ITU Workshop on
“E-health services in low-resource settings:
Requirements and ITU role ”
(Tokyo, Japan, 4-5 February 2013)
Wrap-up:
Implications for ITU-T and ITU-D
Masahito Kawamori,
Rapporteur, ITU-T Q28/16
“Multimedia Framework for e-Health
Applications”
NTT
Tokyo, Japan, 4-5 February 2013

Keynote speeches from Public and
Private sector leaders
Perspectives in the E-Health
Policies (Yasuo SAKAMOTO, Director-General for ICT Strategic Policy Planning, MIC, Japan)
Global Agenda in Post Fukushima (Kiyoshi
KUROKAWA, Academic Fellow, National
Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan)
Emmanuel Ija BAYA, Minister of Health in
Central Equatorial State, Republic of South
Sudan
eHealth Priorities and Practice (Mark S.
LANDRY, Health Information Technical Officer,
WHO Western Pacific Regional Office,
Philippines)

Session 1: Setting the context: e-health implementation in low-resource settings
ITU activities on e-Health (Sameer SHARMA, ITU
Regional Office for Asia-Pacific, Bangkok) mHealth services in Japan - Services provided by
NTTDATA (Shigeru TOMITA, NTT Data, Japan)
Healthcare challenges in developing countries &
e-Health (Rajendra Pratap GUPTA, Chairman,
Continua Health Alliance, India
Current status of hospital information system
and HIE network in Japan (Yoshiyuki TAKAHASHI,
Director, Fujitsu, Japan)

Session 2: Use cases on e-health in low-resource settings
ITU on e-health in Sudan: Background
and problems (Daliya SALIH, Sudan Medical
Specialization Board Khatourm, Sudan)
e-Health: The Uganda Situation (Doreen
BIRABWA-MALE, Deputy Executive Director,
Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda)
Potential use of e-health services in
Algeria (Malika GAMAZ BENSAOU, Professor,
Medical Oncology, Ministry of Health, Algeria)
Abu Dhabi Wegaya Programme Tackling
NCD's: Application to Low and Middle
Income Health Markets (Reehan SHEIKH,
Technical Strategist, Platform Health, UAE

Session 3: Use Cases on e-health in low-resource settings (Continued)
GramHealth: An affordable and usable healthcare system for unreached
community (Ashir AHMED, Associate Professor,
Kyusyu University, Bangladesh)
Challenges and opportunities for e-Health in
developing countries - Vietnam (Nguyen Quoc
CUONG, Deputy Managing Director, Vietnam
Posts & Telecommunications Group, Vietnam)
Current Situation of E-health in
Myanmar (Nang Kham Oo LEIK, Assistant
Lecturer, Central Women's Hospital, Yangon,
Myanmar)

Session 4: Current projects on e-health
The status quo and the future of e-Health (Ikuyo
KANEKO, Professor, Keio University, Japan)
Tele-care: Role of Interactive TV in e-Health (Yau
Wei YUN, Project leader, A*Star, Singapore)
The accessiblity imperative for e-Health applications and services, demographic realities
and barriers to usage (Axel LEBOIS Executive
Director, G3ict, USA) (Remote)
BAN Portable Clinic toward Affordable
Healthcare M2M Service (Masahiro KURODA,
Manager, NICT, Japan)

Session 5: Future technologies on e-health
New Heart Care System based on
UT-Heart for Tailor-made
Medicine (Yoshimasa KADOOKA,
General Manager, Fujitsu, Japan
Cognitive Neuro-Science approach
to Telemedicine (Makio KASHINO,
Executive Manager, NTT, Japan)
Ubiquitous Network for e-Health (H.
K. CHOI, Professor, Inje University,
Korea)

Session 6: e-health in the case of disasters
Video of disaster on March 11th,
2011 (MIC)
Great East Japan Earthquake and research and development for network resilience
and recovery (Noriyuki ARAKI, Chairman,
ITU-T FG-DR&NRR)
Telemedicine as a Tool in Japan Disaster
Relief (Masatake ETO, Director and Managing
Executive Officer, A&D Company, Japan)
The Final Decision Call after the Accident
of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (Isao
NAKAJIMA, Professor, Tokai University, Japan)

What we have gained
Use cases on e-health in lowresource settings
Requirements from developing countries
Examples of Solutions/Systems
Seeds for further consideration eHealth-related areas to be considered
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e-Health and Relevant Issues
Aging Society
Disaster Situation
Emergencies
Accessibility and Disabilities
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e-Health Propagation
Needs for global standardization
Migration from traditional healthcare and medical care
Environment for education, learning, training,
Promotional events – bridging the gap in perception of “eHealth”
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Standardization Points
Use cases and Requirements
Workshop proceedings to be a good source
Glossary
Abbreviations and technical terms explained for common understanding
Data Sets and Applications
Some already existing E.g. Continua Health
Alliance
Relevant Organizations
Consortiums and forums related to eHealth
(not necessarily SDOs)
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Action Items
ITU Website
SG16 website to host the “proceedings” of the workshop
Materials
Relevant materials available on ITU
Websites
Events
Further Workshops and Tutorials
Contributions & Meetings
ITU-T will work with ITU-D and WHO to further the standardization process
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Action Items (2)
WHO will work with members to promote eHealth
A better understanding of eHealth/mHealth is desired
(Off-line/f2f) meetings between ITU and WHO are requested to create a better understanding and overcome the gap may be proposed
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Thank you!!!
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