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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
EHTEL (the European Health Telematics Association) is a pan European multi-stakeholder forum providing a leadership and networking platform for European corporate, institutional and individual actors dedicated to the betterment of healthcare delivery through eHealth.
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
Digitalezorg.nl is a Dutch platform for professionals in healthcare, ICT and innovation. Readers are open to contribute and react to others. Subjects that are being discussed are electronic health records, PHR, ambient assisted living, eHealth, telemedicine, smart homes, health 2.0, healthcare innovation and much more.
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. 
Healthcare IT News International provides monthly news on all major healthcare IT developments, trends and issues around the globe. Complete with coverage of annual international conferences such as Med-e-Tel, this newsletter is a must for all readers looking to stay current on global healthcare IT initiatives. Sign up to Healthcare IT News International updates.
Published by Pan Global Media, International Hospital reports on medical technology news and solutions for the modern hospital. Targeting senior physicians and medical department heads, hospital management, IT specialists and biomedical engineers in Europe, Middle East, Asia-Pacific and Latin America, International Hospital offers a personally requested BPA circulation of over 22,000.
The Journal of CyberTherapy & Rehabilitation (JCR) is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal which explores the uses of advanced technologies for behavioral healthcare. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, psychiatry, psychology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, cognitive rehabilitation, neurorehabilitation, oncology, obesity, eating disorders, AIDS, neurology, and autism, among many others.
Technology and Disability communicates knowledge about the field of assistive technology devices and services, within the context of the lives of end-users, persons with disabilities and their family members. While the topics are technical in nature, the articles are written for broad comprehension.
Technology and Health Care covers the overlapping areas between physics, engineering, informatics on the one hand and human biology, basic medical sciences, clinical medicine on the other. It also presents a forum for the discussion of socio-economic aspects related to medical technology.
World Pharma News is one of the world's leading web-based pharmaceutical news publications. Our subscribers are continuously informed about the latest and most prominent worldwide pharmaceutical news. 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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The economics of eHealth
The quest for clear data and information on economic outcomes (just as well as clinical outcomes) of telemedicine and eHealth continues. Professor Masatsugu Tsuji, Professor of Economics at Hyogo University and council member of the Japanese Telemedicine and Telecare Association, has been doing work on the economics of eHealth already for several years, and is now also in the process of shaping up an eHealth Economics Working Group within the frame of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth. At the Med-e-Tel 2012 opening session, Prof. Masatsugu will present work that has been done in Japan on examining the reduction of medical expenditures by utilizing the system of the town of Nishiaizu in the Fukushima Prefecture. The Nishiaizu town office has been implementing it since 1994 and keeps receipts on medical expenditures of its approximately 4,000 residents paid by National Health Insurance. By making a selection of 'users' and 'non-users' of the eHealth system (which basically is a telehealth/telemonitoring system connecting older people at home with medical/health institutions), and by comparing their medical expenditures, an examination is made of the difference in medical expenditures between two groups and the correlation between medical expenditures and the length of usage of the eHealth system. For users and non-users with lifestyle-related diseases such as high blood pressure, cerebral infarction, stroke, and diabetes, medical expenditures of eHealth users were found to be smaller than those of non-users. And even though the eHealth system is simple, it contributes to promote health of senior people. Nishiaizu used to suffer high death rates due to lifestyle-related illnesses, and it introduced the eHealth system as part of initiatives such as "Promoting Total Care" and "Challenge to 100 Years Old." The efforts of residents as well as staff engaged in these projects for nearly 20 years achieved medical expenditures significantly smaller than the national average. |
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eHealth Programme of the International Council of Nurses
Hear from Claudia Bartz during the Med-e-Tel 2012 opening session on the vision and realities of the International Council of Nurses' (ICN) eHealth Programme. Bartz, Coordinator of the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) and of the Telenursing Network at ICN, is convinced that eHealth in all of its manifestations is changing healthcare globally through the productive integration of the healthcare community, healthcare recipients and constantly improving interface modalities.
"The potential for information and communication technologies to improve the health of individuals, groups and communities worldwide depends on vision, strategic thinking and communication among individuals and across organisations," she says. "Of most importance, however, is the ability to assess, plan, implement, evaluate and improve ICT-supported healthcare delivery."
Bartz will share some of the visions of the ICN eHealth Programme, which include a transformation of nursing through the application of information and communication technology, and nursing's involvement in the worldwide eHealth phenomenon.
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Hospital at Home (HAH) and the ICT infrastructure needed
Healthcare services are very expensive. Governments, corporations and private citizens are finding it increasingly difficult to fund affordable quality healthcare. In his presentation during a plenary opening session on the 2nd day of Med-e-Tel 2012, Dr. Mark Blatt, Worldwide Medical Director at Intel, will look at programs that allow citizens to be cared for in lower costs ambulatory settings outside the hospital. He will look at the evidence for Hospital at Home and examine the ICT infrastructure needed to support such care delivery.
"Central to providing HAH services is the concept of team work, collaborative workflows and care coordination," says Blatt. "Most healthcare delivery providers do not do a good job at coordinating care across the delivery continuum. A well designed ICT infrastructure might make it possible to improve such collaboration and better care for citizens outside the clinic or hospital. Hear about the regulatory efforts, business drivers and emerging clinical evidence that supports Integrated Care Delivery and 'meaningful' Care Coordination."
Learn from this presentation how caregivers working together as a TEAM, assisted by a comprehensive ICT infrastructure, might be able to: decrease hospitals admissions by 50%; drive down unnecessary ER visits; lower hospital readmission rates to single digits; manage patients with chronic diseases with fewer and fewer face to face clinic visits.
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eWaveMD's virtual consultation platform: watch the video
Building on their extensive experience creating secure, web-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for health care organizations, eWaveMD developed ARTEC - a remote consultation and medical information system designed to provide a first line of medical services to the over three billion people who have limited or no access to medical services worldwide. ARTEC is a mobile, fully featured, secure, semi-ruggedized, cloud-based platform for delivering remote medical services for primary care, preventive healthcare, and disease management. It's designed to be easy to deploy and easy to use by low-skilled technicians. But at the same time, it offers real-time connectivity to healthcare providers in central clinics and hospitals and a sophisticated backend that builds electronic health records (EHR).
The power of ARTEC lies in its combination of extensive primary healthcare capabilities with ease of deployment and use. Starting with a semi-rugged, cost-effective Intel Classmate PC as its foundation, eWaveMD's ARTEC solution adds various connected diagnostic devices to both enter patient data and
collect primary diagnostic information. The diagnostic tools can include:
- 12-lead and single-lead ECGs
- precision weight scale
- non-invasive blood pressure
- peak flow (spirometry)
- blood saturation (SpO2)
- electronic stethoscope
- body temperature
- X-ray digitizer
- breathing rate
- pathology microscope
- glucose meter
- PACS interface
Click the image below for a video showing eWaveMD's virtual consultation platform ARTEC at work.
Meet with eWaveMD and Intel representatives at Med-e-Tel 2012 and find out more about their solutions and customer success stories.
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Orange presents its "10 commitments" contributing to Europe's Digital Agenda
Stéphane Richard, Chairman and CEO of France Telecom-Orange, and Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, met in Brussels during the evening of March 20 at an event organized by Orange, an operator having a presence in several European countries. This open meeting, which brought together over 200 representatives from the European Commission, the European Parliament as well as various industry bodies and think tanks, illustrates the willingness of Orange to engage in constructive and lasting dialogue with the European authorities.
During this event, Stéphane Richard presented 10 commitments in key areas of the digital economy, among which was Orange's eHealth commitment on providing to one third of EU hospitals - and 20% of citizens - digitized health services (e.g. medical imagery, chronic disease management, prevention and wellness, secure medical data management).
For full details of the 10 commitments, see: www.orange.com/europeanpolicy.
These commitments formalize the Group's engagement with the European Commission and its commitment to the "Digital Agenda for Europe", and underline its desire to promote growth and job creation.
Meet with Orange Healthcare representatives at Med-e-Tel, where Orange sponsors a session co-hosted and chaired by the European Commission on Global eHealth Strategies on April 18th (see next article in this newsletter). Orange Healthcare contact person: Elinaz Mahdavy, European Affairs and Strategic Partnerships Manager (elinaz.mahdavy@mail.mobistar.be).
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Global eHealth Strategies Symposium at Med-e-Tel 2012
The Med-e-Tel 2012 will feature the second edition of the Global eHealth Strategies Symposium, which was initiated at last year's Med-e-Tel. The aim is to provide an intercultural and multidisciplinary framework in order to promote policy dialogue on how eHealth can address health and healthcare issues and challenges in developing countries, but just as well in developed countries.
Analysis will be made of the transferability of evidence and experience and also barriers will be identified and factors determined for a useful deployment of eHealth.
The symposium is co-hosted and chaired by the European Commission and the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth, and includes additional input from Intel, Orange Healthcare, GSMA, ITU, Accenture, South African Telemedicine Association and 3 presenters who have received an award (supported by the European Commission) to participate at Med-e-Tel and present their projects and initiatives at the Global eHealth Strategies Symposium.
The symposium is supported by Intel and Orange Healthcare.
For more details, click here.
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Med-e-Tel 2012 accredited to provide up to 17 CME credits for medical professionals
Med-e-Tel 2012 is accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME) to provide the following CME activity for medical specialists. The EACCME is an institution of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) - www.uems.net.
Med-e-Tel is designated for a maximum of 17 hours of European external CME credits. Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
EACCME credits are recognized by the American Medical Association towards the Physician's Recognition Award (PRA). To convert EACCME credit to AMA PRA category 1 credit, contact the AMA.
Register here to participate at Med-e-Tel and obtain your CME credits (contact the registration desk at the event to obtain the CME credits).
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Med-e-Tel advance registration: your ticket to an eventful event
Register now for Med-e-Tel 2012 and obtain a full event registration for €465, including access to the expo area, all conference sessions during 3 days, evening receptions, conference materials, and networking opportunities with Telemedicine and eHealth stakeholders from some 50 countries around the world.
Registration conditions can be found here. For more information, see www.medetel.eu or contact info@medetel.eu.
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Hotel and travel arrangements for Med-e-Tel 2012
Room blocks negotiated by the Luxembourg Convention Bureau have been depleted. However, they can still assist you with hotel reservations for your stay in Luxembourg during Med-e-Tel 2012. Click here to access the reservation form (the Luxembourg Convention Bureau will inform you in case of non availability or room rate changes).
Air France/KLM are offering discounted airfare to Luxembourg for Med-e-Tel participants. See here for conditions and information.
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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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