Ten Years of Experience With a Telemedicine Platform Dedicated to Health Care Personnel: Implementation Report.

Background: Telemedicine, a term that encompasses several applications and tasks, generally involves the remote management and treatment of patients by physicians. It is known as transversal telemedicine when practiced among health care professionals (HCPs).

Objective: We describe the experience of implementing our telemedicine Eumeda platform for HCPs over the last 10 years.

Managing chronic pathologies with a stepped mHealth-based approach in clinical psychology and medicine.

Chronic diseases and conditions typically require long-term monitoring and treatment protocols both in traditional settings and in out-patient frameworks. The economic burden of chronic conditions is a key challenge and new and mobile technologies could offer good solutions. mHealth could be considered an evolution of eHealth and could be defined as the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile communication devices.

Telepathology in emerging countries pilot project between Italy and Egypt.

Pathological examination includes gross & microscopic examinations at different magnification. Through the steps of examination, we obtain many images that can be used for telepathology. Telepathology is the practice of pathology at a distance, viewing images on a monitor rather than directly through a light microscope.

Teleconsultations as a step towards hospital interoperability.

The paper presents an interregional telemedicine project between hospitals from two countries that encourage good economic cooperation. It uses modern technology and diverse human resources that contribute to a better accomplishment of the goals of the project and insures continuity of the services after the ending of the project. It instantiates the vision of e-Europe regarding access to healthcare services and the increasing mobility of patients.

[The health technology assessment].

The aim of this paper was to describe exhaustively, but concisely, the matter of the health technology assessment. It is a method of evaluating health technologies based on principles and tools of Evidence Based Medicine. We started from etymology to speak about its definition and implementation methodology.

The goals and the perspectives of the common research and development work: the Italian-Hungarian bilateral programme.

According to health politicians at present, the modernisation of the health care system is a continuous task of the health policy of governments. The core of this modernisation: to have information about the needs of the population and the patients, to ensure immaterial and material conditions of health care, to organise and direct the process of health care in the interests of the favourable results of the outcome of care activities. The fundamental conditions of the modernisation to update the health information systems are harmonised on an international level.