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News: Newsletter 37

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March 28, 2006

In this newsletter:

  • You are invited...
  • UltraGenda to present case study at Med-e-Tel on the implementation of internet-based appointment scheduling
  • Spotlight on Selligent's CRM expertise in the mutual insurance sector at Med-e-Tel 2006
  • Viterion TeleHealthcare: Engaging and empowering patients in their own care
  • Proven solutions from Honeywell HomMed for improving quality of life and reducing cost of healthcare
  • Omron Healthcare and Melexis Connectivity Solutions show plug-and-play telemedicine at Med-e-Tel 2006
  • Added-value of satellite communications for a better delivery of healthcare in chronic respiratory diseases, oncology and cardiology to be presented at Med-e-Tel
  • Ubiquitous healthcare: coping with future healthcare challenges
  • Learning from Space and Military telemedicine experiences
  • Unifying European healthcare IT professionals
  • News from ISfTeH
  • Med-e-Tel Matchmaker
  • News from the Med-e-Tel media partners
  • Newsbriefs


- Join us for the Med-e-Tel 2006 Opening Ceremony on Wednesday 5 April at 9h30. The Ceremony will feature an opening address by Alain Georges (Chairman, Luxexpo, Luxembourg), Mars Di Bartolomeo (Minister of Health and Social Security, Luxembourg), Yunkap Kwankam (Coordinator eHealth, World Health Organization, Switzerland), Greg Mogel (Deputy Director, Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center, USA). The Ceremony will be followed by a tour of the exhibition with official invitees and subsequently the conference's Opening Session (starting at 11h00) with contributions from WHO, EC, Telemedicine-Alliance, ISfTeH, and industry representatives.
- In the evening of April 5th (18h00), we invite you to join us at the Med-e-Tel Welcome Reception at Casino Luxembourg (41 rue Notre-Dame, Luxembourg city). A bus transfer from Luxexpo (around 17h50) will be provided.
- Finally, u-Health (International Initiative for Ubiquitous Healthcare) and Med-e-Tel invite you to join the Med-e-Tel Exhibitor & Attendee Reception on Thursday 6 April at 17h30, at Luxexpo on the Med-e-Tel exhibition floor.
- More information about the Med-e-Tel schedule can be found at www.medetel.lu/index.php?rub=schedule&page=defaut. Or check out www.medetel.lu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program for the full conference program and latest details about all the conference sessions.
- If you have not yet registered for Med-e-Tel, you can still do so now at www.medetel.lu/index.php?rub=visitor&page=registration. Note that online registration will be closed later this week. As of that moment, you can still register on-site upon your arrival at Med-e-Tel. Registration is 145 euro for 1-day registration or 215 euro for full (3-day) registration. Registration includes access to all conference sessions and exhibition, conference bag and materials, coffee breaks, lunch buffet, evening receptions.


UltraGenda - provider of generic solutions for resource planning and scheduling, enterprise-wide appointment scheduling, community-wide bookings by referring physicians and patients, real time tracing in technical departments such as imaging or OR, bed planning, and patient transport - will present a case study at Med-e-Tel on the implementation of internet-based appointment scheduling at the Centre Hospitalier de Calais (France). This presentation will be part of the regional CRP-Santi symposium at Med-e-Tel on April 6th.
UltraGenda is primarily known for its innovative scheduling solutions. The company's flagship UltraGenda Pro is market leader in Europe. And its portal application UG Broka opens the door to community-wide healthcare bookings, a revolution that is just about to start. The company is also engaged in web-native applications to support other healthcare planning processes that have a huge impact on efficiency and are insufficiently addressed by existing systems. Integration with existing HIS systems is proven, documented, and based on international standards.


At Med-e-Tel, Selligent, the Belgian enterprise that has become one of Europes leading CRM (Customer Relationship Management) developers, will present its latest solutions, which are the outcrop of its substantial experience in this area in the French market. Selligent will also participate in the regional CRP-Santi symposium at Med-e-Tel on April 6th, presenting a case study on "CRM in mutual insurance companies and healthcare insurance organisations."
Selligent will be the only CRM vendor at this event and plans to highlight its solution that has been successfully deployed at several mutual insurance companies in France (CIMUT, MGET, Sud-Ouest Mutualiti, etc.). These users appreciate the benefits of a member relationship tool that gathers all the information they need, such as identification data, products concerned, services provided. As a result, the consultants or membership managers have a very clear and up-to-date picture of individual situations and that enables them to better respond to their members' needs. Moreover, the information system installed is seamlessly integrated in existing IT solutions in place.
"One of the major strengths of our solution is its ability to adapt to the dynamics of the client company, and that in a sector that is changing rapidly. At Med-e-Tel, we will be demonstrating our contribution to the reforms taking place in the mutual insurance sector and that of healthcare insurance in general," explains Andri Lejeune, Selligent CEO.
Meet Selligent representatives in stand 1C-31 at Med-e-Tel.


Viterion TeleHealthcare, a Bayer-Panasonic company, offers versatile solutions for remote patient monitoring. Viterion TeleHealthcare brings together Bayer's commitment and knowledge of healthcare and Panasonic's technical expertise, to develop and market telehealth products. Viterion's telehealth solutions include remote patient monitoring and disease education for wellness monitoring, chronic disease management and post-acute home care. Viterion's solutions are designed to significantly reduce hospital stays and emergent care, and to empower and engage patients in their own care.
"Viterion is committed to providing technological solutions that will make a positive impact in patient's quality of life", stated Pramod Gaur, Ph.D., President and CEO of Viterion TeleHealthcare LLC. "Viterion's Continuum-of-Care model provides solutions that empower the patient to play an active role in the management of their health. Targeting those with chronic health problems, such as diabetes and congestive heart failure, has already shown exceptional results. We are excited to share consumer friendly healthcare solutions for improving their quality of life and reducing the rising cost of healthcare."
Pramod Gaur will be one of the speakers in the Med-e-Tel opening session on April 5th, making a presentation on the subject of "Relationship between Public and Private Sector to Establish a Sustainable eHealth Program in the Developing Countries", discussing the cooperative role of the 4 P's (Payors, Providers, Patients, Private Sector) based on a pilot setting that was established in the U.S. (see www.medetel.lu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program).
Visit Viterion TeleHealthcare and partners at Med-e-Tel (stand 1C-47). More information about Viterion TeleHealthcare can also be found at www.viterion.com.


"To improve the quality of life of patients and dramatically reduce the cost of healthcare" is the mission of Honeywell HomMed, US-based supplier of telemonitoring systems, who will be showing its systems and services at Med-e-Tel 2006. "We now collect more data on our automobile engines than we do for most people in their lifetimes, except when they are hospitalized, which is really too late," according to the Honeywell HomMed philosophy.
Honeywell HomMed concentrates its expertise on remote patient monitoring with over 21,000 patient units installed worldwide and has been involved in the care of over 350,000 patients. The monitors and software used are hospital grade FDA Class II medical devices. In addition to base biometric measurements, multiple peripheral devices can also be attached. User health data is automatically color coded and triaged for quick review.
Using voice commands and light cues, Honeywell HomMed's MedPartner Medication Reminder prompts users when it is time to take medication, the prescribed amount, appropriate bottle and if the wrong medication is selected.
For more information about the Honeywell HomMed solutions, go to www.hommed.com and visit them at the Med-e-Tel exhibition (stand 1C-67).


Since 2002, Omron and Melexis Connectivity Solutions have cooperated in telemedicine. We connected Omron's clinically validated 705IT blood pressure monitor with the Melexis I-Modem705IT and sold over 20.000 of these sets, proving the reliability of the solution. The results of Dr. Vladzymyrskyy's trial in the Ukraine, which he will present at Med-e-Tel 2006, prove that using telemedicine this way is a clear addition to the medical practice. Key features:
- very easy to use;
- plug-and-play: just plug it in phone and power and it works;
- monitoring via internet;
- resulting in better management of CVD.
The readings are directly visible on the protected website giving doctor and patient direct feedback on the effects of the treatment and medication.
Special Med-e-Tel offer:
At Med-e-Tel 2006, sign-up for a blood pressure telemedicine set directly on our stand and start putting telemedicine to practice when you get home. No subscription, no hassle, just start using it. We hope to see you at Med-e-Tel 2006!


Healthware, a European Commission co-financed project, gathers around project coordinator Alcatel Alenia Space, 19 other partners from the world of telecommunications and engineering, and also university hospitals, research and medical institutions, who have all come together to implement different pilot networks of tele-expertise, tele-consultation, home services for patients and medical training, spread throughout Europe.
The project's pilot phase targets at demonstrating the added-value of satellite communications for a better delivery of healthcare in the frame of three medical specialties: chronic respiratory diseases, oncology and cardiology.
Benefits of this solution are numerous, providing medical staff with a large broadband access to expertise and hospitals, allowing a better management and coordination of care in case of emergency or crisis, making it possible for patients to be monitored and cured while staying at home, offering access to medical training, medical information and knowledge without any geographical barrier, and also, allowing to make substantial savings in healthcare expenses thanks to a better coordination of care and services.
The first workshop organized by the Healthware Consortium on 6 April 2006 at Med-e-Tel is dedicated to the presentation and the promotion of the expected benefits offered by the availability of telemedicine applications, especially for remote areas, and of the deployment conditions on the field of such a light and cost effective DVB-RCS technology, and, finally, of the project's achievements up to its first year of activities, by giving the word to the medical user partners of the project.
More details about the Healthware workshop program are available at www.medetel.lu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program.


Ubiquitous healthcare focuses on ehealth applications that can provide healthcare to people anywhere at anytime using broadband and wireless mobile technologies. A session by the u-Health Initiative (International Initiative for Ubiquitous Healthcare) is scheduled at Med-e-Tel 2006 on April 6th, giving a summary of this new international collaborative initiative which is conceived as part of the future activities of IEEE Healthcom and brings together academia, industry, healthcare and information technology professionals from various countries to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations and work out a number of concepts and projects for the benefit of ubiquitous healthcare in the world (especially for societies with an increasingly ageing population).
Details about the u-Health session at Med-e-Tel can be found at www.medetel.lu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program.


Military Forces and Space Programs have been among the initial developers and implementers of telemedicine technologies and applications many years ago and still are largely involved in today's telemedicine and ehealth research and development. Two sessions at Med-e-Tel 2006 will bring contributions from organizations with military and space background.
The first one is presented by the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), a subordinate element of the United States Army Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), and focuses on "Global Healthcare Challenges and Opportunities: The Role of Advanced Technology". This session takes place on Wednesday afternoon April 5th and will review o.a. broadband medical networks, healthgrid, cyberinfrastructure, mobile healthcare solutions, telemedicine standardization, virtual reality for behavioral healthcare, environmental sensor development and data integration.
The second session, taking place on Friday afternoon April 7th, will discuss the topic of "Space Technology as a Tool for Delivery of eHealth" and is coordinated by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). A poster display on the Med-e-Tel exhibition floor will also present the outcome and results of various UNOOSA supported projects in South America. Conference session and posters will cover o.a. the topics of a satellite-based health early warning for environmental risks, strategy towards sustainable services in telehealth and tele-epidemiology, development of portable telemedicine station, telemedicine applications in mobile surgery.
Details of the TATRC and UNOOSA sessions can be found at www.medetel.lu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program.


EAHITM (European Association of Healthcare IT Managers), outlined as the pan-European umbrella association of all relevant national healthcare IT associations in Europe, will be present as an exhibitor at the Med-e-Tel 2006 event.
Believing in the fundamental importance of unifying healthcare IT professionals at European and global levels, the mission of EAHITM is: to establish common healthcare IT standards, policies and strategies at EU and international levels; to increase the visibility, importance and role of IT management in healthcare facilities; to educate key policy makers, industry players and the general public of the benefits of healthcare IT, and to promote the cross-collaboration of various healthcare sectors. For more information, visit the EAHITM stand at Med-e-Tel or contact Karmin Ruocco, Project Director, at .


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.
- Visit us at the ISfTeH exhibition stand at Med-e-Tel to obtain more information about our activities and about how you can join our international network of telemedicine and ehealth experts and specialists. On the stand, you will also find representatives and information from several of our national and institutional member organizations:
*IITEC - Intensive Interdisciplinary Telemedicine and eHealth Course
*Colombian Telemedicine Center
*Danish Society for Clinical Telemedicine
*Donetsk R&D Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Department of Informatics and Telemedicine, Ukraine
*Finnish Society of Telemedicine
*Georgian Telemedicine Union
*Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
*Medical Research Council, South Africa
*Polish Telemedicine Association
*Sociedad Venezolana de Telemedicina & eHealth
*Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina
*Society for Telemedicine and eHealth in Nigeria
- We also invite you to attend our ISfTeH conference session at Med-e-Tel, on Friday 7 April on the topic of "International Telemedicine and eHealth Initiatives and Developments" which will feature presentations from ISfTeH members from Croatia, Georgia, Italy, Moldova, Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, South Africa, UK, Ukraine.
- An ISfTeH breakfast meeting is scheduled at Med-e-Tel on Friday morning April 7th. All ISfTeH members are invited, as well as people or organizations interested in getting to know more about ISfTeH or interested in becoming a member. For information and to register for this breakfast meeting, please contact us at [email protected].
- An ISfTeH board meeting is scheduled at Med-e-Tel on Friday afternoon April 7th.
- All the above make Med-e-Tel the ideal opportunity to meet with ISfTeH representatives and members and to learn more about ISfTeH activities and cooperation possibilities.
- 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 [email protected] 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.
- Moldova: telemedicine and ehealth professionals (who will be attending Med-e-Tel 2006) are looking to get in touch with people or organizations that are specialized in IT development in mother and child care, primary care and distance education


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.

- Healthcare IT News is the news source for healthcare information technology, published by MedTech Publishing Company in partnership with HIMSS. Healthcare IT News publishes a monthly newspaper, weekly e-newsletter, and daily online news service that deliver industry news, data and analysis in tight stories that appeal to busy readers. Healthcare IT News covers all major industry segments: hospitals and IDNs, physician practices and ambulatory care, payers, and vendors. Award-winning journalists, each with daily newspaper experience, identify whats news, explain why its important, and provide exclusive e-Connect codes to direct interested readers to online sources for more information. Subscribe at: www.healthcareitnews.com/subscribe.

- 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. Several past issues of i4d already dealt specifically with ICT for health issues. More info at www.csdms.in.

- 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, visit www.infomedix.it.

- International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems & Informatics is a quarterly, peer-reviewed scholarly journal, published by Idea Group Publishing. 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. 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.

- European Hospital points at trends and developments in the European healthcare market. From business strategies and hi-end development in medical technology; IT solutions or innovative approaches in logistics, personnel, finance and management. Hospital administrators, medical directors and senior staff in 34 European countries turn to European Hospital for in-depth coverage of the healthcare market. For more information go to www.european-hospital.com.


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 ):

  • E-health progresses in Romania (International Journal of Medical Informatics)
  • Telemedicine can disseminate medical science (The Indepedent - Bangladesh)
  • Canadian telehealth project connects to Middle East (itbusiness.ca)
  • Phone, computer convergence promises healthcare on-the-go (Healthcare IT News)
  • Older People To Be Given Choice To Live At Home (Wireless Healthcare)
  • Claim That Telemedicine Pilot Cut Hospital Admissions By 67% (Wireless Healthcare)
  • AARP Members Stress Importance of Aging in Place (Home Health Products)

 
 

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