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April 3, 2002

In this newsletter:

  • Complete telemedicine services by AMD Telemedicine
  • Off-line and real-time telemedical applications via Eutelsat
  • PC-based diagnostic systems from Cardio Control
  • h-Life project: improving and encouraging healthy lifestyle
  • Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) revitalises medical image management market
  • Telepathology: fad or future?
  • Medlive: digital satellite TV and internet for continuing medical and dental education
  • Strong local interest and support for international trade fair
  • Media Corner provides details on a number of information resources covering the field of telemedicine
  • Educational program to offer practical and valuable sessions with information on a wide range of topics
  • Additional educational session by the International eHealth Association (IeHA) on "eHealth for Development"


AMD Telemedicine, Inc. is a worldwide leading supplier of medical devices and related peripherals used in telemedicine. With over 2000 installations in 40 countries, AMD has the experience and expertise to service all of your "connected" medical device needs in a technologically complex world. AMD's staff is trained in technologies such as network computing (Ethernets, extranets, LANs and WANs), video conferencing and CODECS (all major suppliers), telecom (copper - high and low bandwidth, wireless - terrestrial and satellite), and the latest in device technologies. AMD provides complete installation and technical support, and training and repair services, worldwide.
AMD is committed to the success of your telemedicine program. AMD has worked in many different environments, from the depths of the oceans to the reaches of space. AMD's solutions must meet the most demanding clinical standards and perform within economic parameters that assure financial success. Sharing your program requirements with AMD, means working together to deliver a successful solution. Be sure to visit the AMD Telemedicine booth at the Telemedicine Trade Fair (booth 1C-73).
AMD is also making a presentation in the trade fair's parallel educational sessions entitled: "Characteristics of a Successful Telemedicine Program" in which 10 critical steps to a telemedicine program will be highlighted. Be sure not to miss it!


Eutelsat is one of the world's most established and experienced providers of satellite communications resources and expertise on a global basis. Headquartered in Paris, its team of 380 people from 23 countries manages a satellite infrastructure that assures delivery of consumer television and radio channels, as well as IP and multimedia services, corporate communications networks and mobile satellite communications.
Thanks to the combination of the appropriate satellite communication infrastructure, based on the Eutelsat D SAT 2000 system for "corporate" communications, and a high-end interactive communication system for telemedicine, Eutelsat, together with selected partners, build-up a commercial offer covering off-line and real-time tele-medical applications, such as tele-consultation, tele-training, tele-radiology, etc.
Discover the Eutelsat team and services at the Telemedicine Trade Fair's exhibition where they will feature a.o. live demos, and also in the educational program which will feature the following presentations sponsored by Eutelsat: "Interactive Telemedicine in the Operating Room of the Future - OP 2000" and "Telemedicine by Satellite".


Cardio Control will be displaying its complete line of PC-based diagnostic systems during the Telemedicine Trade Fair. The systems consist of 12 lead interpretive resting ECG, pocket ECG, stress ECG and event ECG together with spirometry and ambulatory BP. All these systems can be combined in the Cardio Control Workstation, a single scalable database with possibilities for networking, search queries, security settings and different ways of transmitting test to remote locations with the Cardio Control Workstation using standard telephone lines, internet, GSM/cellular phones or GPRS.


The h-Life web based system aims to improve and encourage healthy lifestyle for European citizens by increasing awareness of risk factors and by promoting illness prevention. h-Life provides individuals with a personalised dedicated resource that selects dietary plans based on lifestyle and medical information supplied by them. Additionally h-Life will act as a general information source on medical topics, healthcare, lifestyle and nutrition.
With support from healthcare professionals the key features will be: Intelligent User Profiling, Plan Selection and Evaluation, Health Knowledge Bank, Advice Subsystem and Alert and Reminding Module.
h-Life uses internet technology with a unique interface giving easy access through a number of devices. There is continuous monitoring of personalised information ensuring high quality, effective and responsive solutions are provided.
Anytime and anywhere access is available using PCs, Laptops, PDAs and mobile devices.
The h-Life project is part-funded by the European Commission’s IST programme with a EUR 4M budget over 2 years with 9 partners across Europe and in Israel.
h-Life will be presented at the Telemedicine Trade Fair by the project partners, together with another EU IST funded project, USBone (Ultrasound in Bone Fracture).


Medical image management is one of the hottest areas in the medical device market. With growth rates exceeding 35 percent in some European countries, the market environment is experiencing a high degree of dynamism and competition, reveals a new analysis from Frost & Sullivan.
"Growth is expected to be rather strong over the forecast period (2000-2004) as a result of the considerable efficiency gains and the trend towards digitalisation in hospitals," says the report’s author, healthcare research analyst, Axel Baccari. He continues: "The next few years will see a very substantial rise in the number of PACS installations as a result of the factors driving the market. The use of PACS in combination with web technology is certainly among the factors that have allowed this technology to be available to mainstream hospitals." The phenomenal growth is attributed to the levels of efficiency that PACS offers, the consequent savings that promote PACS installations and the presence of a large untapped market. In addition, the integration with RIS (radiology information systems) and HIS (hospital information systems) supports the idea of a 'digital' hospital. Other factors that drive the acceptance of PACS solutions are the ongoing development of the DICOM standard, the decreased hardware costs and the availability of advanced software.
The market is dominated by large multinationals that have product offerings in both the PACS and the teleradiology segments. Market concentration equals 67 percent, in a market which has experienced considerable evolution in recent years and has more than 28 participants. The principal companies in the European market are: Agfa, Kodak, GE Medical Systems, Siemens and Philips. Several of them, together with other market players in the field of PACS and related products and services will be exhibiting at the Telemedicine Trade Fair in Luxembourg. For a full press release on the Medical Image Management report by Frost & Sullivan, click here or go to www.medicaldevices.frost.com.


Another recently published Frost & Sullivan analysis reports on the European Telepathology Market. Telepathology, once viewed as a passing fad, is now regarded as an integral part of the promising future of telemedicine. Further inroads into the telecoms arena in conjunction with a greater acceptance from pathologists, are expected to promote strong growth in the embryonic European telepathology market.
Technological progress in the field is expected to drive the market for telepathology. In particular, information and communication technology (ICT) developments, virtual microscopy, and integration with hospital information systems (HIS), are likely to propel demand.
A challenge will be to identify a marketing strategy capable of convincing end-users that telepathology is not a substitute for conventional diagnostic procedures, but a real advancement in the world of pathology.
As competition intensifies in the European telepathology market, both microscope as well as software companies stand to gain. The former are expected to benefit from customer loyalty to their well-established brand names. The latter are likely to be in an advantageous position, since store and forward telepathology is likely to experience stronger growth than robotic telepathology.
With its high quality and potential benefits, the rapidly evolving field of telepathology is here to stay. It is very much part of a future scenario, where it will constitute a vital working tool for pathologists.
For a full version of the Frost & Sullivan press release on the Telepathology Report, click here or go to www.medicaldevices.frost.com.


MEDLIVE TV, the first dental expert channel, will begin broadcasting a digital, interactive continuing educational pay TV program in 2002. The broadcast, a weekly live program prepared exclusively for dentists and dental technicians, will be transmitted via satellite across Europe in English and German. Other languages can be added according to demand.

    The program includes different television formats:
  • The Journal with news and reports
  • The Seminar – Facts, experiences and opinions
  • The Workshop – Live operations and therapy concepts
  • The Video-Forum shows first-class archive materials
  • The Colloquium – Expert dialogue with viewer participation
  • The Special reports on new developments from the industry

As an additional program, the International Online Academy (IOA) stands for the innovative advancement of structured, certified dental continuing education. The program is complemented and accompanied by various multimedia services. Examples include literature about respective topics, case studies, background information, knowledge control, links to related topics as well as product information.
Similar programs are planned for other medical fields of activity. Students also benefit from the high-quality continuing education program: 120 universities across Europe and dental societies will be equipped with reception equipment thereby implementing the comprehensive promotion of knowledge management within the areas of health and life sciences.
More information about Medlive will be available on the ASTRA stand at the Telemedicine Trade Fair!


As an international event, with exhibitors, visitors and speakers coming from over 40 countries around the world, the Telemedicine Trade Fair is proud to be able to also count on a strong local interest and support.
The Luxembourg Ministry of Health has given its patronage to the event and CRP-Santé (Center for Public Research - Health) is supporting the event and actively participating in the exhibition and some of the educational programs.
The Luxembourg Association of Medical Doctors and Dentists together with Schweitzer Insurance are holding their 3rd Luxembourg Risk Management Workshop and also their new E-Health Risk Management Conference in conjunction with the Telemedicine Trade Fair (see www.risk-management.lu or click here for program details). The programs are set to attract a number of medical professionals, especially from the SarLorLux region, covering Luxembourg and parts of Belgium, France and Germany.
The Luxembourg Society of Nuclear Medicine in cooperation with the Luxembourg branch of Agfa HealthCare are organising a Conference on Telemedicine in conjunction with the Telemedicine Trade Fair. The conference is destined for professionals in the field of medical imaging. click here to view the conference's program.
Deloitte & Touche - Health Centre of Excellence are organizing a lunch debate with a significant number of local hospital directors and other medical professionals.
One of Luxembourg's leading newspapers, Tageblatt, recently also devoted a full page to the new Telemedicine Trade Fair (click here to view a pdf format of the article).
Finally, the event has received valuable logistical support from the Luxembourg Convention Bureau (part of the Luxembourg City Tourist Office) who have negotiated special hotel rates at several of the Luxembourg city hotels and who are assisting attendees and exhibitors in making their hotel reservations. They are available to assist with any other hotel, dining or tourist related questions as well. Their website, www.luxembourg-city.lu/touristinfo is also very informative and offers a great deal of information on the city and its attractions, hotels, restaurants, etc.


This newsletter has highlighted the Telemedicine Trade Fair's "Media Corner" and its participants several times before. The Media Corner will be a section of the Telemedicine Trade Fair in which information will be provided from publications, magazines, journals and on-line information services. Details of the Media Corner participants and links to their respective websites can also be found on www.telemedicine.lu by clicking the following links:


The Telemedicine Trade Fair's educational program will consist a.o. of a series of parallel sessions. These sessions will be 30 minute presentations sponsored or presented by some of the exhibitors and other industry representatives, with information on practical solutions and applications, recent experiences, implemented projects. The presentations have been grouped into several categories (topics) which include: national projects/experiences, cardiology, software, home care, images/radiology, psychiatry/neurology/rehabilitation, satellite applications/videoconferencing, surgery, diagnostics/consultations, education, and telemedicine in developing countries. For a list of the parallel presentations with short contents descriptions, and for the time schedule of the presentations, click here.


The International eHealth Association, a non-profit organization promoting the advancement of healthcare through the use of online technologies, will be presenting a plenary session on "eHealth for Development" covering the following topics:

  • eHealth as a Tool for Reducing Health Inequities;
  • eHealth and Development: The Role of Evidence Based Medicine;
  • The Ethics of Open Access to Health Information in Developing Countries;
  • Applications of ICTs to promote the creation and Distribution of Local Content of Health Information.

The Telemedicine Trade Fair's plenary sessions also include contributions chaired and coordinated by the European Commission - IST Programme ("What about the Market?", "Fulfilling the Users Needs", "From Innovation to Business", and a plenary debate entitled "Show Me the Market!"), International Telecommunication Union ("Telemedicine and Developing Countries") and NATO Telemedicine Panel ("Telemedicine and the Role of Tele-Consultation within NATO"). Click here for more details and contents of these sessions.

 
 

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