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E-health services in low-resource settings: Requirements and ITU role
Tokyo, Japan, 4-5 February 2013

Contact: tsbworkshops@itu.int

Day 1 - Monday, 4 February 2013

08:00 - 17:00	Registration
09:00 - 09:30	Opening Moderator: Masahito KAWAMORI [ Biography ] Eiichi TANAKA, Vice-Minister for Policy Coordination, MIC, Japan Sameer SHARMA (ITU Regional Office for Asia-Pacific, Bangkok) [ Biography \| Speech ]
09:30 - 10:30	Keynote speeches from Public and Private sector leaders Moderator: Masahito KAWAMORI [ Biography ] Perspectives in the E-Health Policies (Yasuo SAKAMOTO, Director-General for ICT Strategic Policy Planning, MIC, Japan) [ Presentation ] Global Agenda in Post Fukushima (Kiyoshi KUROKAWA, Academic Fellow, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan) [ Biography \| Presentation ] 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) (Remote) [ Biography \| Presentation]
10:30 - 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 - 12:20	Session 1: Setting the context: e-health implementation in low-resource settings Moderator: Hiroshi OTA, ITU/TSB [ Biography ] ITU activities on e-Health (Sameer SHARMA, ITU Regional Office for Asia-Pacific, Bangkok) [ Biography \| Presentation ] mHealth services in Japan - Services provided by NTTDATA (Shigeru TOMITA, NTT Data, Japan) [ Biography \| Abstract \| Presentation ] Healthcare challenges in developing countries & e-Health (Rajendra Pratap GUPTA, Chairman, Continua Health Alliance, India [ Biography \| Presentation ] Current status of hospital information system and HIE network in Japan (Yoshiyuki TAKAHASHI, Director, Fujitsu, Japan) [ Presentation ]
12:20 - 13:40	Lunch Break
13:40 - 15:10	Session 2: Use cases on e-health in low-resource settings Moderator: Isao NAKAJIMA [ Biography ] ITU on e-health in Sudan: Background and problems (Daliya SALIH, Sudan Medical Specialization Board Khatourm, Sudan) [ Presentation ] e-Health: The Uganda Situation (Doreen BIRABWA-MALE, Deputy Executive Director, Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda) [ Presentation ] Potential use of e-health services in Algeria (Malika GAMAZ BENSAOU, Professor, Medical Oncology, Ministry of Health, Algeria) [ Biography \| Presentation ] Abu Dhabi Wegaya Programme Tackling NCD's: Application to Low and Middle Income Health Markets (Reehan SHEIKH, Technical Strategist, Platform Health, UAE [ Biography \| Presentation ]
15:10 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00	Session 3: Use Cases on e-health in low-resource settings (Continued) Moderator: Isao NAKAJIMA [ Biography ] GramHealth: An affordable and usable healthcare system for unreached community (Ashir AHMED, Associate Professor, Kyusyu University, Bangladesh) [ Presentation ] Challenges and opportunities for e-Health in developing countries - Vietnam (Nguyen Quoc CUONG, Deputy Managing Director, Vietnam Posts & Telecommunications Group, Vietnam) [ Biography \| Abstract \| Presenation ] Current Situation of E-health in Myanmar (Nang Kham Oo LEIK, Assistant Lecturer, Central Women's Hospital, Yangon, Myanmar) [ Biography \| Presentation ]

Day 2 - Tuesday, 5 February 2013

08:00 - 17:00	Registration
09:00 - 10:30	Session 4: Current projects on e-health Moderator: Sameer SHARMA, ITU Regional Office for Asia-Pacific, Bangkok [ Biography ] The status quo and the future of e-Health (Ikuyo KANEKO, Professor, Keio University, Japan) [ Presentation ] Tele-care: Role of Interactive TV in e-Health (Yau Wei YUN, Project leader, AStar, Singapore) [ Presentation ] The accessiblity imperative for e-Health applications and services, demographic realities and barriers to usage* (Axel LEBOIS Executive Director, G3ict, USA) (Remote) [ Biography \| Abstract \| Presentation ] BAN Portable Clinic toward Affordable Healthcare M2M Service (Masahiro KURODA, Manager, NICT, Japan) [ Biography \| Presentation ]
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	Session 5: Future technologies on e-health Moderator: Masahito KAWAMORI [ Biography ] New Heart Care System based on UT-Heart for Tailor-made Medicine (Yoshimasa KADOOKA, General Manager, Fujitsu, Japan) [ Biography \| Abstract \| Presentation ] From Human sciences to e-health (Makio KASHINO, Executive Manager, NTT, Japan) [ Biography \| Presentation ] Ubiquitous Network for e-Health (H. K. CHOI, Professor, Inje University, Korea) [ Biography \| Abstract \| Presentation }
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30	Session 6: e-health in the case of disasters Moderator: Hiroshi OTA, ITU/TSB [ Biography ] 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) [ Biography \| Presentation ] Telemedicine as a Tool in Japan Disaster Relief (Masatake ETO, Director and Managing Executive Officer, A&D Company, Japan) [ Presentation ] The Final Decision Call after the Accident of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (Isao NAKAJIMA, Professor, Tokai University, Japan) [ Biography \| Presentation ]
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:20	Session 7: Implications for ITU-D and ITU-T work Moderator: Masahito KAWAMORI [ Biography ] Activities of ITU-T (Hiroshi OTA, ITU/TSB) [ Biography \| Presentation ] Activities of FG-M2M (Hideo HIMENO, Assistant Manager, NEC, Japan) [ Biography \| Presentation ] Wrap up Masahito KAWAMORI [ Biography \| Presentation ]
17:20 - 17:30	Closing Isao NAKAJIMA [ Biography ]
18:00 -	Social event (cocktail party)

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