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American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and GE Healthcare (GE) are in rural northwest India again to utilise advances in cardiovascular ultrasound technology to enhance medical education for healthcare providers caring for the underserved populations in India.
An organised team of ASE member sonographers and physicians have travelled to New Delhi to train Indian physicians in image acquisition while testing the possibilities of remote medical education. The educational event is a collaboration with Medanta – The Medicity, one of India’s largest multi-specialty medical institutes located in Gurgaon, in the National Capital Region.
An additional team of ASE sonographers is assisting in training via the internet and StatVideo’s EchoBoxes, equipment designed to stream cardiac ultrasound images over the Web. Twenty Indian physicians are receiving training on-site, while half of the physicians are also benefitting from additional training by ASE sonographers providing real-time instruction remotely from the US. This technology, is assisting them to see the images the Indian physicians scanned, providing the ability to instruct the physicians on improved acquisition in real-time.
After a successful medical camp in January 2012, healthcare providers for this year’s project have included two new corporate sponsors CoreSound Imaging and StatVideo, to expand the reach from the rural setting with long-distance, web-based technology to the remote sonographers. The project was organised by Dr Partho P Sengupta, a New York-based cardiologist, a member of the Board of ASE, and the India liaison for ASE. The local training was co-ordinated by Dr Manish Bansal, Medanta – The Medicity.
“This educational activity sets a benchmark in delivering innovative internet-based tele-consultation and tele-education programme to physicians,” said Dr Sengupta.
“The physicians registered for a novel training module: ASE-VISION (Value of Interactive Scanning for Improving Outcome of New Learners). This programme ushers newer training possibilities in integration of tele-echocardiography with activities that range from real-time online assessments, long distance consultations, information sharing and education of physicians in remote areas of the world,” he added.
Clinicians will leverage GE Healthcare ultrasound technology, including the laptop-sized Vivid i and Vivid q plus the Vscan pocket-sized visualisation tool to facilitate the acquisition of the images and provide an educational and awareness vehicle for India-based physicians. The systems will be used on loan from GE Healthcare, which also provided an educational grant for the project to help support travel for sonographers. Vscan leverages ultrasound technology to provide clinicians with an immediate, non-invasive method to help obtain visual information about what is happening inside the body.
“Through the use of portable GE ultrasound technology and the collaboration with local healthcare providers, ASE and its physician members are helping improve the overall quality of care for thousands of people in this rural part of India,” said Al Lojewski, general manager, Cardiovascular Ultrasound, GE Healthcare.
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An organised team of ASE member sonographers and physicians have travelled to New Delhi to train Indian physicians in image acquisition while testing the possibilities of remote medical education. The educational event is a collaboration with Medanta – The Medicity, one of India’s largest multi-specialty medical institutes located in Gurgaon, in the National Capital Region.
An additional team of ASE sonographers is assisting in training via the internet and StatVideo’s EchoBoxes, equipment designed to stream cardiac ultrasound images over the Web. Twenty Indian physicians are receiving training on-site, while half of the physicians are also benefitting from additional training by ASE sonographers providing real-time instruction remotely from the US. This technology, is assisting them to see the images the Indian physicians scanned, providing the ability to instruct the physicians on improved acquisition in real-time.
After a successful medical camp in January 2012, healthcare providers for this year’s project have included two new corporate sponsors CoreSound Imaging and StatVideo, to expand the reach from the rural setting with long-distance, web-based technology to the remote sonographers. The project was organised by Dr Partho P Sengupta, a New York-based cardiologist, a member of the Board of ASE, and the India liaison for ASE. The local training was co-ordinated by Dr Manish Bansal, Medanta – The Medicity.
“This educational activity sets a benchmark in delivering innovative internet-based tele-consultation and tele-education programme to physicians,” said Dr Sengupta.
“The physicians registered for a novel training module: ASE-VISION (Value of Interactive Scanning for Improving Outcome of New Learners). This programme ushers newer training possibilities in integration of tele-echocardiography with activities that range from real-time online assessments, long distance consultations, information sharing and education of physicians in remote areas of the world,” he added.
Clinicians will leverage GE Healthcare ultrasound technology, including the laptop-sized Vivid i and Vivid q plus the Vscan pocket-sized visualisation tool to facilitate the acquisition of the images and provide an educational and awareness vehicle for India-based physicians. The systems will be used on loan from GE Healthcare, which also provided an educational grant for the project to help support travel for sonographers. Vscan leverages ultrasound technology to provide clinicians with an immediate, non-invasive method to help obtain visual information about what is happening inside the body.
“Through the use of portable GE ultrasound technology and the collaboration with local healthcare providers, ASE and its physician members are helping improve the overall quality of care for thousands of people in this rural part of India,” said Al Lojewski, general manager, Cardiovascular Ultrasound, GE Healthcare.
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