Monthly Archives: April 2017

The Finnish National Conference on Telemedicine and eHealth (Suomen telelääketieeteen ja eHealth seura ry XXII Kansallinen telelääketieteen ja eHealth seminaari) was held on 20-21 April 2017 in southwest Finland, in Turku, under the motto „Win-Win-Win, Can citizens, professionals and society all win? “

Ass. prof. Piotr Henryk Skarżyński, MD presented what has so far been achieved in eHealth and what actions are being taken now and what are the plans for the future. The speech was related to presentations of Polish achievements and experience of the World Hearing Center in the development of the National Network of Teleaudiology and further plans connected with the development and improvement of this system. Ass. prof. Piotr Henryk Skarżyński explained how the system for telefitting, telediagnosis, teleconsultations and telerehabilitation affects the quality of patient care.

The speech by ass. prof. Piotr H. Skarżyński, MD, was delivered in the opening session of the conference. It was a lecture devoted to the memory of Dr. Ilk Winblad, the founder and first editor-in-chief of the Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare, who died of sudden illness in November 2011. Since 2012, during this conference, recurring lectures are being held. Each year, the Finnish Telemedicine and e-Health Association selects one outstanding specialist to present an honorary lecture summarizing the experience of one’s own professional field.

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Med-e-Tel – The International eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT Forum, 05-07.04.2017, Luxembourg..

This is the conference of the International Society for Telemedicine and E-health – IsfTeH. This year it was the 15th jubilee edition of this meeting. Med-e-tel has been organized since 2002. The main purpose of IsfTeH is to make sharing of experience and knowledge in telemedicine and e-health easier and provide access to experts’ opinions in this field. Since 2016 ass. prof. Piotr Skarżyński has been a member of the board of this association. A lot of workgroups from different fields of medicine are working within the association. Med-e-tel is one of the instruments that helps IsfTeH in realizing all their missions. Each of workgroups can emphasize their achievements during special sessions concentrated on special fields of interest.
The Med-e-Tel 2017 conference program has largely covered the presentation of practical issues and daily telemedicine experience among doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, IT professionals and patients themselves.
On April 6, a session on teleaudiological issues was held. The greatest achievements in this area were presented by the team from the World Hearing Center and the Institute of Sensory Organs. The moderator of the session was the chairman of the teleaudiological working group – ass. prof. Piotr Henryk Skarżyński, who at the same time introduced lectures on teleaudiology, talking about new challenges and solutions which have been successfully applied in Polish audiology for years.

In the latest edition of the monthly magazine “Życie Olsztyna”, an article on the topic of tinnitus was published. Ass. prof. Piotr Henryk Skarżyński, MD gave an interview in which we will learn how to diagnose tinnitus and what treatment for this ailment is. The article can be found in the printed version of “Nowe Życie Olsztyn” No. 7 (202) 2017 or in electronic version available at: <a href=”http://zycieolsztyna.pl/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/NZO-040117.pdf”>http://zycieolsztyna.pl/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/NZO-100116.pdf</a> and under the link: <a href=”http://zycieolsztyna.pl/?p=4993″>http://zycieolsztyna.pl/?p=4993</a>

Ass. prof. Piotr Henryk Skarżyński jointly with Prof. Henryk Skarzynski conducted a series of master class operations on the implantation of a new system of middle ear implant Vibrant Soundbridge with LP-Coupler. These operations were the main event during the International BONEBRIDGE & SOUNDBRIDGE Symposium, in late March and April – the first time in Poland and the third time in the world – at the World Hearing Center in Kajetany.

It was the world premiere in the clinical application of this system. It consists of the middle ear implant connected in an appropriate way to the patient’s own auditory ossicles. This is the system that allows you to not only model the hearing of a patient, but also adjust the amplification to specific loss at specific frequencies. It also gives you an opportunity to perform any radiological examinations. So far resonance imaging has been severely limited or required removal of the implant.

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On 31.03-1.04. 2017 the third in the world and the first in Poland International BONEBRIDGE & SOUNDBRIDGE Symposium was held at the World Hearing Center in Kajetany.

It is a periodic meeting of the world’s leading specialists in the field of otosurgery, audiology and biomedical engineering, especially in the field of hearing implants. More than 200 top specialists from all over the world took part in all sessions. It was the largest international platform for exchanging experience and knowledge on implantation capabilities using Vibrant Soundbridge and Bonebridge hearing implant technologies, proper surgical techniques, applications, audiological aspects, and limitations to the implementation of individual devices.

Ass. prof. Piotr H. Skarżyński took active part in the round table discussion on Bonebridge implantation and presented practical experience gained during numerous implantations of this system. There was a vivid discussion on the implant placement on cerebral meninges, such kind of operation is not performed in Kajetany.

During over 30 lectures presented on the symposium, the results of current scientific and clinical research, experience of experts from around the world and specific operational problems and surgical reports were discussed.

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