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NST/IAP Ambassador Platform Workshop on e-Health in inaccessible regions

The Norwegian Centre for integrated care and telemedicine (NST) has been nominated as an Ambassador Platform for e-health in inaccessible regions. The main thematic focuses will be on telemedicine support to inaccessible regions, emergency situations and e-learning.

As a part of its mission NST will arrange a workshop to throw light on the technological telecommunications improvements over the past few years that have greatly expanded the potential for implementing ICT services in inaccessible regions.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together users and stakeholders from the wide variety of backgrounds needed to address the issues ultimately necessary to deliver e-Health solutions that improve human health in inaccessible areas of the world. Furthermore the workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss the potential that the newly created ESA Integrated Applications Promotion (IAP) Programme might bring in this domain.

The topics addressed will include:

The socioeconomically potential in the high north
The future needs for health care services in the high north
The challenges for shipping and oil industry in inaccessible areas
Enabling technologies for e-Health in low resource regions
Strategies for achieving sustainability

The workshop will take place in Tromsø Norway, hosted by the IAP Ambassador Platform for e-Health in inaccessible regions (eHIR) and Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, a WHO collaborating centre for Telemedicine.

We invite participants from health institutions, academia, industry, NGOs and government that are committed to improving human health in inaccessible regions, and that are interested in contributing to the design, implementation, maintenance, or use of e-Health systems.

Date: November 10, 2010.

Contact information: Jeremiah Scholl, email: Jeremiah.Scholl@telemed.no

Presentations from the workshop

Presentations are available on the eHIR-portal. Please note that you must be a member of the portal to access the documents. If you are not a member, you can request a membership here.

Programme

10:30	Welcome	Steinar Pedersen and Gerald Braun
10:45-11:15	WHY HIGH NORTH The high north as an arena for development in the years to come	Frode Mellemvik, Chairman of the High North committee, Bodø Graduate School of Business
11:15-11:45	WHY SPACE Presentation about space in the northern area	Odd Gangås, Senior Adviser Norwegian Space Centre
11:45-12:00	Coffee break
12:00-12:45	PRINCIPAL STRATEGY
	The Integrated Applications Promotion (IAP) Programme The EHIR Workplan ESA Telemedicine projects	Gerald Braun, Head of the Awareness Section Integrated and Telecommunications related Applications Department -ESTEC Steinar Pedersen, NST, Tromsø ESA representative
12:45-14:00	THE USERS NEED
	The Health care systems needs for communication in inaccessible areas for the future eHealth to underserved areas Telemedicine at sea - a special challenge Experience learned with telemedicine in the North Sea. Possibilities in the future	Medical director Jan Norum, North Norway Regional Health Authority trust Prof. Richard Wootton, NST Alf Magne Horneland, Director, Norwegian Centre for Maritime Medicine Arne MC Evensen, Advisor Health & Working Environment, Statoil
14:00-14:45	Lunch
14:45-15:30	NETWORKING FOR COMMUNICATION CHALLENGED COMMUNITIES
	Integrating Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) with other networking technologies Applications in a DTN environment - can you achieve seamless interoperation? Experiences with DTN from the N4C project	Santiago Zazo Bello, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Elwyn Davies, Folly Consulting, UK Sigurd Sjursen, Northern Research Institute, Norway
15:30-15:45	Coffe break
15:45-16:30	THE WAY AHEAD Information and discussion around the opportunities ESA IAP Program	Moderated by Gerald Braun and Steinar Pedersen

For more information about NST as an IAP Ambassador Platform for e-Health in Inaccessible Regions, visit www.telemed.no/esa or iap.esa.int.

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