International Conference on Telemedicine and Digital Health September 22-23, 2020 Singapore

Track 1 :Advance Telemedicine

Advance telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technology to eliminate the distance barrier and to improve the access to clinical services. Applied Medical Informatics studies the administration of medical statistics, the effective management of information using computer technology, and the impact of such methods on medical research, education. It is also used to save lives in critical care and emergency situations. Although there were distant precursors to telemedicine, it is essentially a product of 20th century telecommunication and information technologies.The various subtracks included in Advance telemedicine are Store and forward Telemedicine, Tele-hospitals, Prognostics in Telemedicine, Wireless telemedicine system, Impact of telemedicine in health, Telemedicine in management of diseases.According to some statistics the annual growth of telemedicine will increase about $21.9 Billion in a span of 6 years from 2014 to 2020.

Track 2: Telehealth and Medicine Today

The term telemedicine has enhanced the traditional method of health services by incorporating the telecommunication and wireless methods. It mainly assists healthcare decision makers in launching sustainable telehealth services within clinically integrated healthcare systems Telehealth is a modern form of health care delivery.This type of achievement is discussed in the following subtracks Healthcare Access for Rural Areas, Future directions and future research in telehealth care society, Telehealth home medical examination, Global telehealth market, Pediatric telehealth, Health and wellness.The total number of telemedicine users is expected to double in a time span of five years. In 2013 there were around 350000 telemedicine users globally, this number is expected to increase up to 700000 in 2018.

Track 3:  Recent development in Digital Health Care Services

The Digital health care services are mainly used to produce personalized and precise medicine. It involves the use of information and communication technologies to help address the health problems and challenges faced by patients. Digital health is a multi-disciplinary domain which involves many stakeholders, including clinicians, researchers and scientists with a wide range of expertise in healthcare, engineering, social sciences, public health, health economics and management.The various methods in digital health services are 3D animations in health care Tele diagnostics, Telemonitoring, Broad band technologies in health care, e- health.In 2020 the global digital health care services will reach about 206 billion from 21 billion in 2017.The global health care services are expected to reach about 21 billion in 2017 and it will grow up to 206 billion in the next three years

Track 4: Major challenges in Telenursing

Telenursing is the use of communications technology in nursing to enhance patient care. The tele nurses should have adequate knowledge and skill to support patient needs and make accurate decisions. As it involves the use of electromagnetic channels such as wires, radio and optical to transmit voice, data and video communications using electrical or optical transmissions between humans or the computer. Nurse practitioners are very much important in the development of Telenursing.The various subtracks involved are Nursing and health sciences, Nursing and care, Advanced practices in nursing, Critical intensive care nursing, Public health nursing, Telehealth nursing

Trrack 5: Recent Advances in Telepharmacy

Telepharmacy is an instance of the telemedicine phenomenon, this instance helps in delivering the medicine to people who do not have direct contact to the pharmacy. Through pharmacy sites, hospitals, nursing homes, or other medical care facilities the Telepharmacy services are delivered. The process of implementing the Telepharmacy varies from place to place and also depending upon the geographic locations laws, regulations and also the economics condition.The various topics involved in Telepharmacy services are Drug therapy monitoring, Teleconferencing, IV admixture, Remote dispensing of medications, Counseling and Patient Education

Track 6: Telecardiology

Telecardiology uses the latest telecommunication techniques to remotely diagnose and treat heart diseases including coronary heart disease, chronic and acute, as well as arrhythmias, congestive cardiac failure and sudden cardiac arrest. In this the doctors uses the electrocardiographic data provided in real time, this real time electrocardiographic data is the analyzed and an oral report is given. The data is then stored in databases so the they can be used again for further processing.This topic is discussed using the following subtopics Advanced practices in cardiology, Telecardiology devices, Reaching out with telecardiology, Pre-Hospital treatment, Pediatric telecardiology, Telecardiology surgeries.There will be a rapid increase in the CAGR in the year 2016 – 2020, due to the increased demand.The field of telecardiology will have a rapid growth in the years to come due to the increase in demand. This rapid growth will contribute to about 17.24 % increase in CAGR.

Track 7: Emerging technology on Health System Informatics

Health Systems informatics (HSI) is informatics in health care. It is a multidisciplinary field that uses health information technology (HIT) it is mainly focused on delivering high-quality consulting and support services enabling healthcare institutions to meet the ARRA and HITECH requirements through efficient Electronic Medical Record (EMR) accomplishment and optimization resulting in relevant Use. Built on a justification of strapping, diverse, healthcare talent and a “clients as partners” business criteria, HIS was started   to provide   support in today’s ever-changing healthcare society.The subtracks are Health information exchange, Human computer interfaces, Health monitoring, Population health management, Pathology informatics, Health care information and analyticsNorth America and Europe contribute about 70 to 80 percent of the growth.The major contributors in the field of telemedicine are the north America and the Europe. The entire contribution by these two countries accounts about 80% of the entire growth.

Track 8: Opportunities in Medical Information Engineering

Medical Informatics Engineering mainly targets the delivery of medical care over the entire patient care cycle, which includes treatment, medications, monitoring and checkups screening, vaccination, preventive medicine, diagnosis. Model-based decision tools create engineered innovations in clinical operations, individual treatment choice and supporting supply chains to advance safe, high-quality, consistent and accessible healthcare while avoiding unnecessary costs. It is done by gathering of Health record data relating to a person’s physical and psychological wellness, ordered from distinctive sources.This session represents Geriatric Engineering, Medical ethics or pharmacology, Information Design Techniques, Medical software engineering, Medical expert systems, Medical sensors, Mobile technology.

Track 9: Trends in Medical Informatics research and services

Medical Informatics application is organized with knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures and systems developed to solve a health   related problems and improve quality of lives. This includes the pharmaceuticals, devices, instruments, procedures and organizational systems used in health care. The main agenda of social services are to provide better with respect to health services in rural and urban areas. Medical Informatics Research also involves research of proteomes from the level of intracellular protein composition, structure, and its unique activity patterns. The main aim of social services is to provide better health services in rural and urban areas.This session represents E-Research, Health care information and management, Hospital information services, Health resources and services, Online medical resources.

Track 10: Telemedicine Regulation and Terms

There has been a constant change in the rules and regulations of the telemedicine with the introduction of new legislations and policy by medical associations. The changing regulations also determines the rules followed by the telemedicine companies and private payers in that state. The telemedicine regulations can vary from state to state based on the geography and the economic conditions of the country.This session represents Online Prescribing, Patient Informed Consent, Patient Consent.

Track 11: Advancement in Tele-Home Health

Tele-home health mainly involves at typical day in the life of a home telehealth Patient. Cancer patients often are treated surgically resulting in the need for temporary or permanent ostomies which are surgically created openings in the body for the discharge of body wastes. They utilize inexpensive videophone equipment connecting to the patient’s home through ordinary telephone lines to connect. They mainly include ostomy care, cardiac transplant care, passionate oncology care.This session represents Telehealth education, Home health and related community based system, Tele rehabilitation, Home medicine, Home telemedicine and homecare.

Track 12: Opportunities in Cancer Informatics

Cancer informatics is a multidisciplinary field of medical science that deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize storage, retrieval, acquisition and use of information in the field of cancer research and treatment. Research in cancer biology has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of clinical, medical and research data, with genomic and molecular cancer data. The data can benefit researchers understanding of cancer behavior and development of better therapy and treatment, new and improved data management and analysis tools are needed. Cancer informatics attempts to provide those tools "that interconnect research, clinical activities, and data in an organized and efficient manner, with as broad a database as possible. The coupling of cancer informatics tools with computational modeling and statistical analysis will accelerate the goal of making cancer a more treatable if not curable disease. Cancer informatics mainly helps in management and distribution of annotated molecular data for further research and also for the analysis of an individual tumor to determine its molecular phenotypeThis session represents Cancer Genomics, Cancer Research and Translational Medicine, Cancer research informatics, Cancer Diagnosis, Clinical cancer informatics, Cancer genetics and informatics.

Track 13: Recent development in Patient Informatics

Patient Informatics is a new aspect of Medical Informatics that largely reflects the empowered healthcare consumer. Patients are aware that many non-healthcare businesses are automating and modernizing their business processes to attract a larger market share. Web portals are web-based programs that patients can access health services. A web portal can be a standalone program, or it can be integrated with an electronic health record. Patient portals began as a web-based entrance to a healthcare system for the purpose of learning about a hospital, healthcare system or physician’s practice. Patients would like to have the same automation and convenience of an ATM machine applied to healthcare. Patients are using the Internet as the medical library of choice before and after seeing clinicians. Patient web portals are now available that are standalone or integrated with electronic health records that offer a multitude of patient-oriented servicesThis session includes Consumer health informatics, Patient safety and technology, Public health informatics, Primary health care informatics, E patient.

Track 14: Health Care Technologies

Healthcare technology continues to advance at remarkable rates. The use of technical knowledge in the field of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures and systems to improve the quality of life is called as Health care technology. This knowledge includes pharmaceuticals, devices, procedures and organizational systems used in health care. The assessment of the technology is very important as it is helpful in finding out about the efficacy, cost, safety, feasibility. The assessment is used to explore the various reasons for adopting a new technology. The adaptation and utilization of technology will depend upon the need.The need and utilization of the various health care technology are discussed in the following subtracks Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), Telemedicine and information technology, Prognostics in Telemedicine, 3D animations in health care, Imaging informatics.In 2016, millions of births globally were not assisted by a trained midwife, doctor or nurse, with only 78% of births were in the presence of a skilled birth attendant.

Importance & Scope:

Telemedicine and Digital Health  is now being extensively used in medical and health care sectors; Thus, telemedicine and medical informatics are expected to grow at a high rate in coming years, which is expected to boost the growth of the medical are technology.83% of healthcare organizations responded to American Telemedicine Association. They are likely to invest in telehealth with operational efficiency and convenience in mind.  171 healthcare executives participating in the annual ATA Executive Leadership Survey, 88% are likely to purchase telehealth tools by 2017. In 2013 the m health valued at $ 2.4 billion in global revenues.it is estimated that by 2018 it will reach $21.5 billion. By 2018 the Europe will be the largest m health market worth $7.1 billion with the highest predicted growth per year at 61.6%. Over 300 studies have been completed over the past 5 years.

Why to Attend???

Telemedicine Congress 2020 provides a podium to globalize the research by establishing a dialogue amidst industries and academic organizations and knowledge transmission from research to industry. The field of Telemedicine have not only helped the development in different fields in medicine and technology but also contributed towards the improvement of the quality of human health. All this has become possible with the different discoveries and inventions leading to the development of various applications. Telemedicine Congress 2020 aspires in proclaim awareness and part new ideas amidst the professionals, industrialists and students from research fields of Telemedicine and Health Informatics to interact their research experiences and indulge themselves in interactive discussions and special sessions at the event.

Major telemedicine, eHealth & Health Informatics, Related Associations around the Globe:

• National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR)
• Alabama Society for Healthcare Engineering,   
• Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
• American Statistical Association (ASA)
• American Medical Informatics Association
• Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA)
• American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
• American Society for the Advancement of Pharmacotherapy (ASAP)
• National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA)
• Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP)
• American Society of telemedicine
• Drug Information Association
• The Japanese Society of Pharmacognosy (JSP)
• American Society of Consultant Pharmacists

Major telemedicine and medical informatics Related Associations around the Australia

• Australasian Telehealth Society
• Telemedicine Australia
• Digital Health Community Australia

Telemedicine revenue in top & emerging countries:

This statistic shows us the information on which country has the highest revenue from the telemedicine field

                                                  Fig 1: Top Countries in Telemedicine Revenue

According to this figure the top revenue generating country in the field of telemedicine is US with an annual revenue of 3,097.3 million per annum. It is then followed by China and Germany. The global telemedicine market has a value of about 17.8 billion in 2014 it is expected to grow to about 18.4% in 2020. About 90% doctors have started executing telemedicine program, according to a survey conducted among the healthcare executives on the implementation of telemedicine nearly 84 5 of the population wanted to implement the telemedicine services and in which 32% felt it important and the remaining 52% felt that it is very important for the development of the organization

                             Fig 2: The Increase in market value from 2015 to 2021

This graph represents the increase in the market value in U.S dollar from the year 2015 to 2021. The prediction is that there will be a big jump in market value in the year 2020 - 2021 when compared to 2019 – 2020.

Telemedicine in UK, Middle East and Zimbabwe

                             Fig 3: The increase in the number of telemedicine projects in UK

Around 1990 UK really started to embrace the telemedicine development, since then there has been a gradual increase in the telemedicine projects undertaken in UK. Between 2001 and 203 there has been around 216 projects on telemedicine mainly in England. The use of telemedicine varies mainly based on emergency, specialization and projects in the wealth countries of Arabian gulf the incorporation of telemedicine has been a stress reliever from the constrains of chronic diseases such as obesity and diabetes. The UAE leads middle east in to adopting telemedicine. This also allow the other less developed countries to get connected to medical experts around the globe.

Growth based on specialization

                                        Fig 4: The increase in Telemedicine based on specialization.      

This shows the revenue growth and the telemedicine market growth in various specialization. The revenue growth will be rapid in the diabetes specialization in the year 2019 – 2020. It was also found that a total of about $6 Billion can be used by the employers if they implement the telemedicine technology for their employees. Telemedicine also reduces the gap between the patient and the doctor this development is the main reason for the growth in the market value of the telemedicine.

*Source: BCC Research, Transparency Market Research & Markets and Market

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Abstract Submission Criteria & Eligibility

PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS:

 Authors requested to follow the abstract submission guidelines by downloading abstract template. Presenting authors are responsible for registration, travel, and hotel costs.

Note: Those with accepted abstracts will receive an acceptance mail allowing them to register for the conference.

 Abstracts will be compiled and conference books are made available to participants at the conference.

 Any presenter who is unable to attend should arrange for another qualified individual to present the paper/poster in question. If such a change is necessary, please notify our conference team.

 SUBMISSION OPTIONS:

Oral paper presentations will have 30-minute time slots and be clustered by theme into sessions. The keynote session will have for 45-minute time slot, workshop/ special session will have 60-minute time slot and symposium will have 60-minute time slot followed by 5-minute Q&A session.

 Graduate & Masters students are eligible to submit their abstracts under poster and e-poster presentation category.

 Ph.D. students are eligible to submit their abstract under special YRF (young researcher’s forum), poster and e-poster presentation category.

 NOTE: YRF category includes short oral presentation especially for Ph. D. students

 Extended abstract: Submissions should utilize the Abstract Template. Papers submitted in this category may represent original empirical research, theoretical development, reviews, or critiques.

 Abstract Submission Deadlines:

Early Bird Abstract Submission: December 20, 2019

Second Line Abstract Submission: January 20, 2020

Final Submission Deadline: April 15, 2020