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EWMA SYMPOSIUM
eHealth symposium and the United4Health project
The eHealth symposium at this year’s EWMA conference is one of the activities that EWMA and The European
Health Telematics Association (EHTEL) have committed to deliver as consortium partners in the EU-funded project
United4Health. The purpose of the eHealth symposium is to disseminate knowledge about various aspects of eHealth
to an international audience of healthcare clinicians in order to shed light on the benefits and barriers related to the
uptake of these new technologies.
ABOUT THE United4Health PROJECT
United4Health aims to exploit and further deploy innovative telemedicine services that are already validated or under
validation in the Renewing Health project through trials in 15 regions across Europe to guarantee aggregation of
data and comparability of results. All service solutions adopt a patient-centred approach and involve telemonitoring
and treatment of patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, COPD, or CVD. Services are designed to give
patients a central role in the management of their disease, fine-tune the choice and dosage of medications, promote
compliance with treatment, and help professionals detect early signs of worsening. The effectiveness of the solutions
will be evaluated using the MAST methodology that is increasingly becoming the method of choice for evaluating
healthcare projects.
Funding program: ICT Policy support programme, Pilot Type A
Requested project coverage: 5M (Total project cost 11.3M )
Project period: 01.01.2013 - 01.01.2016 (Duration 36 months)
Terminology 1 :
eHealth: Any health-related activity carried out over a distance by means of information and communication technologies (ICT). The
term covers a broad range of services including electronic health records, telemedicine, consumer health informatics, virtual healthcare
teams, the use of mobile devices for collection of patient-level data for distant monitoring, and software solutions for schedule
appointment.
Telecare: Remote and automatic (passive) monitoring of changes in an individual’s condition or lifestyle, including emergencies, to
enable people to remain independent in their own homes by providing person-centred technologies that support the individual and/or
their carers.
Examples: Movement sensors, fall sensors, and bed/chair occupancy sensors.
Telehealth: The remote exchange of data between a patient and healthcare professional(s) to assist in the diagnosis and management
of healthcare conditions
Examples: Blood pressure monitoring, blood glucose monitoring, and medication reminders
Telemedicine: Remote transmission of patient information to a clinician for expert diagnosis and/or management
Examples: MRI, X-ray, and other imaging data, symptom reports
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There are no commonly agreed definitions of the listed terms. Usage of these terms varies and the terminology presented in this folder is aggregated
based on definitions in WHO publications, presentations by highly acknowledged experts in this field, various review papers on the topic, and Wikipedia.
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