Among AATM’s plans for strategic development of health ICT in Armenia special place is devoted to remote patients’ monitoring and mobile (wireless) eHealth technologies. Importance of home telehealth lies in better management of chronic conditions and maintenance of health status in target groups of patients. Mobile telehealth (mHealth) emerges as one of the most promising areas of development in health ICT.
In June 2012 AATM established cooperation with a telehealth and mHealth equipment producer company MegaKoto from Finland, and mHealth services provider Mobile Cardio from The Netherlands aiming to develop Mobile ECG Telemonitoring system for local cardiology clinics. The system consists of the central data server connected via dedicated lines with monitoring workstations installed at cardiology institutions and clinics, and lightweight highly portable single lead ECG sensors coupled via Bluetooth with Android smart phones with special application preinstalled. The sensor is reading ECG signal and sending it to the phone’s app, which uploads the data onto the server through mobile broadband connection. The monitoring workstation receives the signal in real time from the server, and displays it on large LED screens, for 7/24 live ECG monitoring by dedicated personnel. Besides that, authorized physicians are able to access their patients’ ECG data on the server, both live-streamed and stored, via special Web Access platform from any device connected to Internet. Thus, the system allows any person with heart problem to remain under ECG-surveillance 7/24, theoretically as long as the cardiologist deems necessary. Such breakthrough telemonitoring technology is being made available for Armenian population for the first time ever. The initial installations are already done (including the server and one monitoring workstation at one of the country’s leading cardiology facilities); the system has been tested in real life patients, and should now enter the commercial exploitation phase.
2011-05-01
14 - 16 October 2011, Yerevan, Armenia. The First Armenian International Congress on Telemedicine and eHealth "ARMTELEMED: Road to the Future" will take place in Yerevan, Armenia, under the auspices of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (ISfTeH) and the American Telemedicine Association (ATA). The congress will be organized by Armenian Association of Telemedicine (AATM),... Read more.
2010-12-10
Armenian Association of Telemedicine (AATM) Successfully Completed Pilot Telemedicine Project in Nagorno-Karabakh
November 30 – December 3, 2010: Armenian Association of Telemedicine (AATM) conducted a pilot telemedicine project, which established and operated a fully functional telemedicine connection between a multi-profile primary health care facility in Stepanakert, the main city of... Read more.
2010-11-28
Armenian Association of Telemedicine (AATM) is pleased to announce the launch of its new telemedicine project aimed to establish a fully functional telemedicine connection between a primary health care facility in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, and AATM central office, Yerevan, Armenia. This project, endorsed by the Government of NKR and conducted in association with the Union of... Read more.
2010-11-03
22.10.10 A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Armenian Association of Telemedicine (AATM) and American Telemedicine Association (ATA). This cooperation agreement underscores recognition of mutual benefits to be gained through a cooperative program promoting telemedicine-related activities in Armenia, the United States of America and around the world. The ATA is... Read more.
2010-11-02
OCTOBER 29-31, 2010, AATM participated in DigiTec Expo 2010 – the largest and most important local and regional ICT event, featuring exhibition of leading high-tech organizations and companies from Armenia and abroad, organized by the Union of Information Technology Enterprises (UITE) under the high patronage of the Prime Minister of Republic of Armenia and other government... Read more.
2010-10-20
13-18 October 2010, AATM leadership met with Ronald Merrell, M.D., F.A.C.S., within the framework of his four-day visit to Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University (RAU) in Yerevan, by the invitation of Professor A. Darbinyan, the Rector of RAU. Dr. Merrell is Professor of Surgery, and Head of Medical Informatics & Technology Applications Consortium (MITAC) at Virginia... Read more.
2010-07-15
Armenian Association of Telemedicine (AATM) has successfully completed its pilot telemedicine project, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) within the framework of Primary Health Care Reform (PHCR) project, titled “Capacity building of the Armenian Association of Telemedicine to result in improved primary health care services in Armenia”. The... Read more.
