NEST - successful cooperation talks in Romania

The "Network for integrated systems in the telemedicine" (NEST) invited Romanian and German representatives from health sector to multilateral cooperation talks in Romania. Two partnering days combining lectures and dialogues between experts from NEST and from several institutions in Romania was organised by NEST. Main topics included telemedical service concepts for patients with neurological disorders, patient monitoring, homecare and emergency care.

In line with its past cooperation events in Russia NEST - Network for integrated systems in telemedicine invited for the first time Romanian and German experts for telemedicine and eHealth applications to workshops in Timisoara and Bucharest. Main objective was to provide a platform for knowledge sharing, initiate discussions on current and future projects as well as to encourage scientific exchange in the field of telemedicine between Romania and Germany.
Due to substantial interest from Partners in Timisoara NEST organised the well attended first partnering day in Timisoara, on May 7th in cooperation with Dr. Mircea Focsa, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Timisoara chamber of commerce. Of notably interest were the Romanian projects: Teleasis, Telemon and Simimed. From the presentations a profound conversation developed on the subject of transforming pilot scheme to regular routine work. Special highlight of the event was the visit of the Timisoara Emergency County Hospital.
The second Partnering Day took place at Romanians important medical care fair: Rommedica on May 8th. German experts presented own ideas, service concepts, challenges and solutions and discussed ideas for joint collaboration projects, be it product development or scientific exchange between hospitals in Romania and Germany. The Bucharest event was supported by ATASS and PROREC, both large telemedicine associations in Romania and the German Embassy Bucharest. NEST partners visualised their innovative projects for emergency care „StrokeNet“ and “TCS” as well as for home care „ALSmanager“ and the standardisation project “TM7”. All projects are joint developments of SME and hospitals. Using NEST technology enables patients and non-experts to apply experts knowledge on treatment, hereby improve own treatment standards.
Both partnering days were finished with the broad agreement to repeat and to intensify talks as well as to keep in touch for joint future projects.
The network was represented by AIS GmbH, Charité- University medicine Berlin, TMCC-Telemedicinecenter Charité, GHC- Global Health Care GmbH, OP 2000, Tembit Software GmbH, TSB and TimeKontor AG. Both Partnering Days were supported by the German Federal Ministry for education and research within its initiative "Promotion of research marketing activities in the region of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe” as part of the campaign: Research in Germany- Land of Ideas. The events were supported by our Media Partner TARUS.

Contact:
NEST - Netzwerk für integrierte Systeme in der Telemedizin
bei TimeKontor AG
Schönhauser Allee 10-11
10119 Berlin
Ywes Israel
Christine Carius-Düssel
ywes.israel@nest-telemedizin.de
christine.carius-duessel@nest-telemedizin.de
Tel. 030-390087-0
Fax 030-390087-25
http://www.nest-telemedizin.de

NEST is a consortia of private companies, research and medical institutions. Our partners range from large and well known hospitals to small but very innovative companies from all over Germany. NEST supports the partners in developing and marketing products, systems and methods. Activities are focused on emergency medical aid, home care, clinical studies and standardization. NEST is co- funded by NEMO- (Netzwerkmanagement Ost).

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