Welcome and Opening

Ma. Dolors Navarro (Vice-President, Josep Laporte Library Foundation)

Suzanne Bedell (Senior Vice-President, ProQuest)

International experiences in health knowledge management

Ewa Czarnik (Biblioteka Medyczna Collegium medicum, Poland)

Dr. Franco Toni (Library Director, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy)

Chasing the Sun. John Loy. (Avon & Wittshire Mental Health Partnership, NHS Trust, UK)

Health Information Resource Development and its Networking through the HELINET. Abel L. Packer, Director de BIREME/0PS/OMS (subject to confirmation)

Discussion (20')

Thursday, October 16th

How to manage health information in Internet Era

Managing healthcare information in the internet age. Marty Kahn. (CEO, ProQuest)

The patient library experiences Giovanna Gabriele. (Patients University . Fundació Biblioteca Josep Laporte)

“Changes in Internet services”. Enric Pineda (Fundació Biblioteca Josep Laporte)

Coffee break

Knowledge Management in Hospitals

Update in MBE. Dra. Marta Aymerich (Catalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Research (CAHTA))

Library needs for Health Technology Assessment Dr. Jose Asua. OSTEBA (Basque Government)

From Cochrane to DUETS: the current EBM landscape. Dr Mark Starr PhD (Managing Director. Update Software Ltd)

Discussion (20’)

Trends in library development

From librarian to health information specialist. Marian Kelt (Glasgow Caledonian University)

Trends in library development – a publisher perspective. L Suzanne Bedell (Senior Vice-President, Higher Education publishing, ProQuest)

Discussion (20’)

Individual Workshops

From individual hospital to consortia procurement (20’) (Room 11-13)

From general to customized services (20’) (Room 07)

From the shelf to the PDA (20’) (Room 10)

Closing conference

Closing ceremony

Marty Khan, CEO, ProQuest