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The Free Knowledge Movement Association, the Unified Patient Programme of the Teaching Center of the Medical University of Vienna and the OESO foundation are proud to present "Webambulance.org".
It is a learning activity for health professionals to…
The BPKIHS eHealth programme is moving forwards with the connection of the Fikkal hospital where telemedicine activities will be piloted.
A dedicated facebook page gives detailed information about the various…
eHealth and Telemedicine Unit of the B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) at Dharan, Nepal organized one day training on “Use of Telemedicine Software” at Dhankuta Hospital on 4th April 2015. The main aim of this training was to…
Prof. Antoine Geissbuhler (Director of the RAFT Network) visited the RAFT sites in Nepal and took part in the RAFT workshop that was held in Dharan in october 2014. Please find below two images from this workshop.
Prof. Alain Gervaix and Dr. Rafael Ruiz de Castaneda from the RAFT took part in the Investigators Meeting of the Askanare-EPI-MAL 002 project that was held in Johannesburg during 22-23 October 2014. This was an opportunity to discuss with colleagues…
We are going to launch the RAFT Newsletter very soon to keep you informed about the latest news, courses and other interesting events of the RAFT.
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The first AfDB eHealth award recognizes the current work being done in e- and m-health in Africa. It aims to encourage the production and sharing of knowledge on eHealth solutions and provide added value through the sharing of lessons learnt in e-…
Dr. Cheick Oumar Bagayoko, general coordinator of the RAFT, attended the Global Health Research meeting in Indianapolis, USA, and presented the research and evaluation projects of the RAFT network, and, in particular, the EQUI-ResHus project.
To…
ITU and HUG have announced the launch of a new partnership to support implementation of a Pan American Telemedicine Network to enable the deployment of telemedicine services and tools along with IT enabled diagnostic devices to the regional and…
The video of the conference is available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D4AyGBpr4w
and on the ESPI website: http://www.espi.or.at/film-video
Telemedicine via satellite has reached a level of maturity and robustness which has allowed it to…
A panel session was organized at the Geneva Health Forum of 2012 in order to discuss challenges for the evaluation and scale-up of telemedicine and eHealth in developing countries. Establishing an evidence base about the many dimensions of eHealth…
Funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the RAFT will work with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and the Medical and Dental Council of Liberia, in order to establish a pilot project in three hospitals (in Bomi, Lofa and…
Telemedicine experts involved in resource-limited settings and participants from around the world gathered in the Tropical Institute of Antwerp, Belgium, for a 3-day workshop. Implementations from various large-scale projects and networks were…
The RAFT network was well represented in the discussions about access to health and the opportunities and challenges of ICT.
A session looked at ways to improve access to information for isolated care professionals:
"Information and…
The first training session for English-speaking RAFT coordinators was held at the Hôpital Mère-Enfant in Bamako on March 31st and April 1st. This session was organized in the context of the African Partnership for Patient Safety, a WHO Patient…
Geneva University Hospital's Division of Medical Informatics, the administrative home of the RAFT network, has been designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre for e-Health. This designation will further strengthen the fruitful collaboration between…
During the High-level Segment of the United Nations ECOSOC meeting in Geneva, the RAFT was presented at the Innovation Fair on the theme "Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to global public health" at the Palais…
The United Nations Economic and Social Council invited the RAFT to its regional ministerial meeting on eHealth, held in Accra on June 10 and 11: http://www.un.org/ecosoc/newfunct/amr2009ghana.shtml
Dealing with the many challenges faced by health…
The RAFT project was presented at the AMIA Spring Meeting conference in Orlando, during the track on Global eHealth. Interestingly, many of the findings about the opportunities and challenges of eHealth in developing countries were similar to those…
The RAFT is invited at the WHO's headquarter lunchtime seminar. As several groups at WHO collaborate with the RAFT, this is the occasion to strengthen and synergize collaborations. Collaborations currently include:
- the production, since 2004, of…
E Health and Telemedicine Unit of the B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) at Dharan, Nepal organized one day training on “Use of Telemedicine Software” at Dhankuta Hospital on 4th April 2015. The main aim of this training was to…