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.
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Featured Partner
Information and Communication Technology for health and wellbeing ('eHealth') is becoming increasingly important to deliver top-quality care to European citizens. The 'eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020' of the European Commission describes the actions foreseen on this topic. It focuses on: Supporting research, development and innovation; Promoting international cooperation; Achieving wider interoperability of eHealth services; Ensuring wider deployment & facilitating uptake.
Together with the eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020, the Commission issued a Staff Working Document (SWD) on Telemedicine to help deal with the legal aspects related to data protection rules, privacy matters and reimbursement.
Hear from Tapani Piha (Head of Unit for eHealth & Health Technology Assessment, DG Health & Consumers, European Commission) in the Med-e-Tel 2014 Opening Session (April 9th) on how the EU can drive eHealth development.
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
Digitalezorg.nl is a Dutch online platform for professionals in healthcare, ICT and innovation, addressing topics such as EHR/PHR, AAL, eHealth, telemedicine, smart homes, health 2.0 and much more. Digitalezorg.nl now also publishes a print magazine 5 times a year.
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.
HIMSS Insights supports the information needs of healthcare leaders across Europe and helps leaders better understand the trends, best practices and innovations that shape the European healthcare communities.
The Journal of Assistive Technologies provides a user focus on current and enabling technologies, telecare and e-inclusion in health and social care.
OSOZ magazine (Polish Healthcare Journal) is a scientific publication focused on health prevention, management and medical and IT innovations. It has a circulation of over 10.000 readers.
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.
Telehealth & Telecare Aware has been providing a specialised, free news and information service since 2005 to people interested in telecare and telehealth. Sign up on the TelecareAware.com website to be alerted by e-mail each time that the news is updated, usually once or twice a week.
Telemeditalia is a monthly journal which focuses on eHealth, telemedicine, homecare and health technologies in general. The webjournal is widely read by doctors, other health professionals and health institutions.
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. |
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Med-e-Tel 2014 advance registration - only a few more days left
Advance, online registration for Med-e-Tel 2014 will only be available for a few more days (until April 5th). Avoid queuing and having to register at the event itself, and submit your registration today.
Submit your registration now, and obtain a full conference registration, including access to the expo area, all conference sessions during 3 days, evening receptions, conference materials, local and global networking opportunities and technology demos. One-day registration is possible too. Click here for registration conditions. Click the button below to go to the registration page.
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Med-e-Tel 2014 conference program updates
Check the latest Med-e-Tel 2014 conference program at www.medetel.lu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program. Or click on the image below to see an overview of the different session topics. A few more details on the conference program will still be announced soon, including those of two round tables, hosted by the Luxembourg National eHealth Agency (Agence eSant�) on the topics of "Healthcare and eHealth Tools: A Powerful Combination" and "Interoperability", as well as an info session on new EU research and innovation program "Horizon 2020", presented by Stichting Digitalezorg.nl. The Med-e-Tel conference program is more than a handful. Plan to attend those sessions and presentations that are of most relevance and interest to you. And you may want to bring a colleague or two, so you can attend different sessions and share notes afterwards! Beyond and outside of the conference sessions, there is of course plenty more to see in the expo and networking area, where you can meet with various companies and organizations and see their solutions 'at work'.
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Med-e-Tel 2014 meetings
Various Working Groups of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH) will hold meetings or present special sessions during the Med-e-Tel 2014 conference. Below is an overview of some of these sessions/meetings and the respective contact persons whom you can contact for more information or to make an appointment: - ISfTeH Open Source WG is hosting an Open Source Village on the Med-e-Tel expo and a conference session on Benefits of Open Source Software in Healthcare. For more info, contact Etienne Saliez.
- ISfTeH Telenursing WG is represented at Med-e-Tel by Claudia Bartz.
- ISfTeH Education WG will hold a round table discussion on "Education, Training and Skills Development in Telemedicine & eHealth" in which experience of universities and organizations from various countries will be discussed and opportunities for collaboration will be assessed. For more info, contact Saroj Mishra.
- ISfTeH eHealth Economics WG will discuss the clinical effectiveness and economic efficiency of telemedicine and eHealth (on Friday afternoon April 11th). A session on "eHealth Economics" is also scheduled in the Med-e-Tel conference program (on Thursday April 10th). For more info, contact Masatsugu Tsuji.
- ISfTeH Students WG is holding its annual 'virtual' session at Med-e-Tel, supported by Medgate, in which five students will present their work and research via a videoconference connection. For more info, contact Adolfo Sparenberg.
- ISfTeH Junior Doctors WG are co-chairing a session on "Junior Doctors' Perspective on eHealth". For more info, contact Marco Capizzi.
- ISfTeH Working Group on Women (WoW) are holding a workshop on "Distance Medical Education: Produce and Publish your own Lectures on the Web" and are also extensively involved in the "Women, eHealth and Telemedicine at all Ages of Life" session. For more info on the Distance Education Workshop, contact Anna Schmaus. For more info on the "Women" session, contact Veronique Thouvenot.
- ISfTeH Chronic Disease Management WG is chairing the Chronic Disease Management session at Med-e-Tel. For more info, contact Gianfranco Mochi.
- ISfTeH Teledentistry WG will discuss the experiences with Teledentistry (and Tele-education) that have been built up in Brazil. The contributors to the session are renowned professionals in the area of Education and Tele-education that have immensely contributed to the growth of Teledentistry in Brazil. For more info, contact Marcia Rendeiro.
And there will also be an:
- ISfTeH Member Breakfast Meeting open to all ISfTeH members and prospective members on the morning of Thursday April 10th. For more info or to participate, contact Frank Lievens.
Also check out the Med-e-Tel 2014 conference program for details on some of these meetings and sessions.
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Contribute to a WHO survey for junior doctors and medical students
Contribute to a WHO survey for junior doctors and medical students by filling out the questionnaire that is available at http://tinyurl.com/nl9wqzr. If you are a junior doctor or medical student, fill out the survey yourself, or else share the link to the survey via your social networks or marketing channels.
The survey is part of a WHO project on "eHealth and eLearning as a way to transform medical education in order to achieve Universal Health Coverage". The project will be presented at Med-e-Tel 2014 in the EJD session (on April 11th, 11h00-13h00), co-chaired by European Junior Doctors (EJD). The final results will be published in cooperation with WHO and EJD.
EJD also initiated its own series of surveys on eHealth. The first of these surveys has been presented last year at Med-e-Tel 2013 (see here), showing the fundamental role that the literature confers to new generations (junior doctors and medical students) in spreading eHealth knowledge and contributing to the development of eHealth systems.
This year, the EJD eHealth WG, in collaboration with EMSA (European Medical Students Association) eHealth WG, have designed a second eHealth survey with focus on usability, medical education and medical career. This survey will be presented at Med-e-Tel 2014 in the plenary session on the morning of Thursday April 10th.
For more information, to express your interest in joining the EJD session at Med-e-Tel, or to schedule an appointment at Med-e-Tel with representatives of this group, contact Dr. Marco Capizzi at [email protected].
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Launch of an unprecedented collaborative platform for midwives worldwide
In partnership with the International Confederation of Midwives, The Sanofi Espoir Foundation launches the platform "Connecting Midwives", thus further endorsing its commitment to combat maternal and newborn mortality across the world.
This collaborative platform is unique and innovative, and it will be nourished by midwives from around the world. This is a dedicated space where midwives can trade experiences and share ideas, projects and innovations. "We would like to highlight actions set up by midwives inside their community and enhance the key role they play on a daily basis to further education and prevention, and to save lives," emphasized Caty Forget, Managing Director at the Sanofi Espoir Foundation. "This sharing space will help enhance their professional practice and their networks, especially those midwives working in rural and often secluded areas."
Each year, approximately 300,000 women die during pregnancy, and childbirth around the world. The risk of death for African women is 100 times higher than for women in developed countries. Most of these deaths could be averted if women, often poor and isolated, had access to better trained, qualified, well equipped and authorized midwives in their locality. Hence the willingness of the Sanofi Espoir Foundation to focus on this domain, by way of long-term programs.
Some of the programs have started in the second half of 2013 in the following countries: Ethiopia, Tanzania, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Mexico, and will help to educate and train 4,200 midwives by 2015.
Hear more about this in the "Women, eHealth and Telemedicine at all Ages of Life" session at Med-e-Tel 2014 and meet with Connecting Midwives/Sanofi Espoir representatives.
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Orange Healthcare to deploy region-wide telemedicine platform in Aquitaine
Orange Healthcare has been selected by the Agence R�gionale de Sant� (ARS - Regional Health Agency) of the Aquitaine region (France) and the healthcare cooperation group T�l�sant� Aquitaine (TSA) to develop a regional telemedicine platform.
The solution will enable remote diagnoses and consultations, and will also include tele-stroke services, teleconsultations from care homes and remote consultations with radiology specialists. The service will be used by healthcare facilities (healthcare establishments, medico-social centres, etc) across the Aquitaine region.
The telemedicine platform is to include data hosting as well as hosted healthcare applications such as radiology images, archiving and the issuing of prescriptions. The solution is based on Orange's Flexible Computing Sant�, a highly secure private network, or VPN, to connect healthcare establishments that subscribe to the service. TSA is responsible for the overall leadership and operational objectives of the programme, and the Fond d'Investissement R�gional (FIR - Regional Investment Fund) is providing programme financing in addition to contributing start-up funds to help participating healthcare establishments during project take-off.
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Agence eSant� trusts in EBRC TrustedCloudEurope to safeguard health data
In January 2014, all citizens registered at the Luxembourg National Health Fund (Luxembourg residents or frontier workers) will have access to their "Healthcare Shared File" (Dossier de Soins Partag� - DSP), for which they will be owners and legally the only ones able to give access to the health professionals.
The aims of this project are to make citizens more responsible for their own health as well as to facilitate contacts between health professionals.
EBRC manages the project and the platform, ensuring its availability and security. The project is operated in full ICT Managed Services, risk is thus supported by EBRC.
"EBRC is a natural choice as partner in this project. We have been immediately attracted by the EBRC TrustedCloudEurope services, offering both security and flexibility to ensure and support the platform development. Agility makes the difference!" said Didier Barzin, Chief Information Security Officer at Agence eSant�, Luxembourg's National eHealth Agency.
Meet with EBRC and Agence eSant� representatives at the Luxembourg pavilion in the Med-e-Tel 2014 expo.
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European Hospital Survey: benchmarking deployment of eHealth services
A survey carried out in about 1,800 hospitals in the 28 EU countries plus Iceland and Norway measures the level of deployment and take-up of ICT and eHealth applications in acute care hospitals in Europe.
The survey, carried out by PwC EU Services in cooperation with Global Data Collection Company, covered:
- ICT Infrastructure
- ICT Applications
- Health Information Exchange
- Security and Privacy
Based on the survey results, the Joint Research Centre IPTS developed two composite indicators on eHealth deployment and eHealth availability & use and made a comparison with a previous survey carried out in 2010. The results suggest that the deployment of eHealth in European acute care hospitals has increased over the period 2010-2013 (from an average of 0.39 to 0.42 in a range of 0 to 1).
Moreover, the gap between best performers (mostly Nordic countries) and less advanced countries (mostly Eastern European and Greece) in hospital eHealth deployment has narrowed. Advanced eHealth functionalities are not widely used across hospitals, however, when available, they are quite popular. For example, digital archiving of radiology images is available in just 53% of EU hospitals, but in almost all of these (92%) it is fully used.
The results also suggest that connectivity is still lagging behind, as most of the hospitals do not share electronically medical information that they produce/store in this format. Finally, the vast majority of hospitals do not allow patients to access their complete health records online thus preventing more involvement in their healthcare.
Top performing countries for eHealth deployment among hospitals are Denmark (66%), Estonia (63%), Sweden and Finland (both 62%).
Meet PwC representatives on the Luxembourg pavilion at Med-e-Tel 2014.
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Last minute hotel reservations for Med-e-Tel 2014?
The Luxembourg Convention Bureau (part of the Luxembourg City Tourist Office) have no more rooms available from the room blocks which they were initially holding in several hotels in Luxembourg city. In order to book a room, please contact hotels directly, or book via general hotel booking sites like booking.com. If you need information or hotel suggestions, contact us at [email protected].
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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 [email protected]):
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