It's all about the patient
The role of eHealth
Telemedicine continues to evolve both clinical and tele-health applications to improve patient healthcare. There is an increasing global focus of empowering patients themselves in their own medical management. Telemed 09 aims to put the patient at the centre of the delivery of medical treatment in a series of academic and clinical presentations.
Key issues for the conference are expected
to include:
- The state of the evidence base on the potential
effectiveness of these technologies.
- Their ease of use.
- How they can be integrated into mainstream
care services.
- The financial implications of their adoption.
For your convenience, a PDF version of this programme is available to download:
Telemed09 Programme [PDF 156kb]
Welcome and Introduction
Quicklinks:
Day One: Morning Session | Afternoon Session
Day Two: Morning Session | Afternoon Session
Day One: Monday 23rd November
Morning Session
| 8:45am |
Registration with tea and coffee |
9.30am |
Keynote 1 - How the mainstreaming of telemedicine connects patients and transforms health care delivery |
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Ed Brown, CEO, Ontario Telemedicine Network, Canada |
10.00am |
The benefits of practice-based telehealth equipment |
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Charles Lowe, London, UK |
10.15am |
How can eHealth reduce medical expenditures? The empirical approach |
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Yuji Akematsu, University of Hyogo, Japan |
10.30am |
How serious are the symptoms of callers to a telephone triage call centre? |
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Frederick North MD, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota USA |
10.40am |
Discussion |
11.00am |
Tea and coffee break |
11.15am |
Clinical efficacy of the “healthwear” wearable system in chronic patients’ early hospital discharge |
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Alexis Milsis, Athens, Greece |
11.30am |
Photo-triage for skin cancer referrals: Improving patient care |
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C A Morton, Stirling Royal Infirmary |
11.45am |
Video-consultations are superior to telephone consultations in managing patients with minor injuries |
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Dr Fiona Mair, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary |
12.00pm |
Encouraging proactive elderly through digital TV |
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M J Falagan, Madrid, Spain |
12.15pm |
Use of digital images in the assessment and treatment of pressure ulcers in patients with spinal injuries in community settings |
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Firas Sarhan, Buckinghamshire New University |
12.30pm |
Discussion |
12.45pm |
Lunch |
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Afternoon Session
1.45pm |
Keynote 2: Delivering spinal cord injury care using telemedicine - a patient perspective |
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Victoria Holton, C5 Tetraplagic, UK |
2.15pm |
Electromyographic audio biofeedback for in-hospital telerehabilitation |
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Marco Rogante, Rome, Italy |
2.30pm |
Change of patients’ perceptions of telerehab- Exploiting the ISO/IEEE 11073 Personal Health Devices standards for interoperability |
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Karlijn Cranen, Netherlands |
2.45pm |
Discussion |
3.00pm |
Tea and coffee break |
3.15pm |
Workshop session 1 |
4.00pm |
Workshop session 2 |
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Delegates may attend two of the following three workshops. Please state your choices when registering
How to run randomised control trials in telemedicine / telecare
Brian McKinstry, Edinburgh, UK
How to evaluate a telemedicine / telecare project
Nina Eminovic, Amsterdam, Netherlands
How to conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis of telemedicine / telecare
Marjon van der Pol, Aberdeen, UK |
4.45pm |
Close of meeting followed by a drinks reception |
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Day Two: Tuesday 24th November
Morning Session
| 9.00am |
Registration with tea and coffee |
9.30am |
Keynote 3 - Tele-oncology: providing cancer care close to home |
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Dr Gary Doolittle
Professor of Medicine; Medical Director, Midwest Cancer Alliance University of Kansas Medical Center
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10.00am |
The design of specialist paediatric cardiology telemedicine services to meet the needs of different types of patients |
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Gwyn Weatherburn, Buckinghamshire New University |
10.15am |
Paediatric cardiac telemedicine - transmitting echocardiography ultrasounds |
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Delyth Lewis, South West Wales Cancer Network |
10.30am |
How serious are the symptoms of callers to a telephone triage call centre? |
10.30am |
Discussion |
10.45am |
Tea and coffee break |
11.00am |
Are home made and tailored-to-fit simple electronic forms better than generic trade software packages in recording and communicating patient information? |
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Zaid Awad, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital |
11.15am |
Could telemedicine improve the outpatient oncology service? |
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M G Keane, Hammersmith Hospital |
11.30am |
Distance care- awareness and attitude among physicians and patients at AIIMS, New Delhi INDIA |
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Sushil K Meher, New Delhi, India |
11.45am |
Standardised digital patient photography for store-and-forward telemedicine based on the Westminster Scales of Reproduction |
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H M Ebrahim, University of Limpopo, South Africa |
12.00pm |
Transcontinental real-time case based distance learning within an established health link between the UK and post-conflict Somaliland |
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Alexander Finlayson, UK |
12.30pm |
Discussion |
12.45pm |
Lunch |
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Afternoon Session
| 1.30pm |
Is a novel web based cardiac rehabilitation programme effective for patients with angina? Pilot data |
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Reena Devi, Coventry University |
1.45am |
An exploration of the acceptability of a telephone booster intervention to support weight loss among people with Type 2 diabetes |
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Alison While, King’s College, London |
2.00am |
Users’ experiences of a programme of automated daily weight monitoring in patients with chronic heart failure |
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Glenis Johnston, Buckinghamshire New University |
2.15pm |
The establishment and management of the Telehealth programme in NHS Gloucestershire |
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Ann Aspinall, Telehealth Project Manager, NHS Gloucestershire |
2.30pm |
Discussion |
2.45pm |
Close of meeting with tea and coffee |
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