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CMAJ Today!

The doctor is in Vancouver, or New York, or . . .

Date: Aug. 16, 1999
Time: 2:48 pm

The future of health care will be on display in Edmonton for the next 3 days as delegates attending a conference on telehealth and multimedia applications for health show off how the latest technology can help provide better health care.

While the latest technological breakthroughs in the field of telehealth may not get everyone's blood racing, telehealth applications are evolving rapidly and are very close to eliminating the distance and geographical barriers that separate health care professionals and their patients. The conference focuses on 4 themes: distance, technologies, demonstrations and standards and regulations. It also bills itself as a forum for basic researchers, health service providers, educators, government representatives and manufacturers of multimedia and telehealth applications.

"As health professionals, we work with different disciplines to help our patients and technology has become an integral part of the services that we provide," said Masako Miyazaki, head of the conference and director of the University of Alberta Telehealth Technology Research Institute. "Therefore, it is essential to communicate our technical requirements to our colleagues specializing in the technical fields."

In addition to uniting approximately 700 delegates from around the world, the conference will feature continuous live demonstrations on aspects of telehealth applications for telepsychiatry, telerehabilitation, teleradiology and telelearning. Calgary ophthalmologist Dr. Howard Gimbel will also perform eye surgery "live," beaming the procedure from his office to the conference delegates in Edmonton.

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