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Promotion of Home Telehealth Services, and Development of Mobile eHealth Applications in Armenia.
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.
News & Events
2014-11-27 The first German-Armenian Workshop on Telemedicine and eHealth took place on November 17-20, 2014, at Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University in Yerevan, Armenia. The Workshop was organized within the frameworks of the collaborative work that was initiated in 2012 by Georgi Chaltikyan, telemedicine and eHealth project manager at Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University in Yerevan, Armenia, and president of Armenian Association of Telemedicine (AATM); professor Michael Nerlich and professor Bernd Bloebel from the University of Regensburg Medical Center; and the CEO of German telemedicine producer Klughammer LLC Anna E. Schmaus-Klughammer. The workshop is a part of a project that aims at establishing educational, scientific and practical collaboration in the field of Healthcare Information and Communication Technologies between the University Medical Center of Regensburg (UKR), Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT), and telemedicine company Klughammer – on the one side, and Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University (RAU), and Armenian Association of Telemedicine (AATM) – on the other. The project is jointly funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) and the State Committee of Science of Armenia (SCS). The workshop featured presentations, discussions and practical sessions on current status and perspectives of development of telemedicine and eHealth in Germany and Armenia, presented by experts from both countries. Besides the project staff, on November 18th and 19th the workshop sessions were open to all interested in Healthcare Information and Communication Technologies. In particular, on November 18th Armenian physicians, healthcare managers, and technology groups that are working on, or have experience with telemedicine and eHealth projects and programs, presented their work (the program included a keynote on session of 15-minute long presentations). On November 19th German colleagues presented telemedicine and eHealth landscape in Germany and Bavaria, spoke about educational programs at DIT, and discussed telemedicine projects by Klughammer. On the same day Dr. A.E. Schmaus-Klughammer presented a hands-on training session showcasing Klughammer’s web-based telemedicine solutions – Campus Medicus and Case.io.
The project, envisaging among other activities, a series of three workshops to be organized over the period of one year (two in Armenia, and one in Germany), will further advance collaboration between the two countries in the field of Healthcare Information and Communication Technologies. 
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