Title Page -- Contents -- Part I. Introduction and Opening Session -- Introduction -- Foreword From Advanced Informatics in Medicine (AIM) to Health Telematics Applications in the Information Society -- A Word from the Editors -- AIM office staff -- Opening Session -- Discurso de Abertura Pelo Senhor Ministro Da Saúde -- The Health Telematics Challenge The Social Challenge -- The Industrial Challenge -- Towards the Information Society -- Importance of Informatics for Public Health and the Work of the World Health Organization in Europe -- The Canadian Perspective -- Information Society Challenges in the U.S.A. -- Advanced Technology for Battlefield Medicine -- Part II. Project Lines -- Introduction to Project Line 1 Medical Data and Coding -- TANIT Telematics for Anaesthesia and Intensive Therapy -- The OpenLabs Project -- GEHR The Good European Health Record -- MARGOT Medical Archive Generation with Object-Oriented Techniques -- MENELAS Coding and Information Retrieval from Natural Language Patient Discharge Summaries -- GALEN Terminology Services for Clinical Information Systems -- EDIFORHEALTH Analysis and Recommendations for EDI in Healthcare -- DIABCARD A Smart Card for Patients with Chronic Diseases -- TELENURSING -- Introduction to Project Line 2 Medical Multimedia Workstations and Images -- CAMI Computer Assisted Medical Interventions -- COVIRA Multimodality Medical Image Analysis for Diagnosis and Treatment Planning: COmputer VIsion in RAdiology -- EurIPACS European Integrated Picture Archiving and Communication Systems -- MILORD Multimedia Interaction with Large Object- Oriented Radiological and Clinical Databases -- SAMMIE Software Applied to MultiModal Images and Education -- ATIM Assessment of information Technology In Medicine -- MARIA Multimedia Applications for Regional and International Access