The Regional Secretary for Health, Luis Ibáñez, inaugurated this morning the Second Conference of Telemedicine celebrating the Dénia Department of Health. The event has also been the Managing Director of the Department of Health, Ángel Giménez and the Commissioner of the Ministry of Health, José Félix Quintero, who stressed the importance of the implementation of R & D knowledge management and clinical practice.
The conference was articulated around three workshops. The first, moderated by Head of Clinical Emergency Department, Dr. Agustín Navarro, he has addressed the Telemedicine in the area of the Strategic Plan of the Department of Health of Dénia, in terms of health management organizations and the role of same in the new models of health management.
The second, moderated by the Head of the Clinical Area of Hospitalization, Dr. Patricia Martín Rico, has reviewed the different telematic tools available for the generation of knowledge. In this area, Dr. Ignacio Hernández Medrano, Deputy to the Executive Directorate of the Ramón y Cajal Institute in Madrid, has presented the Savana project, a tool for sharing medical information, which allows the reuse of information from medical records, as a basis data, and thus help clinicians in making decisions at the time of diagnosis.
The third round table, moderated by the Head of Critical Care Area Clinic, Dr. Juan Cardona, has been on the project with the collaboration of the Hospital de Dénia Recover Foundation with the knowledge exchange and training of African doctors.
The draft attempts to address the lack of specialists in Africa, connecting African doctors with volunteer doctors from Hospital de Dénia, through a "scientific social network" called Medting.
African Dr. shares clinical cases on this platform, accompanied by comments, photographs and / or diagnostic tests and Marina Salud practitioner makes comments and track the entire case. Thus a virtual conversation between two doctors is generated. However, it is not a real-time connection, which gives the Spanish volunteer doctor lot of flexibility to connect when more available.
In this third table it has also been addressed Telemedicine from the point of view of Chronic Control High Risk Patients, through COPCAR Project. In this area, the Chief of Cardiology at Hospital de Dénia, Dr. Alfonso Valle, presented the latest developments on the remote control patients with heart failure in Dénia Department of Health, the first of Valencia and third of Spain to integrate, automatically, to the HCE -History Clinic Electrónica- remote telemetry reports and subcutaneous Holters defibrillators implanted in patients.
At a time when the Department of Health Denia there 70 patients with implanted defibrillators, monitored daily from home. The goal is to control any episode of decompensation may occur.
In the case of subcutaneous holters, they are minimally invasive devices that allow the patient to be monitored daily for 4 years for the study of syncope of unknown cause with the usual tests or for the detection of arrhythmias.
