between EDP system, blood bank organization, and blood recipient.- O'Connor, G., Fitzpatrick, B., Temperley, I.J. A microcomputer based dataprocessing system for Haematology.- Computer assisted real-time quality control in a hospital blood bank.- On the peculiar distribution pattern of health services or clinical chemistry in primary health care.- Irish external quality assessment scheme in Clinical Biochemistry.- On-line quality control in Clinical Chemistry.- Session A3: Applications in Obstetrics and Perinatal Medicine.- A computerized obstetrical medical record and database system.- Continuous intrapartum fetal electrocardiography using a real-time computer.- A unique real-time computerized method of obstetric data collection.- Intrapartum monitoring and its effects on pregnancy outcome.- The logical development of a perinatal database for clinicians.- Developing a register of randomized controlled trials in perinatal medicine.- A comparative study on the merits of caesaren section and vaginal delivery in the management of breech births.- Forecast model for the outcome of a pregnancy.- Perinatal Notification System.- The Hannover Perinatal Study. An example of descriptive epidemiology and evaluation of health care.- Session A4: Signal Analysis.- Hip prosthesis design.- Automated ECG analysis in screening for coronary heart disease.- Information - theoretic analysis of human epileptic seizure EEGS.- Closed Loop. E.P. Processing.- Thermoblood flowmetry, microprocessor processed thermograms.- EEG analysis methods in experimental neurophysiological research.- Count rate distortions introduced in gamma camera data by a nuclear medical image analysis system.- A computerized system for electrocochleographic (ECoG) measurement.- Towards monitoring of the anaesthesia level on the basis of the EEG.- An EEG machine with an integral microprocessor.- Computation of the pressure derivative and relaxation indices using digital signal techniques.- Computational requirements for digital fluoroscopy - specification of existing systems and their relationship with nuclear medicine image processors.- Classification procedures in connection with biological signals: computerized recognition of persons by EEG spectral patterns.- An interpreter for matrix graphics.- Computerized analysis of somatosensorial evoked potential.- Session A5: General Practice/Ambulatory Care.- Text processing systems for the doctor's office.- Research into decision-making strategies used in general practice.- Reflections on an interactive computerized history-taking system in a general medical practice.- CAPOS - Computer aided physicians' office system.- Patient compliance in hypertension care: the critical role of the computer.- The Mission System: application of new technology to improvement of physician-system interfaces in ambulatory care information systems.- Irwin, G., O'Sullivan, D., McBride, F. Management systems for general practice.- The automatic treatment of the information in the medical records at the level of the general practitioner.- General practitioners information system.- Session A6: Nursing Applications.- The computerized nursing record - an effective means of communication.- Nurse allocation with computer assistance - extension to a manpower planner.- Utilizing an on-line computer system for patient classification and staff determination.- Regional study of community nursing policy.- Quantitative evaluation of the effects of computerization of the nursing record.- The role of a computerized information system in the nursing care of the elderly.- The use of CLINFO as a teaching tool to introduce health care personnel to computers and their applications.- Session A7: Drug Information Systems.- Simultaneous pharmacy computerization in three university hospitals.- The role of case documentation in poison information.- Pharmacy system planning and organizational growth.- Twenty years of adverse drug reaction monitoring: A review.- Using a microcomputer for drug monitoring in general practice.- Session A8: Administrative and Financial Applications.- The development of integrated computer facilities within a District Health Authority.- A real-time system for patient data administration in university hospitals with distributed processing.- The D.P.-supported appointment and control system - SARA (Scheduling and Resource Allocation).- TOREN, a tool of management.- "Structured" techniques for design - experiences in their use for an extensive hospital computer system.- Implementation of a computer system during the commissioning of a new private hospital.- Information systems planning for a regional health board.- Session A9: Patient Monitoring/Intensive Care.- Management data system in intensive care.- A distributed systems approach to patient monitoring and medical data management.- A registration system in an intensive care unit.- Electronic records in accident and emergency.- Information analysis of an emergency unit and of a prediagnosis unit.- Simultaneous studies of intracranial pressure and electroencephalogram.- A microcomputer system for patient data management in the intensive care unit.- A drug infusion calculator for the administration of continuous intravenous drugs.- Session B1: Medical Methodology.- On the development of a computer assisted diagnostic strategy.- A tool for decision making assistance: SPHINX.- Decision supporting system for screening patients for certain rheumatic disorders.- A non-stationary MARKOV model applied to the follow-up of patients treated for thyrotoxicosis.- CADIAG I: A computer assisted diagnostic system on the basis of symbolic logic and its application to internal medicine.- A study of the agreement of medical information application to histological slide readings in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.- Acquiring data the logical way.- Session B2: Evaluation of Health Care.- Subjective health status components in a general population.- Statistical comparison of two radiographic methods for screening for cancer of the breast.- Cost benefit analysis in intensive care medicine.- Are computers used appropriately in preventive child health?.- Knill-Jones, R.P., Beattie, A.D., Card, W.I., Lucas, R., Crean, G. Evaluation of an automatic decision system for patients with dyspepsia.- On the evaluation of some coronary care units.- Northwest German Haemophilia Study.- Study of sudden cardiac death.- Strategic planning of a cardiovascular registry for the Province of Alberta.- Simple measures in a complex reality: indices on the frequency distribution of diagnoses in Dutch hospitals.- Session B3: Medical Research.- Spanish Medical Literature data bases: IME and BILIME.- Semantic representation: a model for information retrieval from medical literature.- Literature and research data bases in the field of medicine and health care - an international review.- Clearing-house for on-going research in cancer epidemiology.- Information mediation from the viewpoint of information specialists. A DELPHI study concerning the biomedical communication network DIMDINET.- Informatrics: the clinical trial system of Ciba-Geigy.- Cardiocod Database - clinical usability and responsiveness evaluation (1979-1981).- A comparative evaluation of sources of information on occupational diseases.- Session B4: Epidemiology.- The health of French male population aged 18-27.- Computerized epidemiometric model of Shigellosis and its use in assessing potential usefulness of new tools for disease control.- Monitor: a system for the evaluation of mortality data.- Demographic models and the Finnish mental hospital population.- Reliability of the A.I.D. analysis in samples from fixed populations.- Natural history of alcohol dependence and alcohol related disabilities.- Application of time series analysis to retrospective data of a central London clinic for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.- Session C1: Educational Needs and Concepts.- Education in medical informatics - the role of the application area in a curriculum of applied informatics.- Information systems and computer science module in the training of community physicians in developing countries.- Computers and continuing education in the health sciences.- Interest of a microcomputer piloting slides and videotape in medical programmed teaching.- Training anaesthetists to cope with an emergency in the operating theatre - the use of the microcomputer.- The education of documentalists at the advanced college level.- Postgraduate education of 'non physicians' to specialists in medicine in the field of medical informatics.- Finding sources for resources.- Session C2: Privacy, Confidentiality and Social Aspects.- Privacy, data decay and the long term medical record.- Medical computing and industrial relations.- Session C3: Community Health Care.- The design of a national information system for Thalassemia.- The regional oncological center in Uppsala. Development functions and information processing.- A community care information system.- Irish psychiatric case registers, their contribution to community health care.- Register of treated alcoholics in the Socialist Republic of Croatia.- Spanish national child cancer registry (NCCR).- An analysis of short-stay cases in an acute general hospital.- A database for the study of therapeutical strategies for haemophiliacs.- Session D1: New Technology.- Computer supported interactive development of information flow systems.- Microcomputer and MUMPS based reference value support in a laboratory.- Data dictionaries in the software engineering environment.- The development of a low cost laboratory interface unit.- A system for on-line detection and analysis of saccadic eye movements.- Session D2: Networks Distributed Systems and Data Bases.- The development of a distributed systems approach in a teaching hospital.- Coordinated decentralised computer systems.- Features of micro data base systems and their impact on applications in health care systems.- On integrity constraints and catalogues in relational data base supporting clinical research.- Data reliability in large databases.- Recovery possibilities in the practice of an integrated hospital information system.- The use of phonetic code for patient identification.- A database package for a small system and a medical application.- A data model for a personnel information system.- A computer network in a research environment.- Session D3: Free Text Processing.- Correction of spelling errors in medical records in a free-text-coding-system of pathology.- A threshold method of approximate string matching.- Aura: A clinical data bank based on free text.- An information system for text retrieval of medical records.- Formal means for the semantic representation of medical data and clinical knowledge.- Session D4: Models of Health Care.- The role of modelling in care system planning and care evaluation.- A model for dataflow in the current Dutch health care system.- Deployment of emergency anaesthetists.- Comparison of the costs of two anaesthetic equipments.- Review of modelling and computing in a cancer treatment centre.- Microcomputer aided psychophysiological system-analytic investigation method - new facilities for preventive medicine.- The Edinburgh PRAMS scheme (Pre-registration appointments matching).- KEYNOTE ADDRESSES.- The medical record as a basis for decision making.- The challenge of Medical Informatics.- F. Gremy - Medical Informatics and Medical Methodology.- G. Crean - The usefulness of Medical Methodology to the practising physician.- C. Røusing - The implications of New Technology.- AUTHOR INDEX.