Presentation given by Leon Georgiadis, Klimaka, Athens, Greece, "The Right to Health is a Human Right: Ensuring Access to Health for People who are Homeless", 2006

1. FEANTSA MEETING
Wroclaw, Poland October 2006

2. • Tele-psychiatry
• VPN & MEDFILE Database
• Tele-conferencing
• Suggestions

3. Tele-psychiatry
• Costly use of ISDN telephony
• Little or no cost of use over IP
or VoIP telephony, over initial
investment capital or running
expense of existing Internet
connection

4. VPN – MEDFILE DATABASE
• Medical Records Database,
accessible remotely by
facilities of KLIMAKA,
through a Virtual Private
Network

5. MEDFILE DEVELOPMENTS:
• Stand-alone e-cards issued to
patients containing a Medical
History summary, to be used at
collaborating medical facilities
with low or no specialty expertise
at remote regions, islands, M. H.
Hospitals etc
• E-cards as connection media to
the central MEDFILE database

6. MEDFILE DEVELOPMENTS (cont.)
e-Cards ADVANTAGES:
• Continuation and Follow-up of
treatment of Patients by different
Health Centers, Hospitals or
Doctors by providing an up-to-
date medical history, info in
regard to medication, medication
effectiveness, reactions,
allergies, diabetes etc

7. MEDFILE DEVELOPMENTS (cont.)
CONCERNS
• Legislation re: Personal data
records, content, availability to
targets (access restrictions per
specialty of physician etc, if
connected to the central database
• Data must be encrypted for e-card
transport or transfer over the
Internet (VPN)

8. TELECONFERENCING @ KLIMAKA
• Tele-working, meetings etc
• Tele-administration (virtual office)
• Tele-training at Home and Abroad
Kabul, Afghanistan 2005
Northern Iraq, College of Nurses,
Hawler University, city of Erbil
2006
• VoIP telephony

9. TELECONFERENCING @ KLIMAKA
ADVANTAGES
• Low or no cost over initial capital or running
expenses of existing or dedicated Internet
connection
• Personnel at remote regions with high
unemployment rates can be employed
CONCERNS
• Personnel must be computer literate
• Personnel must be trained to use the
company “tools”
• Procedures for a “virtual office” must be
created

10. SUGGESTIONS FOR FEANTSA
• Tele-working, meetings at regular intervals
through the creation of an e-platform,
immediate transfer of files/records amongst
members, e-collaboration & speeding up of
procedures, exchange of good practices etc
• Creation of local services users database at
Day-centre level, e-cards etc
• Creation of services users database at
National level, e-cards etc
• Same at International level

11. SUGGESTIONS FOR FEANTSA (cont.)
Advantages
• Statistics and info available to all
• Exchange of good practices
CONCERNS
• Cost of creating a database
• Legislation re: database and e-cards
contents, use, authorised users,
encryption of contents for e-cards
and transmition etc

12. Thank you