IARIA Workgroup on Telemedicine

Workgroup Meeting, February 4th, 2009 - Cancun, Mexico
17:30 - 19:40

Attendance: 37

Agenda:

According to the program, three exciting special presentations were exposed by Hans Ossebaard, Mariano Groiso, and Shayne Stenhouse
See: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/eTELEMED09.html
The presentations are posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html
One of the main topics was to diligently identify the health specialist versus IT specialists when papers are reviewed
It was question of enlarging the Advisory Committee for a better promotion; the Board is evaluating the right technical and geographical balance for issuing additional invitations
Many suggestions were received from Paul Grant (expanding in USA), Hans Ossebaard and Lisette van Gemert (better coverage in EU), Sofie Van Hoecke and Philip Leroux (on decoupling IT/health reviewers. location), Elaine Lawrence (links with learning) , Adina Astilean, (focus on practical applications), S. E. Hegazy (on application support), etc.
The Poster session was very well received.
The submissions proven that separating eTELEMED from ICDS was good move, decided in Martinique, 2008; yet a few contributors submitted to ICDS for health related issues; hopefully in 2010 the contributions will be more directed, as the separation is known now.

Suggestions:

Other topics will be added too, (e.g., Rural eHealth, InFlyHealth, etc.)
Please have a look at: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ProgrameTELEMED09.html
Suggestions are welcome at petre@iaria.org
The procedure of invitation-only for extended versions of selected papers among those presented for on-line IARIA journals, with no additional fees, was appreciated.
See: www.iariajournals.org

Next steps:

A better health/IT balance in designating the reviewers is needed
A bigger representation and participation from the USA/Canada is suitable
It was suggested to keep continuing with special invited talks in global issues

eTELEMED 2010:

Announce the new topics with the CfP for eTELEMED 2010
Location: yet to be defined, most probably in Caribbean area, February-March 2010
Under Digital World 2010



	Workgroup Meeting, February 4th, 2009 - Cancun, Mexico 17:30 - 19:40 Attendance: 37 Agenda: According to the program, three exciting special presentations were exposed by Hans Ossebaard, Mariano Groiso, and Shayne Stenhouse See: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/eTELEMED09.html The presentations are posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html One of the main topics was to diligently identify the health specialist versus IT specialists when papers are reviewed It was question of enlarging the Advisory Committee for a better promotion; the Board is evaluating the right technical and geographical balance for issuing additional invitations Many suggestions were received from Paul Grant (expanding in USA), Hans Ossebaard and Lisette van Gemert (better coverage in EU), Sofie Van Hoecke and Philip Leroux (on decoupling IT/health reviewers. location), Elaine Lawrence (links with learning) , Adina Astilean, (focus on practical applications), S. E. Hegazy (on application support), etc. The Poster session was very well received. The submissions proven that separating eTELEMED from ICDS was good move, decided in Martinique, 2008; yet a few contributors submitted to ICDS for health related issues; hopefully in 2010 the contributions will be more directed, as the separation is known now. Suggestions: Other topics will be added too, (e.g., Rural eHealth, InFlyHealth, etc.) Please have a look at: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ProgrameTELEMED09.html Suggestions are welcome at petre@iaria.org The procedure of invitation-only for extended versions of selected papers among those presented for on-line IARIA journals, with no additional fees, was appreciated. See: www.iariajournals.org Next steps: A better health/IT balance in designating the reviewers is needed A bigger representation and participation from the USA/Canada is suitable It was suggested to keep continuing with special invited talks in global issues eTELEMED 2010: Announce the new topics with the CfP for eTELEMED 2010 Location: yet to be defined, most probably in Caribbean area, February-March 2010 Under Digital World 2010