Charters Brazil, June 2003

Photos of Rio de Janeiro on separate pages AIDS pin. Visitors to Rio are told to have fun, but carefully choose whom they have fun with. Delegates had no last name. This fort was across the street from the hotel. Be sure to see the photos.

At the end of June 2003 the 8th International Congress in Nursing Informatics was held in Rio de Janeiro. This conference is held once every three years. Nurses from 24 countries came together for a week of workshops, panels, paper presentations, poster presentations, and networking. The themes included ways to share health information between countries so that the information has the same meaning for all parties, the need for a better way of evaluating complex interoperability between multiple information systems, and how to teach informatics. Although NI 2003 occupied most of our time, there were opportunities to explore the city. Since June is winter in Rio de Janeiro, the sun set around 5:15 p.m., and many days were misty. The temperature was in the 80's during the day and dropped to 70's at night. Local inhabitants wore sweaters and dressed their dogs in coats and shoes. H. Stern had an interesting sales technique: they draped an expensive necklace around your neck, then took a photo. "It looks good on you, doesn't it?" Then they took the necklace away. Panel chairs got a "speaker rock." These lovely 3D cards show the distinctive patterned sidewalks of Rio, Sugar Loaf Mountain, and the mountaintop statue of Christ the Redeemer.

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