Faced with limited budgets at health systems around the world, telemedicine is being presented as one solution to make them sustainable. This patient care and knowledge transfer model, based on integrating ICTs, allows for optimization of resource and service management at healthcare organizations. The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC), together with the University of Antioquia and the Colombian ministries of Health, ICTs and Education, is organizing the 3rd International Symposium on Telemedicine (SimpIntTM_2013) to debate the development of telemedicine on 21 and 22 March. The event, promoted by the UOC-led Clúster Iberoamericano de Colaboración Universitaria en Telemedicina(Ibero-American Cluster for University Collaboration in Telemedicine, CICUT), is to be held in Medellín, Colombia.
Venue
Medellin
Colombia
When
21/03/2013 - 22/03/2013
Organized by
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Universidad de Antioquia, CICUT, Minisalud, Prosperidad para todos, Ruta Medellin
Program
The event will bring together scholars and professionals from the health sector to analyse international experiences in the integration of ICTs for the development of distance medicine and to debate different solutions to the digital divide between different sectors and countries. The director of the UOC's university master's degree in Telemedicine and a speaker at the symposium, Francesc Saigí, said that “this symposium is an innovative platform for undertaking collaborative activities in electronic health and telemedicine, and for promoting development of study programmes in this field".
CICUT's annual meeting is also to be held during the symposium, offering the chance to present the annual results and agree to new joint actions for training and research in telemedicine.