Within the various aspects of life-science technologies medicine and information technology will change next millennium's quality-of-life fundamentally. Thanks to the rapid growth of telecommunication industry and the success and popularity of the internet the face of medicine will essentially change, because information technology is expected to play a major role in future health care systems. The conference MEDICOM 2000 is a discussion forum on fast and cost efficient patient-data exchange systems between doctors' offices, medical laboratories, telearchive services, health care insurances,...

This book is the proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Life Sciences: Medicine and Communication (MEDICOM 2000), held September 28-29, 2000, in Remagen, Germany. Within the various aspects of life-science technologies, medicine and information technology will change fundamentally the quality of life in the next millennium. Thanks to the rapid growth of the telecommunication industry and the success and popularity of the Internet, the face of medicine will essentially change, because information technology is expected to play a major role in future health...