In its dedicated efforts towards the adoption and development of global trends, especially in the field of biomedical informatics, the ITI jointly with the Faculty of Medicine – Kasr El Ainy Hospitals, Cairo University established an agreement protocol aiming to familiarize the future physician as well as the other allied healthcare specialties with the applications of computing and information systems in health and medicine, to be able to fulfil their roles as life-long learners, clinicians, educators, communicators, researchers and managers. It is worthwhile mentioning that this agreement is the first Egyptian attempt in its nature to formulate and implement practical professional training programs in a joint medical-informatics practice between the Faculty of Medicine Cairo University (Egypt’s prominent and highest ranking medicine school) and ITI.

This year‘s “ Information Processing in the Service of Mankind and Health” Program will explore three Themes:

* Medical Informatics
* Information Processing
* Human-Machine Interaction

As for the workshops they will be discussing and providing recommendations in how to make the best use of information processing to achieve the main purpose of the conference which is how to serve man kind and health.