FEANTSA MEETING

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FEANTSA MEETING

• Wroclaw, Poland October 2006

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• Tele-psychiatry
• VPN MEDFILE Database
• Tele-conferencing
• Suggestions

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• Tele-psychiatry
• Costly use of ISDN telephony
• Little or no cost of use over IP
• or VoIP telephony, over initial
• investment capital or running
• expense of existing Internet
• connection

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• VPN MEDFILE DATABASE
• Medical Records Database, accessible remotely by
  facilities of KLIMAKA, through a Virtual Private
  Network

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• MEDFILE DEVELOPMENTS
• Stand-alone e-cards issued to patients
  containing a Medical History summary, to be used
  at collaborating medical facilities with low or
  no specialty expertise at remote regions,
  islands, M. H. Hospitals etc
• E-cards as connection media to the central
  MEDFILE database

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• MEDFILE DEVELOPMENTS (cont.)
• e-Cards ADVANTAGES
• Continuation and Follow-up of treatment of
  Patients by different Health Centers, Hospitals
  or Doctors by providing an up-to-date medical
  history, info in regard to medication, medication
  effectiveness, reactions, allergies, diabetes etc

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• MEDFILE DEVELOPMENTS (cont.)
• CONCERNS
• Legislation re Personal data records, content,
  availability to targets (access restrictions per
  specialty of physician etc, if connected to the
  central database
• Data must be encrypted for e-card transport or
  transfer over the Internet (VPN)

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• TELECONFERENCING _at_ KLIMAKA
• Tele-working, meetings etc
• Tele-administration (virtual office)
• Tele-training at Home and Abroad
• Kabul, Afghanistan 2005
• Northern Iraq, College of Nurses,
• Hawler University, city of Erbil
• 2006
• VoIP telephony

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• TELECONFERENCING _at_ KLIMAKA
• ADVANTAGES
• Low or no cost over initial capital or running
  expenses of existing or dedicated Internet
  connection
• Personnel at remote regions with high
  unemployment rates can be employed
• CONCERNS
• Personnel must be computer literate
• Personnel must be trained to use the company
  tools
• Procedures for a virtual office must be created

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• SUGGESTIONS FOR FEANTSA
• Tele-working, meetings at regular intervals
  through the creation of an e-platform, immediate
  transfer of files/records amongst members,
  e-collaboration speeding up of procedures,
  exchange of good practices etc
• Creation of local services users database at
• Day-centre level, e-cards etc
• Creation of services users database at
• National level, e-cards etc
• Same at International level

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• SUGGESTIONS FOR FEANTSA (cont.)
• Advantages
• Statistics and info available to all
• Exchange of good practices
• CONCERNS
• Cost of creating a database
• Legislation re database and e-cards contents,
  use, authorised users, encryption of contents for
  e-cards and transmition etc

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• Thank you