Welcome to the new
Med-e-Tel newsletter!
Your source for Med-e-Tel updates, news from the Med-e-Tel partners, exhibitors and speakers, as well as other telemedicine and ehealth news from around the world.
We look forward to seeing you at Med-e-Tel 2008 on April 16-18 in Luxembourg. More info at www.medetel.lu. |
Featured Partner
The International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth exists to facilitate the international dissemination of knowledge and experience in Telemedicine and eHealth and to provide access to recognized experts in the field worldwide!
Meet ISfTeH representatives and members at Med-e-Tel 2008 on the ISfTeH exhibition stand and during the conference session on International Telemedicine and eHealth Initiatives and Developments.
ISfTeH members are also invited to the ISfTeH Member Breakfast Meeting at Med-e-Tel on Friday 18 April 2008.
Med-e-Tel works together with a distinguished academy of organizations, associations and institutions who are active in the fields of ehealth, telemedicine, and health ICT.
Click here for a full list of supporting organizations and partners. |
Featured Media Partners
International Hospital Equipment & Solutions (IHE) is the leading international magazine for healthcare decision makers.
Published eight times a year, IHE covers all aspects of medical technology and hospital equipment and is packed with information of direct relevance to everyone in the healthcare industry.
The eHealthNews.eu portal
disseminates European eHealth related news articles. Our news service is covering six major areas, including industry, research and conference news, as well as information about open calls, publications and white papers.
Telecare Aware is a free information service to help keep you up-to-date in what is happening in telehealth and telecare around the world.
The Med-e-Tel media partnerships provide you with a look at a wide range of healthcare and medical journals, magazines and on-line information services that will help you to stay abreast of what is going on in the field of ehealth, telemedicine and healthcare IT and to make better informed decisions in your daily business or healthcare practice.
Pick up your personal copy of these publications in the Media Corner at Med-e-Tel 2008! |
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Med-e-Tel well underway towards sixth edition  Planning for Med-e-Tel 2008, the sixth edition of the global telemedicine and ehealth meeting, is well underway and program details will be posted shortly on the event website. The call for abstracts has just been closed and has resulted in a record breaking number of submissions for the conference program. Topics will include personal health systems, chronic disease management, elderly care, telenursing, nursing informatics, behavioural telehealth, telepsychology, biomedical technologies, ehealth in developing countries and low resource settings, distance education and elearning, wireless and mobile solutions, sustainability and economic efficiency of telemedicine and ehealth services, interoperability, international initiatives and developments, project reviews and updates.
The exhibition that forms the centerpiece of the Med-e-Tel event will feature a look at some practical developments that have been made in the area of telemedicine and ehealth. Products and technologies that are available from a range of medical, IT and telecom companies will be on show, including homecare monitoring devices, ambient intelligence solutions, personal health record applications, assistive technology, mobile clinical devices, data transfer and archiving tools, and more. If you would also like to become part of the event as an exhibitor or sponsor, contact us now at info@medetel.lu.
Online visitor registration for the event will be available in just a few days from now and an early bird fee will be applied for registrations received on or before February 15th.
More updates and details will follow in upcoming newsletters. |
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Continua Health Alliance holds spring summit in Luxembourg The Continua Health Alliance, the industry consortium that aims at establishing a system of interoperable personal telehealth solutions that fosters independence and empowers people and organizations to better manage health and wellness, will hold its spring summit 2008 in Luxembourg during the week of Med-e-Tel. These quarterly summits provide members with details, information and updates relating to Continua progress and insight on future planned events. The Continua working groups meet face-to-face to discuss current activities and tasks. The summits provide extensive networking opportunities with key industry participants and a chance for Continua members to discuss new advancements in the field. Also Continua's first 'plugfest', a cross-vendor interoperability testing, is scheduled for April 16th in Luxembourg.
The summit and plugfest are for Continua members only, but the alliance will also actively contribute to the overall Med-e-Tel program. This will provide opportunities to hear about Continua's activities and its plans and visions for the future, as well as a chance to meet with Continua officials and member organizations. |
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Med-e-Tel library: global knowledge resource for telemedicine and ehealth Med-e-Tel has compiled a library of presentations that were featured at the event since 2002. It is a comprehensive knowledge resource of experience and research that was gathered and conducted in the fields of telemedicine and ehealth over the past six years. The library brings together about 500 abstracts or presentations from care providers, industry representatives, association executives, policy makers, and researchers in economics, mathematics, informatics, social science, medicine and healthcare from over 60 countries around the world. The list can be browsed per year, topic or country and will be updated year after year with new titles and links.
So if you are looking for some specific information, or perhaps for telemedicine and ehealth experts or contact points in your country, why not go through the Med-e-Tel library first? If you need contact details from some of the speakers or authors, feel free to contact us at info@medetel.lu and we will put you in touch with them.
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Telenursing symposium scheduled at Med-e-Tel 2008 A mini symposium on telenursing will be part of this year's Med-e-Tel. Telenursing is defined by the International Council of Nurses as "the use of telecommunications technology in nursing to enhance patient care". A growing application, telenursing offers possibilities to reduce the use of expensive healthcare services, to reduce hospital admissions or length of stay, to perform regular check-ups on patients with chronic conditions, to spread limited resources over a large population, and to increase access to nurse education. The telenursing session at Med-e-Tel will include an introduction to telenursing, results from a global telenursing survey, and some real life experiences from the United States.
In addition to the focus on telenursing, also a nursing informatics session will be part of the Med-e-Tel program. Nursing informatics is the support of nursing by information systems in delivery, documentation, administration and evaluation of patient care and prevention of diseases. Or as defined by the IMIA Nursing Informatics SIG, "the integration of nursing, its information, and information management with information processing and communication technology, to support the health of people world wide". The session will provide an introduction to nursing informatics, an overview of current initiatives, history and what's ahead for the future, and will conclude with a look at the connection between nursing informatics and telenursing.
More details about the topics and speakers of these sessions will be available on the Med-e-Tel website soon and communicated via this newsletter. |
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Reducing hospital admission for chest pain symptoms Aerotel Medical Systems, leading manufacturers of advanced telemedicine and remote monitoring solutions and long-time Med-e-Tel participant, report on the award winning services of their business partner in the UK, BroomWell Healthwatch.
BroomWell Healthwatch, based in Manchester, offers cardiac monitoring services including electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation service for patients in clinics. It offers non-cardiology clinicians accurate, expert, diagnostic support, enabling them to make informed clinical decisions and provide preventative support to patients with chest pain symptoms. This can reduce the need for hospitalization and deliver cost and resource savings. These services implement advanced handheld wireless ECG monitoring devices manufactured by Aerotel Medical Systems.
The telemedicine service provided by BroomWell has already proven to be a vital diagnostic aid in many parts of the UK, enabling medical staff to make informed clinical decisions and improve outcomes. It has also provided strong clinical risk management, ensuring patients receive the correct care. The service has also had a positive response from patients. Using cardiac telemedicine alongside other conventional methods of evaluation delivers a fast and accurate diagnosis, reassuring the majority of patients that their chest pain symptoms are not indicative of any immediate threatening condition, thus preventing unnecessary hospital visits, whilst those in immediate danger are transferred to definitive care.
A pilot by NHS Northwest, using Aerotel's handheld ECG device and BroomWell's monitoring service, showed 82% of patients did not need to go to hospital following a test, and demonstrated the potential to save 90,000 A&E (Accident and Emergency departments) visits, 45,000 hospital admissions and minimum savings of £46 million per year to the NHS simply by cutting unnecessary hospital admissions and A&E visits for chest pain symptoms. |
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Med-e-Tel travel and hotel information
With three months to go till Med-e-Tel 2008 it is time to start making your travel arrangements. Special hotel rates for your stay in Luxembourg have been negotiated at various hotels via the Luxembourg Convention Bureau. You can find a list of hotels and a reservation form on the Med-e-Tel website. To secure the hotel of your choice, submit the reservation form preferably by mid-February. The Luxembourg Convention Bureau is available to assist you with your questions or hotel selection.
For travel, airport and venue information and some other interesting links, also see our travel information pages at www.medetel.lu.
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Newsbriefs To follow are links to some interesting and recently published articles, studies and reports (if you would like to suggest an article for inclusion into a following newsletter, feel free to send details to info@medetel.lu):
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