SESSIONS
After decades with telemedicine, there is extensive research and reports on lessons learnt on the successes and failures in the field. Barriers and bottlenecks have been identified and recommendations and guidelines developed. The communication from the commission on telemedicine for the benefit of patients, health care systems and society, focuses particular on building confidence in and acceptance of telemedicine services. This is a crucial point for deploying new technologies successfully. The presentation will give an outline of the research in this area looking into related traditions of technology deployment and discuss various approaches to building confidence and trust in telemedicine practice and policy.
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Biography
Tove Sorensen has been working in the field of telemedicine and e-health since 1997 when she joined the Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine (NST) as an international project manager with special focus on telemedicine in Northwest Russia. Since 2002, she is the co-ordinator for the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Telemedicine and eHealth, giving advice to the WHO and its member-states in the area of telemedicine, e-health and e-learning.
Sorensen has been the project manager for 'WHO/European survey on eHealth consumer trends' (eHealth Trends), co-funded by the European Commission, DG Sanco, which focuses on citizens’ use of, their attitudes to and their expectations with regards to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for health purposes. Besides e-health consumers, her research areas include ICT for HIV/AIDS management and methodologies for evaluating in telemedicine and e-health.
Sorensen graduated from the University of Tromso, Norway in 1996 with a multidisciplinary 6-year degree in Social Sciences with Computer Science as her second subject. In her Master thesis she studied two international women’s network in the early stages of digital networking; one New York based, and one located in Santiago de Chile. She holds a teacher’s diploma and has been organizing international telemedicine seminars and workshops, nationally and internationally, in addition to give guest lectures, revise and coach students. In this area the NST has a collaboration with the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Belgium and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden. In 2007 she was a juror for ICT4D projects in health for the Stockholm Challenge Award.
