Rapid changes in the synthesis and transformation of information into knowledge demand that we continue to commit ourselves to developing skills and strategies that are both visionary and plausible. Join the Medical Library Association in Orlando to discuss a wide range of issues and opportunities. The purpose of this conference is to bring together the medical informatics and public health communities to exchange ideas, learn from each other, and develop a national agenda for public health informatics that can be a guide to the realization of the untapped potential of information technology to improve the health of communities. A reduced fee is available for registration prior to April 23, 2001. To dig deeper into the Web, a new breed of search engine has cropped up that takes a different approach to Web page retrieval.
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