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The National Center for Fetal Medicine at St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital in Norway is a leading European competence centre within ultrasound diagnostics. It provides remote second opinion services to various Norwegian and European healthcare institutions already and would be interested in similar future collaborations with new partners.

Contact: nsfm@stolav.no

The East Tallinn Central Hospital was founded on August 23rd, 2001 by joining six different hospitals and outpatient clinics. In four years East Tallinn Central Hospital has became a well functioning healthcare institution where 1800 people work to offer the best medical care service.

In 2005, the East Tallinn Central Hospital gave outpatient medical help in 26 different fields. There were 428 214 outpatient visits altogether. Inpatient care was given in 18 specialities. The number of beds was 560 in the end of 2005. There were 25 894 inpatients in the East Tallinn Central Hospital last year.

The Department of Plastic Surgery at the University Hospital of Uppsala in Sweden offers webbased (videoconference, digital photo and e-mail, 3G consultations etc) second opinion service on treatment of chronic wounds as well as on burn reconstructive surgery. The department has a large record of eHealth collaboration - not least from the EU funded SPEX project.

Contact person: Dr. Morten Kildal, morten.kildal@akademiska.se.

With 17 clinics and institutions the DIAKO is one of the largest hospitals in the northern part of Germany, Schleswig-Holstein. About 45.000 patients are treated yearly. Some of them come from Norway and Denmark. This cross-border collaboration and participation in innovative European eHealth projects gives the DIAKO a rather substantial experience in international collaboration. The DIAKO might be interested in various types of future eHealth collaborations - not least within radiology and cardiology.

The DIAKO is already connected to the Baltic Healthcare Network (BHN).

Contact:
Mr. Ole Michel
michelol@diako.de
www.diako.de

The Foetal Medicine Unit (FMU) is part of the Clinic for Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University Hospital of Umeå. Situated in the County of Västerbotten in the northern part of Sweden, the University Hospital of Umeå serves 160,000 citizens. Additionally, FMU functions as a second opinion unit for the entire northern region of Sweden, providing the region’s 800,000 inhabitants with qualified second opinion in cases where additional expertise is needed.

There are five midwives employed at FMU whereof three of them are working full-time at FMU and two are dividing their time between FMU and other wards at the Clinic for Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The physicians connected to FMU are all employed at the Clinic and they assist FMU.

The Telemedizinische Service und Gesundheits Zentrum (TSGZ) founded in 2000 is the leading provider of ambulatory cardiac event monitoring services. The TSGZ is a subsidiary of the Segeberger Kliniken, one of the leading heart centres in North Germany. TSGZ provides round-the-clock services on 365 days per year.

TSGZ offers international clinical research monitoring services, which provide consistent and high quality investigational data and results for CRO's, pharmaceutical and medical device companies.

Our technical platform allows the communication in all European languages. The toll free line helps patients to transmit their ECGs telephonically at no cost.

The State Agency of TB and Lung Diseases is located near Riga, the capital of Latvia. It is a tertiary level hospital with 500 beds, half of which are for TB patients and remainder of other lung diseases- COPD, asthma, sarcoidosis etc. We provide high level management of patients with lung diaseases and thoracic surgery. We offer educational programs for medical students, primary care physicians, lung specialists. Our Agency is a designated WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Management of MDR TB. We see ourselves as demanders of services in collaboration projects with comparable facilities.

Funen Hospital is a medium size central hospital, placed at the Island; Funen and is part of the health care system in the County of Funen, Denmark, which is responsible for the delivery of health care services to about 500.000 citizens.

Funen Hospital consists of 5 separate units located mainly in the south of Funen, with the main unit placed in Svendborg. One of the hospital units is placed at the Island; Ærø in the sea south of Funen.

The hospital conducts basic treatment within all medical specialities. In addition the hospital maintains research and specialized treatment in specific areas, i.e. within the field of back-diseases. The hospital has in total 382 beds with approximately 30.000 admissions and 21.000 outpatients a year.

Vilnius University Hospital Santariskiu Klinikos (VUH SK) is one of the major academic diagnostic and treatment centers, the tertiary multi- profile personal health care services providing institution in the Lithuania. Its main goal is to ensure and execute high – specialized diagnostics and treatment services, educational and scientific work.

VUH SK is currently the only hospital in Lithuania to have a PACS. The 1100-bed teaching hospital, which handles around 300,000 outpatient and 30,000 inpatient visits each year, has been chosen to showcase electronic image management in the former Soviet state. The cost of hardware and software, however, remains prohibitively high for Lithuania to contemplate widespread PACS implementation at present.