Latin-American Presentations - ATA Meeting 2007

Telemedicine Applications and Trauma System Development in Latin America. M. Aboutanos; F. Mora; M. Duong; L. Wolf; C. Anderson; M. Denwiddie; I. Sahhar; T. Duane; A. Malhotra; R. Ivatury. International Trauma System Development Program • Division of trauma • Department of Surgery • Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA. fmora@mcvh-vcu.edu  www.vcu.edu//itsdp

Integrating Cross-Cultural Indigenous And Western Healing With Modern Technology. Kevin S. Hopkins, MD, FACS, Dale C. Alverson, MD, Ricardo, Hidalgo Ottolenghi, MD, Gonzalo Cartagenova, MD, Star Johnsen-Moser; Driscoll Children’s Hospital, Corpus Christi, TX; University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM; Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Quito, Ecuador; Cahokia Mysteries School For Cosmic Education, St. Joseph, MO

Electronic Disease Management In The Ecuadorian Amazon. Stephen Cone, MD, Juan Leon, MD, Ronald Merrell, MD; Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Consortium, Virginia Commonwealth University,Richmond, VA; Clinica Luxemburgo,Macas, Ecuador

Disease Specific Consultation And Management By Telemedicine And EHR. Stephen Cone, MD, Juan Leon, MD, Ronald Merrell, MD; Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Consortium, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Clinica Luxemburgo,Macas, Ecuador

A Paperless Office: Myth Or Reality? Giselle Ricur, MD, María Batiz, IT Eng, Alfredo Romano, CPA Instituto Zaldivar, Mendoza, Argentina.

Making Physician-To-Physician Communications Easy With New ICTs. Giselle Ricur, MD, María G. Batiz, IT Eng, Roberto Zaldivar, MD, Hugo Micarelli, Matías A. Valdivia, SA, Luis A. Arcuri, DBA, Instituto Zaldivar, Mendoza, Argentina

An International Partnership Enhancing Preparedness For Complex Medical Emergencies. Taryn Gillison,1 Sherri Jurgens, MPH,Melissa Blum, Xavier Urtubey, MD, Fernando Uminsky, Pablo Felgaer; The National Bioterrorism Civilian Medical Response Center (CIMERC) at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA; eSalud Americas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Technology Considerations To Reach 100% Countrywide Tele-Electrocardiography Coverage: The Chilean Experience. Francisco J. Fernández, BSc, Edgardo Escobar, MD,1 Patricia Adriazola, MD, Jorge Aravena, BSc2; 1ITMS Telemedicina de Chile, Santiago, Chile; MedSolutions, Santiago, Chile

Teleconsultation In Peru For Children And Adults With Developmental Disabilities. Georgina Peacock, MD, MPH, Liliana Mayo, PhD, Matt Reese, PhD, Louann Rinner, MSEd, OTR/D, Matt Braun, MA, CCC-SLP, Ryan Spaulding, PhD; CDC, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Atlanta, GA; University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS; Centro Ann Sullivan del Peru, Lima, Peru

Telemed: A Tele-Health Case Study Based On Ultrasound Images. Alecio P. D. Binotto, MSc, Marcio S. Torres, MSc, Ilias Sachpazidis, MSc, Fabiane Sesti, PhD, MD, Carlos Eduardo Pereira, PhD, Georgios Sakas, PhD; 1Center of Excellence in Advanced Technologies SENAI, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Fraunhofer Institut for Conputer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany; Santa Casa Hospital Complex, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Development And Maintenance Of An International Telemedicine Pediatric Program—Update. Kevin S. Hopkins, MD, FACS, Lori Balch, Sharon Yon, MA, Francisco Lozano Lee, MD, Mauricio Sampayo, BSc, Pablo Villarreal Guerra, MD, Robert L. Hamilton, Julia Henion, RN; Driscoll Children’s Hospital, Corpus Christi, TX; Hospital San Jose Tec de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; Hospital Infantil de Victoria, Ciudad Victoria, Mexico; Centro Medico Internacional, Matamoros, Mexico; Universidad de Monterrey División de Ciencias de la Salud, Monterrey, Mexico

Telemap: An Integral Tool For Victims Of Antipersonal Mines. Jorge I. Lopez-Jaramillo, MD, MPH, Jose F. Florez-Arango, MD, MS; Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia

Evaluation Of JPEG And JPEG 2000 Image Compression On The Fidelity Of Telemedicine Digital Retinal Imagery. Jose F. Florez, MD, MS, Helen K. Li, MD; School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science at Houston, Houston, TX; Universidad De Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia; Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

Effect Of Digital Image Resolution And Display Mode On Visibility Of Diabetic Retinopathy Microaneurysm. Helen K. Li, MD, Jose F. Florez, MD, MS, Elizabeth A. Krupinski, PhD; Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas Health Science at Houston, Houston, TX; Universidad De Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia; Department of Radiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

An Analysis Of Pubmed-Indexed Telemedicine Literature. Adol Esquivel, MD, MS, Jose F. Florez-Arango, MD, MS, Kim Dunn, MD, PhD; School of Health Information Sciences, University of Texas-Houston, Houston, TX; Facultad de Medicina - Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia

Telehealth Services For Malaria Diagnosis And Epidemiological Surveillance In The Colombian Pacific Coast: A 12-Month Experience. Jorge Millan, PhD, Leonardo Yunda, MSEE, Stephan Kiefer, Andres Alarcon, Augusto Valderrama,4 Socrates Herrera, MD; Hialeah Technology Center, Hialeah, FL; 2Universidad Santiago de Cali, Cali, Colombia; Fraunhofer-Institut Biomedizinische Technik, St. Ingbert, Germany; 4Malaria Vaccine and Drug Development Center, Cali, Colombia