Radiology: first pictures transmitted in the 80ies, moderate results
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rs Telemedicine, Teleradiology and the European Health Services Directive
a Junior Doctor Perspective
Oliver ErtlDept. of Radiology, Zentralklinikum Augsburg, GermanyPWG Representative to the UEMS Section of Radiology
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Radiology: first pictures transmitted in the 80ies, moderate results
nowadays: almost everything can be transmitted
primary use: peer-to-peer, collegial, quality improvement
meantime: other players, intention = ?
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"The R-Bay project aims at establishing an online eMarketplace within the field of radiology, (...) i.e. to create a virtual and secure exchange set-up for the provision and consumption of radiology services based on market terms. The architecture of the R-Bay services consists of a portal, which hosts the eMarketplace function as a commodity brokering and exchange of radiology services. On the eMarketplace, providers will make their services available at a specified price and with standardized specifications, and the customers will buy the services via a trusted and secure network."
"Structured reporting tool with automated multilingual translation“
(cited from http://www.rbay.org)
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Radiology as a commodity?
Medicine as a commodity?
is this „allowed“?
is there a regulation?
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national level:
very varying
European level:
no regulation yet
but:
The European Health Services Directive is underway.
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„The Health Services Directive aim is to optimize legal certainty regarding cross border healthcare under Community Law and to support the cooperation between the health systems of the Member States.“
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Where should the reporting doctor be licensed? How can it be assured that a failure to renew licensure or a
withdrawal of licensure will be communicated? "electronic fingerprint“? legal pathways? Do patients need to give informed consent about sending
away their images? What are the electronic substitutes for direct patient
encounter? How can patient records be made accessible remotely? Quality control mainly relies on collegial feedbacks and on
informal corridor encounters. What is the substitute for this in the teleradiology age?
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Where should the reporting doctor be licensed? How can it be assured that a failure to renew licensure or a
withdrawal of licensure will be communicated? "electronic fingerprint“? legal pathways? Do patients need to give informed consent about sending
away their images? What are the electronic substitutes for direct patient
encounter? How can patient records be made accessible remotely? Quality control mainly relies on collegial feedbacks and on
informal corridor encounters. What is the substitute for this in the teleradiology age?
Lobbying through the UEMS Section of Radiology and the European Society of Radiology (ESR)
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Current status: Directive comfortably got through the vote after its First
Reading in the European Parliament in late April. It now goes to the 27 EU Health Ministers and then back to
the European Parliament, further debate in autumn It either could still be completely cancelled, or it could come
into effect in member states in 2010
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Concerns towards postgraduate training: lack of cases on the referring site
primarily, insufficent exposure for residents secondarily, deskilling of teachers, competence loss
more and more specialization on the providing site„commoditive“ character additional workload during call hours legal responsibilities of residents? appreciation of clinical course? feedback mechanisms?
„scattered“ and incompete learning experience less and less hospitals completely covering all aspects appreciate cases as a whole (from beginning to end) patient responsibility, social skills, lack of direct contact
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telemedicine should not be to the detriment of training, instead it should should benefit education (possibilities?)
hospitals which outsource clinical work must enable their residents adequate exposure through alternative pathways (rotations)
adequate teaching for dealing with the newly evolving aspects of telemedical patient care (background support).
definition of legal responsibilities technical substitutes for doctor-doctor and doctor-patient
communication. background information available, "scattering" of learning
experience reduced to minimum.
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Telemedicine is not just a cheap commodity for cutting costs and increasing third-party shareholder value. Instead, telemedicine is an highly sophisticated medical act which has great potential for improving quality of patient care as well as quality of postgraduate education.
Thank you!
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