Dept. of Clinical Social Medicine (AKS), University of Heidelberg, Germany

AKS (Abteilung Klinische Sozialmedizin = Dept. of Clinical Social Medicine) belongs to the Medical Faculty of the University in Heidelberg, the oldest in Germany. Heidelberg's 600+ years of education and research in medicine have multiple implications for the faculty: tradition, experience, and a deep founded responsibility to conquer the incredible challenges that medicine of the 21st century will present.

One of these challenges is the Internet - thus AKS has set up a unit to investigate the opportunities and challenges of "cybermedicine and eHealth".

The personal experience of AKS researchers include project management of a great amount of research studies in the field of Public Health as well as project co-ordination (e.g. of the EU funded project MedCERTAIN.

AKS researchers have authored a number of research papers on quality of Internet information and were among the very first proposing a "collaborative" approach in labeling medical information on the Internet by using metadata.

Dr. Gunther Eysenbach, Scientific Project Coordinator Research Unit for Cybermedicine & eHealth Dept. of Clinical Social Medicine and Health Systems Research Bergheimerstr. 58 69115 Heidelberg GERMANY e-mail: ey@yi.com	Christian Koehler, Senior Project Officer Research Unit for Cybermedicine & eHealth Dept. of Clinical Social Medicine and Health Systems Research Bergheimerstr. 58 69115 Heidelberg GERMANY e-mail: christian.koehler@med.uni-heidelberg.de
Thomas Roth-Berghofer, Technical Director Research Unit for Cybermedicine & eHealth Dept. of Clinical Social Medicine and Health Systems Research Bergheimerstr. 58 69115 Heidelberg GERMANY e-mail: thomas.roth-berghofer@dfki.de

(Last update: 2002-07-03)