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www.health-informatics.org The most comprehensive health informatics event in Europe HC2007: Challenging boundaries ìIn all affairs itís a healthy thing to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.î ó Bertrand Russell Implementation of any programme for improving information flows in healthcare will inevitably challenge the boundaries of service provision. Given that dissatisfaction with traditional means of capturing, storing, using and communicating information, coupled with the opportunity presented by computerisation to improve these processes, has given rise to the field of health informatics, it is not surprising that application of the latter brings with it new ways of working. In learning how to use computerisation to improve clinical and managerial practice, more and more potential has been opened up. As a result, it has become possible to envisage even more new ways of working. Indeed, these are sometimes now challenging the boundaries of health informatics itself. Everywhere we look, we see these challenges happening: the need for new types of information and new ways to use it; and the need to meet information needs without operational or physica