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Modern Asclepieions

An initiative of the School of Medicine of the University of Athens to provide services of Health and Culture to citizens (since 1994)

Friday, September 23, 2005

ITU Study Group 2 Meeting, Geneva, September 12-15, 2005

In document 2/REP/037-E of the Question 14-1/2: Application of telecommunications in health care, the Rapporteur wrote under the title: 7. Proposals for a revised or new Question:'The representative from Australia proposed to include telecommunications development and management solutions based on the Modern Asclepieions (MA) model suggested by Greece in 2004. This would involve e-health kiosks and portals supported by the emerging telecommunications technologies, such as mobile wireless, satellite and broadband. This would provide a great opportunity to overcome the digital divide through e-health based on the latest telecommunications technologies. The representative from Greece supported the idea and offered to develop (with Australia) a more detailed account of this topic'.This is a positive outcome and a document will be worked out ASAP. The meeting was attended by Dimitrios Sotiriou. The representative of Australia was professor Pradeep Ray.

For more information about ITU and its activities please visit
http://www.itu.int/ . For those interested we have prepared a note on Guidelines for Modern Asclepieions. In the next period we are going to work on the issue in collaboration with Dr Ken Boddy of Edinburgh. Requests for collaboration are more than welcome.