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<div>There are some very interesting materials posted from this on-going conference.</div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Website: <a title="http://www.ehealth-connection.org/" href="http://www.ehealth-connection.org/" target="_blank"><font title="http://www.ehealth-connection.org/" color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.ehealth-connection.org/</span></font></a></span><br>
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<div>I found the article below to be of particular interest. It is my ambition to capture a fraction of the information available on such portals for internationalization and use in the offline XO Health Portal project I am working on ( <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Health_portal">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Health_portal</a> ), while also providing on-line links to portals such as those discussed (even though they may not always address i18n or local issues as well as might be desirable):</div>
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<div><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">eHealth Portals: Access to Health Information in the Context of Government Health Portals </span></font></b><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Nicholas Cop:</span></font></i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <a href="http://ehealth-connection.org/files/conf-materials/eHealth%20Portals_0.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://ehealth-connection.org/files/conf-materials/eHealth%20Portals_0.pdf</span></font></a> </span></font><br>
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<div>I would also like to point out that the message below was sent to the EQUIDAD List:</div>
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<div><a href="http://listserv.paho.org/Archives/equidad.html">http://listserv.paho.org/Archives/equidad.html</a> </div>
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<div>This is an excellent, low-volume announce-only list produced by PAHO and I recommend it to anyone interested in these issues. </div>
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<div>"This message from the Pan American Health Organization, PAHO/WHO, is part of an effort to disseminate information Related to: Equity; Health inequality; Socioeconomic inequality in health; Socioeconomic health differentials; Gender; Violence; Poverty; Health Economics; Health Legislation; Ethnicity; Ethics; Information Technology - Virtual libraries; Research & Science issues."</div>
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<div>cjl</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>><br>Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 5:55 PM<br>
Subject: [EQ] Making the eHealth Connection -- Week 2: eHealth Capacity Building - Access to Health Information and Knowledge Sharing<br>To: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br><br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Making the eHealth Connection: Global Partnerships, Local Solutions </span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bellagio</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Center in Bellagio, Italy - July 13 to August 8, 2008</span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><strong><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Rockefeller Foundation</span></font></b></strong><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Website: <a title="http://www.ehealth-connection.org/" href="http://www.ehealth-connection.org/" target="_blank"><font title="http://www.ehealth-connection.org/" color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.ehealth-connection.org/</span></font></a></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Making the eHealth Connection: Global Partnerships, Local Solutions</span></font></i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> is a month-long conference series at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy. <br>
eHealth is defined as the use of information and communications technology to improve the performance of health systems and represents a promising frontier. </span></font><font face="Arial" color="black" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Week 2:<br></span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
eHealth Capacity Building - Background Papers</span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">: </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Determining Health Informatics</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">William Hersh, Alvaro Margolis, Fernán Quirós, Paula Otero</span></font></i><i><font color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic"> <br>
</span></font></i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://ehealth-connection.org/files/conf-materials/Determining%20Health%20Informatics_0.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://ehealth-connection.org/files/conf-materials/Determining%20Health%20Informatics_0.pdf</span></font></a> <br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Establishing Partnerships to Promote eHealth</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">William M. Tierney, Andrew S. Kanter, Hamish S.F. Fraser, Christopher Bailey</span></font></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://ehealth-connection.org/files/conf-materials/Establishing%20Partnerships%20to%20Promote%20eHealth_0.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://ehealth-connection.org/files/conf-materials/Establishing%20Partnerships%20to%20Promote%20eHealth_0.pdf</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">An Environmental Scan: Educating the Health Informatics Workforce</span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
</span></font><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Judy Ozbolt</span></font></i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">: <a href="http://ehealth-connection.org/files/conf-materials/An%20Environmental%20Scan_0.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://ehealth-connection.org/files/conf-materials/An%20Environmental%20Scan_0.pdf</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Access to Health Information and Knowledge Sharing - Background Papers: </span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Information for Patient Safety, Quality of Health Care, and Equity: Knowing What Is Available</span></b></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Zulma Ortiz, E. Chapman, M. Confalone, J. Anciola, M. Garcia Dieguez</span></font></i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
<a href="http://ehealth-connection.org/files/conf-materials/Information%20for%20Patient%20Safety_0.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://ehealth-connection.org/files/conf-materials/Information%20for%20Patient%20Safety_0.pdf</span></font></a> </span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">eHealth Portals: Access to Health Information in the Context of Government Health Portals</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Nicholas Cop:</span></font></i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <a href="http://ehealth-connection.org/files/conf-materials/eHealth%20Portals_0.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://ehealth-connection.org/files/conf-materials/eHealth%20Portals_0.pdf</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Barriers to Equitable Access to Quality Health Information with Emphasis On Developing Countries</span></font></b></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="IT" style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Naina Pandita, Sukhdev Singh</span></font></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="IT" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://ehealth-connection.org/files/conf-materials/Barriers%20to%20Equitable%20Access_0.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://ehealth-connection.org/files/conf-materials/Barriers%20to%20Equitable%20Access_0.pdf</span></font></a> </span></font></p>
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information Related to: Equity; Health inequality; Socioeconomic inequality in health; Socioeconomic <br>health differentials; Gender; Violence; Poverty; Health Economics; Health Legislation; Ethnicity; Ethics; <br>Information Technology - Virtual libraries; Research & Science issues. [DD/ KM</span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">S</span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Area] </span></font></b><b><font color="#333399"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #333399"> </span></font></b><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy"></span></font>
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and interpretations included in the Materials are those of the authors and not necessarily of The Pan American <br>Health Organization PAHO/WHO or its country members".</span></font></b><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <br>
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