The 3rd International Conference on the Medical Aspects will be held in Kobe, Japan, from May 30 to June 1, 1997. The President, Prof Takashi Takahashi, Organizing Committee and International Advisory Board extend to you the most cordial invitation to participate. Under the theme "Telemedicine Comes of Age - The Road to Hard Data," the conference seeks to present clinical data to show that telemedicine lives up to the many claims made of it. Presentations are warmly sought from clinicians and investigators with new data fulfilling this requirement.