Apr
4
Medting in Health 2.0 Europe
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Medting will be present in the Health 2.0 conference taken place in Paris next april 6th and 7th. We will be in session Physicians and Online Communities presenting our platform with some other colleagues and innitiatives like:
An article in Informilo, a prestigious has been published recently by Jennifer L. Schenker. She has been covering technology outside the U.S for 23 years, most recently for BusinessWeek. She has also worked full-time for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune and Red Herring.
Informilo is a news site that covers tech sector developments in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas. The site covers entrepreneurship and innovation in every part of the pipeline - from the smallest start-up with the best idea to big companies that embrace creative disruption. The aim is to help start-ups and venture capitalists benchmark the global competition and connect with big corporates.
Nov
24
Medting nomination for Crunchies Award
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Medting has been proposed for the Anual Crunchies Award in the category of Best International Startup. We are excited to participate in the process and would thank very much for your support in the process. To nominee for Medting click on the icon:
Jul
6
Medting CEO, new HIMSS Board Chair
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Medting US CEO, Barry Chaiken, MD, MPH, FHIMSS, assumed the one-year term as chair of the HIMSS board.
“It is a great honor to serve as board chair-especially during this exciting time with healthcare reform and the use of health IT as an enabler as top priorities,” he said. “This is such a key time for our industry and I will work very hard to continue to motivate staff, the board of directors, members and industry professionals to contribute and participate in this transformation.”
Dr. Chaiken has also played a key role in HIMSS’ international efforts, serving as board liaison to HIMSS Europe for the past two years. “Internationally, there are great opportunities for HIMSS and its membership to transcend borders, languages and engender a truly worldwide dialogue,” he said.
Read the complete new here
Dec
11
Telestroke project in Catalonia receives National Quality Award from the Ministry of Health
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The Telemedicine project for neurological care (telestroke), based on MEDTING platform and a videoconferencing system, from the Hospital Vall d’Hebron, has been awarded in the second edition of Quality Awards 2007 from the National Spanish Ministry of Health in category of ‘Awards for best clinical practice. ”
Quality Awards from the Ministry of Health are designed to reward institutions, schools, teams, groups and health services have been meaning to the activities of improvement in the quality of services offered to citizens, and recognize the initiatives to improve the quality of healthcare through innovative projects.
Driven by the Departament de Salut de la Generalitat de Catalunya and I2CAT Foundation, with support from the Foundation TicSalut, Telestroke project aims at improving the treatment of stroke that requires urgent attention of neurologists to reduce the side effects of the disease and that in Catalonia causes 9.2% of overall mortality (7.5% in men, 11 1% in women).
The initiative makes possible to offer neurological service remotely to hospitals that do not have such a department. The connection of reference hospitals to the remote / rural hospital allows the neurologist’s referral center to visualize, in real time, the radiological image of the patient and to assess and identify
appropriate therapies to patients during the early hours the acute phase of cerebral stroke.
Initial Phase: Connecting Vic and Vall d’Hebron
The project started in January 2007 between the Vall d’Hebron Hospital and the Hospital of Vic, by using a videoconferencing system between the two centers, a neurologist the Hospital de la Vall d’Hebron
is allowed to review the clinical data of a patient at Vic hospital suffering from stroke in acute phase. The neurologist has all the data and diagnostic tests and interacts with the patient through the image and voice.
The cerebral stroke is a disease of sudden onset that immediate intervention is essential to avoid serious consequences, such as disability or dementia. The sooner the thrombolytic treatment is administered, the optimum time is a maximum of three hours, it may be more beneficial to the person concerned. The most important risk factors include hypertension, atrial fibrillation, diabetes, dyslipidemia and coronary heart disease.
In the telestroke project, the neurologist of Hospital de la Vall d’Hebron can view the patient at the Vic Hospital in real time, and their radiological images, and applied for thrombolytic therapy immediately
if it is shown, thus avoiding a move that may prove detrimental to the sick person. Telestroke project has been applied in 91 cases.
Extension: More equity and accessibility to health care
Telestroke project involves a process of technological innovation and horizontal integration between hospitals and the momentum of networking and is aimed at improving patient outcomes of care. The initiative also improves the fairness of health provision and access of citizens to health services.
Under the Plan for Cerebral Vascular Disease (PDMVC) of the Department of Health, Telestroke strategy and technology platform is the way for treating stroke in its acute phase, along the Catalonia region.
In such an extension, the platform has incorporated MEDTING as a mechanism for structure, store and share the clinical case as well as MIO (Medical Images Organiser) tool from C2C for automatic transmission of CT images. MEDTING enables the exchange and discussion of the case in asynchronous manner, streamlining communication and reducing costs when no online communication is required.
Figure: The combination of MIO and Medting make possible the One Click Telemedicine.
Sep
24
Digital Healthcare: Global Images
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See source article here.