Il 28 Febbraio 2013 Francesca Frexia (CRS4) presenterà i risultati
del progetto Remote alla conferenza internazionale eTELEMED 2013. Il
simpiosio, organizzato dall'International Academy, Research and
Industry Association (IARIA), costituisce una tra le più importanti
occasioni di confronto sui progetti innovativi in telemedicina,
sistemi sanitari in situazioni di emergenza, politiche di governance,
integrazione tra i sistemi eHealth e la medicina classica.
Titolo del Paper: Real-time Telemedicine in Pediatric Cardiology
Autori: Riccardo Triunfo, Francesca Frexia, Francesco Cabras, Carlo
Buttu, Valeria Lecca, Stefano Nicola Gessa
Abstract: Point-of-care echocardiography is a very common technique
in neonatal intensive care units, but it is often hampered by the lack
of on-site specialists. The effectiveness of this procedure is
directly related to the quality of the collaboration between the
specialists involved, which can be influenced by the convenience of
training new specialists in remote districts. In this study we report
the results of the REMOTE project, which studied the feasibility of a
real-time echocardiographic image transmission system that allows
direct interaction between the doctors involved; the project adopts an
innovative, low-cost, cross-platform and open-source strategy that
enables neonatal ultrasound consultative services in remote districts
and secondary care centers. We analyze the results from two
perspectives: clinical and technological. From the clinical point of
view, we report the preliminary results of our experimentation
involving 42 patients and two hospitals in Sardinia, Italy: a tertiary
hospital, with senior expertise in pediatric cardiology, and a
secondary hospital with a neonatal unit. From the technological
perspective, we describe the overall system model and the motivation
of its design. Index Terms—Real-time telemedicine; tele-ultrasound;
COTS technologies; pediatric cardiology.