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eHealth educational programs are becoming a reality in Universities, enabling health assistance to remote areas without the need for traveling, a better interaction between educators and students in difficult access areas such as operating theaters, and the continuous learning by health professionals with the use of multimedia material concerning specific health subjects.
The wide access to low cost telecommunication technology and computer systems by students, professors and health professionals was responsible for the development of new educational tools, among them eHealth education programs. This progress was possible due to the advances made in low cost video-conferencing, the capability of graphic computing software, the improvements in high speed computer communication networks and the enhancement of security protocols on the Internet.
The establishment of a Student Working Group within the ISfTeH (International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth) in 2007 was a step towards using the application of telecommunication technology and computer systems to promote the active participation of associated students during official ISfTeH meetings.
A first virtual session took place at Med-e-Tel 2008. The main objective of this new session format was to allow the remote presentation of student projects and research experiences in eHealth, using low cost Powerpoint or videoconference technologies.
The ISfTeH offered an award for the best virtual presentation by a student, to be used by the winner to cover part of the costs to attend a next ISfTeH event. In the 2008 edition of the Student's Virtual Session, five papers were presented remotely, by students from Brazil, Lithuania, Germany and India. Ricardo Cardoso, an Engineering student from PUCRS, Brazil, who presented an eHealth mission to the Brazilian Amazon Indians won the 2008 award, and as a result will be participating and presenting "live" at Med-e-Tel 2009.
The second ISfTeH Student's Videoconference Session will take place at Med-e-Tel 2009 on April 3rd.
Thanks to a new ISfTeH and Elluminate® partnership, several interesting e-learning and webinar tools were recently incorporated. These are expected to improve the quality of remote presentations, allowing full interactivity and dynamic discussions even in low bandwidth circumstances.
Through Elluminate® Webconference, 5 selected students will perform their remote presentations from different countries.
The session will feature presentations on the following subjects
- The Student eHealth League of PUCRS (LITESA)
- Establishment of a Multicentric Telecardiology Project in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil): A Report about Academic Participation
- ECG Teletransmission - Present and Future Possibilities
- Towards QOS-AWARENESS of Mobile Healthcare Services
- HON - Hungarian Oncology Network
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