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eHealth: an overview Steinar Pedersen. UN.
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UN • Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan: In September 2000 the UN approved the Millennium declaration. ……the UN countries shall see to that the advances of the new technology, especially the information and communication technology, is made available to all human beings.
The most significant results • Telemedicine and eHealth will contribute to: • The health care services are made available where the patients meet the health care system • Bring the competence from the Centrum to the periphery (select the right patients for the right level of treatment) • Reengineer the health care organization
5 Regional hospitals 70 Local hospitals 2000 GP offices University Hospital of Tromsø Department of Telemedicine Norway 4,6 mill inhabitants with 4,7 mill mobile subscribers • public funded • equal access to health care • lowest effective care level
NHN MNH Rekvisisjon Rekvisisjon ØNH VNH SNH The Norwegian health net
Videoconference based telemedicine services • Pathology • Otorhinolaryngology • Dermatology • Cardiology • Psychiatry • Endoscope surgery • Ophthalmology • Distant teaching
Tele-Dialysis Hammerfest Kirkenes Tromsø Alta Harstad TMS Lofoten Narvik Bodø Rana Vefsn Sandnessjøen • Control and follow-up of • Remote visit, guiding and education
Hammerfest Kirkenes Tromsø Alta Harstad TMS Lofoten Narvik Bodø Rana Vefsn Sandnessjøen Born with broadband Patient and midwife
Teleradiology Hammerfest Kirkenes Tromsø Harstad TMS Lofoten Narvik Bodø Rana Vefsn Sandnessjøen
www.helsekompetanse.noA learning gateway • Compiles all information and offers within net based health • education in Norway http://www.helsekompetanse.no
Videoconference and net based courses with 13000 participants last year