eLearning

At 17-18 June, 2006 the seminar “Telemedicine Days in West Georgia” (Kutaisi, Georgia) was held. This was joint initiative of Georgian Telemedicine Union (Association) and Public Health Imereti Regional Center, which aimed presentation of telemedicine, its possibilities and past, current and future activities of Georgia in this direction. The special attention was given to application of telemedicine for biodefence and infectious diseases’ control issues. Videoconference sessions with Dr. Francisco G. La Rosa (Department of Pathology, University of Colorado at Denver, HSC and TelePathology Consultants, PC, USA) and Professor Michael Nerlich (Regensburg University and International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth, Germany) were performed.  The presentations regarding application of computer technologies for medical aims (Alexander Mgaloblishvili, Future Technologies, Tbilisi, Georgia) and practical application of telemedicine (Ekaterine Kldiashvili, Georgian Telemedicine Union, Tbilisi, Georgia) were made. For the aim of the maximal effective, interesting and comprehensive presentation of telemedicine’s possibilities two continuous medical education programs focused upon telemedicine and its advantages were performed:

1. “eHealth - Perspectives and Possibilities” (10 CPE scores, №2005120)
2. “The application of modern technologies for disease control” (10 CPE scores, №2006035)  

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