Based on a conference.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Opening Session and Keynote Presentations --Education and Training in Health Telematics: The Critical Factor of User -- Acceptance, .lakovidis 3 -- Role of the EU Commission for Pushing the User Acceptance of the Health -- Telematics Applications, J.-C.Healy 5 -- Prospects of Medical Informatics Education in Greece: Can We Bridge -- the Gap?, N.Maglaveras and C.Pappas 9 -- The Continuum of Health Informatics Educational Efforts, W.B.Panko -- andA.L.Valenta 15 --Health Telematics Education Programmes --Thoughts About Curricula in Health Informatics, A.Hasman and R.Haux 27 -- Education in Biomedical Engineering: Experience from a European Erasmus -- Program, N.Pallikarakis and Z.Kolitsi 34 -- Design and Use of Clinical Ontologies: Curricular Goals for the Education -- of Health-Telematics Professionals, M.A.Musen 40 -- Inter-University Cooperation for Establishing an M.Sc.Course in Health -- Informatics Aims at Contributing to Users' Acceptance of Health Telematics -- Applications, J.Mantas 48 --Continuing Education --User Acceptance by Individuals of Health Telematics from Distributed EPRs -- Associated with Knowledge Couplers, J.-R.Scherrer, S.Spahni and C.Boyer 57 -- Utilising Multimedia for Training Merchant Mariners as Paramedics, -- G.Anogianakis and S.Maglavera 66 -- Developing New Competencies in Healthcare Practitioners in the Field, -- J.M.Roberts 73 --Learning Just-In-Time --Learning Just-In-Time in Medical Informatics, J.J.Sancho and F.Sanz 79 -- Education and Training in Health Telematics, D.Niebergal 88 --What Can Be Expected From the Future User-Friendly Systems --Designing for Interaction Quality in Health Telematics, C.Stephanidis 95 -- Toward an Information Society for All: Challenges in Health Telematics, -- P.L.Emiliani 108.