ISfTeH - International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth

ISfTeH Working Groups

Within the frame of the ISfTeH, Working Groups play a major role. They are conducted by members for members.

A “Working Groups” committee has been installed to oversee the work of the Groups:
Frank Lievens, Chair
Rajendra Gupta
Claudia Bartz
Frederic Lievens

You can access the available information about each of the above Working Groups on their specific webpages by clicking on the links in the sidebar.

ISfTeH WORKING GROUPS MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

If you wish to participate actively in the works of some of the ISfTeH Working Groups please apply as follows:

You have to be direct (Individual, Nurse or Student) or affiliate ISfTeH member. Affiliate members are recognized and contributing members/partners in a National, Association, Institutional or Corporation and will have to submit copy of a membership certificate from one of these groups.
You will have to apply for WG membership via the online application. In order to see the application form at the bottom of this page, please login to the ISfTeH website using your Username and Password (see login link at the top of the website). Affiliate members have to receive the Username/Password from their Society/Association.
Within the frame of the ISfTeH, Working Groups play a major role. They are conducted by members for members. Therefore, if at any time, direct or affiliate membership is stopped, the WG membership will also be ceased automatically.

Looking forward to welcoming you soon as participant in one (or more) of the current Working Groups.

Collaborative Care Team in Open Source

Etienne SALIEZ - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Thomas KAROPKA - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Syed Mohammad HOSEIMI GHARATEKAN

Members and Contacts
- List of Members and some contributors
- New partners are invited to join: Rather than developing applications in isolation, consider to participate in a community sharing experience and Open Source modules.

Mission Statement

Medical collaborations:
- Support of collaboration between the care providers in charge of a common patient, across Internet.
- A problem solving approach: maintenance of an up to date overview of the patient "Problem List", with links to the secondary details explaining why a problem has been identified and which actions haven been started. Telemedicine as an iterative care process from "What is known up to now" and "What to do next".
- Initial focus on the most common requirements in most care situations. To be incremented step by step to more specific features in function of particular diseases and medical specialties.
- Education by means of contextual training: on the occasion of the encountered problems provide explanations and references to more fundamental knowledge.
- The possibility to extract anonymous data for statistical studies.
Informatics collaborations:
- Sharing technical know-how about softwares and telecommunications, including all source code and documentation, i.e. an "Open Source" approach.
- Facilitation of the reuse of software components, in the public domain.
- Distributed developments across an international Open Source community.
- Role Based Access Control based on the care team, known and accepted by the patient.
- Coordination of professional support services at regional level.

What to do

Medical Challenges and Requirements Analysis
- Issues:
- Analysis of the care process:
  - Task model, Iterative Care Model
  - Data Model
- Specifications proposal for modular components.

How to achieve it

Open Source strategies
- Shared Open Source software components:
  - Review of available Open Source softwares: http://www.medfloss.org
  - Identification of components which can be reused and integrated:
    - Common software:
    - Additional in function of specialized contexts
  - Distributed shared efforts are far less expensive. Nevertheless some resources are necessary for coordination and maintenance.
- Support Services:
  - Professional support services are critical for the exploitation.
  - Support services are traditional business competing on quality and prices.

Current projects

Operational IPATH network
- Telemedicine platform providing medical advices on images, operational in developing countries since 2002. Isolated health centers send pathology images and get second opinion from pathology experts across the Internet.
IMMM, Interactive Medical Mind Maps
- Better understanding between patient Care Team members, in front of a common graph showing the relations between Observations, Health Issues and Actions.
MEDFLOSS
- Database of medical software components, available as Open Source in the public domain. Promotion of sharing Open Source components and integration.
PBTL, Problem Based Tele-Learning in Open Source:
- Tele-training for junior doctors, medical students, nurses, etc... under supervision of a coach. Making health education available and affordable in remote regions.
Open Source support services
- How to manage the support services, which are necessary in order to maintain the system operational and sutainable.
.....

Call for participation in the Open Source Working Group

Challenges:
- There are many issues to be discussed about the current project. Your questions and suggestions about other issues are also very welcome, particularly about your requirements and solutions which could potentially be shared with other Open Source partners.
Participation in the working group:
- Unfortunately, the Med-e-Tel conference, one of our usual annual meeting places with an "Open Source Village", will not take place this year (2018). But there are various other meeting opportunities at other ISfTeH events or events organized by ISfTeH members and partners. And if you travel to Brussels, contact us for a personal meeting and discussion opportunity!
- Being a 'tele'medicine association, we will obviously also focus on interactive video discussions and webinars.
- Send us your contact details, your topics of interest and how you would like to contribute to the activities of the Open Source Working group, at the medical or informatics side.
Support:
- Join the ISfTeH as a member, and actively contribute to the Open Source Working Group. For more information about membership of this Open Source Working Group, go here.
- Donations to the ISfTeH Open Source Working Group are welcome (donations go via the ISfTeH non-profit association).
Contact: Etienne Saliez and Thomas Karopka.

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Education

eHealth Economics

Masatsugu TSUJI - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Piotr SKARZYNSKI
Dina ZIADLOU
Anthony Paulo SUNJAYA
Moustafa ALI
Olakanmi OLAGBEGI

Objectives:

The eHealth Economics Working Group consists of members of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth who are interested in research, promotion, or implementation of eHealth from an economics point of view.

eHealth/telemedicine are the application of ICT (information and communication technology) to medicine, which enables medical professionals such as doctors or nurses to examine, consult and monitor remote patients or senior people at home without face-to-face basis.

eHealth economics aims to analyzes eHealth/telemedicine by using economics, which includes theoretical as well as empirical studies, legal issues such as license or credentials to practice eHealth and telemedicine, and policy such as deregulation and reimbursement from medical insurance for further diffusion of eHealth and telemedicine.

In order to activate this academic as well as policy research and discussion, it is indispensable to share ideas, opinions, contemporary information on cutting-edge technologies, and policies of different countries among members in order to promote eHealth and telemedicine. In other words, this group is an essential platform for members who intend to vitalize and enhance further utilization of eHealth and telemedicine. By sharing information and in-depth discussions, members of this group will be able to contribute to the promotion of eHealth and telemedicine.

Students

Adolfo Sparenberg - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Thais Russomano - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Members:

Log on to the website and see list of ISfTeH student members at www.isfteh.org/members.

Virtual Education Presentations

Tele-Nursing

Claudia Bartz - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Pirkko Kouri (ISfTeH Board of Directors Liaison to the TWG) - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Konstantinos Antypas - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Vision:
Nurses extending their reach through technology and improving the quality of healthcare delivery worldwide.

Mission:
Provide a forum for exchange of knowledge and experiences of nurses and others who are working with or supporting nurses using eHealth applications.

Objectives:
• Technology:
   - Advocate for increased use and evaluation of telehealth services by nurses.
   - Stimulate innovative ideas and promote initiatives for further development of eHealth.
• Business:
   - Support interdisciplinary telehealth collaboration for improved healthcare delivery and outcomes.
• Professional:
   - Advance nurses’ knowledge and skills in telehealth through dissemination of research findings,
     education programmes, and practice guidelines.
   - Advocate ethical use of telehealth services.

Members:
Log on to the website and see the list of ISfTeH Nurse members at www.isfteh.org/members

Collaborations:
• American Telemedicine Association Telehealth Nursing Special Interest Group
• International Council of Nurses Telenursing Network
• South African Telemedicine Association Telehealth Nursing Special Interest Group

Virtual Education Presentations

Virtual Nursing Webinar (19 November 2018) :

On Monday, 19th November 2018 the TeleNursing Working Group of the ISfTeH organised a webinar with the theme: Nordic e-Health National Strategies for Nurses: Content, Vision, Results and International Relevance. The first presenter, Pirkko Kouri, the Vice-President of ISfTeH and Principal Lecturer of the Savonia University of Applied Sciences in Finland, presented the Finnish strategy along with their experiences from developing it and applying it. The second presenter, Kathy Mølstad, Senior Adviser for the Norwegian Nursing Association, presented the Norwegian their experiences from developing and applying a strategy for eHealth and later a platform for innovation. There were about 30 participants in the webinar, and some of them were actively involved in the discussion that followed the presentations. Among other topics, the discussion evolved around nursing aspects of Electronic Health Records in Nordic and other countries.
Here is the link to the Recorded Session.

Virtual Nursing Education Session (9 April 2018):

Intervention Research in Nursing: Where we are now and why we need it (Clarissa Rodrigues, PhD)
Tele-Assistance Strategies to Support Institutionalized Elderly (Patricia Dias, MSc)

Watch the video from webinar

Virtual Nursing Education Session (22 May 2017):

Evidence-based Practice of Tele-ICU implementation

Watch the video from webinar (the session starts at Minute 53)

Virtual Nursing Education Session (4 November 2016):

Watch the video from webinar

Med-e-Tel 2016 (8 April 2016)

Watch the video from webinar

Virtual Nursing Education Session (20 January 2016)

Application of the Telephone Nursing Process Model (pdf), watch the video from webinar
Patient Privacy in Telehealth (pdf), watch the video from webinar

CBTms2015 "Telehealth for Universal Health Coverage," 20th ISfTeH International Conference, Rio de Janeiro Brazil (28-30 October 2015):

ICN Conference 2015 (20 June 2015):

Med-e-Tel (24 April 2015):

Virtual Nursing Education Session (20 November 2014):

Virtual Nursing Education Session (23 July 2014):

Virtual Nursing Education Session (11 April 2013):

Virtual Nursing Education Session (15 November 2012):

Integrating Tele-nursing into Home Care Nursing Services

Virtual Nursing Education Session (18 July 2012):

Two Eyes are Better than One: Leveraging Telemedicine in the eICU

Virtual Nursing Education Session (18 April 2012):

Virtual Nursing Education Sessions (18 January 2012)

eHealth Strategies

Finnish Nurses Association's Digital Social and Health Services Strategy, May 2021:

https://sairaanhoitajat.fi/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/E-health-2021_.pdf

eHealth Strategy of the Finnish Nurses Association 2015-2020:

http://www.nurses.fi/nursing_and_nurse_education_in_f/ehealth-strategy-of-the-finnish-/

Tele-Dentistry

Márcia Maria Pereira Rendeiro - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Caren Serra Bavaresco - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Mary Caroline Skelton Macedo

Virtual Education Presentations

Webinar dd. 15th December, 2017:

Number of Registrations: 55

Number of Attendees: 33

Presentations by

° Dr. Ana Estela Haddad : “Brazilian Special Interest Group of Teledentistry of the University Telemedicine Network – RUTE”

° Dr. Deise Garrido : “Dentistry eLearning Course for Special Needs Patients”

This webinar was fully recorded (slides + speech content)

Webinar dd. 5th December, 2018:

Number of Registrations: 12

Number of Attendees: 12

The Session Coordinator/Moderator Prof Dr Caren Serra Bavaresco

Presentation by

° Prof Dr Vinicus Carrard: "Estomatonet"

This webinar was fully recorded (slides + speech content)

To find out more about WG, please read the attached file by Márcia Maria Pereira Rendeiro of UERJ Brazil.

Download (pdf)
ISfTeH Teledentistry Working Group Teleodontology_Working_Group_UERJ-_BRAZIL.pdf.pdf (339,642kb)

Junior Doctors

Marco Capizzi, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Aim

The ISfTeH Junior Doctors Working Group aims to spread eHealth knowledge between Junior Doctors and involve them in Telemedicine and eHealth related initiatives. Junior doctors represent a generation of doctors already involved in clinical practice and particularly able to use new technologies and to imagine new ways of practicing medicine. For this reason they can be considered a key component towards a successful implementation of new technologies in health assistance and education, being a bridge between the worlds of students and senior doctors.

Collaborations

In the autumn of 2012 ISfTeH and its Med-e-Tel conference signed a memorandum of understanding with EJD (European Junior Doctors) in order to create a framework of cooperation with the European Junior Doctors association involved in the development of medical profession and education.

Tele-Opthalmology

Yogesan Kanagasingam - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

International Tele-Opthalmology Working Group (ITOWG)

Due to considerable demand from around the globe for tele-ophthalmology, we are in the process of establishing a Working Group for Tele-ophthalmology under ISfTeH. ITOWG and its activities will promote the use of telemedicine in fields related to ophthalmology and optometry. It will support and advice the use of Tele-ophthalmology among new professionals, and also contributing to its development, producing innovation, knowledge, techniques, results and impacts.

We expect ophthalmologists, optometrists, eye care providers, nurses, researchers and industry to be member of this WG and contribute their expertise to the group. We will have a blog for this WG and expect to have regular web-conference sessions talking about various tele-ophthalmology projects from around the world. We are also interested to establish a project database from around the world which will have access to our members only.

This WG is coordinated by Prof Yogesan from Australia who is also a former Board Member of the ISfTeH.

Prof. Yogesan Kanagasingam nominated for prestigious award

Prof. Yogesan Kanagasingam, coordinator of the ISfTeH Tele-Opthalmology Working Group, has been nominated as one of the finalist for Australian of the Year 2015, in honour of his work in Telemedicine and Ophtalmology. For more information, see: http://csironewsblog.com/2014/11/13/the-eyes-have-it-is-this-our-next-australian-of-the-year

Women (WoW)

Véronique-Ines Thouvenot - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Anna Schmaus-Klughammer - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Lenka Lhotska - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Claudia BARTZ
Pirkko KOURI
Lady MURRUGARA
Mette Maria SKJOETH
Olivia VELEZ
Dina ZIADLOU
Sapna Ghei SINGH
Wissal SENGOUGA
Angelica SILVA
Eloisa Karine BRAGA LOPES

The Working Group on Women develops actions to support and promote de role of Women in the areas of Telemedicine and eHealth in the world. It aims at developping collaborations with others WG, the Journal of the ISfTeH and international partners to make women visible in international conferences and scientific publications.

International Conferences

Women in eHealth – Partnering Globally in Digital Health
26th ISfTeH International Conference, 7-8 March 2022, Dubai, UAE
Organized by the ISfTeH Working Group on Women (WoW) and Telenursing Working Group
The purpose of this session was to inform participants about the wide scope of eHealth/digital health solutions that exisit in many specialties and settings. Participants were encouraged to identify their current level of knowledge and abilities and consider how they can advance themselves personally while also contributing to health care delivery systems and care recipient outcomes.
See the entire session here: https://youtu.be/Lb3Al-aFOPw

The Working Group on Women organised the Women Special Sessions at Medetel 2013 - 2017, with the support of Klughammer (http://www.klughammer.com), and the Women Observatory for eHealth of the Foundation Millennia2025 (http://www.m2025-weobservatory.org). An initial study conducted on Women and eHealth in 2010 - 2012 (http://www.m2025-weobservatory.org/wehealth.html), helped to shape the programmes at Medetel, with a focus on Education, Research, Collaborations and Dissemination (http://www.m2025-weobservatory.org/medetel.html).

Since 2017, WoW is present at the Université eSanté, Castres, France (https://www.universite-esante.com/) and eHealthWorld in Monaco (https://e-healthworld.com/) and ISfTeH annual conference in Lisbon, Portugal (https://www.isfteh.org/news/24th_isfteh_international_conference)

Scientific articles at the Journal JISfTeH

Three Special Issues of the Journal of the International Society of Telemedicine and eHealth (JISfTeH, http://journals.ukzn.ac.za/index.php/JISfTeH/) on "Women in eHealth", 2015, 2017 and 2018-2019 are published, with sixteen articles authored by women (http://www.m2025-weobservatory.org/journal-of-isfteh---wow.html).

Collaborations WoW and ISfTeH Working Groups

WoW - Tele-Nursing:

In the context of WHO YEAR OF THE NURSE AND THE MIDWIFE 2020, The Special Issue at the JISfTeH on "Telehealth in Nursing" is published in collaboration with WG Tele-Nursing: https://www.m2025-weobservatory.org/uploads/3/9/5/1/39512321/telehealth_in_nursing_2020_web_final.pdf.

With one Guest Editorial « Nurses and Midwives in eHealth » by Claudia C Bartz, Pirkko Kouri and Veronique Thouvenot, and five articles authored by nurses or midwives as principal authors. They cover the areas of nursing research, the development of a web application in Brazil, attitudes toward information technology in Sri Lanka, predictions of the future of healthcare in Finland, and malnutrition among pregnant women, mothers and babies in the rural amazonian forest.

WoW - Francophonie:

Sixteen abstracts of the articles published at the JISfTeH since 2015 are translated in French (http://www.m2025-weobservatory.org/journal-of-isfteh---wow.html) in collaboration with WG Francophonie (https://www.isfteh.org/working_groups/category/francophonie).

WoW and Francophonie attend the annual conference Université eSanté in Castres, France ( https://www.universite-esante.com).

Please visit: wow.isfteh.org

Medical & Bio-Informatics

Abdel-Badeeh Salem - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Dina Ziadlou - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Ram PRAKASH
Jeremiah ACHARIBASAM
Anthony Paulo SUNJAYA
Olaolorun AYANDOKUN
Opeyemi Paul Iyiola

This new ISfTeH Working Group has been created under the coordination of
Prof. Abdel-Badeeh Salem, Professor of Computer Science
Head of BioMedical Informatics and Knowledge Engineering Research Lab,
Faculty of Computer and Information sciences
Ain Shams University, Abbasia, Cairo, Egypt
Individual member of the ISfTeH

Announcements – September 2019

WEBINAR: Digital Health Leadership in the Healthcare Organizations

26 September 2019 (9:00am Pacific daylight time, 6:00pm CEST).

Moderator: Dr. Michele Griffith - ISfTeH Board Member

Speaker: Dr. Dina Ziadlou

Announcements – December 2017

International Workshop Knowledge Engineering in Medical and Bio- Informatics, KEMBI

In the frame of International Conference on Communication, Management and Information Technology, ICCMIT'18

Madrid, Spain on 2-4 April, 2018

Knowledge engineering (KE) deals with the development of intelligent information systems in which knowledge and reasoning play pivotal role. KEMBI will bring researchers, developers, practitioners, and users to present their latest research, results, and ideas in all areas of knowledge engineering, machine learning and artificial intelligence in life and health sciences.KEMBI will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between physicians and computer scientists, and knowledge engineers to address the important issues in those areas. Papers related to methodologies, techniques and applications in bio-medical informatics and smart e-Health systems are especially solicited.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

Health Care Information Systems
Computational Intelligence in life sciences
Machine Learning in Big Biomedical Data Analytics
Knowledge Engineering in Health Sciences
Clinical Information Systems
Medical Image Processing and Techniques
Medical Intelligent Systems for different medical tasks
Medical Expert Systems
Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
Telemedicine Software, Portals, Devices and Telehealth
Web-based and Remote Medicine
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Medicine
Machine Learning-based Medical Systems
Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Health Sciences
Medical Databanks, Databases, and Knowledge Bases
Neurocomputing in Medicine
Ontology and Medical Information Science
Bioethics and Health informatics

Chairs and Organizer Prof. Dr. Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Prof. of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Head of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering Research Labs, Ain Sham Univ, Egypt

Coordinator of Medical and Bio-Informatics Working Group, ISfTeH, Switzerland

Contact: abmsalem@yahoo.com, absalem@cis.asu.edu.eg

Announcements – June 2013

1) Bio-informatics, Medical Informatics and e-Health, BiMi&eH
The workshop will be held in the frame of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems, ICICIS’13
14-16 December, 2013 - Cairo, Egypt
The Conference is organized by the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University, Cairo

2) Tutorial on Elements and Methods of Artificial Intelligence in BioMedical Informatics, July 7th - Desio, Italy
in the frame of e-Government &e-Health,eGeH’13
July 7–10, 2013 - Desio, Italy
Polo Tecnologico Universitario Desio / Desio Technological University Center
Villa Tittoni- Traversi, Via Lampugnani 66, Desio/Monza e Brianza (Italy)

3) EMMIT 2013, Euro-Mediterranean Medical Informatics and Telemedicine, 9th International Meeting e-Health and Telemedicine in Mediterranean Countries
October 21-23, 2013 - Nador, Morocco
Tutorial on Knowledge Engineering in Medicine and Health Care

Further information about the Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics and eHealth can be found at:
http://www.warse.org/ijbmieh.html
http://www.warse.org/ijbmieh-editorial-board.html

Chronic Disease Management

Gianfranco Mochi - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Morteza Ghareh Gozlou
Nixon Tiberio Garcia Mendez
Taiwo Ojo
Maxwell Dzokoto
Dina Ziadlou
Jeremiah Acharibasam
Anthony Paulo Sunjaya
Rohin Rameswarapu

The so called “Chronic Disease Management” approach wants to achieve two clear goals: a better life for chronic patients and a better use of healthcare resources. That can be done by implementing a sound organisation and standardised procedures, as well as taking advantage of the more and more rapidly developing ICT applications. This ISfTeH Working Group aims to promote the cooperation among professionals, companies and institutions with different viewpoints, approaches, expertise and cultures in the field of Chronic Disease Management.

Vision
The shift towards new models of homecare can generate a better quality of life for the patients and a
more sustainable use of the available resources.

Mission Statement
Employing ethics, technology and multidisciplinary expertise to achieve measurable outcomes on chronic
patients’ wellness and healthcare cost containment.

Main goals

Finding a consensus about terminology and fields of application.
Focusing on the real needs and expectations of patients and payers.
Promoting the model shift among healthcare providers, institutions and the society.
Drawing dynamic models suitable for different cultures and organizations.
Boosting and supporting multinational/multispecialty projects and experiences.
Developing tools and procedures aimed to measure the projects’ outcomes.
Suggesting operational guidelines for different pathologies.
Recommending standards for data protection, collection, transmission and storage, as well as for medical devices and software applications.
Building an interactive web-site aimed to receive and spread consistent information, including databases focused on:

               · professionals, companies, sponsors/funders potentially interested in partnerships,
               · hardware/software/ICT providers,
               · published studies about Chronic Disease Management,
               · achieved clinical and economical outcomes,
               · in-progress projects and experiences in different countries.

To join the workgroup or for more information, please contact Dr Gianfranco Mochi at gmochi@telecare-europe.com

Iberian and Iberian-American Working Group

Luis Gonçalves - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Lady Murrugarra - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Marcial Garcia Rojo - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Marisela Cigliuti
Nando Campanella

Languages: English, Spanish and Portuguese
Objectives:
1 – Collaborating with scientific societies, universities and health organizations to promote the use of telemedicine and e-health.
2 – Promoting both the pregaduate education and continuing education of professional in e-health in the native language of each territory in the ibero-american countries.
3 – Disseminations of the ibero-american telemedicine experiences in all the world.

Recommended references (in ibero-american languages):
- Jornal Brasileiro de Telessaúde - http://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/index.php/jbtelessaude/index
- Revista Informática y Salud (I+S) - http://www.seis.es/Revista.html
- Livro e-saúde – you must reserve it in tipografia@ubi.pt. In the next days the ebook edition will available.

Next activities:
- Curso Introduccion a la Informatica en Salud y Telemedicina (Panamá)
- III Forum Telesalut@ SITT, Barcelona

We kindly appeal to everybody to collaborate and send inputs to the Iberian and Iberian-American working group (ISfTeH)

Qualified scientific literature on Covid-19, for the benefit of health workers:

Tutorial multimídia de apenas 12 minutos para o ensino completo da interpretação da citologia urinaria:

Prezados Doutores do centro de telessaúde do SPMS do Portugal e colegas da Hiberiae Societas Telemedicinae et Telesanitas,
https://youtu.be/wEj-XdhCXdE
Encontrem quanto no assunto.
O acompanhamento dos pacientes operados por neoplasias das baixas vias urinarias é importante para reduzir o número de cistoscopías que são bem descomfortáveis e caras para o sistema de saúde.
Os atlas de citologia geralmente são também muito caros, pouco acessíveis para estudantes de áreas remotas, que tenham pouca disponibilidade de recursos. Assim, este tutorial multimídia pode apoiar o aprendizado rápido e barato de citotecnologistas e patologistas.
É fato que as tecnologias da informação e comunicação subverteram os conhecimentos essenciais do profissional de saúde e estão fornecendo ao ensino médico novas ferramentas avançadas. Acredito que no próximo futuro os tutoriais multimídia substituirão os manuais tradicionais e as apostilas para o aprendizado médico, pelo menos em cirurgia, patologia e diagnóstico por imagem.
Finalmente, como processo de desenvolvimento e divulgação da nossa escola de e-saúde, este tutorial multimídia foi editado de acordo com um padrão “smart”, permitindo a tradução rápida para outros idiomas e também ideogramas.
Obrigado pela atenção.
Nando Campanella

Download (pdf)
The Transition from Reimagining to Recreating Health Care is Now Telemedicine_NEJM.pdf.pdf (178,924kb)

Social Media

Harris Lygidakis - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Raquel Gomez Bravo - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Phanish Chandra

Vision
The aim of the ISfTeH #SoMe Working Group is to encourage Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) to use Social Media meaningfully for the improvement of healthcare services and health.

Mission
Our mission is to provide support and means for HCPs that facilitate the employment of Social Media in the everyday practice, the medical education and in various special interest projects, including those related to Public Health and chronic disease management, in partnership with patients, policy makers, the administration and the industry.

Webinars

Session # 1 : 25th February 2015

An Introduction to Facebook for Health Professionals

Facebook is an underused and often misunderstood tool for health professionals. In different occasions, we had the opportunity to discuss with colleagues a broad array of issues related to its use:

it seems difficult to configure the security and privacy settings and there is low awareness of them;
there is no guarantee that the befriended person is really who you think he/she is;
the communication is carried out in a non-private (non HIPAA-compliant) environment where advertisement is ubiquitous;
people are unrestrained to say anything they want (aka the bad-mouthing scare and the bragging effect);
many workplaces still lack policies and others just block the access shortsightedly;
befriending patients and protecting their privacy causes anxiety and discomfiture;
there is dearth of time and the ROI is still questionable to many.

Some of these issues reveal a generic skepticism vis-à-vis the entire Social Media universe, and not only towards Facebook. As health professionals however, we are ethically and legally obliged to stay up-to-date with the most recent evidence and advances of our discipline. From the same standpoint, we also need to stay on guard for any changes that affect society, as they may influence our decisions ultimately; the Family Doctors who adopt the bio-psychosocial model in their practice should understand this. Hence, if our patients are on Social Media or will use whatever will be the next big thing in communication, we should adopt an exploratory and diligent attitude and potentially (but not unconditionally) employ the new tool.

Facebook (and by extension Social Media) should not be considered as a mere technological means, but should be seen through the prism of our professionalism and social responsibility. We need to consider it as a professional and strategic tool and as such, it is of utmost importance to study its manual and code of conduct very carefully before using it (or to paraphrase John C. Dvorak, a license should be necessary). Wouldn’t we do the same with our newly acquired EKG device?
Raquel Gomez Bravo and Harris Lygidakis, alongside the support of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (ISfTeH), piloted an introductory webinar on Facebook with the objective to raise awareness and help our colleagues. If you weren't able to join it, you can now view the recording and learn the basics to kick off your journey on Facebook: http://www.anymeeting.com/009-942-028/E156D6858949

Reports

"#Med-e-Tel : The Twitter Hashtag"

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UPCH EN FORO INTERNACIONAL SOBRE SALUD ELECTRÓNICA, TELEMEDICINA Y TICs EN LUXEMBURGO

La utilización de procesos y comunicaciones electrónicas en la práctica médica ha supuesto una revolución muy positiva de los sistemas sanitarios, no sólo de Europa, sino de diversas partes del mundo. Es en ese sentido que el “INTERNATIONAL eHEALTH, TELEMEDICINE AND HEALTH ICT FORUM For Education, Networking and Business 2014” desarrollado del 8 al 12 de abril en el Gran Ducado de Luxemburgo presentó las experiencias elaboradas en diversos países. Fueron 197 trabajos y resúmenes de 52 países, que fueron presentados en el Med-e-Tel 2014.

Lady Murrugarra Velarde, Coordinadora de e-Prevención en América Latina y el Caribe y Coordinador de Telesalud del Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt (IMT-AvH) de la UPCH, fue la única representante peruana en este evento Internacional y compartió los resultados de los cursos online que se vienen realizando hace varios años en el Perú, gracias al apoyo económico de las entidades financieras extranjeras para la formación del personal de salud de la Región Andina y el Caribe sin costo alguno.

Uno de estos proyectos de los 5 seleccionados a nivel mundial titulado “e-Prevención” es aquel que busca asegurar la potenciación de las capacidades del personal de enfermería usando las TICs y los servicios de telemedicina en las comunidades de la Región Andina y el Caribe, el cual se trabaja junto instituciones como la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS), Conectando Enfermería, Fundación Millennia 2025 y el IMT-AvH de la UPCH.

Lady, también participó como miembro de IET Women's Network en el panel sobre “The women observatory for e-health”, cuyo objetivo fue identificar, crear oportunidades de colaboración entre profesionales de la salud y agentes industriales, además los asistentes recibieron información sobre nuevos progresos tecnológicos en el ámbito sanitario a nivel mundial destinados a mejorar la atención que reciben los pacientes.

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Tele-Audiology

Piotr H. Skarżyński - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Henryk Skarżyński - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Daniel SCHAUDEL
Cherisse MARK

Overall goals of the Working Group

The coordination and scientific and clinical development of the National Network of Teleaudiology.
Hearing implants’ telefitting is a clue component of postoperative patients’ health-care, by providing the optimum auditory nerve electrical stimulation parameters.
By providing state-of- the-art telemedicine solutions, it enables reduced medical costs for otolaryngology, the ability to conduct remote consultations, conferences, treatments and rehabilitation without the need for specialists or patients to travel all over the country.
Support for physicians and other specialists from smaller medical centers, creating the opportunity to experts assistance in Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, South America.
Improved qualifications of less experienced medical staff watching the work of the experts: organizing Windows Approach Workshop.
Hearing screening around the world. Screening was performed using the Platform of Sensory Organs Examination; on the basis of the audiometric procedure of measuring the hearing threshold.
Actively participates in didactic activity on the Speech Therapy and Audiology specialization run at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, as well as takes care of specialists undergoing the trainings.

TELEFITTING

One of the major technological breakthroughs in the telemedicine development by Institute of Physiology and Hearing Pathology, took place in 2007. This huge step forward was the creation of a telefitting pilot study. Over the years, the Institute has developed and deployed to clinical practice system that will enable the creation of a network of cooperation abroad centers and throughout the country - the National Network of Teleaudiology in 2009.

To obtain the best hearing beneﬁts after cochlear implantation, the speech processor must be optimally ﬁtted. The majority of patients have been implanted and are unable to receive correct implant fitting. They have to undertake a long trip to the cochlear implant clinic, and this incurs high cost, time, and travel weariness. To overcome this problem, ‘teleﬁtting’ has been proposed.

Remote fitting of the cochlear implant system

Four PC computers are used for the remote fitting method: two on the patient’s side and two on the specialist’s side. On both sides, internet cameras, microphones, and loudspeakers are used to provide communication between the patient and the specialist. One of the computers on patient’s side is equipped with clinical interfaces to provide communication with the speech processor and the implant.

The patient’s speech processor is connected to the clinical interface on computer at the distant polyclinic. The fitting specialist, working on computer in the International Center of Hearing of Speech, using a remote desktop application, takes control of patient computer via an internet connection. It is now possible to start fitting the software and to perform any actions necessary for measurements and fittings. The communication between the specialists and the patient is secured by the use of an audio-video connection over the Internet. On the patient’s site there are also support specialists — speech therapists, etc., providing help for the patient in the process of communication with the specialists. Commercially available software is used for the remote desktop and audio-video system.

After the session, the support specialist disconnects the processor from the interface and gives the patient a new processor with the programs.

Teleservice of speech processors and hearing aids

• Telemetric measurements to check the internal part of the system

• Objective measurements: electrically elicited compound action potentials

• Programming electrical stimulation parameters into the patient’s speech processor

• Activation of the speech processor in ‘live’ mode

• Consultation about ways to use new settings in the speech processor:

- Remote objective measurements (ECAP, ESR, Telemetry)
- Remote psychophysical measurements (amplitude growth function, threshold detection)

TELERAHABILITATION

Hearing implants’ fitting is a clue component of postoperative patients’ health-care, by providing the optimum auditory nerve electrical stimulation parameters. Often, the need for a regular visits in the Institute involved a long and time-consuming, two-direction journey. As the majority of our patients are children, they were usually exhausted by the trip. This situation influenced negatively patient’s performance during hearing test evaluations, which were of reduced reliability. Such situation translated sometimes into suboptimal hearing implant fit. Additionally, the whole family had to incur high travel expenses, which were a significant burden in many cases.

In 2004, the Home Rehabilitation Clinic was established. Its primary aim was to improve the rehabilitation effectiveness in children with hearing impairments. Additionally, the founders wanted to reduce the high medical and educational expenses of the treatment process. At first, special materials dedicated to parents were prepared, which enabled better understanding of the individual work with a child in home. The next stage in the development of the Home Rehabilitation Clinic was setting up of a program aimed at both patients (including children and their parents) and specialists from all over the country (teachers and educators and students). The clue of the program was to utilize the knowledge, experience and achievements of the multidisciplinary Institute’s team, to develop effective national therapy programs. These ideas are realized to this day through the cooperation of the Center for Observation and Management - Program Coordinator with Regional Centers - Program Implementers via the Internet connection network.

Successful development of the Home Rehabilitation Clinic proved the effectiveness of teleconsultations, relerehabilitation and teleeducation combination. The substantial contribution of various specialists to the program, allowed for joining educational influences with running supervision of the therapy course, including an insight and direct commentary on the observed patient, parent or guardian. In conclusion, the Home Rehabilitation Clinic program is highly accessible and provide different types of consultations according to individual patient’s and parents’ needs.

Creation of the brand-new methods of cochlear implant telefitting system and the use of the Internet in the telerehabilitation process, was possible thanks to intense research, in particular the development of:

cochlear implant teleffiting procedure using Internet connection
methods enabling carrying out a series of psychophysical and objective measurements necessary to make a diagnosis
effective schedules of hearing and speech rehabilitation
testing and selecting the necessary hardware and software for use in telerehabilitation procedures
reliable tools used for monitoring the satisfaction of patients and professionals involved in the method

NATIONAL NETWORK OF TELEAUDIOLOGY

The process of diagnosis, rehabilitation and post-intervention care over patients with hearing impairment, frequently equipped with various kinds of hearing prostheses, usually requires an experienced, multidisciplinary team to undertake repeated sessions with the patient in the clinic. Its entails often long travels to medical center, associated with costs and time-consuming. To reduce patients’ burdens, the Word Hearing Center’s team introduced in 2009 the National Network of Teleaudiology (NNT). The establishment of the National Teleaudiology Network has been in close collaboration with a number of clinical centers in the country. This cooperation deals with both clinical work and new research activities implemented within the Network. Scientific partnerships also include clinical-research centers and medical companies with whom telemedicine research has been done in the past: Spain, Germany, Greece, Switzerland and Austria.

Aims of the National Teleaudiology Network

Versatile care for patients after cochlear implant, audiotory brainstain implant, middle ear implant, bone conductive implant and also modern hearing aid using a programme of the complex and comprehensive health care and matched to the individual needs of every patients.
Coordination of the hearing rehabilitation process that is necessary for development of sound perception and interpretation abilities, and, through systematic training, making speech communication with other people possible
Realization of social, educational, and professional development programmes based on knowledge and experience of the multidisciplinary team of specialists in the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing
Spread of knowledge about cochlear implants and the rehabilitation process of implanted patients.

Technological facilities in National Teleaudiology Network

Multipoint Control Unit RMX2000 video conferencing system, which is a central unit that enables the audio-visual connection of two or more centers together
23 telemedicine offices based on HDX8006 video conferencing bridges, LCD panels and Internet-enabled computers equipped with clinical diagnostic interfaces, impedance audiometers and the necessary software. Video conferencing bridges enable high-quality video and audio streaming, tailored to the capabilities of the Internet connection. Clinical diagnostic interfaces are used to connect hearing implant systems to a computer, and, consequently, to access these systems by an expert via the Internet
Modern Telemedicine Studio OTX300, which is the center of the National Teleaudiology Network, and allows for convenient simultaneous connection with many centers and conducting various teleconsultations at the same time

Each component of the system is connected by a fast Internet that provides high quality of video conferencing and trouble-free remote desktop applications functioning.

At present, the National Teleaudiology Network uses state-of-the-art software and videoconferencing equipment, together with unique testing, measurement and selection procedures for electrical stimulation fitting. It enables the cooperation of specialists from many fields: clinical engineers, physicians, speech therapists, psychologists, to provide the best postoperative care to patients, including hearing implants users. Such a solution is extremely convenient for patients, who save a huge amount of money, nerves and time, visiting the medical centers located nearby their home.

Medical centers collaborate with NNT

Aim of the National Network of Teleaudiology is providing a wide range of telehealth applications like telefitting, telediagnostics, telerehabilitation, or teleeducation. It consists of 21 cooperating centers in Poland and 4 abroad in the Ukraine (Odessa and Lutsk), Belarus (Brest) and Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek). The center of the network is the International Center of Hearing and Speech in Kajetany, from where experienced specialists provide telecare for patients in cooperating polyclinics. Over the years, NNT was repeatedly proven in exceptional situations when, for example, a hearing prosthesis/processor of implant was damaged, and when it was necessary to change its parameters

TELEDIAGNOSTIC

First type testing a patient and then transferring the results via emailing or the Internet to a professional that will look at the results or teleconsultation. Teleconference equipment provides audio and video connection while remote desktop application allows to take the control over the distant computer and perform all necessary measurements.

Second type testing a patient in real-time as if the patient is sitting in front of you. Audiologists are used to testing patients remotely because testing a patient in a sound booth while the audiologist sits outside the booth is virtually the same as testing a patient over the Internet. The window is not a real glass window but a teleconference window. The only real difference is that the physical distance changed.

Tele-ABR

Audiology centers which starts to introduce the objective methods like ABR and otoacustic emission (OAE) as a part of diagnostic procedures for comprehensive hearing evaluation, encounter some problems with the testing procedures. Specific characteristic of the electrophysiological brain stem response ABR, requires fallowing very strict procedures concerning stimulation and acquisition parameters which can have negative impact on the quality of registered parameters and test outcome. In such situation very important is the experts advise which can help in finding the right way to solve the problems. This was the main reason of introducing objective methods of hearing assessment and advanced methodology in telerehabilitation in to 3 clinics abroad – in Ukraine, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan newly added to the National Network of Audiology.

Before starting the examinations local technicians completed comprehensive training courses. They were instructed on the correct patient preparation for testing, abrasions of the skin, electrode sticking, clip attaching, and launching of the appropriate software. Support documentation was prepared. After the test, the results are collected and sent to a specialist in Poland to determine the result. This technology assists clinicians by making it easier for them to consult with other more experienced audiologists.

Telemedical diagnostic-rehabilitation systems Health

TeleZdrowie is a biggest portal offering the harvest of telemedical diagnostic-rehabilitation systems Health. This portal was drawn up in the cooperation of the Cathedral of Multimedia Systems of the Gdańsk technical university and the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of the Hearing. The following systems are available:

"I CAN HEAR" - The system "I CAN HEAR..." is a multimedia computer programme.
The role of the "I CAN HEAR..." system is mainly to test the hearing mainly in children and youth. The tests uses automatic questionnaire analysis, audiometric tone test procedure and testing speech intelligibility in noise. To carry out the tests, you will need, in addition to a PC, audiometric headphones and a calibrator. The calibrator is a small electronic device and comes together with a set of headphones.
“ I CAN SPEAK” - The Universal System for Testing and Rehabilitation of Speech is a multimedia website devoted to the problems of articulation. It is designed to improve the effectiveness and availability of diagnostic and rehabilitation methods used in phoniatry and speech therapy. Speech - the ability to receive and produce language messages - is how humans communicate using sound. The perception of utterances involves the process of hearing and language analysis which leads to the discovery of content. The production of speech begins in the brain when thoughts are formed and processed into signals that control the mechanical motion of articulators. The process activates other organs that are part of speech production: lungs, larynx, and articulators above the larynx (tongue, soft palate, mandible, lips) that make up the articulatory channel (tract).
“I CAN SEE” - System of the eye test \ "I can see... \" is multimedia computer programs. System \ "I can see... \" is intended the eye test of both adults, and children and teenagers. Eye test is based on the automatic analysis of the questionnaire form, the test of the colourful vision, the test of hidden squint and the test of diversifying the contrast.

HEARING SCREENING

Nowadays, audiology and otolaryngology, which are included in preventive medicine, now have many possibilities to assist patients with hearing impairment. However, in order to make full use of these opportunities, hearing disorders or damage should be detected in the early stages. Telemedicine makes possible to monitor many groups, especially children. It gives also the possibility to conduct mass population examinations in this age group as an instrument of national health policy and decrease the costs of healthcare system.

One of the priority activities of the Teleaudiology Working Group is a screening program for children of all ages in collaboration with numerous national centers. We developed methods, procedures and devices for carrying out them. Chairmen are the coordinators of many programs.

Platform for Sense Organs Screening

In 2008 was developed by the Institute of Physiology and Hearing Pathology in cooperation with the Institute of Sensory organs new multimedia tool used in screening – Platform for Sense Organs Screening.

The platform is built around an internet network solution, interfacing a central computer system and a series of portable computers (remote client devices) equipped with audiometric headphones and a response-button interface. The platform allows the user to conduct the following tests:

Audiometric testing: This feature allows the user to perform air conduction audiometric testing for each ear separately, in a tone frequency range from 250 to 8000 Hz and for hearing threshold levels not exceeding 80 dB HL.
Speech screening: The speech test is carried out to obtain reliable information on: (i) the quality of verbal behavior of the child and (ii) the degree of speech development (or of any potential delays) and any pathological linguistic phenomena occurring in the speech of the child.
Audiological survey: This module allows the user to conduct a general survey regarding the hearing, sight, and speech of a patient. The surveys were developed by specialists based on years of experience in specific areas and they provide reliable information on the tested person.
Test module DDT: This is a dichotic listening test. During the test, pairs of sounds are presented to each ear and the task of the tested subjects is to repeat what they heard in one or both ears.
Test module FPT: This is a frequency patterns test. The test items are sequences of three tone bursts that are presented to one or both ears. In each of the sequences two tone bursts are of the same frequency, while the third tone is of a different frequency. There are just two different frequencies used in this test: one is a high-frequency sound and the other a low-frequency sound frequency patterns test.
Test module DPT: This is a duration patterns test. Test consist of sequences of three tones, one of which differs from the other two in the sequences by being either longer or shorter.
Test module GIN: This test allows assessment of the potential of perception of gaps in noise. During the test, the noise is presented with constantly emerging gaps of varying lengths.

System of Integrated Communication Operations „SZOK”®

Every large-scale project involving children or adults, is a great opportunity for early detection of congenital or acquired defects. In response to social needs related to the early detection of birth defects and acquired by detection and prevention, the Institute of Physiology and Hearing Pathology was involved in the implementation of the project, which was named System of Integrated Communication Operations „SZOK”®.

The project's innovation is the use of a system to assist patients with remote diagnosis and to transfer the results of their research to the health services sector. Use of a system to assist patients with remote diagnosis and to transfer audiological screening results to the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Kajetany. Integrating patient data into the "SZOK" ® system, will allow for quick service and thus shorten patient waiting times for visits to IFPS or other specialized facilities and as a comprehensive patient medical base. It is a unique solution in the field of telemedicine and e-health.

Schema of hearing screening protocol

First procedure is videootoscopy. This test is the most accurate visual method examine structure of the outer ear. Examination to check for and diagnose changes in the outer and middle ear between such as earwax, acute or chronic otitis media (with effusion), changes in the fungal infection and tympanic membrane. Examination of the eardrum and ear canal is essential in all ear and hearing health assessments. Digital still images and videos will be recorded during testing child at school and transmitted to the Institute Physiology and Pathology of Hearing for assessment by specialists. Live video consultations have been incorporated into a telehealth service and a reduction in waiting times for specialist services has been shown. This procedures is normally performed by audiologist or otolaryngologist only and provides valuable information. It is a procedures that can be carried out by primary care providers in a telehealth setting after appropriate training.

Afterwards, protocol including Pure Tone Audiometry (PTA) using Platform for Sense Organs Screening. This device is fundamental for inexpensive and universal screening in large population of children. The threshold for air conduction in the frequency range of 500 Hz to 8000 Hz were determined. Result greater than 20 dB at any frequencies indicate possible hearing loss. Moreover, via a network connection, an audiometer was controlled remotely by an audiologist. Results of studies on children have been reported.

Mobile Hearing Center

The Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing have a own truck that they are currently using for running a rural hearing health study – called Mobile Hearing Center. Inside, the truck functions as a regular audiology clinic, only on a much smaller scale. The larger of the two booths has a typical audiology setup with Video Otoscopy, They're able to conduct assessment the external and middle ear. The smaller booth is strictly used for testing adults. It may appear to be a small space; however, it is relatively spacious inside for the patient. Currently, we conduct only hearing screening, but in the future, they hope to have internet on the truck, so when they encounter a situation, (e.g., with video otoscopy), they could evaluate the patient remotely. In that case, it would be a combining of two delivery types. Right now, it is a completely contained mobile audiology clinic, delivering the same level of service as you would expect in a brick and mortar clinic, except that they are able to bring hearing care services to the local community.

TELEEDUCATION

Educational activities

Educational and training activities of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing are addressed to students and different groups of specialists in the fields of hearing, voice, speech and communication disorders, dysfunctions of breathing, balance and recurring infections of the upper airways. These activities are being conducted in collaboration with Polish and foreign research and academic units. Some of the didactic activities are addressed also to patients and their families.

Beneficiaries of the Institute’s educational activities include not only Polish specialists but also, increasingly, specialists from abroad: Europe, Asia, South and North America and Africa.

Educational program bases on the modern methods and forms of education. Courses are conducted both as the stationary studies and as the distance learning (e-learning). The Institute has two high-technology teleconferencing studios that are used for all types of educational activities. An important factor contributing to the high efficacy of the educational process is a modern didactic base of the Institute that includes 7 conference rooms with 800 places, the only in Poland – 2 multimedia studios of telemedicine and a spacious exhibition area. All rooms are furnished with modern audiovisual equipment and systems for transmission of sound and picture between conference rooms and to the internet.

A unique function is the possibility of transmitting the 3D picture from the surgery room to conference rooms. Surgery room has also an audiovisual connection with the state of the art surgical laboratory, enabling course participants to observe the maneuvers of the instructor demonstrating surgical techniques while performing the same procedures on temporal bones.

Window Approach Workshop

Window Approach Workshop –is a specialized, international training workshops on the field of otorrhaging of implantable devices, in the method of partial treatment of deafness by means of cochlear implants.

This extremely popular training series is addressed to oto-surgeons and audiologists from all over the world who want to broaden their knowledge and skills in the field of hearing aids. Particular attention is paid to the use of hearing aids in the treatment of partial deafness according to the method developed and disseminated by Prof. Henryk Skarżyński - the precursor and creator of Partial Deafness Treatment (PDT).

The Window Approach Workshop (WAW) has been organized since 2007 by the Institute of Sensory organs and the World Hearing Center of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Kajetany. Up to now, the twentieth edition of the WAW workshop has included 2029 oth- ers from 40 countries (Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, France, Greece, Iraq, Cameroon, Kenya, Hungary, Italy, Turkey, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine).

The most important issue learned and practiced during the workshop is implantation of the cochlear implant electrode in a minimally invasive way through the rounded auger window, which allows for the maintenance of hearing remains and intact anatomical structures. This method was developed and developed by Prof. Henryk Skarżyński at the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing.

An exceptional element of WAW workshops, particularly attractive for surgeons, is the demonstration operations conducted by Prof. Henryk Skarżyński and IFPS Department of Otolaryngology Surgery. Such demonstration operations are a very important part of surgeon training. They enable the observation of the work of an experienced operator, the organization of the entire surgical team and the equipment of the operating room. Many of these observed, proven solutions are later deployed in operating rooms around the world.

The program of the Window Approach Workshop includes:

• Lectures presented by the specialists from the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing,

• Demonstration surgeries transmitted from the operating theater to the lecture room, with presentation of each case and discussion,

• Hands - on training in the laboratory on fresh temporal bone specimens.

LION Global Otology – Neurotology Live Surgical Broadcast

The LION project, launched in 2006, is dedicated to using the latest teleconferencing technologies for the continuing training of otolaryngologists around the world. Within LION there is a permanent interactive world-wide training network that provides direct access to the knowledge and experience of international otology and neurologist experts to every doctor who has a computer and access to the internet. The key component of this program is annual video conferencing with oto-surgeons representing leading centers around the world.

Program of Hearing Screening for First Grade Pupils in Primary Schools in Mazowsze Region in years 2017/2018 and 2019/2020 including the use of telemedicine tools

Telemedicine allows to monitor many groups, especially children. It gives also the possibility to conduct mass population examinations in this age group as an instrument of national health policy and decrease the costs of healthcare system.

The effect of Institute’s work and negotiations conducted during the presidency has been the adoption of the EU Council Conclusions on Early detection and Treatment of Communication Disorders in Children, including the Use of e-Health Tools and Innovative Solutions. It has been adopted by Ministers of health of all EU member countries at the EPSCO meeting in Brussels. It has been a keynote event concluding the activities implements during Poland’s EU Council Presidency with regard to ensuring the equal opportunities for children with communication disorders, in integral part of the priority in the field of public health. Therefore, one of the priority activities of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Kajetany is a hearing screening program for school-age children

Hearing is one of the senses provided proper development of cognitive and social processes. It also directly influences for intellectual development. In addition, the sense of hearing is fundamental for speech and language abilities. Disorders of hearing in children aged 5 - 7 years most often are caused by infections of the upper airways, birth defects or environmental factors such as noise. Often, hearing impairments are not detected by parents or caregivers. What is important, early medical intervention in a child with hearing disorders regardless of their etiology means faster improvement of its auditory pathway functions and thus better communication with the environment as well as reduction of costs for the patient and for the healthcare system. Therefore, school-entry hearing screening is especially important.

On 1 August 2017, the Institute has started new hearing screening programs, this time involving the entire Mazowsze region. It will be the first in the world region where hearing screening encompasses the whole population of children beginning school education. Screening will be organized under 37 projects under the framework of the Program of Hearing Screening for First Grade Pupils in Primary Schools in Mazowsze Region in years 2017/2018 and 2019/2020. The coordinators of this program are members of Tele-Audiology Working Group: Prof. Henryk Skarżyński M.D., Ph.D.; Ass. Prof Piotr H. Skarzynski MD PhD MSc and Maciej Ludwikowski MSc MBA.

Hearing screening protocol used in mentioned program includes videootoscopy and pure tone audiometry. Moreover, specialist from the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Kajetany will be conduct training for medical personnel from medical center situated of Mazowsze Region.

The results of the audiometric tests were supplemented by the results of the questionnaire completed by the parents. This questionnaire including question concerning data on the potential causes of the child’s hearing problems, medical history, possible presence of tinnitus, and any presence of learning difficulties.

In addition, all results were performed using SZOK system. Use of a system to assist patients with remote diagnosis and to transfer audiological screening results to the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Kajetany. Integrating patient data into the "SZOK" ® system, will allow for quick service and thus shorten patient waiting times for visits to IFPS or other specialized facilities and as a comprehensive patient medical base. It is a unique solution in the field of telemedicine and e-health.

At the same time with audiometric examination, we are going to conduct training for medical staff, led by experts and medical specialists: laryngologist, phoniatrics and audiologist, speech therapist.

Aim of training for medical personnel is improving the skills and competencies for early detection of hearing impairment among young patients. They will be the basis for the implementation of the hearing screening system in the years to come, even after completion of this program.

Implementing universal hearing screening in school age children is a long and complicated process. Important issue is spread knowledge of necessary and significance of hearing screening. It is possible to use a telemedicine model to assess the hearing status of children and to provide a long-distance expert assistance. The latter is very important for rural areas without specialized medical services.

Tele-Dermatology

Byron Barksdale - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Valerie HLADKY
Roxana NEDELCU

Our mission

To provide the best available personalized teledermatology healthcare services to individuals, their families, their healthcare providers and the communities we serve.

Our vision

To promote skin wellness as well as the prevention and treatment of skin disease through personalized healthcare services.

Our values

Working group members believe in honoring the dignity, values and culture of the individuals we serve.
We believe in comprehensive integrated teledermatology healthcare services to meet the goals and needs of individuals and healthcare providers we serve.
We believe that many skin diseases are preventable and the early detection of disease, esp. malignant melanoma, is important.
We believe our employees should be well trained, enthusiastic, engaged, aligned, competent, and trustworthy in order for us to be successful.
We believe in working with individuals and their healthcare providers to develop innovative approaches to skin wellness and to implement evidence-based prevention and treatment of skin disease utilizing, in part, teledermatology.
We believe it is our responsibility to provide high quality, safe, effective and efficient healthcare.
We believe in fair pricing of our professional and technical services to continue to grow, develop and improve upon the best, easily accessible, cost-effective teledermatology healthcare services.

Initial goals of the teledermatology working group

List and give definitions pertinent to teledermatology
Develop a prototype teledermatology consent form
Networking among members of the working group and others
Develop “best practice” teledermatology guidelines:

Patient confidentiality and privacy
Informed consent
Technical standards for live and asynchronous imaging
Technical standards for communication connectivity
Procedure to obtain teledermatology consultation
Use NCCN (http://www.nccn.org) treatment protocols if indicated
Use CAP (http://www.cap.org) synoptic datapoints for melanoma

List of Dermoscopy websites

The working group has compiled an initial list of dermoscopy websites. Dermoscopy images can easily be sent, along with clinical photos of patients’ conditions, through the internet to experts to help members evaluate and manage their patients. Members of the ISfTeH community who have additional websites or links to articles on dermoscopy are encouraged to contact the ISfTeH dermatology working group.
http://www.dermoscopy.org/
https://dermoscopy-ids.org/
https://dermnetnz.org/topics/dermoscopy/
https://www.uptodate.com/contents/overview-of-dermoscopy
https://dermlite.com/
http://www.pcds.org.uk/p/dermoscopy-purpose-of-dermoscopy-in-primary-care
https://dermoscopedia.org/Glossary:Dermoscopy
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5038095/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatoscopy/

Webinars Report 2017

Program of Webinars in 2017: a series of multiseat webconferencing sessions organized and presented by three ISfTeH Working Groups - Students, Nurses and Social Media

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Impact of Telemedicine on Infectious Diseases and Bacterial Resistance (Session Report)

ISfTeH Webinars Program – 2017

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ISfTeH Webinars Program - 2016. Session Report: Webinar Ebola in Town - Lessons Learned

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“Rural health initiatives to strengthen health systems”

IFMSA Webconferencing Session (20 February 2016).

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Health 2.0 at IFMSA PreGeneral Assembly – March Meeting 2014 and at Med-e-Tel Conference

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History Webconferencing Sessions at Med-e-Tel - MEDGATE Students Award

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Webconferencing Sessions - 10 Years!

The ISfTeH Students Working Group has very good reasons for celebrating the 2017 edition of Med-e-Tel. This time, on Friday, April 07th, five selected students remotely attended the “10th ISfTeH Students Webconferencing Session - MedGate Award”. Through this outstanding initiative, during 10 years, 50 students have had a chance of remotely presenting and bringing to the international community the results of so many kinds of eHealth projects and researches, conducted in several countries from all continents. The ISfTeH webinar sessions comes with the perspective of accelerating the eHealth teaching∕learning process internationally. The active participation of students in Telemedicine and e-Health activities promoted by the ISfTeH is considered a key element for a successful implementation of eHealth projects around the world. Every year, after a pre-selection, 5 students have an opportunity to present the results of their telemedicine and e-health activities through a multiseat webconferencing platform, counting on the participation of up to 200 attendees from all around the world. All ISfTeH Student Members are invited to submit a presentation for the ISfTeH Students Webconferencing Session! The objective is to promote a round of dynamic discussions and full interactivity, giving emphasis to the participation of students from all countries, including those living in regions with limited technological facilities (low bandwidth Internet). In this year, Tanjir Soron from Bangladesh won the MedGate Award through a presentation titled: Telepsychiatry - From a Dream to Reality in Bangladesh. As a result of his quite interesting presentation, a trophy and a special prize of USD1500 will be granted by MedGate to Tanjir Soron. Also, as part of the Opening Ceremony of Med-e-Tel 2017, Jonathan Teoh (Melbourne, Australia) received the 2016 Students’ MedGate Award.

To encourage the worldwide participation of “Students”, the ISfTeH has decided to:

- Offer a free of charge meeting registration for all 5 selected abstracts (for remote presentation);

- Offer an award for the best presentation: a flat rate prize of U$1.500,00 (one thousand and five hundred U$ Dollars). This award, granted by (Switzerland), aims to partly support the costs of long distance airline tickets of the winner student, to attend the next Med-e-Tel meeting.

- Publish the abstracts of the 5 selected presentations on the Med-e-Tel website and in the Journal of the International Society for Telemedicine (ISfTeH).

- Publish the Papers of accepted abstracts in the JISfTeH. In adition, PowerPoint presentations will also be published on the Med-e-Tel website after the event.

Med-e-Tel 2018 - Save the date!
April 11-13th, 2018 - LuxExpo, Luxembourg
https://www.medetel.eu

- 2017 WINNER -

STUDENT: Tanjir Soron, from Bangladesh

Title: Telepsychiatry - From a Dream to Reality in Bangladesh
Mental Health Service, SynesisIT, Bangladesh, MSc Global eHealth, University of Edinburgh, UK

Link to the Abstract: will be soon

Contact: tanjirsoron@yahoo.com

Link to the Full Presentation: will be soon

Link to the list of 5 presentations (2017): https://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program#Fri

- PREVIOUS YEARS -

2016.

Winner: Cost effectiveness analysis of implementing teledentistry for rural paediatric patients in Victoria, Australia

Jonathan Teoh

University of Melbourne, 37/86 Burnley St., Richmond 3121, Australia
Tel: +61 419357808
Link to the Abstract
Link to Full Presentation
Contact: jrkteoh@gmail.com
Link to the list of 5 presentations (2016)

2015.

Winner: Systematic literature review on telemedicine solutions implemented for management of patients with heart failure
Shadi Azam
Unit for Thrombosis Research, Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark
Link to the Abstract: http://www.medetel.lu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program_2015#Fri
Link to Full Presentation (ppt slides show - pdf version): http://www.medetel.lu/download/2015/parallel_sessions/presentation/day3/Telemedicine_solutions_for_management.pdf
Contact: shaza13@student.sdu.dk
Link to the list of 5 presentations (2015): http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program_2015#Fri

2014.
Winner: Use of Teleradiology in Distance Education in Brazil, Latin America
Renan Maciel
Radiology Department of UFF (Federal Fluminense University), Brazil
Link Abstract: http://www.medetel.eu/download/2014/parallel_sessions/abstract/day3/Use_of_Teleradiology.doc
Link to the list of 5 presentations:
http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program_2014#Fri

2013.
Winner: Telepharmacy - Pharmaceutical Care - An Assistance Project
Renata Mondini
Telemedicine Laboratory, Microgravity Centre, PUCRS, Brazil
Link Abstract: http://www.medetel.eu/download/2013/parallel_sessions/abstract/day3/Telepharmacy.pdf
Link to the list of 5 presentations:
http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program_2013#Fri

2012.
Winner: Validation of Physiological Data Transmission System
Raphael Ferreira
Toth Technology, Brazil
Link Abstract: http://www.medetel.eu/download/2012/parallel_sessions/abstract/day3/Validation.doc
Link to the list of 5 presentations:
http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program_2012#Fri

2011.
Winner: Willingness to Attend Home Based Exercises Supervised Over the Internet
Karolina Krawczak
Student's Scientific Club "TeleZdrowie", Department of Sport and Physical Education, Medical University of Warsaw
Chair and Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of Locomotor System, Centre of Excellence "TeleOrto", Medical University of Warsaw
Department of Sport and Physical Education, Medical University of Warsaw
Polish Telemedicine Society, Poland
Link Abstract: http://www.medetel.eu/download/2011/parallel_sessions/abstract/day3/Willingness.doc
Link to the list of 5 presentations:
http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program_2011#Fri

2010.
Winner: YouTube Clips for Remotely Mentored Hip Osteoarthritis Telerehabilitation. Preliminary study
A. Kostrubala
Chair and Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of Locomotor System, Center of Excellence "TeleOrto", Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
Link Abstract: http://www.medetel.eu/download/2010/parallel_sessions/abstract/day3/YouTube_Clips.doc
Link to the list of 5 presentations:
http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program_2010#Fri

2009.
Winner: Establishment of a Multicentric Telecardiology Project in Rio Grande Do Sul State/Brazil: A Report about Academical Participation
R. Timm
e-Health Centre of the Institute of Cardiology RS, Brazil
Link Abstract: http://www.medetel.eu/download/2009/parallel_sessions/abstract/day3/establishment_of_multicentric_telecardiology.doc
Link to the list of 5 presentations:
http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program_2009#Fri

2008.
Winner: A Successful Telemedicine Experience in the Brazilian Amazon Region
R. B. Cardoso
[1]Microgravity Centre, FENG, PUCRS, Brazil; [2]Nucleo de Pesquisa em Cultura Indigena, PUCRS, Brazil; [3]School of Medicine, PUCRS, Brazil
Link Abstract: http://www.medetel.eu/download/2008/parallel_sessions/abstract/day3/a_successful_telemedicine_experience.doc
Link to the list of 5 presentations:
http://www.medetel.eu/index.php?rub=educational_program&page=program_2008#Fri

Interpretation of Conventional Cervical Cytology (Papanicolaou Test)

National ISfTeH member for Spain and Portugal

”Interpretation of Conventional Cervical Cytology (Papanicolaou Test)”

Tele-Urology

Emmanuel ABARA, MD FRCSC FACS FICS MSc.CH - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Aaron MARTIN, MD
Mohamed JALLOH, MD

Cristian TOMA

Our Vision: To provide the best and possible personalized teleurology health and educational services to individuals, their families, their health care professionals and the communities we serve.

Our Mission: To promote the practice of teleurology for the purpose of prevention and management of urological ailments, using available technology to improve access to quality and appropriate person-centred care.

Our Values:

We believe in honouring the dignity, values and cultures of the individuals we serve.
We believe in collaborative comprehensive teleurology health care to meet the needs of individuals, health care providers, health organizations and communities.
We believe that through effective education, preventive and early disease detective measures better quality of life is achievable.
We believe that we, our employees, colleagues, partners, learners should be enthusiastic, well-trained, competent and trustworthy in order for us to be successful.
We believe in working with individuals and their healthcare providers to apply and develop innovative ways and techniques to improve access to quality urologic care in time and space.
We believe it is our responsibility to promote and provide the best quality, appropriate, safe, effective and efficient urologic care within the context and limits of available technology and resources.
We believe in fair pricing of our professional and technical services to continue to grow, develop, and improve upon the best, easily accessible, cost-effective teleurology health care services.
We believe in continuing quality improvement, good safety and risk management strategies in all avenues of care we shall provide.
We believe in long term, life time learning and reflective practice for the full benefit of the individuals and the communities we serve.
We believe in transparency, being socially responsible and accountable with cultural sensitivity and respectfulness.

Our Goals include:

Enumerate and give definitions pertinent to teleurology
Develop a prototype teleurology consent Form and other relevant working documents
Establish effective networking among members of the working group and others
Develop "best practice" teleurology guidelines

Issues and standards:

Patient confidentiality and privacy
Informed consent
Technical standards for live and asynchronous imaging
Technical standards for communication connectivity
Procedure to obtain teleurology consultation
Review protocols and practices from different telemedicine and eHealth networks around the world
Grow the practice of teleurology

Potential growth stimulators:

Grow networks and keep records of practitioners of teleurology success stories and challenges
Research and development
Building network of partners and stakeholders: industry, health organizations, urological associations, national Health care systems and collaterals, etc.
Professional development programs and sharing of information, best practice

News from Peru

1. Federal University of Goiás (FM / UFG) and the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), which will allow, for a period of five years, the exchange of technical-scientific knowledge of undergraduate and graduate students, administrative. The agreement provides for a mutual and wide cooperation between the two institutions, which includes visits and exchanges of teachers and students, aiming at research, teaching, extension and university management. Read more... Teleconferences access.

2. Free book in Spanish: APRENDIENDO SIN FRONTERAS, EL MUNDO EN UN CLICK: EDUCANDO EN EL VIH/SIDA e ITS

3. 19th International Conference on Human Retrovirology HTLV and Related Viruses in Lima - Peru 2019

Tele-Cardiology

Dr. Alexandru Mischie - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Dr. Adolfo Sparenberg

Innocent Martial NANAN (SIBIM)
Hany ERYAN
Dejan GORDIC
Simone FARAH
Ahmed AWADA
Pritija REGMI
Richard DASSELAAR
Stefan BUSNATU

Please visit the special Tele-Cardiology Working Group page under :

https://telecardiologywg.isfteh.org

Francophonie

Philippe de LORME

André PETITET
Hassan GHAZAL

The task of this Working Group will be to reinforce the position of the global Francophone area within the ISfTeH and development of collaboration networks in favour of Francophone countries/regions, national and international institutions, companies and partnerships.

Various ISfTeH members and external partners are currently being consulted and approached in view of setting up an action plan, incl.:

Francophone University Association (AUF)
International Association of Francophone Mayors (AIMF)
International SOS
Castres-Mazamet Technopole - eHealth Summer University
Agir pour la Télémédecine
French Telecom Regulations Authority (ARCEP)
Network of Francophone Telecom Regulators (FRATEL)
French Ministry for the Economy and Finance

INDONESIA TO STRENGTHEN CITIZENSHIP THROUGH INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES ON HEALTH

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health-ICT_indonesia1.pdf.pdf (638,522kb)

eSaude

Luis Gonçalves, Miguel Castelo-Branco, Nando Campanella

Through a collaboration with Indonesian partners, the book has also been translated into Indonesian Bahasa.

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eSaude.pdf.pdf (3,984,195kb)

Webinar 7th September, 2018

On 7th September 2018, the ISfTeH "Collaborative Care Team in Open Source" working group delivered the first in the planned series of live webinars on the subject of Open Source in healthcare. It is intended that this and future presentations serve as reference documents which are considered more useful and effective than annual conferences.
Panel:

Dr Etienne Saliez (Belgium) coordinated a panel of working group experts from around the globe. These were:

Luis Falcon (Spain)
Monika Hubler (Switzerland)
Thomas Karopka (Germany)
Stuart Mackintosh (UK)

Session:

Adolfo Sparenberg opened up the session and welcomed the participants before handing over to Dr Etienne Saliez.
During the webinar, lasting just over one hour, the topics presented included:

A review of the working group mission statement
Introduction to the MEDFLOSS data base of Open Source software for healthcare
Short presentations of several long-running Open Source projects, http://www.gnusolidario.org/ , https://www.ipathnetwork.org/ .
Challenges and solutions when developing Open Source applications
Challenges and solutions when deploying and supporting Open Source applications

The full webinar can be viewed at https://www.anymeeting.com/WebConference/RecordingDefault.aspx?c_psrid=E957D787864D3D

Follow-up:

The discussions will be continued on the working group web pages at https://www.isfteh.org/working_groups/category/collaborative_care_team_in_open_source
Further sessions will explore the subjects individually and in greater depth. These will include:

The reuse of software components. Analysis of the healthcare requirements of most common interest and approaches for integration.
Deeper discussions on Open Source management issues in healthcare. Review of the roles of the different stakeholders. Open Source is essentially seen as a way of providing support to healthcare activities, regardless of any medical specialities.
Webinars about extended presentations of current Telemedicine systems in Open Source, one at a time.
Project IMMM, Interactive Medical Mind maps. How to make sense of data by means of graphs with focus on relationships.

For any feedback or if you would like to propose subjects or discussions for a future ISfTeH working group webinar, please contact etienne@cctos.org.

PROYECTO SERVICIO REGIONAL DE PATOLOGÍA DIGITAL EN ANDALUCÍA

Marcial García Rojo(1), David de Mena García(2), Sandra Leal
González (3), José Ma de la Higuera González (4)
(1) Departamento de Anatomía Patológica. Hospitales Universitarios Puerta del Mar y Puerto
Real, Cádiz. (2) Responsable de Proyectos de Innovación en TIC. Sistema Sanitario Público
Andaluz. (3) Unidad I+D+i. Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío. Sevilla. (4) Estrategia
Compra Pública Innovadora. Consejería Salud. Junta de Andalucía.

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PROYECTO_ANDALUCIA_PATOLOGIA_DIGITAL_Marcial.pdf.pdf (637,731kb)

STRENGTHENING ACADEMIC COOPERATION IN LEGAL ISSUES OF EHEALTH

Authors: Nando CAMPANELLA, Roswita ABOE

National ISfTeH member for Spain and Portugal

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Article-Strengthening_Academic_Cooperation_in_Legal_Issues_of_e-Health.pdf.pdf (508,310kb)

Minsa incorpora 24 establecimientos a Red Nacional de Telesalud

Author: Lady MURRUGARRA (Peru)

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Minsa_incorpora.pdf.pdf (137,948kb)

Rules of the Brazilian Government on Telehealth Services: An Integrative Review

“Rules of the Brazilian Government on Telehealth Services : An Integrative Review”
“Regras do Governo Brasileiro Sobre Serviços de Telessaude : Revisao Integrativa”

Angelica Baptista SILVA (Brazil)

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Rules of the Brazilian Government on Telehealth Services : An Integrative Review 440-1762-1-PB.PDF.PDF (207,916kb)

Videos produced by Nando Campanella, SITT (and others)

Campanella N. Morosini PP, Sampaolo G., Catozzo V., Luis Claudio Dias, Erick Nelo Pedreira, Novelli S., Wright HM, Piana C., Antico E., Ferretti M., Lucci G., Caso A. (September 2017) Medical teleconsultation proceedings. A tutorial for e-learning

Pigliapoco S., Campanella N.(November 2017) Digital health archives and electronic signature. A tutorial for e-learning

Campanella N., Morosini P.P., Manfrini E., Catozzo V., Wright H. (March 2019) Vitamin D does not care osteoporosis! (Version in English language)

International Retrovirology Association – Congress HTLV 2019 in Peru

It is my pleasure to inform you that the International Retrovirology Association has honoured us to carry out the 19th International Congress HTLV 2019 that will be held on April 24 – 26, 2019, in Lima, Peru.

I am pleased to invite you to participate to this renowned congress where experts from Japan, the United States, Europe and Latin America will participate and update us on different issues of this almost unknown and unattended infection in all of humanity. This will be an excellent opportunity to provide the awareness and significant emphasis about the situation of these infectious diseases, and the scientific advances we are experimenting with great optimism in this area of important international impact.

Thank you for your effort and we look forward to welcoming you in Lima on April 2019!

More information: http://htlvperu2019.com/

Dr Eduardo Gotuzzo
MD FACP FIODSA FESCMID.

Telemonitoring of Heart Failure Patients

Telemonitoring of Heart Failure Patients
An integrative program of multiple SNS structures

João Pereira & Lino Gonçalves
Department of Cardiology, Coimbra University Hospital Centre - ICBR, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Portugal

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Telemonitoring_of_Heart_Failure_Patients.pdf.pdf (101,831kb)

Digital Transformation Leadership

Dina Ziadlou - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Emmanuel Abara - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Anthony Paulo Sunjaya - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Innocent Martial NANAN (SIBIM)
Maria MIALA
Diogo Jacintho BARBOSA
Véronique-Ines THOUVENOT
Aric SHIMEK
Claudia BARTZ
Moustafa ALI
Abdullah ALENEZI
Vimal WAKHLU
Rohin RAMESWARAPU
Bipinkumar RATHOD
Mohammed Kacimi ALAOUI
Lokesh DERANGULA
Sapna GHEI SINGH
Ahmed AWADA
Richard DASSELAAR
Olaolorun AYANDOKUN
Ademiku ADELEYE
Joyzen RAMOS
Romario RAMOS
Hafidha BENYAHIA
Eniola Peter BABALOLA
Shiva RANA
Edwin LAU
Dheeraj KHATORE (EMERGE Medical Services)

The Digital Transformation Leadership (DTL) working group will develop leadership skills through the lens of digital transformation. The goal of this working group is to empower healthcare professionals around the globe in leadership skills and digital transformation. This working group will nurture the agent of transformation via discovering people's capabilities and their leadership styles in order to empower them to be the leaders of the digital transformation journey. The digital transformation leaders will be able to unleash the human capital and capability of others to improve productivity and dynamic in their work environment. In this regard, DTL will design a series of leadership workshops with a concentration in digital healthcare to educate and empower future leaders and early and mid-career healthcare professionals around the globe. Also, this group will provide a context for the exchange of experience in DTL (learning from learnings) to improve the digital transformation leadership styles.

Goals:

Empowering students, early entrepreneurs, early and mid-managers, healthcare professionals, new leaders, digital health professionals, and digital health managers in leadership skills and digital transformation around the globe.
Fostering digital transformation agent
Promoting leadership skills
Promoting digital transformation leadership skills
Improving healthcare outcomes through human capital empowerment

Values:

We believe in diversity. We believe to create sustainable effectiveness healthcare organizations to promote 5Ps: People, Peace, Prosperity, Planet, and Partnership.

We believe that leadership is about building trust and relationships. It is about the way that we are motiving, inspiring, and empowering people to discover capabilities, improve self-mastery, and motivate self-development and other-development toward creating the desired future.

We believe that the Quadruple Aim of healthcare (patient experience, population health, cost-effectiveness, and care team well-being) are derived from capable leaders. In the digital transformation era, fully embracing the transformation comes from capable digital transformation leaders.

Mission:

Empower every individual and every organization in digital transformation leadership toward creating sustainable effectiveness organizations.

Vision:

Create digital transformation leaders and create a shared vision in DTL in every community, every country around the world.

Capacity Building

Rajendra Gupta - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Philippe De Lorme - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Bipinkumar RATHOD
Jefferson FERNANDES
Oscar BLANCO
Moustafa ALI
Innocent Martial NANAN (SIBIM)
Arnab PAUL
Ekram MOHAMMED
Sarah WAMALA-ANDERSSON
Richard DASSELAAR
Anandhi RAMACHANDRAN
Wissal SENGOUGA
Karl STROETMANN

Capacity Building

2019 has proven to be a landmark year for Digital Health. The launch of the Digital Health Guidelines by the World Health Organization (WHO), and the launch of the Global Digital Health Index 2019 - marks a new beginning for healthcare, globally. Future of healthcare delivery is in for a massive change, and will see an integration of technology across the continuum of care.

As the proliferation of technology is increasing, and the healthcare delivery needs technology across the continuum of care, like never before and we have a major challenge as well – the challenge of skilled manpower resources. With major health systems moving towards Universal Health Coverage, it will not be possible without Digital Health. In fact, ‘Health for All’ will not be possible without ‘Digital Health for All’.

So, while we are at the cusp of a major technology revolution, the major challenge is the training of clinicians, para-medics and technicians in digital health. And without having proper training ( capacity building), healthcare delivery will find it hard to utilize digital tools.

As a working group, we work in the following areas:

Create a directory of courses available in digital health for clinicians, paramedics and technicians (support staff) for digital health.
ISfTeH endorsed the Digital Health Academy ( http://digitalacademy.health/ and the certification programs (Certified Digital Health Professional Course and other courses) offered by the Digital Health Academy.
We will partner with organizations delivering courses in digital health and promote them within our network.
Offer webinars in the field of capacity building and training.
To author, contribute to knowledge papers & support regional roundtables, conferences and workshops in the area of capacity building and digital health across the globe.
One of our key focus areas is to get students from technology and medical science and allied education to join our working group to address the critical issue of capacity building and to create future leaders for Digital Health.

Besides the above, we are open to ideas & suggestions to advance the cause of digital health training and capacity building. For more info or to participate in our work, e-mail Rajendra Gupta.

March 2020: The ISfTeH Capacity Building Working Group publishes a "Framework and Roadmap for Global Digital Health Workforce Development – Part I". Download it below and send your comments and suggestions to Rajendra Gupta.

November 2020: "ISfTeH Knowledge Paper on Capacity Building for Digital Health - A Global Persepctive". Download it below.

Standards and Accreditation for Telehealth Services

Neja Samar Brenčič - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Drago Rudel - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Vision:
To provide a new foundation on the basis of which successful and sustainable telehealth services can be built - carrying the trust of clinicians, health, social care and support practitioners, services users as well as formal and informal carers.

The Standards and Accreditation for Telehealth Services Working (SATS) Group will provide an environment where stakeholders (researchers, innovators, developers, companies, policy-makers) can work together to create standards to improve the quality of patient-centric telehealth services worldwide.

Mission:
To enable the exchange of knowledge and experience among stakeholders in relation to service quality, appropriate standards and/or codes of practice, certification and/or accreditation procedures and policies for Telehealth Services (THS).

Objectives:

Technology:
- Advocating for:
  - increased use of THS wherever applicable by clinicians, professionals, patients and other users
  - evaluation of THS on national, European and wider international levels
  - appropriate standards be used as normative documents
  - the adoption of interoperability and open protocols
Innovation:
- Stimulating innovative ideas and promoting initiatives for further development of THS.
Business:
- Supporting interdisciplinary collaboration for improved remote healthcare provision and outcomes.
- Supporting service approaches that respond flexibly to the needs and choices of users
Professional:
- Advancing knowledge and skills in THS through dissemination of standards and good practice guidelines.
- Advocating for ethical use of THS.

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International Code of Practice for Telehealth Services
The ISfTeH Working Group on Standards and Accreditation for Telehealth Services would like to make this document available to telehealth service providers, for the benefit of service planning and quality assurance in service provision. This Code of Practice is a quality benchmark for digital health and care. It was developed by the Telehealth Quality Group (which included members of this current ISfTeH Working Group on Standards and Accreditation for Telehealth Services). Its antecedent "The European Code of Practice for Telehealth Services" was developed within the EU-funded TeleSCoPE project. To be successful, telehealth services need the trust of clinicians; health, social care and support practitioners; service users and both formal and informal carers. The International Code of Practice for Telehealth Services provides a quality benchmark against which telehealth services can be assessed and certified. In so doing, it provides a basis for that trust. The Code addresses health in both its clinical and well-being senses. It is positioned largely within a preventive and public health arena and is therefore very concerned with the benefits for service users as well as the way that services are provided. The ISfTeH Working Group on Standards and Accreditation for Telehealth Services will be happy to discuss the content of this document with telehealth service providers who are interested in knowing more, or with accreditation organisations who may wish to incorporate (parts of) this Code into their own accreditation or certification programs.
2018-19-INTERNATIONAL-TELEHEALTH-CODE-OF-PRACTICE.pdf.pdf (1,378,388kb)

Telehealth opportunities in early COVID-19 pandemic times (SITT GT3D Autumn Report)

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Telehealth_opportunities_in_early_COVID-19_pandemic_times_Oc_EN.pdf.pdf (993,994kb)
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Telehealth_opportunities_in_early_COVID-19_pandemic_times_Oct__ES.pdf.pdf (916,611kb)
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Telehealth_opportunities_in_early_COVID-19_pandemic_times_Oct_PT.pdf.pdf (795,330kb)

“eHealth” book translated into Indonesion-Bahasa

The "eHealth" book published two years ago in portuguese language is now also published in Indonesian-Bahasa language. In Portugal the book was edited by SITT (national member for Portugal and Spain in the ISfTeH), UBI (University of Beira Interior) and Professor Nando Campanella. The translation in Bahasa was supported by the Portuguese ambassador in Jakarta and edited by Khairun University at Ternate, North Molluco Islands and by Professor Husen Alting (Dean of the Faculty) and Professor Roswita Aboe (Foreign Affairs).

Practical Digital Health

Dale Alverson - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Goals:

To discuss and develop practical and realistic approaches for integrating digital health into a health system of individual countries and other international organizations

Activities:

Create a format for virtual meetings and Website of ISfTeH members interested in practical integration of Telemedicine and Digital Health within individual countries and other international organizations
Share approaches for practical integration of telemedicine and digital health within a health system that is realistic and potentially sustainable
Discuss challenges and possible solutions for development, design, and implementation of telemedicine and digital health, particularly with low and middle income countries
Explore options for adequate, affordable connectivity needed to support telemedicine and digital health, particularly where gaps currently exist
Discuss legal and regulatory issues that affect integration of telemedicine and digital health within individual countries

Healthcare Disparities and Digital Health

Michele Griffith, MD - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Roger Graham, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Dr. Ankush BANSAL
Dr. Motti HAIMI
Grace MURITHI
Yngrid PEREZ-TORRENS
Najidullah AHMED
Nuru NABUUSO
Jeyaseelan JEYARAJ

Goals

To provide a forum and platform to disseminate information on the application of digital health tools, best practices in telemedicine and strategies for eliminating healthcare disparities in African, African- American and Caribbean populations.

Planned activities

Offer webinars focusing on the unique challenges of delivering healthcare to historically underserved African American, Caribbean and African communities, highlighted during the pandemic, and how digital health has been and can be used to close the healthcare gap.
Create a working group chat for ongoing engagement of members to share experiences, ask for advice and serve as a source of support.
Identify stakeholders in respective regions to address and eradicate barriers to adoption of telemedicine/digital health.
Identify sponsors and interested parties willing to collaborate on digital health initiatives to Improve access to high quality care for historically disadvantaged communities.

Tele-Pediatrics

Evelyn Eisenstein - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Cristiane Kopacek - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Alejandro Lopez-Magallon - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Margarita Arroyave-Wessel - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Dana CRAIU

The Pediatrics Working Group (Peds WG) will provide an international forum to broaden knowledge and foster growth of all aspects related to telehealth and pediatrics.
Our goals include the following :
° Knowledge sharing and capacity building among ISfTeH clinical, allied, technical, and administrative communities
° Discussion of diagnosis and treatment modalities
° Discussion of research and innovation

Planned Activities :
° Host bimonthly webinars for ISfTeH Peds Working Group members on relevant topics
° Keep the professional network with updated and scientific news
° Capacity building for medical students, residents and staff

Digital Health for Space and Extreme Environments

Thais RUSSOMANO - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Marlise A. dos SANTOS - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Krishnan GANAPATHY - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Line KLEINEBREIL - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Anna SCHMAUS-KLUGHAMMER
Juliana HERBERT
Raluca PAPACOCEA
Opeyemi Paul IYIOLA
Joao CASTRO
Rosirene GESSINGER
Romosha SAHA
Murthy REMILLA
Shiva RANA
Svenja KACZOROWSKI

The ISfTeH Working Hscussions with experts in areas related to the main theme of the WG, as well as with the establishment of research projects related to digital health systems, devices, software and their use in space missions and the exploration of extreme environments by humans.

Goals:

to create awareness of the contribution of digital health in the maintenance of the health and wellbeing of people in remote locations;
to motivate innovation in the area of digital health through debate and educational initiatives;
to develop a network of professionals and students under the theme of the WG. This is a very unique initiative that will promote telehealth and its applications in space and other extreme environments.

Planned Activities:

Promotion of virtual events, such as webinars, panels and lectures regarding the theme of the WG.
Motivating the involvement of international participants – speakers, researchers, professors, students.
Establishing and conducting research related to the application of digital health in space missions and other extreme environments.
Creation of a network of people involved in areas related to the theme of the WG.
Organization of a repository/archive of information regarding the theme of the WG, based on the activities and initiatives developed by the WG over the year.

ISfTeH Working Groups

Collaborative Care Team in Open Source

Chair

Vice-Chair

Member

Members and Contacts

Medical collaborations:

Informatics collaborations:

What to do

How to achieve it

PBTL, Problem Based Tele-Learning in Open Source:

Call for participation in the Open Source Working Group

Education

eHealth Economics

Chair

Members

Students

Chair

Vice-Chair

Virtual Education Presentations

Tele-Nursing

Chair

Vice-Chairs

Virtual Education Presentations

eHealth Strategies

Finnish Nurses Association's Digital Social and Health Services Strategy, May 2021:

eHealth Strategy of the Finnish Nurses Association 2015-2020:

Tele-Dentistry

Chair

Vice-Chair

Member

Virtual Education Presentations

Files

Junior Doctors

Chair

Tele-Opthalmology

Chair

Women (WoW)

Chair

Vice-Chairs

Members

Medical & Bio-Informatics

Chair

Vice-Chair

Members

Announcements – September 2019

Announcements – December 2017

Announcements – June 2013

Chronic Disease Management

Chair

Members

Iberian and Iberian-American Working Group

Chair

Vice-Chairs

Members

Files

Social Media

Chairs

Member

Webinars

Reports

"#Med-e-Tel : The Twitter Hashtag"

UPCH EN FORO INTERNACIONAL SOBRE SALUD ELECTRÓNICA, TELEMEDICINA Y TICs EN LUXEMBURGO

Tele-Audiology

Chair

Vice-Chair

Members

Tele-Dermatology

Chair

Members

Webinars Report 2017

Files

Impact of Telemedicine on Infectious Diseases and Bacterial Resistance (Session Report)

Files

ISfTeH Webinars Program - 2016. Session Report: Webinar Ebola in Town - Lessons Learned

Files

“Rural health initiatives to strengthen health systems”

Health 2.0 at IFMSA PreGeneral Assembly – March Meeting 2014 and at Med-e-Tel Conference

Files

History Webconferencing Sessions at Med-e-Tel - MEDGATE Students Award