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February 6, 2006

In this newsletter:

  • Med-e-Tel 2006 conference program highlights
  • Med-e-Tel early bird registration about to expire (still available until February 8th)!
  • Healthware workshop at Med-e-Tel focusing on added value of a satellite platform in promising telemedicine applications
  • Global healthcare challenges and opportunities: the role of advanced technology
  • Telemedicine systems provider Aerotel Medical Systems brings cardiac monitoring and diagnostics to Canada homecare market
  • e-Enabling healthcare and wellness with Medixine disease management solutions
  • Medication compliance with Pharmionic Systems
  • Doc@Hand: providing healthcare professionals with adequate decision support
  • Developing first class relationships with customers in the healthcare sector
  • News from ISfTeH
  • Med-e-Tel Matchmaker
  • News from the Med-e-Tel media partners
  • Newsbriefs


The Med-e-Tel 2006 conference (taking place on April 5-7) will include the following events (see also in the following articles for more details on some of these events):
- a symposium on "Global Healthcare Challenges and Opportunities: The Role of Advanced Technology" organized by the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), focusing on the implementation of broadband networks, mobile solutions, operational standards, environmental sensors and telemedicine technologies;
- a workshop on "Improving Connectivity with Remote Areas for Equitable Access to Health Services" by the Healthware project consortium, covering the potential benefits of telemedicine applications (services at home, second opinion, medical training, teleconsultation);
- extensive focus on "Homecare and Health/Disease Management" covering topics such as medication compliance, telemonitoring of vital signs, fall detection, video communication, and more;
- a workshop on "Knowledge Sharing and Decision Support for Healthcare Professionals" by the Doc@Hand project consortium on the subject of IT tools for healthcare professionals that help reduce the time and associated costs to collect information and knowledge;
- a regional seminar organized by the Luxembourg CRP-Santé (Public Institute for Research in Healthcare, Public Health and Biotechnology) about "IT at the Service of the Client-Patient: New Solutions and New Strategies for Hospitals, Mutualities and the Industry" with a focus on Automated Appointment Booking, Online Consultaiton of Electronic Patient Records, eLearning, Telemonitoring, ePrescribing, CRM in Mutualities, Image Transfer, Electronic Signature, Wireless and Mobile Solutions (this session will be held in French);
- an overview of "International Telemedicine & eHealth Initiatives and Developments" by members of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH);
- a session on "eHealth in Developing Countries: The Future of Healthcare" with contributions from a.o. World Health Organization (WHO) and International Telecommunication Union (ITU) representatives, showing ICT's unmatched contributions to healthcare delivery in the developing world;
- a session on "Satellites as Basic eHealth Tool" reviewing the practical and growing use of satellite communication in eHealth, with a.o. a presentation and several posters of various South American projects, supported by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA);
- various sessions on IT Solutions in Healthcare, Electronic Health Records and Data Transmission, Telecardiology, Community eHealth and Disease Surveillance, Tele-education, Internet-based Solutions, Healthcare Challenges, eHealth Effects and Benefits, showing what works and what doesn't, as well as what exists or what is under development in telemedicine, ehealth and health ICT systems and solutions;
- a SITE project workshop (Siberia, Information Technologies and Europe) about "Siberia in IST", presenting the potential of Russia, in particular the Sibirsky region, for IST and SITE's support for collaboration between Europe and Siberia in IST projects;
- Meetings of the EHTEL "Empowering the Citizen" Task Force, Healthware Consortium, and ISfTeH Board of Directors.
For more information and a time schedule, go to www.medetel.lu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program.


Register now for the Med-e-Tel 2006 exhibition and conference to still benefit from the early bird registration fees. Early bird registration is about to expire (after February 8th).
Registration includes access to all conference sessions and exhibition, and new this year is that also a lunch buffet and coffee breaks will be provided to all participants. As usual, access to the welcome reception on the evening of April 5th and to the attendee and exhibitor reception on April 6th and conference materials are also included.
Go to www.medetel.lu/index.php?rub=visitor&page=fees_conditions to review fees and conditions, and register at www.medetel.lu/index.php?rub=visitor&page=registration.
If you have any questions about registration, do not hesitate to contact us at .
Also do not delay your hotel reservations for your stay in Luxembourg during Med-e-Tel. Hotels are filling up quite rapidly, so now is the time to take advantage of the special hotel deals provided in cooperation with the Luxembourg Convention Bureau. You can download a hotel reservation form from www.medetel.lu/index.php?rub=hotel_travel&page=hotel_info.


Healthware stands for "Standard and interoperable satellite solution to deploy HEALTH care services over Wide AREa". It is an Integrated Project co-financed by the European Commission and coordinated by Alcatel Alenia Space.
Healthware will demonstrate the added value of a satellite platform in 4 promising telemedicine applications - services at home, second opinion, medical training, teleconsultation - with a view to deliver better healthcare services, initially for the domains of cardiology, oncology and chronic respiratory diseases.
The Healthware consortium invites you to join the first Healthware workshop, taking place at Med-e-Tel on April 6th, which will focus on:
- the potential benefits of telemedicine appplications, in remote areas in particular
- the conditions for deploying in the field a light and cost effective satellite technology
- the project achievement so far, with user feedback.
This workshop will be the occasion also to launch a "User and Citizen Open Group" which will be in charge of feedback and evaluation of the project to be inline with the users and citizens requirements.
The expected audience to this workshop are regional, national and European health care authorities, representatives of patients and citizens, health professionals and their administration, homecare agencies, manufacturers and suppliers.
Click here for the full pre-announcement, or go to http://healthware.alcasat.net/.


The Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), a subordinate element of the United States Army Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) is presenting a symposium at Med-e-Tel 2006 on the subject of "Global Healthcare Challenges and Opportunities: The Role of Advanced Technology". The symposium will provide insights into TATRC's experience and practical developments in the fields of broadband networks, mobile solutions, operational standards, environmental sensors and telemedicine technologies.
You can view the symposium's program, which is scheduled for April 5th, at www.medetel.lu/download/2006/TATRC_Symposium_Pre-announcement.pdf. Or visit the TATRC website at www.tatrc.org.


Aerotel Medical Systems, a leading provider of cutting-edge diagnostic telemedicine systems, has been helping Canadians change the way healthcare is provided to the country's citizenry since 1993. Its HeartView 12 Lead, a small, user-friendly ECG transtelephonic recorder/transmitter, is servicing populations in numerous Canadian provinces, bringing cardiac medical monitoring and diagnostics directly to the patient's door.
Health Canada’s new reimbursement plan for telehealth loop recorders boosts Canadian interest in Aerotel's high quality, user- friendly, medical diagnostic systems and devices for the homecare, ehealth and telemedicine markets (such as its Heart 2005A transtelephonic ECG loop event recorder, its Heart 2006 dual lead transtelephonic ECG loop event recorder and its HeartLine Receiving Station (HRS) software).
Established in 1985, Aerotel enables patients to comfortably conduct tests while leading normal, mobile lives. Today, Aerotel's presence is felt around the globe. For more information about Aerotel, visit the Aerotel website at www.aerotel.com.
Aerotel's complete disease management package, including transtelephonic portable devices designed for a variety of remote diagnostic, and monitoring applications, a hardware and software platform, plus phone and web-based software will be on display at Med-e-Tel 2006 in Luxembourg.


The Med-e-Tel conference program also features a presentation of case studies by Finnish-based provider of information and communication software for disease management Medixine, illustrating "A Multichannel Communication Platform for Healthcare" which has now been used in close to 50 installations in Finland, Norway, United Kingdom, France and the United States. Case studies in the areas of medication management, treatment and medication follow-up, multiplayer e-booking, asthma self management solution, RFID communication, and a Parkinson’s Disease support network will be discussed.
The Medixine solutions are Internet-based and independent of terminals and disease. They combine expertise in health care, software technology and Internet services to e-enable health care and wellness industries. Medixine has over 10 years of experience in e-health and e-care solutions. Medixine follows the latest trends in measurement device and client terminal technologies to provide horizontal top of the line communication solutions that enhance any disease management program.
See www.medetel.lu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program for the Med-e-Tel conference program. Go to www.medixine.com for more information on Medixine.


Pharmionic Systems is proud to announce its first participation in the Med-e-Tel 2006 conference. Dr. Bernard Vrijens will be presenting a talk entitled "Electronic Monitoring of Dosing Histories Allows Real Time Detection of Poor Adherers and Offers the Bases for a Successful Intervention" and we look forward to meeting you at our booth during the 3 day conference.
Pharmionic Systems is a company based in Switzerland, world leader in the remote electronic monitoring of patients' compliance with prescribed drug dosing, so that individual patients' actual exposure to the prescribed drug is known and its clinical consequences analysed. Pharmionic has a database of such dosing histories and clinical consequences of more than 16.000 patients in a dozen major fields.
For more details visit the Pharmionic website at www.pharmionic.com.


In a scenario where the Healthcare industry tends to rapid decentralization, with multiple actors involved in the care delivery processes, the importance for professionals to collaborate, access and share data and knowledge becomes more and more stringent.
The aim of Doc@Hand is to support Healthcare professionals in this changing environment, by providing a set of IT tools that help reducing the time and associated costs to collect the information and knowledge required, and, more crucially, in making the best use of it for a more informed decision making (diagnoses, therapies, protocols).
The integrated environment developed will be accessible from portable platforms such as tablet PCs to support the increasing mobility of healthcare professionals, and will be validated by major clinical institutions for full adherence to standards and regulations for security and sensitive data handling.
Doc@Hand is presenting a workshop at Med-e-Tel on April 6th, providing more information about the Doc@Hand goals and achievements. Details of the workshop will be available shortly on the Med-e-Tel website. Project information can be found at www.doc-at-hand.org.


As a leading global CRM solution provider, Selligent develops CRM and e-business solutions for mid to top tier organizations that need to develop and sustain first class relationships with their customers in order to remain competitive. Selligent offers an integrated range of CRM products, covering marketing, sales and customer service. These solutions have already convinced a wide variety of companies active in the health sector.
The success encountered by the Selligent solutions amongst their 50.000 users can be attributed to appropriate customer coaching during implementation and to the extremely flexible configuration features of the advanced web technology used. These two components guarantee a quick return on investment (ROI), a high user adoption rate and a reduced total cost of ownership (TCO).
As a consequence, Selligent has achieved a customer retention rate, which – at 87% in 10 years – has been the highest in the CRM industry.
Selligent will be one of the exhibitors at the upcoming Med-e-Tel 2006 event and present a case story on the topic: "CRM in the mutual assistance industry". The case will be presented as part of the regional CRP-Santé (Institute for Research in Healthcare, Public Health and Biotechnology) seminar which takes place on April 6th and will cover the broader topic of "IT at the service of the client-patient: new solutions and new strategies for hospitals, mutualities and the industry".


In this section of the Med-e-Tel newsletter, we report news from the ISfTeH (International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth), supporting partner of the Med-e-Tel event.
- ISfTeH will be present at the Med-e-Tel 2006 exhibition together with several of its national member associations. The ISfTeH stand will feature information from various national projects and information about the national and regional activities from its members. Also information about the IITEC Course (www.iitec.org), which is now scheduled for early 2007, will be available on the ISfTeH stand. ISfTeH will also host a conference session at Med-e-Tel on Friday April 7th, featuring presentations on the state of current telemedicine and ehealth use and implementation in the member countries. An ISfTeH Board Meeting is scheduled at Med-e-Tel on Friday April 7th. All this makes of Med-e-Tel the ideal opportunity to meet with ISfTeH representatives and members and to learn more about ISfTeH activities and cooperation possibilities.
- A compilation of the presentation abstracts of the 10th ISfTeH International Conference which took place last October in Sao Paulo, Brazil can be found on the ISfTeH website at www.isft.net/cms/index.php?saopaulo2005.
- The website for the upcoming 11th ISfTeH International Conference, scheduled for 26-29 November 2006 in Cape Town, South Africa is now available at www.mrc.ac.za/conference/satelemedicine/index.htm. More information about this conference will also be available on the ISfTeH stand at Med-e-Tel 2006.
- For more information or to contact ISfTeH, see www.isft.net or send an e-mail to .


The Med-e-Tel matchmaker aims to facilitate contacts and links between various telemedicine and ehealth professionals and providers around the world. To obtain more details about the request(s) below or to provide your services, contact us at and we will put you in touch with the source of these requests. If you would like to submit a request of your own, and we will publish it in a next newsletter.
- USA: research and consulting firm looking for contributors to a market research report analyzing the global market for semiconductors for telemedicine, its level of utilization in the healthcare industry and understanding of the macro and micro trends influencing the telemedicine market
- France: looking for scientific evidences about the efficiency of detectors used in the field of telemedicine (fall detector, gas detector, flood detector, smoke detector)


For information on publications, journals, magazines, reports and on-line information services that will help you to stay abreast of what is going on in the field of ehealth and to make better informed decisions in your daily business or healthcare practice, check out the list of Media Partners on www.medetel.lu. To follow is a review of just some of the publications that will be featured in the Med-e-Tel 2006 Media Corner:

- IHE (International Hospital Equipment & Solutions) is Med-e-Tel's main international media partner. To learn more about IHE as well as about the markets and areas served by IHE with its regular 27,000+ high quality BPA audited circulation, check out the new IHE website at www.ihe-online.com.

- European Hospital Publishing presents in cooperation with the European Congress of Radiology the "Hospital Administrator Symposium 2006" at the ECR in Vienna, March 3-7. The forum aims at enhancing the dialogue between the different players in the healthcare business, in this case radiologists, hospital administrator, Managing Directors and the industry. The Forum has three sessions devoted to Management, IT and Finance topics. For more information, please contact: Daniela Zimmermann, phone +49 211 7357 531 - e-mail: - www.european-hospital.com.

- i4d is the first monthly publication on ICT for Development. It is intended for those interested and involved in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for the development of the underserved communities. It is hoped that i4d will serve to foster a growing network by keeping the community up to date on many activities in this wide and exciting field. SDC, UNDP, HIVOS, UNESCO and National Institute for Smart Government (NISG) are some of the key partners in this initiative. Several past issues of i4d already dealt specifically with ICT for health issues (see www.i4donline.net/issue/march04/content.htm, www.i4donline.net/may05/contentimg.asp, www.i4donline.net/dec05/contentimg.asp).

- Hospital Post is GIT VERLAG's bi-monthly publication for decision makers in European hospitals - with a circulation of 25,000 copies, from Lisbon to Minsk, and from Oslo to Palermo. It provides a forum to opinion leaders in all healthcare-related fields and covers the major hot issues in medical technology, IT, general management, facility management, and clinical diagnostics. Ask for your free sample at www.hospital-post.com.

- Management & Krankenhaus addresses 43,000 decison makers in German hospitals each month. Themes covered range from medical technology, IT, general management, facility management, to clinical diagnostics. Readers include leading medics, IT, technical, and facility managers, head administrative staff, and laboratory directors. Free sample upon request at www.management-krankenhaus.de.

- Infomedix is a contact magazine for the medical industry. It is sent free of charge in about 13.500 copies only to manufacturers, distributors, dealers, importers, exporters, wholesalers and agents in over 140 countries worldwide. To gain visibility or to enquire about Infomedix's services, please contact or visit www.infomedix.it.

- Informatics in Primary Care aims to provide information, help and guidance to all those concerned with information technology and information management in primary care, both nationally and internationally. Informatics is a new and exciting discipline, cutting across medicine, nursing, computing, technology, communications, education, statistics, psychology and sociology, but its primary purpose is the application of information and communications technology to support health care. For more information on the journal, visit www.radcliffe-oxford.com.

- International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems & Informatics (IJHISI) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed scholarly journal, published by Idea Group Publishing. Advancing technologies from management perspective on the one hand and their applications in clinical settings on the other hand will drive interests in IJHISI. Topics include: healthcare, IT security and privacy issues, clinical decision support design, development and implementation, management of emerging health care technologies, virtual health technologies, role of informatics specialists and more. To submit papers or reviews to this journal, visit its webpage at: www.idea-group.com/ijhisi.

- IST Results is a free online news service (www.cordis.lu/ist/results) which provides up to date information on research developed by leading European companies, specialist SME's and their research partners. You can read more in the following article about the interoperability domain, one of the 28 technology and market application areas covered by IST Results: http://interop-noe.org/news/ISTresults. Click here for news on e-health.

- The Royal Society of Medicine Press is providing information in the Med-e-Tel Media Corner about the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, which is widely regarded as the leading journal in the field. To browse the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare table of contents back to 1996 or to download a free sample issue, go to www.rsmpress.co.uk/jtt.htm.

- Federal Telemedicine Update, published by Bloch Consulting Group, is an online publication that goes to healthcare professionals, corporate executives, college and university directors, academic medical centers, researchers, hospital administrators, and others in the field that need up to the minute data on telemedicine, telehealth, and health information technology activities in the U.S. Federal Government, Universities, and State governments. More info at www.federaltelemedicine.com.

- Telemedicine and e-Health is a peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of clinical telemedicine practice, technical advances, enabling technologies, education, health policy and regulation and biomedical and health services research dealing with clinical effectiveness, efficacy and safety of telemedicine and its effects on quality, cost and accessibility of care. For more information and to view a free sample issue online, go to www.liebertpub.com/tmj.


To follow are links to some interesting and recently published articles and studies (if you would like to suggest an article for inclusion into a following newsletter, feel free to send details to ):

  • What Is eHealth (5): A Research Agenda for eHealth Through Stakeholder Consultation and Policy Context Review (Journal of Medical Internet Research)
  • EKG to Go: A new handheld heart monitor and subscription service may assuage heart-attack fears -- for people who can afford it (Technology Review)
  • Bajaj Allianz launches e-Consultation scheme (i4d)
  • More tech and growth potentials in health sector (i4d)
  • Parent-Child Interaction Using a Mobile and Wireless System for Blood Glucose Monitoring (Journal of Medical Internet Research)
  • Early experiences in using computerized patient record data for monitoring charting compliance, supporting quality initiatives and assisting with accurate charging at Allina Hospitals & Clinics (International Journal of Medical Informatics)
  • Aging Well With Smart Technology (Nursing Administration Quarterly)
  • A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effect of Real-Time Telemedicine Support on Glycemic Control in Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes (Diabetes Care)
  • Technology improving life for seniors (i4d)
  • Women in Telemedicine who Rock (Virtual Medical Worlds)
  • A Randomized Trial Comparing Telemedicine Case Management with Usual Care in Older, Ethnically Diverse, Medically Underserved Patients with Diabetes Mellitus (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association)
  • An Evaluation Framework for a Rural Home-Based Telerehabilitation Network (Journal of Medical Systems)
  • Doctor visits move into cyberspace (The Seattle Times)
  • Doctor's office visit with online twist: Telemedicine can cut costs, boost accessibility of health care (The Kansas City Star)
  • A Systematic Review of Practice Standards and Research Ethics in Technology-Based Home Health Care Intervention Programs for Older Adults (Journal of Aging and Health)
  • Indian company to establish tele-medicine, tele-education in Ethiopia (i4d)
  • Smart Gadgets for Seniors (BusinessWeek)
  • Use of 3G mobile phone links for teleconsultation between a moving ambulance and a hospital base station (Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare)
  • Electronic nurse helps homebound patients stay out of hospital (Pharmacy Choice)
  • Workshop on telemedicine for Africa (SpaceRef.com)

 
 

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