A new collaborator in Blogtelemedicina.

From Blogtelemedicina the team that We manage this website, We want to say Hello! to Alan Alvarado like a new collaborator of this blog.

Alan Alvarado is a Computer Systems Engineer and shares our passion for telemedicine and the development of applications or devices aimed at this new medical tool.

A year ago, completed the design of two portable devices oriented one of them to cardiac monitoring and another to the brain monitoring. He is currently working on the implementation of an algorithm to predict heart attacks and investigated for the possible development of an algorithm to predict the falling sickness.

We are glad that our blog extending their collaboration and We are delighted to have a new vision of telemedicine from as far away as in Mexico. We hope that our fans can to collaborate with us.

For our fans, we hope that the contributions of our colleague Alan will be of your interest and that together we continue informed of the progress of telemedicine worldwide.

The Department of Agriculture provides more than U.S. $ 6 million for telemedicine projects.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture subsidize a total of $ 6 million in different telemedicine projects for rural areas in the United States. These projects will be held in

six states in the Mississippi Delta region.

The increased investment around $ 3 million will go to building an emergency center in Mound Bayou.

Other telemedicine projects to receive funding are:

- Delta Health Alliance for its development project connecting five acute care hospitals with the Intensive Care Center at the University of Mississippi.

- Sl Foundation for her project on tele-health care in the state of Illinois.

- Tombigbee Health Care Authority in the state of Alabama for its telemedicine project.

- Building Healthy Communities in Louisiana for a home telecare project.

- Oschsner Clinic Foundation in Louisiana for its telemedicine program and Telestroke.

- University of Kentucky for its project to link the hospitals of the Kentucky Telehealth Network.

and others.


Notice published by CATAI, if you want to read the complete notice click here.

El Departamento de Agricultura de los EEUU proporciona mas de 6 millones de dolares para proyectos de telemedicina.

El Departamento de Agricultura de EEUU subvencionara con un total de 6 millones de dolares diferentes proyectos de telemedicina para zonas rurales en los Estados Unidos.

Dichos proyectos se realizaran en seis estados de la región del Delta del Mississippi.

La mayor inversión alrededor de 3 millones de dolares se destinará a la construcción de un Centro de Urgencias en Mound Bayou.

Otros proyectos de telemedicina que recibirán fondos son:

- Delta Health Alliance por su proyecto de desarrollo de cuidados intensivos conectando cinco hospitales con el Centro de Cuidados Intensivos de la Universidad de

Mississippi.

- Sl Foundation por su proyecto de teleformación en cuidados para la salud en el estado de Illinois.

- Tombigbee Health Care Authority en el estado de Alabama por su proyecto de telemedicina.

- Building Healthy Communities en Luisiana por un proyecto de teleasistencia domiciliaria.

- Oschsner Clinic Foundation en Luisiana por su programa de telemedicina y de teleictus.

- Universidad de Kentucky por su proyecto para enlazar los hospitales de la Red de Telesalud de Kentucky.

entre otros.

Noticia publicada por CATAI, si quieres ver la noticia completa pulsa aquí.

VIII Iberian Forum of Telemedicine

The organization of VIII Iberian Forum of Telemedicine send to us the official program about it. The Forum will be on 18th and 19th November in Alandroal a portuguese town in Alentejo through the sponsorship of the Câmara Municipal de Alandroal and Santa Casa da Misericordia de Alandroal, Junta de Extremadura and Administração do Alentejo Regional de Saúde (ARSA).

During the same will be handed Adwards of Honorary Members of the Forum to:

José Luis Monteagudo - Director of Telemedicine and eHealth research at the Health Institute Carlos III.
Manuel Grandal - Medical Director and Chairman of the Commission on Teaching and Research Hospital Virgen de la Poveda.
Jose Ricardo - President Desenvolvimento da Associação for or Telemedicine (ADT).
Alvaro Pacheco - President Administrasção do Conselho de Santa Luzia Hospital do Elvas.

Next We going to show you the official program.

Día 18. Friday

14h00 Delivery of documentation.

14h30 Beginning of the forum.

15h00 Jóse Luis Monteagudo - Advances in telemedicine for chronic patients.

15h30 Tiago Cravo - Evaluation of the impact of teleconsultation program in healthcare in Alentejo.

16h00 Coffee

16h30 José Pepo - Medicine, Life and Art.

17h00 Meeting. Experiences in telemedicine in the Iberian I.
    Fátima Ferreira - Telemedicine and improving health care in the Health Center Alandroal
    Manuel Grandal - Utility of telemedicine in first-level hospitals
    Penalva Santos - Our telereality Elvas Hospital
    Carlos Fábregas - ISA Project
    José Silva - First steps of telemedicine in Marvão

19h00 First Solutions Presentation.

19h30 End of first day.

21h00 Dinner and Adwards of Honorary Members.

Día 19. Saturday

09h30 Andrés Bas - Future, digital hospitals.

10h00 Marcelo Gouveia - Telemedicine Program in Belo Horizonte.

10h30 Coffee

11h00 Meeting. Experiences in telemedicine in the Iberian II.
    Claudio Pelaez - Telediagnostic of diabetic rethinophaty in Extremadura
    Maria José Branquinho - Teletraining. Experience in Alentejo
    Juan José Gimenez - Teleneumology and Telespirometry. Experience in Extremadura
    Valadas Pinho - Quality management system of the telemedicine program in the Alentejo
    Neuslene - eHealth
    J.Veiga Pires y M.Fernandes - Teleradiology how to do a Department of Radiology functional

13h00 Close

II International Symposium of Telemedicine CICUT 2011 on 3rd and 4th November

The Faculty of Health Sciences - Telemedicine Group - University of Caldas and the Open University of Catalonia, under the CICUT(Cluster Iberoamerican University Collaboration in Telemedicine) held on 3 and 4 November the II International Symposium telemedicine in Manizales, Colombia.

Then we leave a link to the official information about symposium.

Telemedicine in prisons in others countries

Very interesting article sent by Unesco Telemedicine, about the experiencies of telemedicine in prisons in countries as United Kingdom and USA.

In United Kingdom have a telemedicine project that it provides emergencies services and specialist consults to eight prisons in all british landscape.

In the USA have a telemedicine program in Maine State. Where they have developed a telemedicine network with Polycom systems with some hospitals, health centers, prisons and health and humanity services in all Maine State.

It is very important to check the experiences that various countries are developing in the field of telemedicine, step by step is becoming in one very used technology in various sectors. And as you can see the great benefits of this technology are the high degree of satisfaction of users and medical professionals, reducing transportation costs and reducing long journeys for patients.

Click here if you want to read the original article(article in english)

Sent by Unesco Telemedicine