title: Value-adding information: virtual conferencing, a telecommunication pathway to the future.
abstract: The information or digital age has turned information communication upside down and inside out. This article describes use of the Internet and World Wide Web information flow and communication for a virtual professional health national event, in Australia. The stored information and subsequent dialogue were available nationally and internationally, making the telecommunication conference a global one. Defined are the background, vision, and assumptions on which the conceptual conference structure was ultimately designed, implemented, and evaluated, including the implications for value-adding nursing information.
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics Society of Australia, Brunswick, East Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Edgecumbe
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics; D012958:Societies, Scientific; D013685:Telecommunications