Plan d

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Mission
ABOUT RoH

• Enable sustainable provision of healthcare by
  integration of information and communication
  technologies (ICT) into local healthcare systems
• Develop integrative concepts, create
  accessibility and provide affordable digital
  solutions adapted to local needs

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Vision and Objectives
ABOUT RoH

• Foster the adequate deployment and sustainable
  use of high quality yet affordable digital
  medical solutions.
• Disseminate digital building blocks and
  communication infrastructure into the context of
  primary health care.
• Enhance the capacity, quality and knowledge of
  local or regional health professionals through
  the use of digital medical tools.
• Empower patients and citizens by providing them
  access to health resources and eHealth services.
• Optimize healthcare systems by integration of
  relevant information and communication
  technologies into the diverse healthcare
  processes.

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History
ABOUT RoH

• The RoH purpose started from asking the question
  How might present digital technology be employed
  to make a difference in healthcare today?
• The answer was prompted by eventual Founder
  consultation with WHO, among others the office
  for Radiography and Lab Technology, Geneva
• Rays of Hope was founded in August 2005 by
  William Parlette, Martin Denz and Marco Demarmels

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Justification
ABOUT RoH

• RoH non-profit foundation is justified by its
  unique purpose to identify and employ
  cost-effective digital technologies.
• Assisting Developing nations healthcare today
  ensuring developing nations economic health
  tomorrow to universal profit and advantage.

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References
ABOUT RoH

• UN Millennium development goals by 2015
• WSIS Declaration of Principles Dec 2004
• WSIS Plan of Action Dec 2003
• WSIS Tunis Commitment Nov 2005
• WSIS Tunis Agenda Nov 2005
• WHA eHealth Strategy May 2005
• WHO World Health Imaging System for Radiography

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Initial Activities
ABOUT RoH

• To augment education and pharmaceutical solutions
  with cost-effective digital diagnostic imaging
  and other digital technologies.
• To facilitate improved health care, employing as
  possible existing technology
• Stimulate the publics perception that low-cost
  digital diagnostic solutions can and should
  reasonably be considered as a fundamental tool
  for primary health care provision today
• To promote awareness, to source and to facilitate
  provision of certified and workable
  cost-effective solutions, to develop digital
  diagnostic and other useful healthcare
  capabilities.

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Organization RoH Environment
RESOURCES
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RoH Team
RESOURCES

• William T. Parlette
• BS, MA - Market Development for medical software
  and rehabilitation technology EC consultancy for
  IST employment (DE, eGov, etc.)
• Martin Denz
• M.D. Internal and General Medicine - Psychiatry
  Psychotherapy Executive Master in eGovernance -
  eHealth and Health Telematics
• Marco Demarmels
• M.D., MBA in Business Engineering. Technical
  Consultant - Medical Informatics - Open Source
  Technologies.
• Milagros Florez
• Master in Management of Technology - ICTs -
  Project Management
• ... and their collective facilitating Networks

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Technology
RESOURCES

• Internet and communication technologies are
  widely available worldwide, offering today
  effective solutions at competitive costs for many
  healthcare challenges.
• Any healthcare service which might be digitized
  is eligible individually or collectively to be
  included in a system solution.

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Technology Driven?
RESOURCES

• Affordable digital technologies are now available
  
• Technology is not "the" solution for healthcare,
  but technology is an important enabling factor
• Technology in healthcare is not an aim but has an
  important role as means to an end

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What is eHealth?
eHEALTH

• eHealth is change management in healthcare by
  integrating up-to-date ICT-based instruments.
• eHealth is a dual concept
• the contextual integration of ICTs
• at the same time as an organizational tool and as
  a communication tool.

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Concepts Strategies
eHEALTH

• RoH will employ the collective business
  experience and relevant technical skills of its
  management and advisory teams, to achieve the
  goals outlined in the RoH statements of vision
  and mission.
• To identify projects relevant to the mission of
  RoH, it will consult and solicit aid from intl
  and regional bodies also promoting effective
  Healthcare (WHO, ITU, STOP-TB, etc.), and NGOs
  (FIND, Médecins sans Frontières, etc.),
  encouraging always collaborative solutions.
• RoH will encourage local resource / local
  government cooperation employing collective
  action strategies as possible, to ensure solution
  sustainability.

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Core Elements
eHEALTH

• Cure Acute medicine ( information management)
• Care Chronic medicine ( relationship
  management)
• Health Management Individual behaviour life
  style Organization, coordination logistics

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Solutions
eHEALTH

• RoH foresees acting as a General Contractor
• To assess needs of local and regional healthcare
  systems.
• To develop integrated concepts for digital
  solutions within healthcare according to open
  standards
• To analyze proposed projects, to identify
  appropriate cost-effective IST-relevant solutions
• To appoint and coordinate useful sub-contracting
  capabilities known for sector effectiveness
  through the extensive international network of
  RoH management and any project partners.
• To solicit and manage funding adequate to effect
  a successful completion and subsequent
  maintenance for given projects.