Francesco Sicurello1, Essam Ayad2, Salvatore Corrao3, Giuseppe Marino4
1 President of @ITIM (Italian Association of Telemedicine and Medical Informatics); University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy)
2 Italian Hospital Umberto I, Cairo; University of Cairo (Egypt)
3 Civic Hospital - ARNAS, Palermo (Italy)
4 Scientific Attaché, Italian Embassy Cairo (Egypt) The Telemedicine project between Italian Hospital Umberto I in Cairo and ARNAS-Civic Hospital of Palermo (in the frame of a scientific cooperation and of the agreement signed by the two Institutions at the end of 2002), wants to create an health network for medical teleconsulting, in order to support diagnosis and treatment of relevant pathologies. Moreover, exchanging of medical and epidemiological data on difficult clinical cases, coming from the two health structures, could create health data banks useful to biomedical research. Finally, the exchange of medical knowledge (diagnostic- therapeutical protocols, guidelines, etc.) could be published in web sites and shared between health operators of the two hospitals and of others health structures. |
