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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.
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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.
The ISfTeH network currently comprises members in 70 countries around the world. Its mission is to facilitate the sharing of information and experiences, to support networking among members, to expose potential synergies between member organizations and their activities, and enhance collaboration and partnerships, contributing to a more widespread and useful deployment of telemedicine and eHealth.
ISfTeH is recognized as an NGO in Official Relations with WHO (World Health Organization).
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Featured Partner
 The International Council of Nurses (ICN) is a federation of more than 130 national nurses associations (NNAs), representing the more than 13 million nurses worldwide.
ICN has installed a Telenursing Network which aims to seek, educate, support and collaborate with nurses and nurse supporters from across the globe who have an interest in telenursing and promote nursing involvement in the development and use of telehealth technologies, with the goal of improving the timeliness, quality and access of a broad range of health care services for individuals, their families, communities and countries. The ICN Telenursing Network collaborates closely with the ISfTeH Telenursing Working Group.
Hear from ICN's Claudia Bartz, Coordinator of the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) and of the ICN Telenursing Network, about the Vision and Realities of the ICN eHealth Program during a presentation she will make in the Med-e-Tel 2012 Opening Session.
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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Preliminary list of Med-e-Tel 2012
exhibitors/sponsors:
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Featured Media
Partners
The AALmagazin is the German platform for news on the theme of Ambient Assisted Living, providing information about the technological, social and economic potential of AAL. The magazine presents AAL products and services, background and perspectives, and expert opinions and debates.
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.
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.).
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.
The peer-reviewed Journal of Assistive Technologies provides 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 Latin American Journal of Telehealth has the purpose of strengthening the dissemination of telehealth experiences that are underway in Latin America and other international experiences that may contribute to the strengthening and development of telehealth actions on the continent.
THIIS (The Homecare Industry Information Service) is used by all the pro-active companies in the UK homecare marketplace. A monthly magazine, weekly email bulletin and website keeps members up to date with news and views. THIIS is used by dealers, retailers, manufacturers and suppliers and has members in most European countries as well as many other countries 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 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.
Information and journal/magazine copies from these media partners will be made available to participants at Med-e-Tel 2012. |
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Med-e-Tel 2012 conference program updates
Some updates to the Med-e-Tel 2012 conference program are available now, including:
Check out the complete program here. |
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Early bird registration for Med-e-Tel 2012 ends this week
Register now for Med-e-Tel 2012 and obtain a full event registration for only €360, including access to expo, all conference sessions, receptions, conference materials, and networking opportunities with Telemedicine and eHealth stakeholders from some 50 countries around the world.
Early bird registration is only available until Friday March 16th.
Registration conditions can be found here. For more information, see www.medetel.eu or contact info@medetel.eu.
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Evaluating telehealth startup initiatives - call for participants
HealthStartup Europe aims to create a more hospitable environment for health startups by creating connections between the burgeoning digital startups scene and the health sectors. At Med-e-Tel 2012, HealthStartup Europe will put one startup initiative in the spotlight and discuss and evaluate its potential with entrepreneurs, health care professionals, policy makers and investors.
The session will provide in-depth interaction and useful insights to guide investors and entrepreneurs in their future investment and development decisions in the digital health sector. Or as a participant at a previous HealthStartup event said: "I was surprised by the relevance of the background of the attendees, resulting in thorough discussions and real hands-on next steps for our company."
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: For the session at Med-e-Tel (on April 19th), HealthStartup Europe would like to HEAR FROM YOU whether you are interested to be part of the discussion and evaluation panel. If you are a healthcare professional, entrepreneur, investor, government representative, administrator of a healthcare organization or a health insurance company/fund (and planning to participate at Med-e-Tel), contact us now at info@medetel.eu and you may end up in the driving seat of the HealthStartup session and discuss the potential and challenges of the startup initiative that will be presented.
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Danish UNIK partnership presents new technologies for chronic disease management at Med-e-Tel
The management of chronic diseases is one of the greatest challenges to the healthcare sector in Denmark as well as in the rest of the world. Join the Danish Partnership UNIK in a workshop at Med-e-Tel 2012 focusing on development of new technologies for the benefit of persons with a chronic disease as well as for the public healthcare sector.
How can new technology make disease management easier for both patients and the healthcare sector? Examples of new technologies on prototype level for people with COPD will be presented along with a presentation of methods to secure end user involvement in the developing process. What are the effects for both patients and healthcare care professionals when digital personal health is introduced?
The workshop will also focus on challenges in current and future ICT infrastructures for healthcare services and how to accelerate the deployment of telemedical solutions. How can we ensure interoperability and still support SMEs in developing innovative solutions?
The workshop is taking place on Thursday afternoon, April 19th. For more details, click here.
For more information on the UNIK partners, click here.
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Hotel and travel arrangements for Med-e-Tel 2012
The Luxembourg Convention Bureau has negotiated special rates at some hotels for your stay in Luxembourg during Med-e-Tel 2012. Take advantage of these rates while room availability lasts (reserve before March 15th). Click here for conditions and to access the reservation form.
Air France/KLM are offering discounted airfare to Luxembourg for Med-e-Tel participants. See here for conditions and information.
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Spanish researchers present new technological platforms for dementia carers and depression at Med-e-Tel 2012
At Med-e-Tel 2012, the Spanish i2CAT foundation will present results of their AFA-ConnectAlzheimer project and ongoing work of the FP7 Help4Mood project.
AFA-ConnectAlzheimer is a telepsychology platform in the form of a web application that allows psycho-social attention to caregivers of dementia patients through a videoconference service with a user friendly approach. Caregivers can interact easily with the platform with a low cost all-in-one tactile computer and receive support by psychologists or by other caregivers with the videoconference service. Other relevant services for caregivers such as an agenda service and a training resource section are included in the web platform.
The Help4Mood project proposes a new Personal Health System to support the treatment of Major Depression and allows the patients recovering at their own home. The main aim of the system is to monitor the adherence to the therapy in hope of reducing depressive symptoms and preventing relapse. For achieving that goal, Help4Mood is composed of a Personal Monitoring System, which allows collecting all relevant data using a set of sensors devices, and a human Virtual Agent, that interacts with patients in order to obtain an effective behaviour in users during sessions. Finally, all collected data from the sensor devices and from the Virtual Agent are managed by a Decision Support System with the aim to interpret the data and manage the treatment.
Meet with i2CAT representatives at Med-e-Tel to find out more. The AFA-ConnectAlzehimer project will be presented during a session on "Homecare and Telemonitoring" on April 19th and the first release of Help4Mood will be presented during the "Innovative Technologies for Mental Healthcare" session on April 18th.
The i2CAT foundation is a research and innovation center based in Barcelona (Spain), focusing its activities on the development of the future Internet, including domains such as audiovisual applications, education, ehealth & ageing, distributed applications on network services, industry, Living Labs and ubiquitous technologies. i2CAT's eHealth Department is devoted to spread ICT into the health and wellbeing sectors. From 2005 it has participated in various European, national and local projects.The research focuses on telemedicine, telecare, medical learning, collaborative systems, telediagnostic and medical imaging.
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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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