Telemedicine & Telecare International Trade Fair
Plenary Sessions
| Title: | Cost Effectiveness and Impact Assessment of Telemedicine - Proposal for an AQE Assessment methodology for Health Technology |
| Authors: | Octavian Purcarea, European Commission, Information Society Directorate-General, Brussels, Belgium |
| Description: | A composite methodology based on quantitative and semi-quantitative criteria is proposed as a result of numerous project assessments in the frame of the R&D programs of the Information Society Directorate of the European Commission. [Abstract] |
| Title: | Economic Efficiency of Modern Telemedicine |
| Authors: | Andrei Selkov, Valery Stolyar, Oleg Atkov, Russia |
| Description: | The results of our research have shown that tele-consultation centers are economically feasible. The main result of the research was the fact that telemedicine consultations centers in small cities are a good return on small investments. [Abstract] |
| Title: | Intelligent Biomedical Clothing: The Future of Personalized Health Management? |
| Authors: | Andreas Lymberis, European Commission, Information Society Directorate-General, Brussels, Belgium |
| Description: | The development of Intelligent Biomedical Clothing (IBC) is based on multidisciplinary research and requires a strong co-operation between engineers and scientists from fields including, mobile and wireless telecommunications, microsystems and nanotechnologies, textile & clothing, biomedical engineering, telemedicine, as well as public health and healthcare. Several issues remain to be solved before large scale trials and clinical validations and the presentation underlines them: production of higher conductivity textile material, cleaning and washing, signal processing and data interpretation, user acceptance and business models, misuse of data collected as well as social issues. [Abstract] |
| Title: | International Virtual Medical University: Current Status and Development Perspectives of the French Project Including its Extension to Developing Countries |
| Authors: | André Morin, Albert-Claude Benhamou, André Bonnin, Marcel Spector, France Aly Chehata, Tunisia |
| Title: | Modern Telecommunication Infrastructure - Basis for the Implementation of Telemedicine Program in Ukraine |
| Authors: | S. Dovgyy, Ukrtelecom, Ukraine |
| Description: | The successful introduction of telemedicine services is required a modern digital telecommunication infrastructure which allows high speed transmission and exchange of different medical information. In order to better coordinate the activities by different organizations interested in the offering and developing of telemedicine services, the Telemedicine Program of Ukraine is under preparation where Ukrtelecom is playing the leading role in close cooperation the Medical Academy of Ukraine, the Ministry of Health and other medical institutions. The presentation will provide the explanation of activities under the Telemedicine Program of Ukraine including the development of some software and hardware as well. [Abstract] |
| Title: | Overview of the HINE project and new trends for the future |
| Authors: | François Daue, Deloitte & Touche, Health Centre of Excellence, Belgium |
| Description: | The HINE (Health Information Network Europe) project is a collaboration between Deloitte & Touche, the European Commission and 21 Industrial Founder Members. HINE arises from a desire to understand the challenges health care is facing and how ICT could bring added value. The programme consists of studies on, among others, the use of ICT with citizens-patients, GPs and hospitals and provides a unique mix of market data, analysis and forecasting based on desk and primary quantitative and qualitative research. Main topics reported on are: the converging forces, current status on new media, market drivers & barriers, prognosis for the future - the leading-edge applications, and pace of change - opportunities at short-medium term. [Abstract] |
| Title: | "SmartCards" as a pivotal tool for pan-European e-Health realization |
| Authors: | Benny Elmann-Larsen, European Space Agency, TM-Alliance, The Netherlands |
| Description: | TM-Alliance consortium recently organised a workshop “Electronic Cards in Citizen Health Care”, held in Barcelona 13-15 March 2003. This workshop served three purposes (1) To identify what for, for whom, how and the interoperability of electronic patients’ cards, (2) to identify the conditions under which ‘SmartCards’ will work optimally as the central pivotal tool and (3) To evaluate the type, magnitude and complexity of the difficulties of solving problems across borders, and, to investigate the methodology for other e-health telemedicine applications. A summary of the results of this workshop, the next steps to be taken, and a vision of the ultimate goals will be presented. [Abstract] |
| Title: | Social Efficiency of Modern Telemedicine |
| Authors: | Valery Stolyar, Andrei Selkov, Oleg Atkov, Elena Chueva, Moscow, Russia |
| Description: | As a country with great intellectual potential, Russia has all necessary conditions for offering good products to the new market. One of the examples of a successful competitive product of the Russian information economy is the telemedicine project "Moscow - Russian Regions", whose favourable development may result in the offering of a range of intellectual products in the market. [Abstract] |
| Title: | Telemedicine Policy of the International Telecommunication Union - Assisting Developing Countries |
| Authors: | Petko Kantchev, ITU, Switzerland |
| Description: | ITU telemedicine study group is able to present a worldwide experience and share information as well to identify strategies to initiate telemedicine applications. It is unique in the world dealing with the needs of developing countries and consists with experts from developed and developing countries. In addition to this the Telecommunication Development Bureau has commenced the implementation pilot projects in different developing countries in order to demonstrate the potential of telemedicine to improve the medical service. [Abstract] |
| Title: | The European Telemedicine Market: Technology of the Future? |
| Authors: | Axel Baccari, Frost & Sullivan, UK |
| Description: | The presentation focuses on telemedicine market definition and telemedicine market age. Examples from tele-cardiology, tele-surgery, tele-radiology and tele-pathology are given. Future trends in telemedicine market are discussed. [Full Presentation] |
| Title: | Towards a Framework for Assessing the Impact of Telemedicine in Developing Country Environments: Couching the IOM Model within the new WHO Health System Framework |
| Authors: | S. Yunkap Kwankam, Mila Garcia-Barbero, World Health Organization, Switzerland |
| Description: | Despite the growing use of telemedicine, policy advice to low and middle income countries on this technology remains a challenge. In order to offer sound advice to these countries, it is important to strengthen the evidence base on the impact of telemedicine on, and identify best practices in, its use for, improving resource generation and service provision, increasing coverage of populations in need and supporting assessment of provider performance. In this vein the paper attempts to couch the Institute of Medicine model, within the new WHO health system framework. It is expected that this will lead to a framework that addresses the problem of causal attribution and takes into account the paucity of data in developing countries environments. [Abstract] |
| Title: | Where is E-Health Market? |
| Authors: | Leonid Androuchko, ITU-D Study Group, Switzerland |
| Description: | The interest to E-Health is growing everywhere. For countries with limited medical expertise and resources, E-Health facilities can provide partly a solution on how to improve the access to existing medical resources. Several developing countries after their experience in pilot telemedicine projects are moving now to the national telemedicine programs showing that E-Health market will be much quicker grow in developing countries. [Abstract] |