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January 30th, 2008 by interMEDED

January 28, 2008

Medical Education Links, Events, Grants, Opportunities, Scholarships

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Volunteer

APPLY FOR A SUMMER SERVE & LEARN POSITION WITH THE GHANA HEALTH AND

EDUCATION INITIATIVE (GHEI)! *

GHEI is offering four positions in the following three Summer Serve & Learn

project sessions:

Session I: Girls’ Empowerment Art and Science Camp, July 1 - July 17

Session II: Malaria Prevention, July 18 – August 3

Session III: De-worming and Hygiene, August 4 - August 20

*To learn more about each project and our organization, please visit our

website, http://www.ghei.org

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Google Health is coming …

January 25th, 2008 by mcg

Well first comments and announces on Google Health first loging page. Not working yet but at least the login page with a brief description of what Google Health will allow to users.

More info at:

http://health2.info/story.php?id=1554

The big ones are entering into healthcare. Will this change the Healthcare system? will this mean a revolution on Health IT?

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AFHdialogTAGE: Dialogue, Exchanging Ideas and Networking at medicallounge, Berlin / Germany, on January 28 and 29, 2008

January 15th, 2008 by AFH

AFHdialogTAGE: Dialogue, Exchanging Ideas and Networking at medicallounge, Berlin / Germany, on January 28 and 29, 2008 Discussing innovative solutions and new technologies, pooling strengths to tackle new challenges – the key purposes of AFHdialogTAGE, the Asklepios Future Hospital Program (AFH) Conference. The two-day specialist conference will be held in Berlin on January 28 and 29, 2008. Asklepios Future Hospital is among the world’s largest healthcare system innovation programs, with a partnership network currently numbering over 20 leading industrial companies and healthcare cost carriers. AFH’s goal is to advance the development of healthcare technology, while promoting and driving the evolution of views and attitudes and the accompanying innovation process, which introduces changes to traditional models and systems, presents them for discussion and, where necessary, engineers their gradual withdrawal. AFH makes a firm commitment to standardized, networked thought processes in the healthcare system. Experts, management leaders from the fields of business, technology and medicine and healthcare visionaries meet to discuss eHealth solutions in telemedicine, hospital processes, home care and innovation. Specialist lectures, panel discussions and joint workshops address seminal future-oriented themes of healthcare economy in practical terms, focusing on solutions and strategies already in operation or slated for testing in the near future. The conference programme will focus mostly on topics which contribute to connecting eHealth tools and users:

• between clinics, cities, regions (national and international)
• between players in healthcare as patients, healthcare professionals, healthcare providers, health insurance providers, public health actors, educational and research institutions and politicians

In terms of content, AFHdialogTAGE will continue along its previous successful lines, with the first day planned to focus on experts’ talks and panel discussions. The core goal of AFHdialogTAGE is to present practical approaches and solutions to eHealth issues. The individual lectures, discussion topics and ideas for solutions are divided into following four core categories:

• Telemedicine
• Clinical Processes
• HomeCare
• Innovation

These categories will be examined in more depth in workshops held on the second day. Further information on and registration, please, visit our website: http://www.asklepios-future-hospital.com

For further information please contact us or visit http://www.asklepios-future-hospital.com/english/events/AFHDialogTage.asp .

Asklepios Future Hospital MarCom Office
Marsstr. 22, 80335 Munich, Germany
Email: afh@a-b-one.de
Tel: +49 (0)89 / 330 66 470 0Fax: +49 (0)89 /330 66 -469
www.asklepios-future-hospital.com

About the Asklepios Future Hospital

Introducing sustained restructuring to healthcare systems demands both a new quality of cooperation on the part of all those involved and a significant intensification of communication and cross-border knowledge transfer. Against this backdrop, information technology takes on increasing strategic significance. In response to growing pressure on the healthcare system, Asklepios Clinics joined forces with Intel and Microsoft to establish the “Asklepios Future Hospital“ (AFH) Program. Until today more than 20 companies have joined the alliance – such as Bosch, healthcare insurance company DAK, HP, T-Systems, CompuGROUP, McKesson Technology Solutions, SAP, B. Braun, Conworx, Dimension Data, DOCexpert, Dräger Medical, EMC, MCS, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Fujitsu, HanseVision, Lufthansa Systems, Patrise, SyynX and WelchAllyn.

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Seminar on: Health Care & Human Rights: A World in Need

January 15th, 2008 by pat2004

On Saturday, February 2, Weill Cornell Medical College will co-sponsor a seminar on Health Care & Human Rights: A World in Need. It will take place from 9:00 AM - 3:45 PM at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, 7 West 55th Street, in New York City. Complete program information is available at: http://www.med.cornell.edu/world-in-need. Admission is free, but registration is recommended. Contact Paula Trushin, 212-746-0194 or pat2004@med.cornell.edu.

Sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stated that everyone is entitled to a standard of living adequate for health and well-being, more than half the world’s population lives on less than US$2 per day. Unable to afford basic health care, these people suffer and die from preventable or treatable diseases.

In this seminar, co-moderated by the Dean of Weill Cornell and the Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics, physicians will discuss a range of global health issues and share their experiences in the developing world.

They will be joined by Sandeep Kishore, an MD-PhD student and a highly effective student activist in global health. For example, Sandeep recently spearheaded a successful campaign to have a statin added to the World Health Organization’s Model List of Essential Medicines. He will speak about strategies for student involvement in global health.

Discussion topics include: Health care as a human right; Making medicines available to the world’s poor; Providing financial incentives for the development of new therapies to treat neglected diseases of the poor; Collaborating with resource-poor countries to establish sustainable programs of care; Clinical research in the developing world; Principles of medical ethics: are they universal or culture-specific?; The responsibility of physicians in situations of torture, armed conflict, and population dislocation; What the US health care system can learn from other countries; The Role of universities and academic medical centers in global health; and Strategies for becoming involved.

The seminar is designed to raise public awareness and provide a forum where professionals can exchange ideas and solutions.

Come join us on February 2!

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Colecistectomía transvaginal (NOTES) combinada con minilaparoscopia

December 11th, 2007 by admin

La primera intervención quirúrgica con la técnica NOTES duró unos 95 minutos. En los tres casos realizados por el hospital, las pacientes no presentaron complicaciones posoperatorias y recibieron el alta a las 24 horas, explica Josep Noguera, jefe del Servicio de Cirugía del hospital Son Llàtzer de Palma de Mallorca. En el Equipo médico también participan Carles Dolz, jefe del Servicio de Aparato Digestivo, y Ángel Martín, jefe del Servicio de Ginecología. Este abordaje quirúrgico ha supuesto importantes beneficios para las pacientes, porque presenta menores incisiones abdominales, reduce el traumatismo del abdomen y el dolor posoperatorio y no ha dejado secuelas estéticas en el cuerpo de las pacientes, añade el cirujano. (Ver nota de prensa)

Cuando un paciente presenta cálculos de la vesícula biliar y su situación se puede complicar con crisis de dolor, infecciones o la inflamación del páncreas, es necesario extraer el órgano. Desde 1987 uno de los procedimientos más comunes es la colecistectomía laparoscópica, una cirugía mínimamente invasiva que requiere la introducción de cuatro tubos por donde pasan los instrumentos laparoscópicos.Pero en el caso de que los cálculos biliares sean de gran tamaño (unos dos centímetros), en la intervención será necesario ampliar el tamaño de la incisión para extraer la vesícula en condiciones adecuadas.

El hospital Son Llàtzer trata 400 casos de patología biliar al año, de los que al menos un 75% son mujeres. Cerca de un 20% de estas pacientes podrán ser operadas con esta técnica, dice Josep Noguera, “aunque es necesario seguir desarrollando el procedimiento quirúrgico”. Quedan excluidas del tratamiento aquellas pacientes que presenten inflamación severa, tengan episodios previos de colecistitis, hayan sido operadas con anterioridad o padezcan alguna enfermedad ginecológica.

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World of Health IT 2008: Call for Papers

December 6th, 2007 by mcg

World of Health IT 2008 Conference and Exhibition
Connecting Leaders in Technology and Healthcare

Call for papers now open

Be a part of this unique event connecting leading health information and communication technology experts from Europe and beyond. Participants of WoHIT’08 will benefit from:

• Educational sessions
• Exhibition
• Interoperability demonstrations
• Exchange of experiences and networking sessions

This conference will focus on the role and impact Health IT has on the health sector in Europe and other parts of the world, including the Middle East and Africa.

The educational sessions primarily address experiences from deployed services and focus on proven benefits in quality and efficiency. Participants will also discuss the challenges faced by the early adopters. Demonstration activities will give unique insight into the practical aspects of IT systems and their connectivity. WoHIT’08 will also show case studies, success stories and experiences of providers of care and of national and regional collaboration projects are of great interest.

The exhibition is expected to be one of the largest Health IT industrial exhibitions to-date in Europe. Profile your experiences and innovations with peers from around the world.

Complete a submission

All proposals for the Call for Papers must be submitted online by Thursday, 31 January, at 17:00 CET (Central Europe Time)

The Audience

Attendees of WoHIT 2008 are comprised of leaders, decision-makers and implementers of healthcare IT strategies. Professionals in healthcare - directors, executives, CIOs, CTOs, physicians and other clinicians - who require practical information that applies to the challenges and opportunities they face in decision-making and implementation of information technology strategies.

About the Organisers

The 2007 Organising Committee contributed to the development of the 2008 Call for Papers Topic Categories. The Organising Committee members include: WHO (World Health Organization), EC (European Commission), HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society), COCIR (European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry), EHTEL (European Health Telematics Association), EUROREC (European Institute for Health Records), HINE (Health Information Network Europe), and serving under the EC, HOPE (European Hospital and Healthcare Federation), CPME (Standing Committee of European Doctors), EHMA (European Health Management Association)

Looking forward to seeing you next year in Copenhagen!

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Ambient Asisted Living: interesting topic for EU

November 30th, 2007 by mcg

Another interesting concept is about “Ambient Assisted Living”.

“Ambient Assisted Living” is a new European research area for projects that enable elderly people to lead a longer and more independent life in their own homes. First Calls are supposed to be issued in 2008. The XING AAL Group aims to build up a virtual community of experts in this new field of interest.

Research Topic of the European Union (7th Framework Program)

http://europa.eu.int/information_society/policy/accessibility/x-aal/index_en.htm

German Initiative:
http://www.aal-deutschland.de/

AAL Kongress:
http://www.aal-kongress.de/

Artikel 169 Initiative:
http://www.aal169.org/members.html
http://www.aal-europe.eu/

Subtopics: Smart Home, E-Home, Telemedicine.

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Call for papers: Medicine 2.0

November 28th, 2007 by mcg

How social networking and Web 2.0 technologies revolutionize health care, wellness, clinical medicine and biomedical research

In the past few years we have seen the rapid evolution of new tools and programming techniques collectively called “Web 2.0 tools”, which facilitate the development of collaborative and user-friendly Web applications.
Typically, the Web 2.0 is a term which refers to a) improved communication between people via social-networking technologies, b) improved communication between separate software applications (”mashups”) via open Web standards for describing and accessing data, and c) improved Web interfaces that mimic the real-time responsiveness of desktop applications within a browser window. Semantic web applications (sometimes called Web 3.0) and 3D environments (Second Life) can also be seen as second generation Web technologies.
These technologies have led to a flurry of new applications and speculation on their potential to revolutionize health care and the entire spectrum of health and medicine – from consumer-led preventive medicine, home care, to clinical care. This coincides with a strong push towards personal health records, with major players such as Microsoft and Google entering the scene. High-profile takeovers and valuations of companies such as YouTube or Facebook also have led to a flurry of investment activities - Venture Capitalists are once again investing in Web start-ups, but much of the linguistics and hype is reminiscent of the Web 1.0 bubble in the late 90ies.
As academics, we have the responsibility to look beyond the hype, and to dissect what works and what doesn’t.
As the leading peer-reviewed journal in eHealth, JMIR, together with a number of sponsoring organizations, is currently preparing the first academic international “Medicine 2.0″^TM conference in 2008 (note that with the term “medicine” we do not necessarily mean clinical medicine, but also preventive medicine, and the part of “medicine” which is the consumers’ responsibility.).
This cutting edge conference will bring together academics and business leaders and is hoped to catalyze new collaborations between academia, health providers, and the private sector.
We envision this to be an annual conference, with peer-reviewed contributions, panels, and invited speakers, focussing on “next generation medicine”, which incorporates ideas of collaboration and consumer empowerment.
To celebrate the first Medicine 2.0 conference in 2008, JMIR will publish a “Medicine 2.0” Theme Issue focussing on Web 2.0 applications for health, health care, and the future of medicine. We will publish peer-reviewed research articles, reviews, and opinion articles (submission deadline for full articles: Feb 15th, 2008).

Examples for topics that are within the scope of the theme issue as well as the conference include the following:

• Collaborative Filtering and recommender technologies
• Consumer empowerment
• Personal health records and Web 2.0
• New models of academic / scholarly publishing and peer review, e.g. what is the role of blogs and wikis?
• New models of e-learning, patient education, medical training and continuing medical education
• Youth and digital learning
• Business models in a Web 2.0 environment: User-generated content is free - so who makes money how? What is the role of the private sector?
• Developing and nurturing online communities for health
• The nature and dynamics of social networks
• Web 2.0 approaches for clinical practice, clinical research, quality monitoring, public health and biosurveillance
• How patient - physicians relationship change based on Web 2.0 platforms
• Virtual health care learning environments (web 3D: eg second health
and the ALIVE project at U of Southern Queensland, Australia)
• Use of Web 2.0 applications in health care and education (eg
YouTube…UC Berkeley is the first US university to put lectures
online via YouTube)
• Semantic Web applications

Prospective authors are encouraged to send an email with the title and an abstract to the editor at geysenba at gmail.com (email subject: “Medicine 2.0 theme issue”).
We also welcome inquiries regarding potential speakers and co-sponsoring organizations of the Medicine 2.0 conference.

Submissions must follow the Instructions for Authors. Note that JMIR is an Open Access journal and our regular publication fees apply.

About JMIR
JMIR (http://www.jmir.org) is a leading Open-Access peer-reviewed transdisciplinary journal with an impact factor (2006) of 2.9, making it one of the top journals in the fields of medical informatics (#2 of 20) and health services research (#6 of 56). It is also indexed in Medline and other major databases with global reach.

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Medical Tourism is not a new concept …

November 28th, 2007 by mcg

It has been from a long time that medical tourism exists as a concept. Germany offering services to Middle East, Inidia, Tailandia, Philipines offering cheaper services plus tourism adavantages to patients.

Here you will see an example

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Something is moving in medical tourism…

November 25th, 2007 by mcg

  By Miguel Cabrer, LeaderHealth Consultant.

Medical tourism is starting to be a solid concept with some mature business cases. Also some conferences are being organised.

In fact, in few days the World Health Tourism Congress and the European Congress on Health Tourism will take place in europe.

The 3rd annual World Health Tourism Congress – Marbella, Spain from 4th to 6th April 2008 (). This premier event offers healthcare providers from around the world the chance to create business opportunities and form partnerships with the largest corporate healthcare buyers in the world. World Health Tourism Congress offers a unique B2B format adapted to your Prospecting Strategy. The format of the event is much more exclusive than any other health tourism event in the HealthCare Tourism industry.

The FIRST EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON HEALTH TOURISM 2008 will be held between the 9th - 11th April, Munich - Westin Grand Hotel Munich.

Europe Health wants to create a scientific platform and marketplace, where the global community can discuss issues like quality standards, future trends, best practice and state of the art to bring more transparency into this fast growing factor of world economy.

The congress addresses the following groups: key decision makers in the health sector, clinics and hospitals, governmental institutions in the health sector, insurances, travel agents, hotels, wellness and spa, patient services, IT services.

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