El premio supone un reconocimiento importante para el equipo de Medting. Después de casi un primer año de vida y un esfuerzo importante, nuestro site ha visto recompensado el esfuerzo.

Queremos agradecer al Diario el premio junto con el soporte constante que por parte de Diario Médico hemos recibido, desde el primer día han creído en nosotros. También a nuestros usuarios y partners que día a día se apoyan en Medting para su trabajo diario o compartición de conocimiento. Entre ellos el Grupo USP, la Generalitat de Catalunya, el Hospital Universitario de Ginebra, Mayo Clinic, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, entre muchos otros.

Seguimos trabajando en lo que creemos…

Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH, FHIMSS tiene 20 años de experiencia en tecnologías de la información para la salud. Como nuevo Director Ejecutivo de Medting la misión de Barry Chaiken será proporcionar liderazgo estratégico y clínico.

Con una amplia experiencia en el sector, Barry pertenece a diferentes organizaciones y consejos de administración. Barry Chaiken será el Presidente de HIMSS (Health Information Management and Systems Society) Global durante el periodo 2009-2010

Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH, FHIMSS has over 20 years experience in healthcare information technology, continuous quality improvement, risk management, patient safety and medical research. As Chief Executive Officer at Medting he provides strategic and clinical leadership while offering clients his expertise in clinical transformation and quality improvement.

Over the past 15 years Chaiken provided expertise in quality and patient safety to provider and payor organizations helping them utilize information technology to improve clinical and administrative activities. He has served as guest lecturer and consultant on topics including patient safety, clinician adoption of information technology, quality improvement and managed care. Chaiken also assisted hospitals and technology firms in the creation of medical software products and authoring of marketing communication materials. As founder of his own company, he worked on quality improvement studies and clinical investigations for the National Institutes of Health, the Framingham Heart Study, and Boston University Medical School.

Chaiken is board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health as well as Health Care Quality Management. Chaiken has delivered more than 50 CME lectures, and is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Patient Safety and the journal of Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare. He currently writes a column on technology and quality for the journal Patient Safety and Quality Health Care.

Chaiken received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NYC, his masters in public health degree in health services administration from the Harvard School of Public Health and his bachelors of arts degree in psychology from the University at Albany. He acquired his specialty training from the Centers for Disease Control as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and from the New Jersey State Department of Health as a preventive medicine resident. He is also a Board member, Board Liaison to HIMSS Europe, 2009-2010 Board Chair and a Fellow of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS). Chaiken is an Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He holds an appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.

The agreement pretends to promote the use of new internet and health 2.0 solutions into the clinical management and daily practice,mutial knowledgement interchange, training, telemedicine and humanitarian innitiatives.

En la foto (de izquierda a derecha), Francesc Balletbo (Janssen-Cilag), Miguel Cabrer (Medting), Angel Gil (Catedrático de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública URJC), Cesar Henriquez (ganador del premio) y Carlos Piqueras (Intel).

El caso ganador fue “Cardiomiopatía restrictiva” del Dr. Cesar Henriquez, del Hospital Clínico de San Carlos. Las imágenes del caso:

Nuestra más sincera enhorabuena al ganador y felicitar a los patrocinadores (Intel, Janssen-Cilag), en espacial a la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos por haber liderado esta innovadora iniciativa.

Very basically described, we are thinking in putting advertising (an sponsor logo) for each image or clinical case. The sponsorship income is going to be co-shared between Medting and the owner of the case / image.

Our difference is that the Doctor is going to select the advertising company he wants to show. That means that the doctor can directly arrange with any sponsor for putting images or cases in Medting. Medting would take a fee from that posting.

There is also another scenario more for the non-Profit organizations. A doctor can post a case and say that he wants to collaborate with a Non-Profit Program or Institution. In that case Medting or the Institution will select the advertising company. It’s a way where Non profit institutions may get some funding for their innitiatives, humanitarian help or research activities. Also the sponsor could be the Foundation or Association to get the interest of searching patients.

These are new revenue models we are thinking. The win-win relationship and the possibility to help for the global health innitiatives development is quite exciting for Medting Team.

Before moving forward with this idea we would like to get the input from our community and see how this could be preceived. We now adversiting in healthcare is a delicated topic but doing it in a relationship where all the involved agents win is definetly something for all to consider. Moreover where the real winner is healthcare since the more knowledgement we interchange the faster we get medical advances.

Please include your comments for our discussion.

USP Hospitals will provide a platform to its professionals for the exchange of medical information that will allow:

• share content among physicians with common interests
• exchanging medical second opinions and contrast diagnoses
• provide training materials for continuing education, classes, clinics, presentations, etc..

Regarding issues related to data protection, the platform does not handle personal data of patients so that compliance with the legal aspects is guaranteed.
About USP Hospitals

USP Hospitals Group is an organization which currently has 43 health centers in Spain, Portugal and presence in Morocco. Founded in 1998 by Gabriel Masfurroll, President and CEO, the company has 2,500 physicians and 3,500 employees and serves more than one and a half million patients annually.
25% of the capital of USP Hospital is in the hands of the management team led by Gabriel Masfurroll who also have given a 1% shareholding USP Alex Foundation. The remaining 65% was acquired in July 2007 by the British fund Cinven, one of the most important in Europe.

Since its founding, the group has developed an active policy of investments amounting to 290 million euros and has closed the last financial year 2006 a turnover of € 246.7 million and a gross operating profit (EBITDA) of € 37.2 million. The forecast turnover for 2007 is € 280.7 million, with a gross operating profit (EBITDA) of € 47.0 million.

About Medting
Medting born with the vision of providing a platform for exchange of clinical cases, medical images and videos, so that doctors can use for free to get a second opinion, post an important event and look about illness and / or procedures specific.

Medting is a private and safe community of doctors. Only registered physicians may introduce or comment on cases. The contents are partners and are the property of the doctor author. Medting does not allow the introduction of personal data of patients in the event, remaining at all times the privacy of it. In addition, it allows the creation of private cases enabling processes asynchronous telemedicine among physicians.

The technology platform is specifically designed for professional use and very powerful technology components with high visibility .. Medting uses SNOMED CT terminology to structure and index the clinical cases, is integrated with PubMed and Medline, allows the realization of remote clinical sessions online, multi-language translation done automatically and provides sights of specialized images that can be used from Web pages external.

USP Hospitales ha firmado un acuerdo de colaboración con Medting que permitirá a los 43 Centros asistenciales del Grupo disponer de un portal para compartir información médica.

Fruto del acuerdo, USP Hospitales dispondrá de una plataforma de contenidos clínicos integrada con sus sistemas de información que le permitirá:
• compartir contenidos entre facultativos con intereses comunes
• intercambiar segundas opiniones médicas y contrastar diagnósticos
• disponer de material didáctico para formación continuada, clases clínicas, presentaciones, etc.

En cuanto a aspectos relacionados con la protección de datos, en la plataforma no se manejan datos personales de pacientes por lo que el cumplimiento de los aspectos legales está garantizado.

USP Hospitales se configura así como uno de los principales partners europeos de Medting en la dinamización de contenidos en el Portal y en el lanzamiento e impulso de futuros proyectos a nivel internacional.
Acerca de USP Hospitales
USP Hospitales es un Grupo Hospitalario que cuenta actualmente con 43 centros sanitarios en España, Portugal y presencia en Marruecos. Fundada en 1998 por Gabriel Masfurroll, Presidente y Consejero Delegado, la compañía cuenta con 2.500 médicos y 3.500 empleados y atiende a más de un millón y medio de pacientes al año.
El 25% del capital de USP Hospitales está en manos del equipo directivo liderado por Gabriel Masfurroll quienes además han cedido el 1% del accionariado a USP Fundación Alex. El 65% restante ha sido adquirido en julio de 2007 por el fondo británico Cinven, uno de las más importantes de Europa.

Desde su fundación, el grupo ha desarrollado una activa política de inversiones cifrada en 290 millones de euros y ha cerrado el pasado ejercicio 2006 una facturación de €246.7 millones y un beneficio bruto de explotación (EBITDA) de €37.2 millones. La previsión de facturación para 2007 es de €280.7 millones, con un beneficio bruto de explotación (EBITDA) de €47.0 millones.

Acerca de Medting
Medting nace con el espíritu de proveer una plataforma de intercambio de casos clínicos, imágenes médicas y videos, de forma que los médicos la puedan utilizar de forma gratuita para obtener una segunda opinión, publicar un caso relevante y buscar acerca de enfermedades y/o procedimientos específicas.

Medting es una comunidad de médicos privada y segura. Únicamente médicos registrados pueden introducir o comentar casos clínicos. Los contenidos están asociados y son propiedad del médico autor. Medting no permite la introducción de datos personales de los pacientes del caso, manteniéndose en todo momento la privacidad del mismo. Además, se permite la creación de casos privados posibilitando procesos de telemedicina asíncrona entre médicos.

La plataforma tecnológica está especialmente diseñada para uso profesional y con componentes tecnológicos muy potentes de gran visibilidad.. Medting utiliza la terminología SNOMED CT para estructurar e indexar los casos clínicos, está integrado con PubMed y Medline, permite la realización de sesiones clínicas remotas online, realiza traducción multi-idioma automática y dispone de visores especializados de imágenes que pueden ser utilizados desde páginas web externas.

Para más información:

Mònica Costa
Directora de Comunicación
Tel 93 206 98 90
monica.costa@usphospitales.com
www.usphospitales.com

We are an specialized platform for doctors, we know clinical workflows and medical environment. Let’s remark some of the functionalities of Medting that would have to be more remarkable:

1. Selecting content by medical specialty, subspecialty. Cases and images can be filtered by specialties, (user has to loging to be allowed to filter content) See more

2. PubMed related articles, when reviwing a clinical case or image with Keywords, a PubMed search is sent to recover the latest articles published related to that case. Very useful for clinicans. See more

3. Multilanguage translation: both the keywords, the text and the comments can be automatically translated to several languages (english, spanish, german, russian, arabic, chinese, etc.). Use the box on the left when reviwing a case. Doctors speaking only their local languages can have a conversation and auto-translate the messages. See more

4. Private use of Medting. User can create private cases, images and videos. Private content can only be reviewed by intivation from the author. This makes Medting a great tool for Telemedicine. See more

5. Medting allows to open images with a professional PACS Viewer diagnosis. See more

6. Zoom tools to review the image. See more

7. 3D Images view. (to activate this functionality please read here).

8. Medting Enterprise Partnership also allows Virtual Online Clinical Sessions and some more interesting functionalities.
9. Medting also allows to upload content directly from Medical Devices. Thanks to a technology called MIO from C2C. See details here…

10. Medting works with DICOM Images.

11. Medting is a expert tool for clinicians, only by registering and login you will really get know about the experience.

12. Connectors: Medting provides intersting Medical viewers to be used in any other website. See a sample here

See source article here.

We are proud to hear that coming from such a senior writer and in the well know blog.

The prize was an Apple iPhone 3G.

The awarded case images are shown next:

Medting seems more appropiate  since it’s an action “Medical Meetings” so stands for Medical exchange but something else. Also business plan has been redefined and Medting is free and Premium Users are also for free, just a recognition of our best users.

Read more here…

Digital Pathology is a wolrdwide reference blog with high volume of users and readers.

We are proud to be on the blog and also happy to work with the writer which is one of our main Premium Memberships.

To activate the Medting Media Browing functionality do this steps:

1. Install picLens functionality by going to http://piclens.com/
2. Go to Medting home page: http://medting.com
3. Push on the picLens button in your browser. The button seems different when using Internet Explorer (see example) or Firefox (see example). Enjoy Media Browser.

We have also incorporated 3D functionality in the atlas area of the user MDBoxx Space. So users can see their images in the Medting 3D Wall. To see only your images in the 3D Wall (once piclens is already installed):

1.  Go to My Atlas in MDBOX area (nned to be looged in): http://medting.com/mdbox/myatlas.php
2. Push on the picLens button in your browser. The button seems different when using Internet Explorer (see example) or Firefox (see example). Enjoy Media Browser of MDPIXX.

Medting is happy to improve the site and offer everyday more functionalities to our community.

The Snapshot utility is an amazing functionality that will allow you to make a snapshot of any screen and send as image to the widget. If you are with a patient and using a third party application (for video capturing, PACS Viewer, Medical Record, etc.) you can use the widget to make a photo of the screen and send that content to the widget. Easy and simple!

The widet required Yahoo Widget Engine to be installed and also Windos .NET Framework for the Snapshot Utility.

Clinicians and organizations use different clinical terms that mean the same thing. For example, the terms heart attack, myocardial infarction, and MI may mean the same thing to a cardiologist, but, to a computer, they are all different. There is a need to exchange clinical information consistently between different health care providers, care settings, researchers and others (semantic interoperability),and because medical information is recorded differently from place to place (on paper or electronically), a comprehensive, unified medical terminology system is needed as part of the information infrastructure. SNOMED CT also allows multilingual support and automatic translation of medical terms. That’s why the MDPIXX content is based and structured with SNOMED CT.

Images, videos and clinical cases organized under a SNOMED CT terminology are a really powerful tool for clinical collaboration. This will allow users to search Cases quickly by typing a term that relates to the Case.

Here there is the first comment: “MDPIXX site is a great idea to rapidly share case reports and videos from e.g. surgery between doctors and other groups within health care. The publication delay is avoided which may be up to 1 year for some medical journals. Also, some studies are rejected by the strict rules of journals and may never be published and lost for others to read. All new findings may thus be accessible to other doctors immediately. Another advantage is the video application. To my knowledge, this is a new thing and would be of great educational value. The site is perfect to quickly enter and obtain information about a given condition just encountered in the clinic. The main concern of doctors will probably be that the reporting on MDPIXX is not filtered through the reviewing process of other objective doctors and the reliability may be questioned. This is however also the main advantage of the site, and this site is needed when doing a comprehensive search of the literature. The name is easy to remember and the site is easy to navigate on. It would be good if everything, if possible, could be in English. Since doctors, at least in Denmark, tend to be quite conservative a lot of advertising will be needed. Everyone uses the Pubmed.com regularly. New sites may have a hard time. “