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Denis Protti, "The patients are the main beneficiaries of telemedicine and teleassistance"

Greater quality of life, more patient satisfaction and better accessibility to the services, these are the main benefits that teleassistance gives people suffering from chronic illnesses. This was the comment made by professor Denis Protti, the founder of the Victoria University School of Health Information Sciences (Canada) in a talk organised by the Fundació TicSalut and the Agency of Information, Evaluation and Quality in Health (Agència d’Informació, Avaluació i Qualitat en Salut - AIAQS) on the past 2 February in Barcelona. Protti stressed the role played by ICTs in the integration between specialities and assistance levels.
The sector of mobile applications to improve health will grow by 800% in two years

Mobile applications for improving health and well-being are a tendency that has experienced exponential growth in the last year. According to current forecasts, the sector is expected to develop 800% by 2013 and medical applications for mobile devices are expected to be used by 500 million people around the world by 2015. The main applications developers and international experts on the subject will make an in-depth analysis of the tendency and will explore the new healthcare opportunities in the talk “Apps ON Health”, which will take place at the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu on 19 March.
Everything ready in Australia for the leap to eHealth

eHealth is the star component of the Australian Health Reform. In 2008 the country´s Department of Health and Ageing developed the National eHealth Strategy in which it identified the potential applications of ICTs in healthcare. Three years later, the most extensive country in Oceania in a report has checked its doctors and healthcare professionals’ commitment to eHealth and has concluded that today they are all capable of applying ICTs in their practices. However, certain barriers remain and a road map has to be established to spread eHealth throughout the Australian health system.
Interview with Dr. Josep Ramon Llopart
 
Dr. Josep Ramon Llopart graduated in medicine from Barcelona university
 
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Barcelona hosts the first MIHealthForum on health innovation and management
The meeting point for all healthcare decision-makers. This is the first edition of the MIHealthForum, which will be held at the Barcelona Congress Palace on the coming 24 and 25 May. This pioneering forum provides four areas in which Catalan and international professionals, researchers and entrepreneurs will share points of view: clinical knowledge and innovation management, ICTs for transforming the health system, innovation in managing healthcare organisations and the sustainability of the healthcare system. The forum has already started on Twitter with the hashtag #MIHealthForum. .


Can the balance of the elderly be improved with the Wii console?
The professionals of the La Riera Primary Healthcare centre in Mataró and the Geriatric Unit of the Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol have planned a research to assess the utility of a game console, in this case the Nintendo Wii, in improving balance among the elderly. In the hypothesis of this project, which was awarded the 12,000 Euros of the 13th call for help of the IDIAP Jordi Gol, it is said that the console can help the elderly lose their fear of falling. The first conclusions point to the therapeutic use of the Wii at home giving comfort in use and saving healthcare expenditure.
 

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