title: Toward an information society for all: challenges in health telematics.
abstract: In the emerging information society each hospital is supposed to become a node of a complex networked information system that has to be accessible to a variety of users. These include doctors, nurses, administrators and the patients themselves, whose role is briefly described. This asks for a new approach to the implementation of the interfaces of the information system, which are used to carry out different tasks by people with different interests and computer literacy. A new approach to the implementation of such interfaces, based on the concepts of User interfaces for All, is briefly outlined, describing the scientific and technical achievements in some projects partially funded by the European Commission and the activities of the International Scientific Forum "Towards an Information Society for All" set-up to discuss and promote the relevant scientific concepts and technical issues.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Research on Electromagnetic Waves Nello Carrara, Italian National Research Council, Firenze, Italy.
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Emiliani
mesh_terms: D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D007297:Inpatients; D008490:Medical Informatics; D010358:Patient Participation; D013685:Telecommunications; D014584:User-Computer Interface