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Med-e-Tel Newsletter
This newsletter is your source for Med-e-Tel updates, news from the Med-e-Tel partners, sponsors, exhibitors and speakers, as well as other telemedicine and eHealth news from around the world.
The Med-e-Tel team welcomes your questions and comments at info@medetel.eu. |
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Organizer
Med-e-Tel is organized by the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH).
ISfTeH is the international federation of national telemedicine/eHealth associations, research institutions, care provider organizations, companies and individuals.
ISfTeH is an NGO in Official Relations with WHO (World Health Organization).
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Featured Partner
 The ICT for Health Unit is part of the Directorate that focuses on ICT addressing societal challenges at the European Commission, Directorate-General for Information Society.
Its mission is to contribute to better health and well-being of all European citizens, to bring economic and productivity benefits to the health systems of all Member States, and to stimulate the sustainability and growth of the eHealth industry in Europe.
Pick up useful European Commission and ICT for Health-related information on the Med-e-Tel expo.
The European Commission is also actively involved in the Med-e-Tel 2011 conference program. Hear from Peteris Zilgalvis, Head of ICT for Health, about eHealth and the Digital Agenday for Europe during the Med-e-Tel 2011 opening session (April 6th) and attend the Global eHealth Strategies Symposium (April 7th).
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.
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Featured Media
Partners
E-HEALTH-COM is an independent magazine for health telematics and telemedicine. It features current developments in the eHealth sector as well as technical specifications. E-HEALTH-COM keeps you up-to-date, covers important issues of the future, and offers an essential communications platform for the eHealth community.
The eHealthNews.EU portal is a leading eHealth news web based platform with core competence and innovative strength in advancing the European eHealth industrial and research sectors, promoting awareness of the latest trends, achievements and technology in the field. 
Federal Telemedicine News is an online publication that goes to healthcare professionals, corporate executives, college and university directors, academic medical centers, researchers, hospital administrators, and others in the field that need up to the minute data on telemedicine, telehealth, and health information technology activities in the U.S. Federal Government, Universities, and State governments.
Healthcare IT Management is the official voice of the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers (EAHITM). Management and best-practices driven, the publication is devoted to supporting the goals of EAHITM and providing a central communications platform for key stakeholders in the healthcare IT sector.
Hospital Information Technology Europe (HITE) is a dedicated independent resource providing essential information and the latest news for hospital CIOs, network managers and strategic health authority IT heads across the EU. HITE delivers the latest news, technology reviews, updates on the latest developments and innovations, as well as comment on current policy and practice, both in print and online.
Hospital do Futuro aims to widen the availability of the information on Portuguese Health performance. A monthly e-newsletter and magazine is sent to more than 4.000 contacts and is received by top administrators of the main public and private health organizations in Portugal (hospitals, health centres, Ministry of Health, pharmaceuticals, associations, etc.).
Infomedix International is a B2B magazine for the medical industry. It is mailed to 15,000 medical manufacturers, distributors, dealers, importers, exporters, wholesalers and agents worldwide, and distributed at medical tradeshows around the world. Infomedix International is connecting medical businesses worldwide!
The Journal of Assistive Technologies is a peer-reviewed journal, providing a user focus on current and enabling technologies, telecare and e-inclusion in health and social care. Articles focus on how people use assistive and enabling technologies, rather than solely on the technology itself, and raise the awareness of available technologies. It debates definitions and concepts and addresses ethics, policy, legislation and issues for day-to-day practice. The Med-e-Tel media partnerships provide you with a look at a wide range of healthcare and medical journals, magazines and on-line news and 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. Click here for a full list of media partners.
Pick up your personal copy of these publications in the Media Corner at Med-e-Tel 2011! |
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Orange Healthcare discusses eHealth and mHealth deployment experiences at Med-e-Tel 2011
Orange Healthcare, France Telecom's healthcare division, is presenting a session on "Deploying eHealth" at next week's Med-e-Tel 2011 conference. Chaired by Brian O'Connor, Chair of the European mHealth Alliance, the session will gather key and international players in the eHealth sector and give them the opportunity to share their visions and experiences. Bernard Algayres from GE Healthcare and Patrice Cristofini from Orange Healthcare will share and discuss their industrial points of view with Maurice Mars, Head of the Department of Telehealth at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Chair of the South African Telemedicine Association and Saroj Mishra, Telemedicine Society of India and Head of Endocrine Surgery & Nodal Officer at SGPGI Telemedicine Program.
Join this exciting debate on April 7th. More info about the complete Med-e-Tel conference program is available here.
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Make a date with Orange Healthcare
Orange Healthcare is also organizing face-to-face meetings at Med-e-Tel during the lunch break on April 7th. If you have any questions about how Orange might be able to assist you in your eHealth projects, or if you want to present your ideas, come by stand 1C68 at Med-e-Tel to have a chat with Elinaz Mahdavy and Caroline Crousillat of Orange Healthcare.
Or contact Elinaz Mahdavy, Orange Healthcare's European Affairs and Strategic Partnerships Manager, to set an appointment at another time during Med-e-Tel.
Additional Orange interventions during the Med-e-Tel conference program include a presentation by Ralph Ankri, International Project Manager at Orange Labs, on the Voice Project and mHealth in Senegal (on Thursday April 7th); and an Analysis of Business Models Use Cases for eHealth in Europe and in Japan by André Schiltz and Patrick Rouille of Orange Labs (on Friday April 8th).
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eHealth in the Digital Agenda for Europe
In a presentation during the Med-e-Tel 2011 Opening Session on Wednesday April 6th, Peteris Zilgalvis, Head of the ICT for Health Unit at the European Commission's Information Society Directorate-General, will provide some insights into the European Commission's plans on the Digital Agenda which is all about new ways of working and creating partnerships such as the European Innovation Partnerships (EIPs) to help to get innovations into the hands of people and businesses as quickly as possible. These EIPs will be aimed at grand challenges such as aspects of climate change, energy and food security, or supporting an ageing population.
The Digital Agenda for Europe does also focus very strongly on eHealth in order to create sustainable healthcare and ICT-based support for dignified and independent living. One of the key actions in the Agenda is to undertake pilot activities to equip Europeans with secure online access to their medical health data by 2015 and to achieve widespread deployment of telemedicine services by 2020.
A first concrete EIP on Active and Healthy Ageing has already been launched. It's about bringing together the practitioners and recievers of care, along with the providers of solutions with the goal of providing a better quality of life and seeing how ICT can be used to achieve this.
This EIP will focus on prevention and health promotion (medical technology, medicines and treatment for age related chronic diseases and others), integrated health and social care for the elderly (improving home-based care and selfcare; and new large-scale, innovative solutions for long-term care of the elderly), and independent, active living for elderly people supported by innovative products, devices and services.
Find out more about these important European Commission initiatives during the Med-e-Tel opening session on 6 April 2011. Full Med-e-Tel conference program details are available here.
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Assessing the impact of telemedicine
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Ensuring effective medical care for rural populations
To improve the quality of medical care being delivered in rural areas, eWaveMD has developed a comprehensive array of telemedicine services that ensures that rural populations can be provided with previously unavailable medical support directly, based upon local needs.
Virtual Medical Consultation
eWaveMD Telemedicine solutions deploy innovative medical technologies to transmit medical information from remote locations to central clinics and hospitals. Whether used to deliver care, provide information, monitor patient progress, or access patient records, telemedicine can reduce cost and improve care. Additional benefits include increased cost efficiency, reduced transportation expenses, improved patient access to specialists, improved quality of care, and early discharge from hospitals.
Disease Management Solutions
eWave MD Disease Management Services incorporate telephonic and video communications, and data warehousing to manage and disseminate information about high-prevalence diseases. eWaveMD's multi-faceted approach to disease management provides both healthcare organizations and patients' with the tools to actively deal with chronic illnesses.
Home Care
Using eWaveMD Telemedicine, a medical call center staff can directly deal with incoming patient calls. Subscriber's computerized medical records are displayed with a single click to assist in assessment and diagnosis of the caller's vital information.
Electronic Health Records (EHR) Solutions
eWave MD's EHR solution is used by small medical practices as well as HMOs to handle clinical, logistic and administrative processes involved in maintaining medical records. The EHR solution assimilates a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and a generic, standard and open Interoperability layer allowing easy integration to third party solutions.
See the eWaveMD telemedicine and EHR solutions at the Med-e-Tel expo and also hear about eWaveMD's experiences in various presentations in the Med-e-Tel conference program.
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ISfTeH at Med-e-Tel
As an event of the ISfTeH (International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth), Med-e-Tel offers excellent opportunities to meet with ISfTeH board members and other members from around the world throughout the event, and to find out how you can get involved in this global network of telemedicine and eHealth stakeholders and how it can serve your daily activities, no matter whether those activities are care, research, policy or business oriented.
Some of the ISfTeH highlights during this year's Med-e-Tel include:
Also stop by the ISfTeH stand on the Med-e-Tel expo and networking area to pick up information about the Society and its members, to meet with ISfTeH representatives and to sign up as a member!
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Training session: using technology for independent living and social participation of older persons
This year's regional (francophone) seminar at Med-e-Tel will be a training session devoted to "gerontechnology" and is specifically aimed at home health and social care agencies, hospitals, health insurance funds, and industry representatives. The training will present different technologies and their implications both at home and in institutions and will also provide insights into practical experiences and realizations with technologies that allow older people or people with reduced functional capacities to live longer independently. The training will be given by Michaël Carré, General Manager of Médialis and expert engineer in gerontechnology, accompanied by Christophe Martin of Sensatys. Additional contributors to the training session include Viviane von Döllen of Hëllef Doheem and José Luxen of HELP (both homecare/telecare and social care service providers in Luxembourg). Click here for details of the training session (in French). For registration, click here. Session organized by:  
Training provided by: 
With additional contributions from:  
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Newsbriefs
To follow are links to some interesting and recently published articles, books, studies, interviews and reports (if you would like to suggest an article for inclusion into a following newsletter, feel free to send details to info@medetel.eu):
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Join us at Med-e-Tel 2011 for unique networking, meeting and learning opportunities in Telemedicine and eHealth.
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