The development of knowledge of social and health problems increasingly requires the cooperation of interested individuals or groups, and, to facilitate this collaboration, SITT has set as one of its objectives to encourage the creation and development of Working Groups within the Society so that interested partners can work together and make positive progress in the field of Telemedicine and Telehealth.
Each group is formed by the independent decision of its members, who join the group because they want to contribute to thinking and activate the creation of a specific area of interest in Telemedicine, contributing significantly to the topics that interest or concern them the most.
Digital Transformation Group (GT3D)
Digital transformation in medicine involves using advanced digital technologies to improve healthcare and overall health. Digital transformation is a continuous, complex, multidimensional process linked to social, economic, and technological factors that transcend the hospital’s walls. It impacts the very essence of who we are and what we do.
Ethics Group
(GES)
Telemedicine is a tool that can improve access to healthcare and reduce geographic and financial barriers. However, it also presents ethical and privacy challenges that must be considered to ensure that telemedicine is used ethically and safely.
Public Intervention Group (GIP)
Public intervention in the use of telemedicine may be necessary to ensure that it is used ethically and safely and to protect the interests of patients, as well as to ensure that telemedicine is available to all people, including those living in remote or underserved areas and those who have financial or other difficulties in accessing health care.
Group GT3D
Working Group for Telehealth and Digital Transformation
Objectives of the Group
Digital transformation in medicine can revolutionize how healthcare is delivered, and health is managed, improving the efficiency, accuracy, and accessibility of healthcare and enabling greater collaboration and innovation in medical research.
Among the main implications of the digital transformation in medicine are:
- Improving the efficiency and quality of medical care.
- Improved accuracy of diagnosis and treatment.
- Increased access to medical care.
- Improvement of medical research.
Digital transformation can also improve medical research by enabling the analysis of vast data and online collaboration among researchers worldwide.
Group members
- Afonso Miguel Nunes Ferreira, Cardiovascular Center, Universidade de Lisboa. CHULN, Portugal.
- Andre Peralta Santos, Health Policy and Epidemiology. Lisbon, Portugal.
- Àngels Salvador, Traumatologist, Researcher in cartilage bioprinting. Barcelona, Spain
- Carles Fàbrega Agulló, Telemedicine Coordinator. Head of the Audiovisual Media Service, Hospital San Juan de Dios. Barcelona, Spain
- Carlos Ribeiro, Serviço National de Saude. Lisbon, Portugal.
- Dulce Brito, Cardióloga, Hospital Santa Maria, CHULN, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Lisbon. Portugal.
- Fernando Gomes da Costa, PhD, Physician, Ministerio de Salud de Portugal. Lisbon, Portugal
- Henrique Martins, PhD, Associate professor FCS-UBI e ISCTE-IUL. Covilha, Portugal
- James B. Milner, Physician, Hospital y Centro Universitário de Coimbra.Coimbra, Portugal
- João Silva, Physician, Unidad de Telemedicina, ULSAM. Viana do Castelo, Portugal.
- Lino Manuel Martins Gonçalves, Physician, FCS-UBI e ISCTE-IUL. Covilha, Portugal.
- Luis Gonçalves, Physician, Sociedad Ibérica de Telmedicina y Telesalud. Lisbon, Portugal.
- Miguel Castelo-Branco, PhD, Profesor en Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Beira Interior. Covilha, Portugal.
- Paula Amorim, Physician, Center for Rehabilitation Medicine of the Central Region, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Beira Interior. Covilha, Portugal.
- Rafael Pardo Espino, Telemedicina, Costaisa. Barcelona, Spain
- Tomàs Pessoa Costa, Physician, Shaper en Global Shapers, Lisboa Hub, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Veronica Martin Galán, Mathematician, Managing Director of Fundesalud, Badajoz. Spain
Documents and reports published by the GT3D Group
GES
Working Group for the study and ethical recommendations in the application of Telemedicine
Objectives of the Group
In the current tension and negativism regarding medicine, we need operational proposals that allow us to deliberate about the world we want, necessarily going through the articulation of bioethics sustained according to environmental parameters in global bioethics.
Group members
- Abel García Abejas, Physician, Professor of Bioethics at the Universidade da Beira Interior, Universitat a Covilhã. Portugal
- Àngels Salvador, PhD, Master in Bioethics from the Universidad Ramon Llull. Barcelona, Spain
- Carles Fàbrega, Telemedicine Coordinator in Hospital Sant Joan de Deu de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain
- Fernando Gomes da Costa, Physician, Service Director, Health ICT Consultant of the Ministerio de Salud. Portugal
- Paz Bossio, Lawyer, PhD in Bioethics from the Universidad de Génova y Leader in International Health OPS/OMS. Argentina
- Victoria Cusí, Pathologist, collaborator of Instituto Borja de Bioética. Spain
Documents and reports published by the Ethics Group
GIP
Working Group for the study in the Public Intervention of the use of Telemedicine
Objectives of the Group
Digital health interventions alone are not enough. The guidelines show that health systems must respond to the increasing visibility and availability of information. In addition, users must be guaranteed that their data will not be disclosed and that access to personal data on sensitive topics, such as sexual and reproductive health, does not carry risks.
Group members
Coordinator: Fernando Gomes da Costa (Coimbra, Portugal)
- Andima Ozamiz, Gasteiz. Spain
- Alejandro Pazos Sierra, PhD, University Professor (CAT-UN) A Coruña. Spain
- Carles Fàbrega, Telemedicine Coordinator. Head of the Audiovisual Media Service, Hospital San Juan de Dios. Barcelona, Spain
- Carlos Ribeiro, Serviço National de Saude. Porto, Portugal
- Delfim Rodrigues, Coordinator of the National Program for the Implementation of Home Palliative Care Units in hospitals in the SNS. Portugal
- Henrique Martins, Physician, Associate Professor at FCS-UBI e ISCTE-IUL. Covilha, Portugal
- José Luis Monteagudo, Vice-Chairman of Training, Research, and Innovation of the Spanish Society of Health Informatics. Madrid. Spain
- Juan Ignacio Coll, Physician in Barbastro, General Director of Digital Transformation, Innovation and User Rights, Barbastro, Huesca. Spain
- Miguel Castelo Branco, PhD, University Professor, Facultad de Medicina, IBILI, ICNAS, Coimbra, Portugal
- Verónica Martín Galán, Mathematician, Managing Director of Fundesalud, Badajoz. Spain
Documents and reports published by the GIP Group
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