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title: Telehealth working group discussion
author: Arindam Basu
tags: telehealth, workgroup, imia, call, monthly, meetings, notes

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# IMIA Telehealth Working Group Monthly Discussion Pad

## February 2025 Discussion
25th February, 2025, 7PM-8PM UTC Monday

### Online meeting, join here:
https://meet.jit.si/moderated/3a39c94448b99193a754c124f80f587146c8b9b66cdd7dd14c278979be8bd475

Note: when you join, it will ask you to input your name, please put in your real name or your preferred name.

### Agenda
- Co-chair's report to the group

### Attendees
- Write your name and social media handle

---sheila John www.linkedin.com/in/sheila-john-171178154
Charles Umeh https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-umeh-ba53a012a/

### Agenda

## January 2025 Discussion
Thursday, 23rd January, 2025, 7AM - 8AM UTC

### Agenda
- Co-Chair's report: Arindam Basu
- Please share outcomes of DHA and telehealth book. Discuss on spreading the manpower and services across healthcare in remote areas, referral network, ensuring access to healthcare for Divyangjan (Ganesh)
- progress of yearbook article (Anandhi)
- wouter suggestions on Standards body
- Healthcare in remote areas (sheila John)

## List of attendees
1. Your name, your social media handle
2. Tania Moerenhout, [e-mail] https://www.linkedin.com/in/tania-moerenhout-8b864817/
3.sheila John ,sheilajohn999@gmail. www.linkedin.com/in/sheila-john-171178154

## December 2023 Discussion

Thursday, 7th December 7-8 PM UTC

Link: [https://brie.fi/ng/imia-thwg#imia-thwg ](https://brie.fi/ng/imia-thwg#imia-thwg)

## Agenda
* Article for IMIA Yearbook update, Edwin El
* Update from Arin
* Update Telehealth Guidance Collaborative from Wouter
* //Other items, add what you want to discuss
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## Attendees
* Arin Basu, [e-mail]
* Marcia Ito, [e-mail]
* Wouter Meijer, [e-mail]
* Vije Rajput, [e-mail]
* //add your name and email address here

## October 2023 Discussion
IMIA Community Call September

Wednesday, 11th October 7:00 – 7:50pm NZST

Time zone: Pacific/Auckland

Link to join:

https://meet.jit.si/moderated/a7cec6065247ec5f151300f1cb76e3c4bd222775ee4df9371ca45ca0fa6691d2

Calendar:

## Agenda Items
- Discussion on the Digital Health Paper for submission
- proposal for the Telehealth Guidance Collaborative Pilot Project
- Book Project (Gogia)
- Digital Health Assistant Program
- Other Agenda items (Write here what you want to discuss)

## Attendees
- Arindam Basu, [e-mail] (Moderator)
- Dr Sheila John
- Dr Prasad Ranatunga, [e-mail]
- Dr.Gumindu Kulatunga, [e-mail]
- Wouter Meijer, [e-mail]
- Shashi Gogia [e-mail]
- Usman Iqbal ([e-mail])

## Notes
A. Regarding the book project
- A response from Elsevier has been recieved - one of the reviewers himself has suggested the need for an open source collaborative type output
- Correspondence with a legal team to negotiate better terms have been initiated

## September 2023 Discussion

IMIA Community Call September
Wednesday, 6 September · 7:00 – 7:50pm
Time zone: Pacific/Auckland
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/jgd-kbkw-rcp
Google Calendar Link:
[https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzFwc2lucnBldWk3ZHJsNGs3cWoycmJ0MTMgYXJpbi5iYXN1QG0&tmsrc=arin.basu%40gmail.com](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzFwc2lucnBldWk3ZHJsNGs3cWoycmJ0MTMgYXJpbi5iYXN1QG0&tmsrc=arin.basu%40gmail.com)

Agenda items
- Book Proposal
- Follow up projects from Medinfo2023
- Nature Paper
- Yearbook 2023-2024
- One health paper
- Communication and website, proposal for ad hoc group, see Wouter's mail of 1 September
- Other agenda items/General Items for discussion

Attendees:
- Arindam Basu (chair), [e-mail]
- Sriram Iyengar (chair), [e-mail]
- Charles Umeh. [e-mail]
- Vije Rajput, [e-mail]
- Gumindu Kulatunga, [e-mail]
- Farhad Fatehi, [e-mail]
- Dr Sheila John, [e-mail]
- Prasad Ranatunga, [e-mail]
- Wouter Meijer, [e-mail]
- Inga Hunter [e-mail] (hopefully)
- Marcia Ito, [e-mail] (I will try!)
- Usman Iqbal ([e-mail])
- Replace Me with Your Name, [e-mail]

## Notetaker

## Meeting Notes
- Wouter talked about the Telehealth ISO guidance document and website and proposed about setting up of a group to take the idea forward
- Farhad asked the purpose of the group and Wouter explained that the group's purpose will need to be identified
- Dr. Gogia discussed the book
Matters arising:
- creating an ad-hoc group for taking forward the guidance document for Telehealth
- Wouter to email the group exlaining the purpose of the group and going forward
- Arin to set up a google doc
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## May 2023 Discussion
Please add your agenda items here and your name, edit this note by clicking on the "pencil" icon. Hit enter/return on the previous item to add your own and write your initials after your item

--- Add your agenda item/s below ---

1. Working group gathering for Medinfo (AB)
2. Discussion on Medinfo session 166-Standard guidelines for Telehealth on july 8th
3. Telemedicine related minimum data set for Crossborder pratice
4. Urgent need for contrbutions of publications relating to guidelines and guidelines on telehealth from countries outher than USA, Canada, New Zealand, UK

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## June 2023 Community Call

- Poll link: https://whenisgood.net/sywdtkj
- Online meeting link: <to be posted here once the date/time is decided>
- Date and time: to be posted here once known

## Add your agenda items here:
1. Discussion about the ISO standards project
2. Discussion about the July MedInfo Meeting planning
3. Discussion about the desirability to use discharge letters in digital information systems, in particular for the Personal Health Record
4. Information about SATHI Digital Health Assistant (DHA) 1. Participation in Panel during Medinfo 2. Attempting to provide global traction. - please do register and login at the site dha.sathi.org to get a feel and be able to offer comments.
*. Discussion about how to obtain endorsement of activities by this group, do we need to formalize a process?
5. Will the forthcoming EU AI Act have implications for telehealth technologies?
6. Discussion about how to promote Telehealth in Africa in terms of research, partnerships for implementations.
7. STC paper or poster submission - deadline 20.6.2023

## List of Attendees
1. Arindam Basu, [e-mail]
2. ==Shashi Gogia [e-mail]== (DNA)
3. Wouter Meijer, [e-mail]..
4. ==Inga Hunter, [e-mail] (hopefully)== (DNA)
5. Vije Rajput, [e-mail]
6. Charles Umeh [e-mail]
7. ==Dr sheila john== (DNA)

## Notes from the meeting
### ISO
- Three years to do
- ISO community health informatics community meets current and future needs
- Landscape review
- Most useful and relevant ISO standard
- Gaps
- What's needed and prepare future work
- Gaps in countries: Canada
- Action points: Nominate Vije

## Discharge letters
- discharge letters for patients
- prepare for the Europe conference
- Several points in support of discharge summaries and integration with EHR noted
- Ask Elaine how we might get timely information about other conferences that are of interest to us

## Nigeria
- Lapse in the practice of telehealth
- Challenge of few/no training programmes in telehealth in Africa
- Mapping different telehealth projects in Africa (Action Point?)
- Charles and Najib need to coordinate

## AI EU
- At present no existent group
- Idea of subgroup for Telehealth and AI
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## July 2023 Community Call
- Poll link: // to be posted here
- Online Meeting link: // to be posted here

## Telehealth Working Group Call for June 2020

Date:
- First meeting, Friday, 26th June, 22:00 UTC/GMT
- Second meeting, Saturday, 27th June, 0:00 UTC/GMT

Check time conversion here:
[https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/](https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/)

Zoom link:
[**https://canterbury.zoom.us/j/92975504810**](https://canterbury.zoom.us/j/92975504810)

## Links back to Google Group discussion
[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/imia_tele/Q0NKB-OGFsU](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/imia_tele/Q0NKB-OGFsU)

## Attendees (Name, Country, University/workplace, email, Twitter handle/LinkedIn profile)
1. Arindam Basu, New Zealand, University of Canterbury, [e-mail], @arinbasu
2. Vije Rajput, UK, Stonydelph Health Centre, [e-mail]
3. Gumindu Kulatunga, Sri Lanka, Ministry of Health, [e-mail], (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gumindu-kulatunga-a2487379/)
4. Prasad Ranatunga, Sri Lanka, Department of Health Services, North Western Province, [e-mail], @pran
6. Dr Charles Umeh,Parkers mobile clinic, Nigeria
7. Inga Hunter, New Zealand, Massey University, [e-mail]
8. Farhad Fatehi, Australia, The University of Queensland, [e-mail] @farhadfatehi
9. Shashi Gogia, SATHI, New Delhi India [e-mail] LinkedIn S B Gogia
10. Jose F Florez-Arango, USA, Texas A&M University, [e-mail], @josefflo / https://www.linkedin.com/in/josefflo/
11. Marcia Ito, Brazil, Sao Paulo, SBIS, [e-mail],linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marciaito/
12. (Write your name, Uni/Hospital/Workplace, email, twitter/linkedin and hit enter)

## Agenda
(Write what would you like to discuss here and your name in parentheses)
1. Professor Anthony Maeder to discuss the book project (Arindam Basu)
2. Case studies of "mainstream incorporation as a conventional service delivery channel" - What do we define as mainstream as many current TH implementations are in the early stages of adoption and scaling? Due to cataylst of COVID-19 (Vije Rajput)
3. Telehealth in post COVID period (Gumindu)
4. Release of the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines in India - A situational report (Gogia)
5. Various Language editions of the book - Fundamentals of telemedicine and - telehealth (Gogia/Korea team)

## Notes from the meeting

NHS project of Vije
Welfare island (Livia)
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Scope of the chapter:
"These contributions will demonstrate how far telehealth research and application has moved on from pilot and trial mode to mainstream incorporation as a conventional service delivery channel. Theoretical underpinnings which can provide insight to successful esign, implementation and projection of such large scale telehealth services and associated infrastructure and resources needs and "planning, will be highly relevant.  Analysis of economic and health services impacts ad management of telehealth are also in scope.

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## Summary of the proceedings and next actions
We started at 10:00 UTC on 27th June and finished the meeting a little earlier to 01:00 UTC. The main topics covered in the meeting were

- Mainstream incorporation of telehealth in NHS GP context
- Welfare island concept of Livia Bellina
- Telemedicine in post-covid scenario from Gumindu Kulatunga
- GT2020 book project (Professor Anthony Maeder)

## Mainstream incorporation of telehealth/telemedicine initiatives

Dr. Vije Rajput elaborated about a UK based initiative where they rolled out telehealth and telemedicine services for general practices across the UK. This was boosted and "nudged" by the ongoing pandemic. The funding of the project would be from the NHS (**Vije please comment on this if the understanding is correct**), as part of NHS digital strategy and the project would include the following components:

- Using the tool to conduct DPI (?degree of permanent impairment) assessment
- Evaluation of the services
- Assessment of patient engagement
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