{"id":23616,"date":"2016-08-10T17:59:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T09:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=23616"},"modified":"2016-08-10T18:11:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T10:11:40","slug":"satellite-based-e-health-platform-facilitates-deliver-health-services-remote-areas-mindanao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2016\/08\/10\/satellite-based-e-health-platform-facilitates-deliver-health-services-remote-areas-mindanao\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite technology helps doctors provide health services in Mindanao\u2019s remote areas"},"content":{"rendered":"

A satellite-based e-health platform dubbed SATMED has been deployed at the German Doctors\u2019 hospital in Buda, Marilog District, Davao City.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Implemented with the help of satellite operator SES S.A. and the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, SATMED will allow German Doctors to enhance healthcare provision and deliver accessible e-health services to remote communities on the island of Mindanao. German Doctors is one of the partner NGOs of SATMED during the ongoing pilot phase.<\/p>\n

SATMED can improve public health in developing countries by enabling multiple medical applications and tools integrated on a single platform over satellite broadband services. The solution was developed by SES Techcom Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, and is funded by the Luxembourg Government.<\/p>\n

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The new SATMED solution deployed in Central Mindanao will enable German Doctors to provide better quality healthcare services when they visit remote villages. Using SATMED, teams can use portable devices such as tablets to collect the patients\u2019 data. The data collected is then processed, aggregated and synchronised securely on SATMED\u2019s cloud platform. SATMED\u2019s text messaging functionality will allow doctors to keep tabs on large groups of patients living in remote villages, whose main form of contact with the outside world is through mobile phones.<\/p>\n

SATMED will enable German Doctors to communicate with doctors and medical experts around the world via video conferencing. Training of local medical professionals via SATMED\u2019s e-learning solutions will be another opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than 200,000 people are living within the catchment area of the Buda Community Health Care Centre \u2013 about half of those coming from the indigenous population, who often have no access to medical care and whose lives are below the poverty line. German Doctors is committed to improving healthcare services for local communities, but poor terrestrial connectivity in rural locations poses obstacles in analysing and monitoring our patients\u2019 health problems, accessing their medical records, providing follow up of care, and managing other areas of our outreach,\u201d said Dietmar Schug, Managing Director of German Doctors. \u201cSATMED and its suite of medical applications opens up healthcare possibilities and boosts our efforts in making accessible, quality healthcare a reality for these remote communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe implementation of SATMED \u2013 through satellite connectivity \u2013 makes digital imaging, e-learning and consultation, and other e-health solutions, available to the local medical community,\u201d said Glen Tindall, Vice President of Sales, Asia-Pacific at SES. \u201cJust as German Doctors\u2019 work in Mindanao is vital to the local population, so is connectivity to the provision of quality healthcare, and we are proud to support German Doctors in bringing these much-needed health services closer to patients in rural locations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A satellite-based e-health platform dubbed SATMED has been deployed at the German Doctors\u2019 hospital in Buda, Marilog District, Davao City. Implemented with the help of satellite operator SES S.A. and the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, SATMED will allow German Doctors to enhance healthcare provision and deliver accessible e-health services to remote communities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[4659,961,4658,2431],"class_list":["post-23616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-spotlight","tag-e-health","tag-satellite","tag-satmed","tag-ses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}