Today MEDTING has launched worldwide the new version of its collaborative web portal, optimized as a medical social network for sharing of clinical cases.
Some of the improvements available in the new MEDTING version are:
Faster user interface, both in searches and in general navigation.
Social networking features: profiles, groups, blogs, reviews, user statistics, geographical location, etc..
Multiple images upload: batch process and from *. zip files.
Easier and more intuitive publication of cases.
Information is now more accessible. Cases, users, blogs, and photos are just at one click.
New viewers are included in MEDTING, with enhanced DICOM support, and with tools for image handling, calibration and measurement.
Management of very large images (Anatomical pathology for instance), optimizing bandwith requirements.
Improved Security. All sensitive information is encrypted before its transmission.
Technical optimization and scalability of the platform, for better results with high number of concurrent users.
Easier customization of the platform according to your corporate image requirements.
Easier integration with medical devices.
Mashups. Any MEDTING service or capability can be included in any third party development.
pdf files supported.
Improved multi language capabilities.
Improved clinical case indexing in search engines.
The new MEDTING is currently available at Medting.com and also Enterprise version is available for healthcare organizations that want a private and exclusevely use of the platform for medical social networking, asynchronous telemedicine, second opinion, multidisciplinary committees, specialized committees and clinical training.
Imagine this: you’re eating dinner with your family and suddenly your left arm feels numb. Your speech is slurred. It could be a stroke, so you’ve got to get to the hospital fast. But what if your hospital doesn’t have a stroke specialist or what if that doctor is out of town? The answer may be telemedicine. Doctors at Mayo Clinic are using a telemedicine robot that allows them to be face to face with patients who are miles away.
The project is being really successful and with a big impact and more ideas are developed. From few months ago GlobalStroke has been launched. Globalstroke is an international collaboration network for stroke specialists.
The Case Study has been implemnted by the Balearic Islands Health Service. The Balearic health authority (Ib-Salut) has implemented a telestroke programme which has made emergency stroke care available to the far corners of the Balearic Islands. Providing access to life saving care which was previously unavailable [tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)] within the first three hours after onset of symptoms can effectively reduce the risk of death and severe disability).
We have also experience in some other recognised Telestroke projects like the one implemented in Catalonia.
In the next link, you can see an interesting video about Telestroke program at Mayo Clinic. You can also see one fast screen about GlobalStroke innitiative who is also commented at the end of the video:
The Spanish Radiology Society (SERAM) has inaugurated a new website. All the website has been developed by Medting Team under the coordination of SERAM Team. The website is a new and collaboration oriented platform that allow all SERAM members to have all the news, events, educational programs, access to library, forums and internal email services. It concentrates all content and news that are of the interest of radiologists.
Moreover, the website incorporates some innovative functionalities by integrating some Medting “connectors”.
Last Clinical Case
The last clinical case published from a SERAM member is shown in the home page of Seram. This component allows to have a more dinamic home page by providing updated and clinical content to the users.
Problem Case for Medical Education
One of the most remarkable functionalities from the website is the Problem Case. SERAM published a clinical case into Medting that also is printed in the monthly scientific magazine. All SERAM members are invited to provide a diagnostic to the case. The ones providing a correct diagnosis get some credits for SERAM. All the workflow is managed bu Medting and integrated into the SERAM website as a connector.
Some other connectors are now being integrated like the possibility for each member to create his/her own images Atlas.
By the renovation of the website, SERAM consolidates it’s position as the reference website for all spanish radiologists and mostly from south america.
There will be presented two very interesting projects by our customers. First, is thepresentation of the Global Stroke project as a international platform for second opinion and knowledge management for stroke. The project will be presented by the platform leader Dr. Bart Demaerschalk, Department of Neurology from Mayo Clinic.
The second project is the Scientific Social Network recently launched by Madrid Health Region in Spain. Zaida Sampedro, General Director of Health Information Systems, will do the presentation.
Few days ago (September 4th) we had the opportunitty to learn from Dr. Demaerschalk about Telestroke and Telemedicine networks in a event in Palma de Mallorca (SPAIN).
He also presented some results and demo about the First International Telestroke Network, between Mayo Clinic and H. Due Grace Hospital in Canada. The Ministry of Health in Spain was very interested in supporting the network.
You can see the initial slides of the proposal here:
