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Med-e-Tel Newsletter
March 30, 2015

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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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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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Continua is a non-profit, open industry organization of healthcare and technology companies joining together in collaboration to improve the quality of personal healthcare. Continua is dedicated to establishing a system of interoperable personal connected health solutions with the knowledge that extending those solutions into the home fosters independence, empowers individuals and provides the opportunity for truly personalized health and wellness management.

Join the Continua session at Med-e-Tel 2015 on "Advancing Telemedicine Interoperability: The Role of Policy" to hear about barriers to interoperability adoption and initiatives to overcome them.



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.

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Advanced Medical Solutions

 

Agence eSant� Luxembourg 

Connecting Nurses

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

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Leuven Medical Technology Centre

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

  

 

 





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AT Today is an online magazine keeping you up to date in the world of Assistive Technology. It is published by the BHTA (British Healthcare Trades Association) and THIIS (The Homecare Industry Information Service).



HealthManagement.org (print and online) provides the healthcare industry with top quality management content. HealthManagement.org covers topics with respect to management, innovations, new techniques and technologies that simplify all healthcare managers' decision and help produce outcomes of increased efficiency .



 


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 Telemedicine and Telecare helps you to stay up-to-date in this fast moving and growing area of medicine. Contributions from around the world provide a unique perspective on how different countries and health systems are using new technology in health care. This high quality scientific work provides excellent coverage of developments in telemedicine and eHealth with a focus on clinical trials of telemedicine applications.


 

Medical Education Online (MEO) is a peer-reviewed international Open Access journal for disseminating information on the education and training of physicians and other health care professionals. It was launched in 1996 as the first ever freely available online journal in the field of medical education and has since then grown to become a highly ranked source of information in this area, with indexing in PubMed/MEDLINE.  

 

 

 

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.    

 




TecnoHospital is a Portuguese magazine focusing on engineering and health technology, edited by Publindustria. The magazine covers topics in the areas of new health technologies, infrastructure and hospital management. 




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In This Issue
eHealth and the European Society of Cardiology: telemonitoring of cardiology patients and data integration
Register for Med-e-Tel 2015 and get set for 3 days (or more) of eHealth networking, learning and business opportunities
Med-e-Tel 2015 features focus on European funding programs
Social Media Meetup at Med-e-Tel
WeMoocs: massive open online courses for women and eHealth
Streamlining data for better decision-making in health
VIP Connectathon tours during Med-e-Tel 2015
e-SENS: digitizing government services across Europe
Still need a hotel room during your stay at Med-e-Tel?
Newsbriefs
The European Society of Cardiology (ESC), as one the world's largest professional bodies, is involved in eHealth on many different levels. Enno van der Velde, member of the ESC Working Group on e-Cardiology, will present a project during the Med-e-Tel 2015 Opening Session on telemonitoring of cardiology patients and data integration at the Leiden University Medical Center (The Netherlands).

Remote follow-up of implanted implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) may offer a solution to the problem of overcrowded outpatient clinics, and may also be effective in detecting clinical events early. Data obtained from remote follow up systems, as developed by all major device companies, are stored in a central database system, operated and owned by the device company. Another example is that of heart failure patients, who are monitored remotely by having the patients send various data on their health status to a central database. A problem arises from the fact that the patient's clinical information is partly stored in the local electronic health record (EHR) system in the hospital, and partly in the remote monitoring database, which may potentially result in patient safety issues.

To overcome this problem, data from remote monitoring systems and of telemonitoring systems is being integrated with the Cardiology Information System, based on international data standards, resulting in one integrated platform that contains all relevant data on the patient's disease status.


Hear more during the Med-e-Tel Opening Session on April 22nd. And if you are interested in telecardiology, plan to attend the Telecardiology session on April 23rd as well.


 

Register for Med-e-Tel 2015 and get set for 3 days (or more) of eHealth networking, learning and business opportunities
Register now for Med-e-Tel 2015 and get set for 3 days of information-packed conference program (and 1 day of pre-conference workshops) covering a wide range of practical telemedicine and m/eHealth solutions and experiences. And with participants from over 45 countries, it is the place to be for both local and global networking opportunities, to see technology demos in the expo area and to establish new (business) contacts.

Check out the up-to-date Med-e-Tel 2015 conference program at www.medetel.eu. Some final details will be added in the coming week.

Click here to go to the registration page. Check fees and conditions here.


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Med-e-Tel 2015 features focus on European funding programs
There has been a substantial increase in the budget of the European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation "Horizon 2020" (almost EUR 80 billion) compared to the previous research framework programs and there has also been a steep increase of the innovation and competitiveness-related budgets under cohesion policy over the past decade. Therefore it is of utmost importance to ensure optimal synergies between the funds to face the ever increasing competitive pressure from global markets and maximize impact and efficiency of public funding.

A workshop at Med-e-Tel 2015 on eHealth and H2020 (Wednesday April 22nd, 14h00-15h30) will help you to find answers on questions such as "What funds are relevant for my eHealth or mHealth project/solution?"

In addition to this workshop two roundtables, focused on EU funding programs, will also be held (in the Med-e-Tel exhibition and networking area):

Thursday April 23rd, 10h30-11h15
Roundtable discussion about H2020 SME Instrument:
The SME instrument addresses the financing needs of internationally oriented SMEs, in implementing high-risk and high-potential innovation ideas. It aims at supporting projects with a European dimension that lead to radical changes in how business (product, processes, services, marketing etc.) is done. The SME instrument addresses all types of innovative SMEs showing a strong ambition to develop, grow and internationalize. Are you such a company?

Thursday April 23rd, 13h30-14h15
Roundtable discussion about COST:
The European COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology) program is created to enhance cooperation and coordination among European scientific researchers. If you are employed by a research institute or the R&D department of a company, you might qualify for this interesting grant opportunity.

For registration to Med-e-Tel, click here.


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Social Media Meetup at Med-e-Tel
If you want to find out more about social media for healthcare professionals, if you're a social media enthusiast, if you want to talk with other social media experts, grab lunch and join the Social Media Meetup in the Med-e-Tel expo and networking area on Thursday April 23rd, hosted by the Social Media Working Group (#SoMe) of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH).

The #SoMe WG is also organizing a Master Course on Social Media as a pre-conference event to Med-e-Tel, on Tuesday April 21st. And also a Social Media 101 on Friday April 24th.

Recorded versions of two recent webinars of the #SoMe WG are now also available (click on the titles to access the recording):
An Introduction to Twitter for Healthcare Professionals
An Introduction to Facebook for Healthcare Professionals 

For Med-e-Tel registration, click here. If you want to participate in the Social Medica Master Course on April 21st, contact [email protected].

 

 

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WeMoocs: massive open online courses for women and eHealth
In continuation of the action plans of the Millennia2025 Foundation, a list of 276 selected English MOOCs on Women, Health and ICTs including mobile technologies is available for use and dissemination in your networks. In addition, also 28 French MOOCs and 36 Spanish MOOCs have been identified. Check the WeMOOCs webpage at www.millennia2015.org/moocs for more details and information about these online courses.

Hear more about this at Med-e-Tel 2015 in the "Empowering Women in eHealth and Telemedicine through Education" session, presented by the Women Observatory for eHealth (WeObservatory) and the ISfTeH Working Group on Women (WoW), in collaboration with Connecting Nurses, Connecting Midwives and Sanofi.


Streamlining data for better decision-making in health
Beyond genetic coding, our health is a product of "the circumstances in which we are born, grow, work and age." To better understand and manage it, we need data on all aspects of what we do on a daily basis - physiological parameters as well as diet and activities (at work and at play). This is phenotype data; this is the Internet of Things (IoT); this is also Big Data.

An EPPOSI Meeting of the Minds (MtM) at Med-e-Tel 2015 will bring together experts to ponder what is in the phenotype data set (PDS) for each category of stakeholder and to clarify the business case for all along the entire value chain of data capture (sensors), transmission, storage and processing, display, and use.

Who should be there?
The EPPOSI MtM is a must for every link along the PDS Value Chain: patients/consumers; data capture manufacturers; data transmission systems operators (telcos and ISPs); cloud service providers; big data providers; health information exchange (HIE) operators; pharma industry and researchers; insurers and communities; policy and decision makers.

What benefits can be expected?
The goal of the EPPOSI MtM sessions is to facilitate the triple win of a) health and quality of life; b) long-term sustainability and efficiency of health and social care; c) economic growth and expansion of the regions due to digital health and care products and services.

Session 1 (Thursday 23 April, 14:00-18:00)
Sub-theme: Interoperability - making sure that the multiple sources and nodes of the complex system share data and information seamlessly: from each data source, and down the links of the value chain.

Patient/Consumers and their Health Data: The Source of Value in the Value Chain  
Yunkap Kwankam
Executive Director, International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth

Interoperability and Standards for Data Transmission and Information Aggregation
Orange Healthcare

Panel Discussion
Medweb, WFIP, Orange Healthcare, Technical University of Delft

Rapid Health Technology Assessments for SMEs: EPPOSIs Value Chain for Identifying Knowledge Gaps in Meeting the Real Needs and Demands of Intended Beneficiaries
Johan Goris
CEO, Med-Q

Storage and Processing - Cloud Services; Big Data Storage Providers, Small Information Basis/Value Destruction?
John Wubbe
Secretary General, EPPOSI

Session 2 (Friday 24 April, 09:00-13:00)
Sub-theme: Value Creation - how to ensure benefit from the products and services linked to the PDS for all those engaged. The sessions will use rapid assessment methods for the technologies and their impact.

Personalised Medicine, Medical Trials, Compliance of Value Input
Stakeholders: Pharmaceutical Industry and Researchers

The Digital Triage for Optimising Resource Allocation and Enabling Behaviour Change Based on Frailty and Digital Literacy, through the European Digital Peer Patient Alliance (EuDiPPA)
Stakeholders: Insurers and Communities

EPPOSI as a Multi Stakeholder Think-Tank Enabler of Transversal and Deep Vertical Expertise in a Single Organisation, through Multi-stakeholder Sharing of Best Practices
Stakeholders: Policy and Decision Makers

For registration to Med-e-Tel, click here. For full Med-e-Tel conference program details, click here.


VIP Connectathon tours during Med-e-Tel 2015
IHE-Europe will organize several tours of the Connectathon hall during Med-e-Tel, where you can see one hundred Health IT systems being tested.

To see when these tours will take place, and to register your interest and join one of the tours, click here. The capacity is limited, so places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis! 

 

Check the Med-e-Tel conference program here, to see what time would suit best for you and doesn't overlap with sessions that you want to attend. The Connectathon tours take place mainly during the breaks in the Med-e-Tel program, but may partly overlap with some of the sessions.

 

For Med-e-Tel registration, click here.

 

 

e-SENS: digitizing government services across Europe
The three-year European e-SENS project involves public administrations, agencies and companies from 20 countries and is aimed at better connecting Europe by digitizing a range of public services. The project promises to make cross-border procedures simpler and more accessible for people and companies, radically reducing bureaucracy and lowering costs.

"Digital services vary across Europe, which results in a number of barriers when it comes to cross-border transactions," explains e-SENS project coordinator Carsten Schmidt, Ministry of Justice, North-Rhine Westphalia (Germany). "Also the approach towards digital services is different - communication via e-mail or electronic forms - formalities are different and cultural aspects also come into play, not to mention difficulties understanding different business terms or documents. All those challenges need to be addressed," he said.

The aim of the project and its 65 pilots in 18 countries (that will be launched as of April 2015), is to get people and businesses to carry out, on a massive basis, administrative procedures electronically between countries. This could entail anything from accessing health services to starting a business abroad, bidding for contracts in another country or issuing a claim in a foreign court.

"Digitization of public cross-border services will bring tangible benefits and savings both to public bodies and citizens and entrepreneurs, both in terms of money and time," Mr. Schmidt points out. Just boosting online cross-border access to patient summaries will save more than EUR 36 million, according to a study.

Find out more about e-SENS at Med-e-Tel, on the Luxembourg pavilion, organized by the Luxembourg eHealth Agency (Agence eSant�)
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Still need a hotel room during your stay at Med-e-Tel?
The hotel room blocks that were pre-reserved for Med-e-Tel participants by the Luxembourg Convention Bureau have been sold out. If you still need to make a hotel reservation, please contact hotels directly, or make a reservation via a general booking site.

For some guidance, you can still find hotel information and a map showing location of some hotels at www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=hotel_travel&page=hotel_info.

Note that Air France/KLM offer discounts to Med-e-Tel participants on flights to Luxembourg from around the world. Click here for more information and to access the dedicated Air France/KLM online reservation page (use event ID: 23010AF).

     


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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