Workshops

At October 20^th 2010 the international workshop on „The European project REMOTE – tele-healthcare as part of a holistic strategie in the health sector and nursing management” was jointly organised by Netscouts and the Nürnberger Initiative für die Kommunikationswirtschaft, NIK e.V., (Nuremberg association for the communications technology) and took place at the Nuremberg economy town hall. It aimed to inform interested persons affected as well as nursing and medical staff about the latest developments in the field of tele-healthcare and telemedicine. Moreover, the workshop served to integrate the experience of ambulant nursing services and representatives of social and health-care institutions into the developments of the project.

Prof. Nikos Maglaveras of CERTH (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas) gave an overview of the latest developments in the area of telemedicine and the REMOTE project.
The Nuremberg integration company Netscouts has carried out a user needs survey over more than six months interviewing elderly and disabled people, family carers, nursing and care staff and stakeholders. The result was that the majority of the people affected are not familiar with the opportunities of telemedicine. First of all they expect improvements in the areas of holistic healthcare and medication to gain a feeling of security. Now Petra Schaller, member of the Netscouts team, presented the results of the user needs survey at an international workshop of the European project REMOTE. You can find the presentation at International Workshop 20-10-10 Netscouts.

In addition to Petra Schaller’s speech on the user needs survey several other European project partners gave interesting presentations. They were followed up by lively discussions about the opportunities of telemedicine.

The EC funded project REMOTE organized a 1^st Workshop was held in Florence, Italy on 3 of November 2009. MEDEA the Italian partner of REMOTE project organised the event.

During this status meeting was shown the following presentations:

The discussion focused on the optimal dissemination of the REMOTE project and the current opportunities. The Workshop has been aimed at medical scientists and stakeholders such as medical devices and sensors industries, medical experts and public organizations for elderly people.

The main objective of the REMOTE project is to define and establish a multidisciplinary and integrated approach to Research & Development (R&D) of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) for addressing, in real life contexts, identified needs of frail elderly, especially of citizens at risk due to geographic and social isolation in combination with chronic conditions.

REMOTE planned to gather in a workshop experts with experience in telemedicine practices integrating their experiences through a Workshop.

Scientists, medical industry took part into the workshop activities. The Workshop discussion was useful to define the chronic diseases that REMOTE aims to confront, how the integrated technologies can be used in REMOTE project and then followed a Round Table discussion on the REMOTE Use Cases. A number of questions arose by the audience, and the Consortium tried to find some possible answers.