Aerotel to present tele-monitoring devices at Med-e-Tel 2010 Conference

Aerotel Medical Systems will present its new innovative products at the Med-e-Tel 2010 Conference that will be held at 14-16 April 2010 in Luxembourg.

Ofer Atzmon, vice president for business development and marketing at Aerotel, will hold a presentation that will demonstrate the usage of Telemedicine to enhance emergency care by ambulance services. The presentation will be held during the tele-cardiology session, which will take place on April 16 between 13:00 and 14:45, in conference room 2.

The presentation will feature the usage of mobile hand-held ECG tele-monitoring devices by ambulance services and will include case studies from Brazil, Italy and Russia.

It will feature Aerotel's wireless hand-held electrocardiogram (ECG) recorder/transmitter devices for measuring 12-lead ECG signals, by private and institutional ambulance emergency services.

Ambulance staffs (paramedics) use the devices in order to monitor people injured in car accidents or in various emergency situations at home. They can record the ECG trace and transmit it within minutes to a remote medical centre using their mobile phones.

The Med-e-Tel 2010 features presentations of successful business cases, research activities, pilot projects, practical experiences from health and social care providers, and panel discussions, offering both local and international perspectives on eHealth and telemedicine opportunities and experiences.

Tele-Cardiology services reduce costs significantly

The introduction of Tele-Cardiology services can improve patient care and save costs, according to recent study conducted in the UK.

The report, which was published in the TeleHealth World magazine, is based on the findings of a pilot study of a new tele-cardiology service, commissioned by the UK’s National Health Service (NHS).

The research shows significant cost saving potential for the tele-cardiology service. The savings calculated showed a surprisingly short 3.5 months payback time for the investment in the technology. The NHS suggested that when extrapolated to England as a whole the potential financial savings of using such services could be a minimum of £45 million (some $90 million) per annum.

The pilot used Aerotel's HeartView series of hand-held 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) recorder/transmitter devices. These devices are used in an identical manner as conventional ECG machines, except that they can record the ECG and then transmit it wirelessly from a patient’s home or a primary care clinic to a remote tele-cardiology consultation center, where it is captured and displayed on screen.

Practice staff and patients, who participated at the experiment, were overwhelmingly positive about the advent of tele-cardiology equipment in primary care. The report recommended that administrators should consider the use of telemedicine technology in cardiac care in a wide scale due to its significant benefits. It also became evident that as physicians gained confidence in the new technology it became an important tool for supporting clinical decision making to the extent that inappropriate referrals to A&E departments were being prevented.

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