"UKRANIAN JOURNAL OF TELEMEDICINE
AND MEDICAL TELEMATICS"
Vol. 2, N1, 2004
Med-e-Tel 2005 The International Trade Event
and Conference for eHealth, Telemedicine and Health
ICT April 6-8, 2005 Luxembourg
Med-e-Tel focuses
on a wide range of medical ICT applications and on the convergence of information
and communication technology with medical applications, which lead to higher
quality of care, cost reductions, workflow efficiency, and widespread availability
of healthcare services. These services and applications include: diagnostic/monitoring
systems and devices, telemedicine equipment, home monitoring services and
equipment, electronic medical records, electronic health cards, imaging/PACS,
hospital information systems, computer hard/software and peripherals, videoconferencing,
telecommunication services, wireless data communication, satellite communication,
secure data transmission, surgical systems, internet/intranet services,
systems integration, consulting services.
In a professional and business-minded
environment, Med-e-Tel brings manufacturers and suppliers together with
healthcare service providers and other key contacts such as representatives
from local government and international organizations, insurers and consultants,
for the purpose of establishing new trade contacts or developing existing
relationships.
In addition, the event also features
many educational opportunities through its extensive program of seminars,
presentations, and satellite workshops and symposia on topics such as business
models, cost-benefit studies, current ehealth realizations and projects,
distance education, home monitoring and homecare applications, telemedicine
applications, legal and ethical aspects, broadband and wireless networks,
satellites and ehealth, developing countries and ehealth, ehealth integration
into routine medical practice, standardization and interconnectivity, bio-informatics.
Plenary sessions at the Med-e-Tel
2004 event covered a.o. a special session and panel discussion about the
market trends and potential for ICT products and services in health care.
This session was organized in cooperation with the HINE group (Health Information
Network Europe), a consortium of medical, telecom and IT technology companies,
headed by Deloitte. Another plenary sessions dealt with aspects of blood
pressure monitoring and hypertension, a very actual topic. A third plenary
session was dedicated to PACS and the EPR.
Parallel sessions included presentations
on practical ehealth and telemedicine issues and projects by some of the
event's exhibitors, partners and other institutions from around the world.
Satellite workshops and symposia
included events by:
- CRP-Sant? (Public Research Center
for Health - Luxembourg): From Electronic Patient Record to Health Portal
- What are the
Conditions for Success?
- International Telecommunication
Union (ITU), World Health Organization (WHO) and European Space Agency
(ESA): Standardization in eHealth
- International Telecommunication
Union (ITU), World Health Organization (WHO): Telemedicine for Developing
Countries
- MEMO: Medical Mobile Devices
- WEALTHY: Wearable Health Care
System
The International Society for
Telemedicine (ISfT) and several national member associations provided information
about several national and international initiatives and projects.
The eHealth Standardization Coordination
Group (eHSCG) held its inaugural meeting during Med-e-Tel and also participated
in the ITU/WHO session on Standardization in eHealth.
Details are still available at
http://www.medetel.lu/.
Next year's event is scheduled
for 6-8 April 2005. The event includes plans for some national pavilions
set up by the ISfT (International Society for Telemedicine) via some of
its national member associations, an updated session on telemedicine hypertension
monitoring by the ESH (European Society of Hypertension), Telemedicine-Alliance
(WHO, ITU, ESA and EC) meetings on eHealth Standardization, an eHealth
Symposium run by the Luxembourg CRP-Sant? aimed at regional industry, healthcare
and government representatives, and a Telemedicine seminar by the United
Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs.
Med-e-Tel is supported a.o. by
the European Commission (DG Information Society), International Telecommunication
Union (ITU), World Health Organization (WHO) representatives responsible
for telemedicine and ehealth, International Society for Telemedicine (ISfT),
European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL), UK eHealth Association
(UKeHA), Russian Telemedicine Foundation, Association of Telehealth Service
Providers (ATSP), Telemedicine Research Center (TRC) and several other
national and international organizations.
For details on how to participate
as a visitor, exhibitor or speaker at this event, call our international
coordinating office in Belgium at +32 2 269 84 56, fax: +32 2 269 79 53,
or e-mail: info@medetel.lu, or check
out the event▓s website at http://www.medetel.lu/.
