UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme
Progress report
Period of activity: SEP2001-SEP2002

Title of the UNESCO Chair or Network:

UNESCO CHAIR OF TELEMEDICINE
____________________________________________________________________________________

Report established by: ______Prof.Dr.O.Ferrer-Roca ___

Function / Title: ____Prof. in Pathology ____

To be sent by electronic mail to: m.grosjean@unesco.org
or to UNESCO, Division of Higher Education
7, place Fontenoy – 75352 Paris 07 SP
Fax: 33 1 45 68 56 26/27/28

Summary
I ADDRESS 3
II AVAILABLE RESOURCES 3
II. 1 - Human resources 3
II. 2 . Material resources 4
III ACTIVITIES 4
III. 1 Education/Training/Research 4
III. 2 Conferences/Congresses/Meetings 4
III. 3 Missions / Travels abroad 5
III. 4 Visiting professors / Fellowships 5
III. 5 Information and documentation activities: 5
III. 6 Others 6
III. 6. 1 Written agreements with Universities 6
III. 6. 2 Training Books donations 6
III. 6. 3 Computer donations 6
IV IMPACT 6
V FORTHCOMING ACTIVITIES. 6
VI DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS 7
VII ANNEXES 8
VII. 1 ANNEX 1. Target groups 8
VII. 2 ANNEX 2: Geographical Coverage 8
VII. 2. 1 National 8
VII. 2. 2 International: 8
VII. 3 ANNEX 3: Funding sources 9
VII. 4 ANNEX 4: Outputs 10
VII. 4. 1 Form 1: Publication 10
VII. 4. 2 Form 1: Publication 11
VII. 4. 3 Form 1: Publication 12
VII. 4. 4 Form 1: Publication 13
VII. 4. 5 Form 1: Publication 14
VII. 4. 6 Form 1: Publication 15
VII. 4. 7 Form 1: Publication 15
VII. 4. 8 Form 1: Publication 16
VII. 5 ANNEX 5. Multimedia material 17
VII. 5. 1 Form 2: Multimedia material 17
VII. 5. 2 Form 2: Multimedia material 17
VII. 5. 3 Form 2: Multimedia material 18
VII. 5. 4 Form 2: Multimedia material 20
VII. 6 COURSE PROGRAMMS 22
VII. 6. 1 IX WINTER-2001 22
VII. 6. 2 IX SUMMER - 2001 23
VII. 6. 3 X WINTER - 2002 24
VII. 6. 4 X SUMMER - 2002 26

I Address
(if modified)
Not modify

Address of the Host Institution Address of theChairholder (or coordinator)
NameFunction/TitleUniversity/InstitutionFaculty/Department/CentreP.O.BoxStreetPostal CodeCity ProvinceCountryPhone FaxE-mailWeb Site Chairholder(if present in this institution) and/or)National coordinator Chairholder / Coordinator

II Available resources

Please specify for each item, when available, total cost and funding sources
(for guidelines see Annex 3)

II. 1 - Human resources
1. For the administration of the UNESCO Chair or Network.
One lawyer, acting as a secretary. Another partial time support secretary.
2. For the teaching/training/research activities
Prof. Dr. O. .Ferrer-Roca
Physics Alberto Figueredo
Lawyer Margarita Suárez Delgado
Computer Science Jesús Gomez
Electrical Engeneering James Collings
Ana Claudina Lopez Alonso

3. For the information and documentation activities
one person
4. For other activities: The international courses brought to teaching and training a total of 35 professors coming from European, African and Ibero-American countries (Italy, Greece, France, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg, USA, Spain, Uganda, United Kingdom, Belgium, Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba) .

II. 2. Material resources
1. For the administrative work
Computers, fax machines, xerocopy machines, printer, storage systems.
2. For the teaching/training/research activities
Videoconference, workstations, ultrasounds, video-edition, projector, Book edition, CD-edition, Proceedings editions.
3. For the information and documentation activities
Web site, Posters, brochures, Proceedings, Book editions, CD-edition
4. For other activities (Please specify)
Videoconferencing, 3D-virtual reality, Distant control.

III Activities

Please, provide information on items 1 to 6 for each activity, when available, and specify:
- Target groups, in accordance with Annex 1
- Geographical coverage, in accordance with Annex 2
- Funding sources, in accordance with Annex 3.

III. 1 Education/Training/Research
· Title and expected results for each course, workshop
See joined memorandum and programs of the Summer and Winter Course of the CATAI
Duration: 1week, 2weeks, 1-3 days.
· Target groups: doctors, nurses, health-care providers, NGOs
· Partnership see joined programms and point II.1.4. Universities Regensburg, Udine, Innsbruck, Strasbourg, Coimbra, Makerere, Paris, Entre-Rios, Zulia, Thessaloniki, Athens Univ. of Economics and Business, Missouri-USA, Howard-USA, Yale-USA, La Laguna.
· Geographical coverage for partners and participants: Europe-Africa-South America.
· Funding sources: Retevision Foundations. Leonardo da Vinci-EC Projects. CATAI founding.
· Outputs: 150-200 students per year. See publications, in forms of Annex 4, and Annex 5 for the multimedia material.

III. 2 Conferences/Congresses/Meetings
· Title and expected results for each conference, meeting…: Always Telemedicine application and environments. Expected increase of knowledge and training of how to handle medicine at distance for people and areas underserved or with, health care constrains availability.
· Dates and place: Madrid [14-16 January 01], Munich [27-31 January 01], Luxembourg [28-29 March 01], Sevilla [9-10May 01], Halkidiki-Greece [23-27 May 01], Thessaloniki (23-27 May 01), Sevilla (10 May 01), Madrid (15-21 September 01), Madrid (19-21 October 01), Genova (7-11 November 01), Frankfurt (12-14 December 01), Kos Island (17-19 September 01), Thessaloniki (19-20 November 01), Münster (9-11 December 01), Luxembourg (10-14 April 02), Basilea (7-9 April 02), Madrid (28-30 April 02), Shieffield 7-8 May 02).
· Partnership (see joined programs plus Airtel Foundation, Hewlett-Packard, HUC, Hospital Punta Delgada, Mulago Hospital-Uganda; CHS consortium, KOD-consortium; Asclepios consortium ]
· Participants (100 up to 1000 depending of the type of meeting)
· Geographical coverage for participants and partners: Europe-Africa-South America-Asia
· Funding sources: Retevision Foundation, Leonardo-EC projects, CATAI fundings.
· Outputs: Please complete Annex 4 for the publications and Annex 5 for the multimedia material.

III. 3 Missions / Travels abroad
Destination: USA - Missouri Univ.; Howard Univ.; Yale Univ.
Purpose: Students training in telemedicine
Duration: from 2 to 3 months
Funding source: Retevision Foundation. EC-USA exchange
Outputs: training of students to provide telemedicine in underserved areas.

III. 4 Visiting professors / Fellowships
Number: (12)
Duration: 1-2 month
University of origin: U. Zulia(2), U. Entre-Rios(4), U Makerere (2), University of La Habana-Cuba (1), U. Howard (1), U. Missouri (2)
Funding sources: Retevision Foundation. EC-US Project funding.

III. 5 Information and documentation activities:
HANDBOOK OF TELEMEDICINE, Ios Press 1999, ISBN 90 5199 413 3
CATAI TELEMEDICINE CD, 1999, ISBN 84-923357-2-6
TELEMEDICINA. Español. Ed. Panamericana 2001. ISBN: 84-7903-606-0
TELEMEDICINA. SITUACIÓN ACTUAL Y PERSPECTIVAS. Español. Biblioteca Fundación Retevisión 2001. ISBN: 84-931542-5-3
PROCEEDINGS IX WINTER COURSE CATAI, March 12-25, 2001
PROCEEDINGS IX SUMMER COURSE CATAI, September 17-19, 2001
PROCEEDINGS X WINTER COURSE CATAI, March 11, 2002.
PROCEEDINGS X SUMMER COURSE CATAI, September 2002

III. 6 Others
III. 6. 1 Written agreements with Universities
6.1 Written agreement with the University of Entre-Rios – Argentina and the University of La Laguna March 2001. Direct consequence is the scholarship for one year extensible to tree years for a Bio-engineering.
6.2 Written agreement with the Universities of Makerere-Uganda, Regensburg-Germany and La Laguna-Spain through the Unesco Chair of Telemedicine in order to provide trained medical students or already graduate people to train in Telemedicine in the University of Makerere-Uganda. (not yet signed)
6.3 Written agreement with the University of Missouri-Colombia for the medical and computer science student interchange. April 2002.

III. 6. 2Training Books donations

6.1 Donations of the English version of the Handbook of Telemedicine to the Universities of , Entre-Rios (2), Makerere (2), Cuba (1), Missouri (2), Howard (1).
6.4 Donation 300 books of the Spanish version of the Textbook of Telemedicine entitle Telemedicine to the Ibero-American Universities ( Entre-Rios-Argentina; Zulia-Venezuela). Costs assumed by the Chair.

III. 6. 3Computer donations

6.5 Delivery of 9 computers working properly, Pentium III with Windows 98 to the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Makerere- Uganda. June 2001. Costs assume by the CATAI.

IV Impact

Please describe shortly (one page maximum) the impact of the mentioned activities on the human, social, economical and cultural development at national, regional or international level.

The relevance of the telemedicine in areas underserved or to people with limited access of difficulties do not require further comments.
One of the principle obstacles in the wide use of Telemedicine is the lack of specific training and qualifications in the health care environment (doctors, nurses, paramedics, managers, NGOs) as well as related areas from which they require support (computer science, telecommunications)
The Unesco chair of Telemedicine is at the present moment an International forum where under-developing countries together with developed countries can exchange knowledge, support and information to implement locally adapted solutions for the underserved areas.
The previous 15 years work carried out in the host institution (Univ..La Laguna) facilitate the proposals acceptance and credibility. Furthermore their location in an archipelago territory, which is the bridge between Europe-America and Africa, also facilitate his tasks.
The International projects most of them with developing countries increase the awareness on the underserved areas of the designed solutions and particularly on the effort to increase the knowledge require to practice telemedicine at distance. Furthermore the Chair acts as a bridge to establish medical support with develop countries. Specifically this year the University of Regensbourg offered to the University of Makere young doctor trained in telemedicine to support the local doctors.

V Forthcoming activities.

1. X SUMMER COURSE OF THE CATAI- September 2002- Regensbourg
2. XI WINTER COURSE OF THE CATAI - March 2003 - Tenerife
3. XI SUMMER COURSE OF THE CATAI- September 2003 - Udine
4. GREEK EDITION OF THE MANUAL OF TELEMEDICINE
5. ITALIAN EDITION OF THE MANUAL OF TELEMEDICINE
6. FRENCH EDITION OF THE MANUAL OF TELEMEDICINE
7. GERMAN EDITION OF THE MANUAL OF TELEMEDICINE
8. STUDENTS EXCHANGE TO USA
9. STUDENTS EXCHANGE TO TENERIFE
10. STUDENTS TRAINING IN TENERIFE
11. DOCTORS EXCHANGE FROM EUROPE TO UGANDA
12. UGANDA DOCTORS TRAINING IN EUROPE
13. SCHOLARSHIPS FOR IBEROAMERICAN BIOENGENEERS
14. EC PROJECT TO EXPAND THE ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOPING MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES

VI Development prospects

The activities of the Chair were settle during 1999, developed throughout 2000-2001 and we are now in the period of expansion. The expansion include:

1. - Expansion in the Mediterranean Countries, particularly in the North of Africa , as well as Israel. An Eumedis project will be presented in 2003.
2. - Expansion in other Ibero-American countries, particularly to Cuba.
3. - Direct cooperation with the ITU (International Telecommunications Union- DBT) for developing countries. Agreement already approved in ITU for funding for training Telemedicine in developing countries did not get finally sufficient funding, nevertheless the chair is included in the Telemedicine study group of the ITU-DBT and through it the international relationship had been expanded to India, Kazakhstan, Russia, Bulgaria and Rumania.
4. - Approach with the WHO (World health organization) to help the NGOs with Telemedicine devices, is still pending. Nevertheless there is an initiative to introduce Telemedicine in the disaster area international norms.

VII ANNEXES

VII. 1 ANNEX 1. Target groups

Undergraduate students YES
Graduate students YES
Postgraduate students YES
Academics YES
Public administrators YES
Employees from industry, or private organizations (please, specify) YES NGOs
Teachers from primary education NO
Teachers from secondary education NO
Teachers from technical and vocational education YES
Teachers from adult education YES
Others groups (Please specify) VOLUNTIERS
____________________________________________________________________________________

VII. 2 ANNEX 2: Geographical Coverage
VII. 2. 1 National
· Regional
Please specify countries and regions
· Spain: Canary Islands (7 Islands)
· Interregional
Please specify regions The same specify before.

VII. 2. 2International:

· Regional
· Africa: Nairobi-Kenya, Makere-Uganda,
· Arab States
· Asia/ Pacific: Kazakhstan, Tel-Aviv-Israel, New Delhi-India
· Eastern and Central Europe: Sofia-Bulgaria, Rumania
· Western Europe and North America: Germany-Regensburg, Italy-Udine, Greece-Athens and Aegean islands, Austria-Tyrol, France-Strasbourg, Lachen-Switzerland.
· Latin-America: Argentina-Entre-Ríos, Venezuela-Maracaibo, Panamá, Cuba-La Habana.
· Interregional

VII. 3 ANNEX 3: Funding sources

Funding source Type ofOrganization / Institution Period Amount US$1$=174pts
UNESCO Contribution 01-2002 0
Other contributions:Please specify, for each contribution:Institution, City, Country Host Institution 01-2002 25.000
Partner university/ institution 01-2002 40.000
Governmental body Other public institutionPlease specify UN Agencies IGOs 0
NGOs: CATAI 01-2002 30.000
Industry 0
Other private sourcesRetevisión FoundationTelefónica-Spain 01-20022002 57.000to be determined
TOTAL 01-2002 152.175

VII. 4 ANNEX 4: Outputs

VII. 4. 1 Form 1: Publication
Title of activity:___________________________________________________

Title: Virtual Sonography and 3D Teleconsultation

Author(S) : Ferrer Roca o., Troyano JM., Vilarchao J., Clavijo M., Rodríguez A.

Publisher(s) : Journal of Medical Internet Research

Year : 2001

Number of pages : 13

Type of document/material:
· Book
· Periodical X- Scientific Journal
· Others (specify, please) ____________________

Teaching/learning material X
Language(s)_____________English_______________________________
Main keywords (4 or 5): Virtual sonography, Telemedicine, 3D Ultrasound, Obstetrics, Virtual patient.

SHORT ABSTRACT
(Brief description of the content in English, French or Spanish)
Objectives: The 3D-Ultrasound reconstruction, available as a routine exploration since 1994, has brought new technical capabilities such as virtual sonography that can be tele-consulted and which experience is summarized in the present paper.
Methods: During one year 73 3D-US volumetric images coming from 34 patients of the Obstetrics and Gynaecology department were acquired and 68 were consulted at distance. Acquisitions were carried out through an existing 2D device adding a magnetic tracking system on the US-probe. Probe positioning and video output was introduced into a PC running software that allows the generation of 2D-orthogonal and 3D volume images, as well as tele-consultation.
Several image analysis techniques for 3D-reconstruction were evaluated.
Results: Final volumes were small (1.5Mb) and required about 4 minutes, with a SD of 2 minutes, to be transmitted over one ISDN channel (64Kbs). Good correlation (k=0.7) was found between local and distant diagnosis. In 30%, images were considered of low quality and in 29% of good quality; diagnosis could be done with confidence in all except 7 cases. Virtual sonography, by means of oblique cuts in all space directions, improved distant diagnostic confidence. Limitations were linked to: incomplete sampling due to the short acquisition time periods (26 seconds) and difficulties on hand-free probe movement.
3D reconstructions were time consuming (20 min- 4 hours) and of limited indication.
Conclusions: 3D reconstruction could reduce multiple explorations due image constrains such as sub optimal foetal positioning, among others. Virtual sonography was important to reach confidence on distant diagnosis; it was also considered a tool for off- line local review of non-trained sonographer acquisitions.

VII. 4. 2 Form 1: Publication
Title of activity:___________________________________________________

Title: COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS OF ONCOLOGY HOME CARE VERSUS HOSPITAL CARE

Author(s) : Subirana R., Ferrer-Roca O., Gonzalez Davila E.

Publisher(s) : J. Telemed & Telecare 2001; 7:226-232

Year : 2001

Number of pages : 8

Type of document/material:
· Book
· Periodical X Scientific Journal
· Others (specify, please) _____________________

Teaching/learning material X
Language(s)__________English__________________________________
Main keywords (4 or 5): Telemedicine. Home care. Oncology. Phone Medicine. Distance practice. Medical call center. Patient’s rights.
SHORT ABSTRACT
(Brief description of the content in English, French or Spanish)
Background - Advantages provided by phone medicine are still unknown. In spite of health care and user benefits its role in everyday health care provision is neither mentioned nor considered in the medical system organisation schemes. Patient demand in some medical specialities such as oncology advises starting phone-medicine, but manager decisions have been postponed on the basis of the limited available scientific data.
Methods - The present work carries out a comparison before and after the establishment of a 24-hours phone-medicine service attended by the patient’s personal doctor. Service was offered as a patient’s right for 5 months in 1997 and 12 months in 1998. A total of 560 oncology patients with solid tumours were followed during these two years.
Data analysis includes: influence of the service on the number of outreach controls and casualties together with its usage and benefits; the latter were evaluated studying: 1) time variables, 2) patients’ origin and medical data, and 3) objective and subjective phone call classification (identification?).
Results- Phone calls were short (3-5 min); 80% of the were stablished on the patient’s own initiative, 89% came from outreach patients, of whom 66% were under treatment. Half of calls were informative (48%); treatment was indicated in 1/3 of calls and psychological support was needed in 4% of the cases. The pathology causing the calls was solved in 22% of the cases without further medical intervention within ten days, while in 18% an outreach clinical visit was indicated. With a 24% increase in number of controlled patients, the oncology department showed a 53% decrease on casualties and 17% on outreach visits during 1998.
Conclusion.- The introduction of phone medicine in patients’ surveillance was considered the main reason of the decrease in outreach visits and casualties furthermore efficiently handled. Patients’ control improved with quick detection of alarm signs in the course of the treatment. The service has been introduced as the patients’ right has been accepted as a benefit by them.

VII. 4. 3 Form 1: Publication
Title of activity:___________________________________________________

Title: MEDICAL TRAINING IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY: PREPARING LAW FOR AN ASSISTANCE REVOLUTION

Author(S) Ferrer-Roca O., Abreu Reyes JA., Abreu González R., Suárez Delgado MN., Sola-Reche E.

Publisher(s) : Revista Clínica Española, vol. 201. nº6

Year : 2001

Number of pages : 13

Type of document/material:
· Book
· Periodical X Scientific Article
· Others (specify, please) _____________________

Teaching/learning material X

Language(s)_____________Spanish_______________________________

Main keywords (4 or 5): Telemedicine. Laws. Training. Medical devices. Liability. Privacy.

SHORT ABSTRACT
(Brief description of the content in English, French or Spanish)
The information society tools force quick changes and the updating of training programs and laws from which medical practice can not be excluded. This work summarises the norms and laws applied to the practice of telemedicine and home-care. Following the subsidiary principles, the legislative levels applied are: National laws, European Union, laws from the Autonomous Communities, and those from the Medical professional colleges and local medical colleges.
On the results and discussion we will give special mention to those Ethical and Deontological rules that we consider contradictory or not innovative, as well as to the urgent demand to sensitise and habilitate the medical doctors in new technologies that should start with the curriculum renewal. Finally, both the appliance of the existing legislation and the elaboration of an info-ethic code of conduct for the Telemedicine practice, are encouraged.

VII. 4. 4 Form 1: Publication
Title of activity:___________________________________________________
Title: AVIATION MEDICINE. CHALLENGES FOR TELEMEDICINE

Author(S) Ferrer-Roca O., R. Diaz-León, F.J. de Latorre, M. Súarez, L. Di Persia, M. Cordo.

Publisher(s) : Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 2002; 8: 1-4

Year : 2002

Number of pages : 8

Type of document/material:
· Book
· Periodical X Scientific Article
· Others (specify, please) _____________________

Teaching/learning material X

Language(s)_____________Spanish_______________________________

Main keywords (4 or 5): Telemedicine

SHORT ABSTRACT
(Brief description of the content in English, French or Spanish)
Medical support in the Air is becoming relevant. It started with the law advising to carry on board Medical Decision Support Systems, such as Automatic External Defibrillators, and now a day is linked to the increase awareness of the so-called Economy Class Syndrome and the progressive aging of population. Technology and telecommunication advances allow improving medical support on board by means of telemedicine and telemetry devices . As a result of the better patient care and the coordination with a medical ground station, lives could be saved not only in the aircraft by particulary during patient transfer to the nearest hospital. The present paper brings awareness of the importance of medical support for safety long or transoceanic flights, listing the present situation as well as improvements based on telemedicine. Particulary, regarding technical solutions compatible with existing aircraft technology and specific aero-spatial environment.

VII. 4. 5 Form 1: Publication
Title of activity:___________________________________________________
Title: Proceedings from IX Winter Course of CATAI

Publisher(s): CATAI- Catedra de Anatomia Patologica. Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de La Laguna

Year: 2001

Number of pages: 197

Type of document/material:
· Book
· Periodical
· Others (specify, please) X Proceedings

Teaching/learning material X

Language(s): English, Spanish

Main keywords (4 or 5): Telemedicine, Information Society, Health Care

SHORT ABSTRACT
(Brief description of the content in English, French or Spanish)

El IX curso de Invierno del CATAI pretende introducir nuevas tecnologías y divulgar una nueva generación de servicios en Telemedicina para el cuidado en casa que pueden mejorar notablemente el cuidado de la salud.
Debido al progresivo envejecimiento de la población, la industria del cuidado al ciudadano en casa debe adaptarse a estas nuevas necesidades y orientar sus productos a un perfil de pacientes crónicos a los que se pretende aumentar su calidad de vida, con una adecuada vigilancia desde casa.
Esta nueva generación de servicios en Telemedicina se refiere principalmente a la tecnología Bluetooth, WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), y los nuevos terminales de móbiles de tercera generación, basados en los estándares fijados para UMTS (Universal Mobile Technologie Systems), que tienen como objetivo proporcionar acceso a todo tipo de información a través del teléfono móvil. Por tanto, el WAP, GRPS y UMTS, permiten acceder a la información "on line" a través de los teléfonos móviles SIN NECESIDAD DE ORDENADORES.
La aplicación de la tecnología WAP en Telemedicina está clara, al poder controlar remotamente, con costes reducidos y una accesibilidad total, a los pacientes crónicos, o generar alarmas automáticas en enfermos o personas que viven solas.
También es de notable importancia la divulgación de los últimos avances en Domótica y de sus posibles aplicaciones en los cuidados domiciliarios para enfermos que pierden claramente su posibilidad de movilidad.

Por último, tenemos que destacar las últimas tecnologías en encriptación de datos aplicada a las recetas médicas, que en caso de su futura aplicación evitaría a los enfermos muchos trastornos que tienen en la actualidad para obtener aquellas recetas que necesitan visado.
Así mismo y debido al considerable incremento e interés general en la puesta a punto de aplicaciones sostenibles en Telemedicina, es necesario el conocimiento de los movimientos europeos para la implantación de códigos éticos y de info-ética como paso previo antes de cualquier regulación legal administrativa, civil o penal en la practica de la Telemedicina. La aceptación de las autoridades sanitarias y los colegios de profesionales de este código permitirá la implantación y el despegue real de aplicaciones y la industria tecnológica asociada.
El curso dirigirá actividades educacionales, debido a la importancia de contar con expertos autorizados en el uso de la tecnología con el objetivo de explotar su máxima capacidad

Form 1: Publication
Title of activity:___________________________________________________
Title: Proceedings from IX Summer Course of CATAI

Publisher(s): CATAI- Catedra de Anatomia Patologica. Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de La Laguna

Year: 2001

Number of pages: ….
Type of document/material:
· Book
· Periodical
· Others (specify, please) X Proceedings

Teaching/learning material X

Language(s): English, Spanish

Main keywords (4 or 5): Telemedicine, Information Society, Health Care

SHORT ABSTRACT
(Brief description of the content in English, French or Spanish)
?????????

VII. 4. 6 Form 1: Publication
Title of activity:___________________________________________________
Title: Proceedings from X Winter Course of CATAI

Publisher(s): CATAI- Catedra de Anatomia Patologica. Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de La Laguna

Year: 2002

Number of pages: 209

Type of document/material:
· Book
· Periodical
· Others (specify, please) X Proceedings

Teaching/learning material X

Language(s): English, Spanish

Main keywords (4 or 5): Telemedicine, Information Society, Health Care

SHORT ABSTRACT
(Brief description of the content in English, French or Spanish)
El X curso de Invierno del CATAI pretende introducir y divulgar la nueva generación de las tecnologías de la información para la atención al ciudadano y los cuidados domiciliarios que mejorarán el cuidado de la salud con la aplicación de los servicios de Telesalud y Telemedicina.
Debido al progresivo envejecimiento de la población, la industria del cuidado al ciudadano en casa debe adaptarse a estas nuevas necesidades y orientar sus productos a un perfil de pacientes crónicos a los que se pretende aumentar su calidad de vida, con una adecuada vigilancia desde casa.
En este entorno, la puesta a punto de servicios al ciudadano requiere la HISTORIA CLINICA ELECTRÓNICA , tarjetas de identificación y firma inteligentes y un sistema estandarizado de control de acceso en el entorno sanitario.
La aplicación de la tecnología es fundamental para asegurar la recogida de daots médicos telemétricamente a los pacientes crónicos, o generar alarmas automáticas en enfermos o personas que viven solas.
Por último, tenemos que destacar las últimas tecnologías en encriptación de datos aplicada a las recetas médicas, que en caso de su futura aplicación evitaría a los enfermos muchos trastornos que tienen en la actualidad para obtener aquellas recetas que necesitan visado.
Así mismo y debido al considerable incremento e interés general en la puesta a punto de aplicaciones sostenibles en Telemedicina, es necesario el conocimiento de los movimientos europeos para la implantación de códigos éticos y de info-ética como paso previo antes de cualquier regulación legal administrativa, civil o penal en la practica de la Telemedicina. La aceptación de las autoridades sanitarias y los colegios de profesionales de este código permitirá la implantación y el despegue real de aplicaciones y la industria tecnológica asociada.
El curso dirigirá actividades educacionales, debido a la importancia de contar con expertos autorizados en el uso de la tecnología con el objetivo de explotar su máxima capacidad.

VII. 4. 7 Form 1: Publication
Title of activity:___________________________________________________
Title: Proceedings from X Summer Course of CATAI

Publisher(s): CATAI- Catedra de Anatomia Patologica. Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de La Laguna

Year: 2002

Number of pages: ...

Type of document/material:
· Book
· Periodical
· Others (specify, please) X Proceedings

Teaching/learning material X

Language(s): English, Spanish

Main keywords (4 or 5): Telemedicine, Information Society, Health Care

SHORT ABSTRACT
(Brief description of the content in English, French or Spanish)
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VII. 5 ANNEX 5. Multimedia material

VII. 5. 1 Form 2: Multimedia material
Title of activity:___________________________________________________
Title: CATAI Telemedicine-CD

Producer and/or distributor (with address): CATAI- Catedra de Anatomia Patologica. Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de La Laguna
Year: 2002
Teaching/learning material X

Type of material:
· Video
· CD ROM X with videos
· Visioconference:
· Other type of material
(Please specify):_________________________
Duration: 643 MB
Format: Word, Html, /ppt, /mpeg
Language(s): English- Italian-Spanish
Main keywords (4 or 5): Telemedicine
SHORT ABSTRACT
(Brief description of the content in English, French or Spanish)
According to one of the numerous definitions of Telemedicine “providing medicine at a distance“, any doctor being trained in the use of some telematic devices could effort that practice. The reality is far from this because to assure a safe practice, people have to learn and bear a minimum understanding of a wide range of topics: from economics to telecommunications and from medicine to legal aspects. Technology learning is not limited to technology itself but linked to its social practical consequences in all their aspects. To guarantee that none of the aspects related with Telemedicine are missed, this minimum knowledge has to be fixed, organised and in some way standardized. The main purpose of this book is to structure the basic knowledge linked to teaching to provide or to practise telemedicine, as well as an overview of the technology developments linked to this new discipline. As expressed in the title (Handbook of Telemedicine), the book is precisely structured as a “handbook” whose main value is the joint opinion of all the participating authors of what are the learning requirements for anyone that would like to practice Telemedicine. It is not a full treatise nor a complete collection of all telemedicine applications or telemedicine basics. It was built with the aim of creating awareness to the academic aspects (technology development, telecommunications approach, law and regulations, medical practice) as well as to the minimum knowledge requirements to guarantee safe and appropiate medical practice. Nowadays this fact is enhanced by the evidence that welfare expenses cannot be endlessly increased, whilst an efficient health provision system in the context of the information society, will mark a new trend to configure health care practice in the next century. If training and teaching schemes are to cope with the demands of society it seems obvious that those carers and professions should consider structured and sufficient training in Telemedicine.
AIMS OF THE MULTIMEDIA CD-ROM
The present CD-ROM contains the Handbook of Telemedicine as a whole, internally structured in 12 Chapters and 13 Annexes (file HANDBOOK.DOC). Some of them are complemented with diverse multimedia material for training and teaching purposes. The handbook is presented in Word and Html formats (directory /html), while the multimedia material is located in the directories /ppt and /mpeg. The former are PowerPoint 97 presentations and the latter are video-clips on Mpeg format.

VII. 5. 2 Form 2: Multimedia material
Title of activity:___________________________________________________
Title: www.teide.net/catai

Producer and/or distributor (with address): CATAI- Catedra de Anatomia Patologica. Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de La Laguna

Year: 1997-2001

Teaching/learning material X

Type of material:
· Video
· CD ROM
· Visioconference:
· Other type of material X
(Please specify):_________________________ Web page

Duration:

Format: Html

Language(s): English- Spanish

Main keywords (4 or 5): Telemedicine

SHORT ABSTRACT
(Brief description of the content in English, French or Spanish)
La web del CATAI tiene como objetivo principal la divulgación de la Telemedicina en España. La actividad científica y humanitaria de la Asociación sin ánimo de lucro CATAI (Centro y de Tecnología Avanzada y Análisis de Imagen), está relacionada con:
Análisis de Imagen
Estadística de la Imagen
Transmisión a Distancia de Imágenes de Alta Resolución
Videoconsultorías
Videoconferencias
Telecuantificación
Dispositivos Multimedia
Y finalmente, Aplicaciones de la Telemedicina en el Mundo Real entre otras actividades.

La web del CATAI ofrece una amplia información sobre bibliografía en Telemedicina, Cursos de Tecnología Avanzados relacionados con Telemedicina, Proyectos de Actividades Internacionales relacionados con la Telemecicina, cursos de enseñanza a distancia así como algunos enlaces interesantes de Telemedicina

VII. 5. 3 Form 2: Multimedia material
Title of activity:___________________________________________________
Title: http://alexandros.ccslab.aueb.gr/~ctc

Producer and/or distributor (with address): CATAI- Catedra de Anatomia Patologica. Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de La Laguna

Year: 2000-2001

Teaching/learning material X

Type of material:
· Video
· CD ROM
· Visioconference:
· Other type of material X
(Please specify):_________________________ Web page

Duration:

Format: Html

Language(s): English-Spanish

Main keywords (4 or 5): Telemedicine distance training

SHORT ABSTRACT
(Brief description of the content in English, French or Spanish)
The present activity carries out the diffusion of the structured training skills in the field of TELEMEDICINE. It introduces an innovative professional training by assuming new Information Society skills not only in the Health Care provision but also in the teaching methodology. The co-operation inside of the present CTC consortium will provide and update the contents of those rapidly moving technologies, and will bring innovative approaches in the teaching done at distance with experience of the ODL of APOLLO project as well as the experience on surgical virtual reality simulators provided by the new partners. The training is directed towards trainers to update their knowledge and skills, it means health care professionals (including directors and responsible people) in the European Union. This requires the updating of the Information Society training applied to health care.
This activity is linked with the initiative of the UNESCO Chair of Telemedicine to apply the consortium experience towards the urgent demand of Telemedicine in developing countries to improve their limited health care system efficiency and accessibility. The International teaching activities are arranged in intensive Winter and Summer Courses particularly to update trainers knowledge and teaching material. This activity also takes into consideration the fact that a complete training is not possible in each individual country due to the irregular Health Care technology developments throughout the European Union

VII. 5. 4 Form 2: Multimedia material
Title of activity:___________________________________________________
Title: http://anpat.drmm.uniud.it/ctc/

Producer and/or distributor (with address): CATAI- Catedra de Anatomia Patologica. Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de La Laguna

Year: 1999-2000

Teaching/learning material X

Type of material:
· Video
· CD ROM
· Visioconference:
· Other type of material X
(Please specify):_________________________ Web page

Duration:

Format: Html

Language(s): English-Spanish

Main keywords (4 or 5): Telemedicine distance training

SHORT ABSTRACT
(Brief description of the content in English, French or Spanish)
The present project will carry out the diffusion activity of the structured training skills in the field of Telemedicine (TM) established in the 1177/95 Leonardo project, expanding the consortium towards complementary activities in Medical Informatics (Apollo pilot from Greece GR/96/1/00022/PI/I.1.1.a/FPI idx: 5107 ODL) and towards distant simulator training in Medicine, particularly in Endoscopes surgery. It will introduce an innovative professional training by assuming new IS technologies skills not only in the Health Care provision but also in the teaching methodology. The training is directed towards:
a) Trainers to update their knowledge and skills, with a side effect on curricula innovation in their own surrounding
b) To students of health care related topics (vocational up to University) that by means of distant teaching, multimedia material and European meetings will experience technologies, otherwise not be available in their own surrounding. A progressive EC demand of trained people in Telemedicine is expected; this multidisciplinary topic is not properly addressed in the curriculae of hospital mantainance people, hospital assitants, nurses, medical doctors, informaticians, telecomunication and biomedical technical and superior engineers, up to emergency related people with navy and air enviroment.
c) developing countries which demands of Telemedicine are very high. The strategy to properly address this demand is by creating a Unesco Chair of Telemedicine that will accomplish that task
CONTENT . Curriculae content have been settle in the Leonardo project CATAI-TELEMED 1177 and consist of 12 topics with theorical and practical teaching material ready to be use in the present action. Furthermore the cooperation inside of the present CTC-consortium will provide and update the contents of those rapidly moving technologies, and will bring innovative approaches in the teaching done at distance with the experience of the ODL of the APOLLO project as well as the experience on surgical virtual reality simulators provided by the new partners.
BENEFITS. It is urgent that Telemedicine reach health professionals (including directors and responsable people) in the EU. This require the updating of the IS technology training applied to health care. A EU coordinated action to teach the structured Telemedicine Body of Knowledge (Leonardo 1177/95) will facilitate cross-border licencing recognition. This pilot also take into consideration the fact that a complete training is not possible in each individual country, due to the irregular Health Care technology developments throughout the EC, being cooperation and distant training the only oportunity to overcome local training deficiencies in Telemedicine which are particularly extreme in developing countries.
IMPACT. The adequate training of health-related profesionals in the field of TM produce active technologies transfer and prepare the people for the acceptance of the new forcoming jobs. The multidisciplinary approach required on Telemedicine training, push new qualifications as well as specializations. This activity is link with the initiative of the UNESCO chair of Telemedicine to apply the consortium experience towards the urgent demand of TM in developing countries, in order to improve their limited health care system into a more efficiency and accessible one.
WORK AND DIFUSSION. The International teaching activities are arranged in intensive Winter and Summer Courses particularly to update trainers’ knowledge and teaching material. The recognition of those courses by the involved Universities may help to renew students´ curriculae and facilitate cross-border recognition of qualifications. The participating countries and Universities had carried out the rest of training locally; they provided presential and distant training including demonstrations with virtual reality simulators. The partners through International organization and Associations actively promoted training recognition; this activity enssured a smooth curriculae renewal and favour technology transfer, preparing the society for the forcoming jobs. In this context the UNESCO chair of TM had played a significant role.

VII. 6 COURSE PROGRAMMS
VII. 6. 1 IX WINTER-2001
IX Winter Course of the CATAI
XIV Image Analysis Course
12th - 25th March, 2001
HEALTH IN THE CIBERCITYZEN MILLENIUM
La Laguna. Tenerife. Canary Islands.
Course recognised by the ESACP ( European Society for Analytical Cell Pathology )
160 teaching hours
Monday 12nd March, 2001
16-20h Welcome to the course. Prof. Dr. Rosendo Reboso G. D. of Telecommunications & Information Tech. Canary Islands, Prof Dr. J.Soliño and Prof. Dr. Manuel Norte Head of the University and Research Responsible Univ. La Laguna. Canary Islands experiences: Teledermathology. Dr. J. Suárez, Telepsychiatry Dr. O. Herreros., Phone-Medicine. Prof. Dr. O.Ferrer-Roca, Teleultrasounds Prof. Dr. J.M. Troyano. Tenerife; Teleophtalmology Dr. JA.Abreu. www.oftalnet.nu

Tuesday 13rd March, 2001
16-20h Other Canary Islands telemedicine experiences. Home-care with phone assistance. Dr. R. Subirana. Delfos Hospital. Barcelona. www.teide.net/catai/subirana. Telemedicine in the SCS (Canarian Health Service): Primary care. Dr. J. de León. Logistic and Administrative Issues of Telemedicine in Canary Islands.. Dr. Pedro Serrano. Jefe Servicio Plan Salud e Investigacion.

Wednesday 14th March, 2001
16-20h Digestive Endoscopy and Nano-Technology. M2A. Dr. J. Pérez Piqueras. Air Force Hospital, Madrid. www.givenimaging.com Intelligent T-shirt. Prof.S.Jayaraman Georgia Institute Technology. School of Textile. http://vishwa.tfe.gatech.edu/tisrl/tisrl.htm Technology applied to sensorial handicaps. Prof.Dr.L.Gonzalez Mora. ULL.Canary Islands

Thursday 15th March, 2001
16-20h New Business of Telecommunications and Its Progress Transformation Bearing New Internet Technologies. F. Alvarez-Castellanos. PROFit Gestion Informatica S.A. Madrid. Spain. www.profit.es Nano- Technology and Molecular Computers. Prof. R. Ferré. University Lund. Sweden. http://www.pluricentro.com.

Friday 16th March, 2001
16-20h Wearable Computers. Mr S.Marcius. Xybernat. www.xybernaut.de. . Telemedicine in Argentina. Telemicroscopy. Sr. F. Balducci. Coordinador de Telemedicina- Facultad de Bioingenieria-UNER-Argentina.

Saturday 17th March, 2001
16-20h Medical Open Source: Ideas and Resources. Prof. Dr. Vincenzo DellaMea. Udine University. Italy. Quality control and cost-offset in Telemedicine. Prof.Dr.S.Perrone. U. Entre-Rios. Argentina. Signal-data compression techniques. Mr. L.di Parma. U.Bio-engineering Entre-Rios. www.fi.uner.edu.ar

Sunday 18th March 2001
11-13h. Leonardo CATAI-CTC Project Management meeting.
16-20h. Telepathology Systems. Prof. Dr. Th. Mairinger. Univ. Innsbruck. Austria. The Italian Network of Telepathology – Technical Choices. Prof. Dr.Vincenzo DellaMea. Udine University. Italy. http://anpat.drmm.uniud.it/ctmed. Telemedicine in Africa. Dr. H. Dlamini. Nairobi. Kenya. Open Learning Networks for Telemedicine Education at Distance Prof. Dr. A. N. Kastania. PAaRG-BEaT, Athens University of Economics & Business. Athens. Greece. www.aueb.gr/users/kastania/researchank.htm

Monday 19th March, 2001
16-20h Home-Care Management in WAP Environment. Prof. Dr. N. Maglaveras. Thessaloniki University. Greece. http://Iomiweb.med.auth.gr/chs. The Missouri Telemedicine Network and Dermatology: An Experience in Teledermatology Dr. Ron Swinfard, Chair of Internal Medicine at the University of Missouri. USA. Co-operation Between Home-Care and Hospital. Mr. J. Baumer. Curavita Regensburg, Germany.

Tuesday 20th March, 2001
16-20h. Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) and Decision Support Systems. Dr. X. Nuvials. Hospital Vall Hebron. Barcelona. Surgical Planning with Virtual Reality. Luc Soler. IRCAD. Strasbourg. France. UMTS Technology. Mr. Fernando-Nieto. PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Wednesday 21st March, 2001
16-20h Smart Card Solutions for Telemedicine. Mr. Hans Brandl. Infineon Technologies. Munich., Germany.http://infineon.com/products/chipcds/index.htm Crypto Applications and Secure Communications. Mr. HP Baron. FAKTUM Softwareentwicklug GmbH. Mainz. Germany.

Thursday 22nd March, 2001
16-20h Knowledge Body of Telemedicine Standards in Telemedicine. Prof. Dr. O. Ferrer Roca. La Laguna U. Canary Islands. Spain. Electronic Signature and Medical Prescription in the SCS (Canarian Health Service) Ph. J. Vilarchao Cavia La Laguna U. Canary Islands. Spain. Standards in Domotics.. Ing. M. Hernándo. Modern Home Canarias. Las Palmas. Canary Islands. Spain.

Friday 23rd March, 2001
16-20h University of Zulia Experiences. Prof. Dr. R. Cedeño. Univ. of Zulia. Venezuela. UMTS technology. Dr. R. Byanyima. Mekerere University.

Saturday 24th March, 2001
16-20h Ethic & Legislation of Telemedicine. Dr. B. Stanberry. Centre of Laws, Ethic & Risk in Telemedicine. Cardiff. UK.. Spanish Laws Affecting Telemedicine. Prof. Dr. E. Sola. La Laguna U. Canary Islands. Spain

Sunday 25th March, 2001
16-20h Internet & Info-Ethics. Mrs. P. Wilson. DG XIII European Commission. Brussels. Belgium. Closing remarks.

PRACTCAL WORKSHOPS Every day from 8 to 16 h.
1. Wearable computers of Xybernaut; 2. Endoscopy with swallow capsule. 3.Real Video; 4. DEAs(automatic external defibrilators); 5. HTML; 6. Domotic systems; 7. GSM with Bluetooth. ; 8. Smart cards.
VENUE: Auditorium of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of La Laguna. 3rd phase
INSCRIPTIONS: 30.000 pts or 180 Euros. Students 20.000 pts.
Prof. Dr. O. Ferrer-Roca. +34-(9)22-319321; Fax : +34-(9)22-641855. www.teide.net

VII. 6. 2 IX SUMMER - 2001
IX Summer Course CATAI
V European Telemedicine School
17th September – 19th September 2001.
Island of Kos. Greece.
INFORMATION SOCIETY & HEALTH CARE
Athens University Economics & Business. PaaRG-BEaT
Course recognized by ESACP ( European Society of Analytical Cell. Pathology )
32 teaching hours
Monday 17 September 2001
9-14h Welcome to the Course. Prof. Dr. A. Kastania. Athens Univ. of Economics & Bussiness, Greece. PIC-NIC IST Project. Morten Bruun-Rasmussen, Danish Centre of Health Telematics; PROPRACTITION LEONARDO Project. Dr. Sandor Vari, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, CA , USA; TELENURSE EU Project. Prof. Ioanna Moisil, University of Sibiu, Romania;

16-18h Best-practice in Telemedicine. Prof. Dr. O. Ferrer-Roca. Univ. La Laguna. Spain. HERMES project. Prof. Sotiriou. University of Athens. Greece. EPIRUS Telemedicine Network. Prof. Masallas. Rector of the University of Ioannina. Greece. MAIRMAIDE EU project. Prof. Anogiannakis Aristotele University of Thessaloniki. Greece.

Tuesday 18 September, 2001
9-12h PAEDITOP Leonardo Project (Tele-paiediatrics). Dr. Lilla Szcaky, Hungary. Tele-Pathology. Prof. Dr. Th. Mairinger. Univ Innsbruch. Austria. Telemedicine Platforms. Prof. Dr. A. Kastania. Athens Univ. of Economics & Bussiness, Greece.
14-18h.Telemedicine Services in Greek Islands, Prof. Dr. A. Kastania. PAaRG-BEaT R&D, Greece. Wireless communications in Telemedicine. Prof. Dr. V. Della Mea. University of Udine. Virtual Reality for Surgery. Dr. A. Bouabene. IRCAD Strassbourg

Thursday 19 September, 2001
9-12h Telephone Medicine including Medicine on the air. Prof.Dr.O.Ferrer-Roca. Univ. La Laguna. Spain. Tele-dermatology . Prof. Dr. Ronald Swinfard. University of Missouri.USA. . Telecommunications providers and Telemedicine. Vassiliki Daneli . Greek Telecommunications Provider –OTE
14-18h Citizen Home Care. Prof.Dr. N.Maglaveras. Aristotele University of Thessaloniki. Greece. Knowledge on demand. E-learning platform. Prof.Dr.D. Sampson. PROFit and KOD Consortium. Information Telematic Institute, Thessaloniki. Greece. Providing telemedicine at distance – The KOD project. KOD prototype and KOD packager.
Workshop devices available for practice: 14-18 h. Every day. ODL Apollo Client/server. KOD Telemedicine Teletraining. Real-video/ real-audio.
Tentative organization. Official languages will be English. Those giving the talks are kindly asked to give the slides together with a paper to be included in the Proceedings, at the middle of July 2001.
Registration: 180 Euros. Members of CATAI Association, 50% discount.
Telephone and address of contact:
Prof. Dr. O. Ferrer-Roca. Prof.Dr. Anastasia Kastania
Cátedra Anatomía Patológica. PaaRG-BeaT. University of Economics and
Faculty de Medicine. Bussiness.
Tel: +34-922-319321; Fax : +34-(9)22-641855. Patission 76 Str. Athens 10434. Greece
Tel/Fax: +30-1-8203509; nk@dias.aueb.gr
VENUE: INTERNATIONAL IPPOKRATEION FOUNDATION
Island of Kos. Greece

VII. 6. 3 X WINTER - 2002

X Winter Course of the CATAI
XV Image Analysis Course
11 - 24 de March, 2002
NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN TELEMEDICINE and TELE-HEALTH
La Laguna. Tenerife. Canary Islands. Spain.
Curse recognized by the ESACP (European Society of Analytical Cellular Pathology )
160 Horas Lectivas.
Monday 11 March 2002
16-20h Welcome to the course. Prof. Dr. Rosendo Reboso Vice Chancellor of Industrial Development and Technological Innovation, Tenerife. Prof. Dr. J. Gómez Soliño y Prof. Dr. A. Gutiérrez Navarro Rector of the University of La Laguna and vice-rector of Research Univ. La Laguna. Experiences in the Canary Islands. Tele-dermatology. Dr. J. Suárez, Tele-psychiatry. Prof. Dr. C. De las Cuevas, University of La Laguna Dr. O. Herreros. Phone Medicine. Prof. Dr. O. Ferrer-Roca, Tele-ultrasounds. Prof. Dr. J. M. Troyano. Tenerife. Tele-ophthalmology Dr. J. Abreu http://www.oftalnet.nu. Diabetic Rethinopathy. Dr. P. Abreu, La Candelaria Hospital, Tenerife. Asma-control. David Hdez. Gonzalo Faculty Medicine. ULL.

Tuesday 12 March 2002
16-20h Other Telemedicine experiences: Home-care tele-oncology. Dr. R. Subirana. Delfos Hospital. Barcelona. http://www.teide.net/catai/subirana . Telemedicine in the SCS (Canarian Health Care Service): Primary medicine. Dr. J. de León. Logistics and cost-benefit. Dr. Pedro Serrano. Research and Health Planning. Quality marking, Objectives in Medical Resources on the www. Dr. A. Hernández Borges. Deparment of Pediatrics. HUC. Tenerife. Canary islands. Tele-Dialysis. J. M. Santas. BAXTER S.L. Valencia. Conection on Line with a Tele dialysis Centre, Dr. N. Vega Hospital Dr. Negrín, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Dr. A. Castañeda. SCS. Fuerteventura.

Wednesday 13th March, 2002
16-20h Telemedicine in the islands http://alpha.mpl.uoa.gr/hermes-descr.htm Prof. D. Sotiriou. University of Athens. Greece. Telemedicine in Uganda. Mr. Barole Ceaser Scott. Makerere University. Uganda.

Thursday14 March, 2002
16-20h êIntegrated electronic health record standards. http://www.hygeianet.gr/. Prof. S. Orphanoudakis, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH and Dr. M. Tsiknakis, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete. Electronic Health Record.

Friday 15 March, 2002
16-20h Standards in the Electronic Health Record. The Open Source Software of the PIC-NIC IST Project. M. Bruun-Rasmussen, http://www.health-telematics.dk; Danish Center of Health Telematics http://www.epj-observatoriet.dk êE-learning intelligent techniques. Agent technology. KOD Consortium. Information Telematic Institute, Thessaloniki. Greece. www.kodweb.org.

Saturday 16 March, 2002
16-20h Open-Source resources for Telemedicine. Prof. Dr. V. Della Mea. Univ. Udine Italia. Informed. Health Care Network in Cuba. Prof. Dr. M. Vidaurrazaga. Cuba. Compression Techniques. Telemedicine in Argentina. TeleMicroscopy. Sr. F. Balducci. Telemedicine coordinator- Facultad de Bioingeniería-UNER-Argentina. www.fi.uner.edu.ar.

Sunday 17 March 2002
16-20h. Videoconference. Remote control of electron microscopy. Prof. Dr. Th. Mairinger. Univ. Innsbruck. Austria. The digital slide. A novel technique .for tele-pathology Prof. Dr. V. Della Mea. Universidad. Udine. Italy. http://anpat.drmm.uniud.it/ctmed. Data mining challenges in the design of open distance learning platforms. Prof. Dr. A. N. Kastania. PAaRG-BEaT, Athens. Universidad de EconómicasEmpresariales. http://www.aueb.gr/users/kastania/researchank.htm.

Monday 18 March 2002
16-20h "Home-Care" call centers. Prof. Dr. N. Maglaveras. Universidad de Aritóteles. Tesalónica. Grecia. http://lomiweb.med.auth.gr/chs. Management and Business plan for Telemedicine deployment in every day practice Mrs. V. Danelli-Milonas, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization OTE.

Tuesday 19 March, 2002
16-20h. Miniaturization and integration for more success in bio-, gen- and medical technology (lab on chip, microsubmarine and other applications) . Ing. Gotzens.. MicroTEC. Germany http://www.microTEC-D.com Electronic signature in Commerce Chambers. Mr. J. Lorenzo. Commerce Chamber of Tenerife. Spain. http://camerfirma.com

Wenesday 20 March, 2002
16-20h Smart-Cards in the Medicine Standards. Mr.M. Hametner Tecnologías Infineon Munich, Alemania. http://infineon.com/products/chipcds/index.htm . Electronic DNI in Spain. Mr. M. Pastor Serrano; Ing. P. Lagunas; Ing. J. L. Diaz Aguado, Computer Science Section of the GD Police. Madrid. Spain.

Thursday 21 March, 2002
16-20h Telemedicine Body of Knowledge. Prof. Dr. O. Ferrer Roca. Universidad de La Laguna . Canary Islands. Spain. Electronic Prescription and digital signature. Prof. Dr. O. Ferrer-Roca La Laguna. ULL. Canary Islands. Spain. Electronic Prescription Project of the General Assembly of the Pharmaceutics
(PISTA Project). http://www.labein.es/pista/pistasan/pshome.htm Lcdo. E. B. Hernández-Reboso. President of the Pharmaceutics Official College of Tenerife.

Friday 22 March 2002
16-20h Distant control of congenital malformations. Prof. Dr. R. Cedeño. Univ. of Zulia. Venezuela. Electronic Health Record. Dr. M.Sosa Ludicissa, Medical Area and Information Society of Carlos III Institute. Madrid. Public Key Cryptography, Identity Certificates and Attribute Certificates. J. Buch Safe Layer. Madrid.

Saturday 23 March, 2002
16-20h. Legal aspects of Telemedicine. Dr. B. Stanberry. Centre for Law Ethics and Risk in Telemedicine. Cardiff. UK. Spanish law and Telemedicine. Prof. Dr. E. Sola. Faculty of Laws. ULL. Canary Islands. Spain. Consumer centered tele-health. Prof.Dr.G.Braun. University of Missouri. USA.

Sunday 24 March, 2002
16-20h Internet and Info-ethics. Mrs. P. Wilson. Health Care Informatics of the European Commission. Brussels. Belgium.

Workshop: Everyday from 8 to 16 h.
1. Ophthalmoscopes- Dermathoscopes and high-resolution cameras.; 2. Flash Technology; 3. Security in Internet; 4.Telemetry with electronic stethoscopes, weights, ECG, vital sign control; 5. HTML; 6. Portable ultrasonography; 7. Smart-Cards. 8.- KOD for intelligent e-learning; 9. Medical images with wavelets. 10. Digital signature and electronic DNI.
Venue : Main hall of the Faculty of Medicine. University of La Laguna
INSCRIPCIONS: 30.000 pts or 180 Euros. Students 20.000 pts. or 120 Euros.
Prof. Dr. O. Ferrer-Roca.
+34-(9)22-319321; Fax : +34-(9)22-641855.
www.teide.net/catai

VII. 6. 4 X SUMMER - 2002
X SUMMER COURSE OF THE CATAI
Telemedicine as interdisciplinary Application of Medicine, Informatics and Information Science
Regensbourg 23-25 September 2002
24 Teaching hours.
Course recognized by the ESACAP

Sunday 22 September 2002
16-20h. Welcome to the course. Prof. Dr. M.Nierlich Surgery Department. University Regensbourg. Electronic Health Record. Prof.Dr. O.Ferrer-Roca,. Public Key Cryptography, Identity Certificates and Attribute Certificates. Prof.Dr.O.Ferrer-Roca UNESCO Chair of Telemedicine. University of La Laguna.

Monday 23 September, 2002
16-20h. Open-Source resources for Telemedicine. Prof. Dr. V. Della Mea. Univ. Udine Italia.
Remote control of electron microscopy. Prof. Dr. Th. Mairinger. Univ. Innsbruck. Austria. The digital slide. A novel technique .for tele-pathology Prof. Dr. V. Della Mea. Universidad. Udine. Italy. http://anpat.drmm.uniud.it/ctmed. Data mining challenges in the design of open distance learning platforms. Prof. Dr. A. N. Kastania. PAaRG-BEaT, Athens. Universidad de EconómicasEmpresariales. http://www.aueb.gr/users/kastania/researchank.htm.

Tuesday 24 March, 2002
16-20h E-learning intelligent techniques. Agent technology. KOD Consortium. Information Telematic Institute, Thessaloniki. Greece. www.kodweb.org. "Home-Care" call centers. Prof. Dr. N. Maglaveras. Universidad de Aritóteles. Tesalónica. Grecia. http://lomiweb.med.auth.gr/chs

Workshop: Everyday from 8 to 16 h.
1. Ophthalmoscopes- Dermathoscopes and high-resolution cameras.; 2. Security in Internet; 3.Telemetry with electronic stethoscopes, weights, ECG, vital sign control; 4. Tele-ultrasonography; 5. Smart-Cards. 6.- KOD for intelligent e-learning; 7. Digital signature .
Venue : Congress Room. University of Regensburg
INSCRIPTIONS: 180 Euros. Students 120 Euros.
Prof. Dr M. Nierlich . Phone : + 49 941 944 6805; Fax : + 49 941 944 6806