July 2010 - N° 20

EDITORIAL : Gérard Comyn
Vice-President of the CATEL association
What does telemedicine mean, exactly?

The Telemedicine challenge in Europe

• Telemedicine and Infrastructures in Europe
  Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the EC and Commissionner in charge of the Digital Agenda for Europe
• It’s time to put eHealth on the political agenda!
  Göran Hägglund, Swedish Minister for Health and Social Affairs
• Telemedicine and hospital reform in France
  Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, French Minister for Health and Sports
• Online health
  Trinidad Jimenez, Spanish Minister for Health and Social Policy
• Europe in the age of Telemedicine
  Françoise Grossetête, Member of the European Parliament
• The evolution of telehealth
  Pierre Lasbordes, Representative of Essonne, French National Assembly eHealth in Catalonia
  Marina Geli, Catalan Minister for Health

Examples of telemedicine applications

• Living at home with the new technologies
  Prof. Alain Franco, Professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics (Nice) President of the ISG and President of the CNRSDA (France)
• Telecardiology: evolution and prospects
  Prof. M. Cowie, Professor of Cardiology, and Dr. A. Acosta Lobos, Clinical Research Fellow Imperial College London
• Telemedicine activities at the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
  Dr. Antonio Güell, Head of the Application and Valorisation Department
  Murielle Lafaye, Environment/Climate/Health Programme Coordinator
  Nathalie Ribeiro Vieira, Health Care For Remote Regions and Telemedicine Coordinator
  Pascal Faucher, Humanitarian & Risk Activities Coordinator

The Impact of Telemedicine

• Impact on the restructuring of healthcare
  Josep-M. Piqué, Vice-Director of the Hospital Clínic - Barcelona, Spain
• eHealth – exporting to new markets
  Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Member of the European Parliament
• The impact of telemedicine on the medical development of remote regions
  Prof. Louis Lareng, Director of the European Institute of Telemedicine in Toulouse, and Dr Monique Savoldelli, CHU Toulouse

Telemedicine actors

• Telemedicine – Bringing health closer to citizens
  Marina Geli, Catalan Minister for Health
• Making patient-centred Telemedicine happen – why involving patients matters
  Walter Atzori and Liuska Sanna, European Patients’ Forum
• TeleHealth: Making House calls
  Jeremy Bonfini, Senior Vice-President, Himss Global Services and Chuck Parker, Executive Director, Continua Health Alliance
• Favouring the development of telemedicine to respond to the issues of access to healthcare and quality of life for all
  Dr Jacques Lucas, Vice President for Health Telematics, French National Medical Council
• Telemedicine, an issue for practitioners
  Jean-François Thébaut President of the Syndicat National des Spécialistes des Maladies du Coeur et des Vaisseaux (French National Union of Specialists in Heart and Vascular Disease)
• Telemedicine: A Tool for Patient Empowerment
  Nicole Denjoy, Secretary General of COCIR (European Coordination Committee for the Radiological,Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry)

Challenges of Telemedicine

• Telemedicine for the benefit of patients, healthcare systems and society
  Flora Giorgio and Ilias Iakovidis, Unit ICT for Health, DGINFSO, European Commissionand former colleagues Christoph Steffen and Gérard Comyn
• Legal aspects of cross-border telemedicine
  Prof. Peter M. Pattynama, radiologist President, UEMS radiology section UEMS- European Unionof Medical Specialists Erasmus MC
• Legal issues on the agenda in telemedicine
  Stephaan Callens, Professor of Health Law (KU Leuven) and lawyer at the Brussels bar, Belgium
• Telemedicine: from technology demonstrations to sustainable services
  Arnaud Runge, Engineer for Life and Physical Sciences Instrumentation, Mechanical EngineeringDepartment, Francesco Feliciani, Head of Section of demonstration projects (European Space Agency)
• Telemedicine and reimbursement, the way forward
  Philippe Sweenen, Project Manager, International Association of Mutual Benefit Societies (AIM)