Presentation

Telemedicine is “medicine at distance” and regards the interactive transmission of health

data, signals and biomedical images by means of ICT (Information and Communication
Technologies). The exchange of clinical information between operators and health
structures is spreading rapidly, in order to provide better and more rapid support to medical
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diagnosis and consulting at distance, or to avoid hospitalisation and unnecessary
treatments.
The aim of the fourth edition of this Summer School is to provide knowledge, instruments
EURO-MEDITERRANEAN
and methodology to participants (researchers, ICT professionals, students, doctors and MEDICAL INFORMATICS and TELEMEDICINE
health operators) of the Mediterranean Area and Developing Countries.
During the school, methodologies and techniques for medical database and health/hospital
information system management and privacy, security and interoperability aspects and
(standard protocols and methods) will be treated. In particular, the course will focus on
telemedicine systems and applications, such as teleconsulting and telediagnosis systems
between hospitals and telemonitoring and telecare services between health structures and
patients, even at home (telehomecare).
By means of telecommunications systems based on advanced TLC infrastructures (i.e.
HDSL, broadband, WiFi, satellite, etc.) that will cover the entire Mediterranean area and International Institute of Tele-Medicine
other countries in the world, it is now possible to start telemedicine services. Moreover,
Internet diffusion permits the access to specific knowledge of excellence clinical centres
even from remote countries, in order to deliver better health care to patients. Furthermore,
by means of the development of web sites and portals it is possible to put clinical
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information, protocols, guide lines, medical literature and ontologies online, useful to Hospital of Mazara del Vallo, Region of Sicily
continue education and to better support health treatments.
Students, researchers, ICT professionals and health operators of public and private
institutions (hospitals, governmental and regional health authorities, universities,
biomedical research centres, ICT companies), in particular from Mediterranean Countries,
Euro-Mediterranean Summer School
should attend this Summer School. It is structured in a theory part and exercises with
software dedicated to sectors treated during the course. The language is English. of Telemedicine
Information EMSST - 4th Edition
Course location and dates:
The Course will be held at the hospital of the city of Mazara del Vallo (Trapani,
Sicily, Italy).
Deadline: The deadline for registration is July 31, 2010.
August 23 – 28, 2010
The maximum number of students is 30. Mazara del Vallo – Trapani (Sicily)
Registration:
Priority will be given to students, health operators and researchers coming from
the Mediterranean Area and Developing Countries.
It is necessary to send a pre-registration by fax or e-mail to the
Secretariat with the personal data and address. For more information
relating the detailed program and costs, contact the following persons of
EMSST Secretariat:

Alessandro Donzelli, Michaela Guendel, Hector Villanueva

tel. +39 0362 62 71 90– fax +39 0362 337840
e-mail: emmit@aitim.it, www.emmit.aitim.it
 School Program Faculty

1. Electronic Patient Record and Medical Data Bases Mohamed Abdallah, Vice President of EMMIT (Egypt)
2. Multimedia databases in health care (data, signals, images, etc.) Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, World Health Organization (Switzerland)
3. Standards in medical informatics (HL7, DICOM, XML, ...) Essam Ayad, Italian Hospital Umberto I, Cairo (Egypt)
4. Hospital information system: ADT, CIS, LIS, etc. Claudio Azzolini, University of Insubria (Italy)
5. RIS/PACS and medical imaging Nello Balossino, Informatics Dept., University of Torino (Italy)
6. DBMS and dedicated tools in medical informatics (Cachè, Ensemble) Ubaldo Bottigli, University of Sassari (Italy)
7. Health Information Systems and smart cards Teresa Calandra , Region of Sicily (Italy)
8. Health telematics and networking a infrastructure for communication Pier Giorgio Cerello, National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Torino (Italy)
(fixed, mobile, wi-fi, etc.) Salvatore Corrao, University of Palermo
9. Telemedicine: definitions and applications Luciano De Biase, University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Hospital S. Andrea (Italy)
10. Teleconsulting, telediagnosis, telemonitoring, etc. Angela Di Tommaso, USL Lamezia Terme (Italy)
11. Telecardiology, teleradiology, telepathology, teledermatology, Piermario Gerthoux A.O.of Vimercate, Hospital of Sesto S. Giovanni (Italy)
teleophtalmology, telemergency, etc. Giancarlo Mauri Professor, Informatics Dept., University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy)
12. TeleHomeCare and telesourveillance of medical parameters (data, Enrico Guffanti, INRCA, Casatenovo (Italy)
signals, etc.) Annamarija Margan, Eastern Mediterranean Region Inusla – INT (Croatia)
13. pHealth and biomedical devices Alessandro Masellis, Mediterranean Council for Burns and Fire Disasters, WHO
14. Intra-extranet in hospital and health care services Collaborating Center
15. Internet in health care and facilities Vincenzo Montericcio, Hospital of S. Donato Milanese (Italy)
16. Medical Web sites and portals in health care Alfredo Nicolosi, Epidemiologist – Scientific attaché Italian Embassy – Bruxelles
17. Telemedicine web based systems Vincenzo Nicosia SAIPEM – Telemedicine Unit (Italy)
18. Web services and Grid technologies in biomedicine and healthcare Gianni Pellicanò, Neuroradiology Dept., Careggi Hospital - University of
19. Data base in biomedicine and registers in epidemiology (clinical, Firenze (Italy)
genomics, etc.) Silvana Quaglini, University of Pavia (Italy)
20. Biological and genomic data banks and bioinformatics aspects Abdel-Badeeh Salem, Ain Shams University, Cairo (Egypt)
Miriam Sturkenboom, Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
Yussef Tamman, Hospital of S. Donato Milanese (Italy), Damasco hospital
(Syria)
Yukako Yagi Director Telepathology Dept. – Harward University of Boston
(USA)

School Direction
Francesco Sicurello (Director)
President of EMMIT@/IITM
PTUD- Desio (MI), Italy; Medical Informatics of University of Milan-Bicocca.

Nicolò Di Giovanni (Co-Director)

Head of Cardiological Unit, Hospital of Mazara del Vallo (Trapani)