Title page -- Contents -- Opening and Keynote Lectures -- Promoting the Convincing Cases -Towards Acceptable and Beneficial Health Telematics Applications and Services in Europe -- TELEMATICS APPLICATIONS Programme -Achievements and prospects in user acceptance of telematics applications -- Convincing Cases: Important Component of User Acceptance -- Integrated Computerized Patient Records: The DIOGENE 2 Distributed Architecture Paradigm with Special Emphasis on its Middleware Design -- Departmental and Hospital Environment -- IMASIS. A Multicenter Hospital Information System - Experience in Barcelona -- A Regional University Hospital in the framework of a regional Information Network : The experience of Lille -- Databases for Angiography and Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty -- Health Informatics in Copenhagen, Denmark -- Implementation of a Hospital Information System in a Greek University Hospital -- The AEDMI Project, an Example of Prototype Development for a Clinical Decision Helping System -- Electronic Health Care Record Systems - New possibilities of processing health care activities and medical information -- Outside the Hospital: Regional Networks and Telemedicine -- The Convincing Case for Electronic Healthcare Record Systems in Primary Care -- Working in Regional Health Network -- Telematics in Prehospital Emergency Care: The Hector Pilot of Crete -- A convincing case for the provision of telemedicine services to ocean going vessels: the MERMAID paradigm -- Telematics in the Northern United Kingdom -- The strategic plans of OTE concerning the development of telemedicine applications based on the Euro-ISDN technology -- Information system for clinical resource management in a regional setting -- Medical Informatics Educationand Research -- Medical Informatics Education -- The Handbook of Medical Informatics and its Web Site