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Day 3,February 8, 2007(3.45pm – 5.15pm)
Opportunities and Challenges in eHealth Adoption
The session speakers will discuss how policy makers, private sector and ehealth experts can use the Internet as opportunities for better health care system and delivery mechanism and would also discuss some of the inherent challenges in conducting online interventions and research. The challenges of eHealth include coping with the additional demands of development, finding ways to reach “hard-to-reach” audiences, and maintaining privacy and security while monitoring participant use. These are some of the other concerns will be discussed in this session.

Chair:

Dr Penelope O'Hara, Country Director, BT Health, United Kingdom
Speakers

Brenda Zulu
Highway Africa News Agency (HANA), Zambia    
Melinda G. Frost
Lead, Global Communication & Marketing, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA

Ramin Moghaddam
MD, Medical Informatics Department, Tehran, Iran    

Rakesh Biswas
Associate Professor, Melaka Manipal Medical College, Malaysia

Jayanthy Manian
Head, ICT R&D Centre, Sunway University College, Malaysia