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orbis intl.

ORBIS Intl.. Is a non-aligned, non-profit global development organization Mission To preserve and restore sight by strengthening the capacity of local partners in their efforts to prevent and treat blindness. Vision ORBIS envisions a world in which no one is needlessly blind, where quality eye care, education and treatment are available to every human being.GoalReduction of Blindness Prevalence Rate Through Strengthening the Capacity of Local Partners in their Efforts to Prevent and Treat 9450

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    1. ORBIS Intl. Telemedicine (Cyber-Sight) The ORBIS Experience –2003+ Wondu Alemayehu (MD, MPH) ORBIS Ethiopia

    2. ORBIS Intl. Is a non-aligned, non-profit global development organization Mission To preserve and restore sight by strengthening the capacity of local partners in their efforts to prevent and treat blindness. Vision ORBIS envisions a world in which no one is needlessly blind, where quality eye care, education and treatment are available to every human being. Goal Reduction of Blindness Prevalence Rate Through Strengthening the Capacity of Local Partners in their Efforts to Prevent and Treat Blindness

    3. ORBIS Intl. Four Global Programs: Global Fellowship Global Hospital Based Program DC-10 Flying Eye Hospital Telemedicine (Cyber Sight)

    4. ORBIS Intl. ETHIOPIA Legally operational in Ethiopia since 1999 to carry out the organization’s mission, goal and vision.

    5. ORBIS Intl. ETHIOPIA Implements a country program with the following components: Advocacy/Public Awareness Institutional Strengthening Eye Banking Biomedical Engineering Developing and Strengthening Rural Eye Care Service Research

    6. Telemedicine Definition: The practice of medicine at a distance

    9. Cyber-Sight

    11. E-Consultation As described in the previous slide offers partners the opportunity to obtain consultation on difficult patients from an expert with the added opportunity to interact during the evaluation process and to share results of treatment in these patients

    12. The consultation process goes like this: The partner is identified, trained, assigned a password and user name, and when needed given a camera and computer The partner is assigned to a mentor team A challenging patient is photographed by the partner and the history and pictures of the case are uploaded and sent The mentor is alerted, answers the consult, and a dialogue is established The partner closes the case when it is completed

    13. Mentor Teams are made up of experts in the following sub-specialties Cornea Retina Glaucoma Oculo-plastics Pediatric ophthalmology/strabismus Uveitis ROP Genetics Retinoblastoma Cataract Neuro-ophthalmology Etc.

    15. Partner logs on to web site Go to: www.orbis.org Click on Cyber-Sight (left side of screen scroll down Ľ screen) Click on Cyber-Sight again on right side of screen Click on E-consultation Add user name and password – these are assigned by ORBIS This brings up the formatted page for patient information upload

    25. Two other parts of the Cyber-Sight Program:

    26. E-Resource

    28. E- Learning BCSC questions Student course activity log in CME opportunities

    30. Cyber-Sight is ORBIS’s Telemedicine Full program initiated spring 2003 140 mentors 296 partners 68 sites 32 countries 135 mentors 40 answering consults W2,075 consults – 6,000 communications 1,372 strabismus / ped. ophth. 200 E-Learning students

    31. Telemedicine in Ethiopia Great opportunity to fully utilize the ORBIS program as part of ICT for Health in Ethiopia Prevent blindness and restore sight

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