A digital streaming platform has been permanently installed there for the first time in Austria. This means that experienced cardiologists around the world can attend procedures as they normally would.

Because of the covid-19 pandemic, contacts are limited for future doctors’ training. At Ordensklinikum Linz Elisabethinen in Austria, medical education was maintained live from the operating rooms. The first digital transmission system has been permanently installed in Austria, meaning that heart experts from all over the world can now join the procedures as if they were physically attending.

Being able to attend an operating procedure is the basement of a solid education and training in the medical field. Procedures that take place at the cardiac catheter laboratory are now available all over the world on a digital platform, allowing experts to watch and work in real time.

Helmut Pürerfellner, Cardiologist, Ordensklinikum Linz Elisabethinen:“This is the future which we started right now, I think this is the kind of technique which we will need in the next years, not only in times of a pandemic.”

In the heart rhythm laboratory are cameras and monitors that can be remotely controlled. All the data gathered can be manipulated individually; and thanks to a control room you can access the information worldwide, simply using the internet.

“There are different scenarios, for example I can be consulting, watching a procedure and giving tips to a foreign colleague, or they can be watching us, seeing how we do a procedure, maybe for the first time, and helping us because they are virtually with us.”

“There is also a zoom feature that allows to take a closer look, exactly at the right moment with the camera” says Helmut Pürerfellner, Cardiologist at the Ordensklinikum Linz Elisabethinen.

With a perfect transmission of every single detail, the Medinbox system gives doctors a real viewing and an insight as if they were standing in the operating room themselves – with a strict compliance of data protection.

“This works in real time, without noticeable latency. It is unbelievable the quality in which it is transmitted! How sharp the signals are which are normally just screens being taped, and this would not look so good. But now we have very clear and sharp images.” Adds Helmut Pürerfellner, Cardiologist, Ordensklinikum Linz Elisabethinen:“

The experienced professionals can thus train their younger colleagues, and in this case, in interventional treatment of cardiac arrythmias, allowing attendees to follow and participate interactively in the procedures. There are also significant advantages for the patients.

“The patients benefit from being in a center where the medical staff is up to date. Because such a system makes our rhythmology center a reference in Austria, to promote and make new developments”.

Networking with other centers who possess digital platforms has become a prerequisite and can significantly enrich the exchange of knowledge in the medical field.

-Translated reportage from ORF

“It is kind of the Zoom of the medical field, except that it is not just a camera. It is a whole ecosystem thought for operating rooms that allows the image as well as the medical data of the patient to be controlled remotely” explains Nicolas Gausserand, co-founder of Medinbox.

The French healthtech startup Medinbox has established itself in hospitals across the globe and is now taking advantage of the development opportunities offered by the Covid-19 Pandemic. The company was founded from the skill synergy of the Clinic Pasteur and Next Media Factory and has been commercializing a solution since 2010 that helps the digitization of healthcare.

Next Media Factory, a production company based in Toulouse, stood out in the peculiar field of medical film by becoming the broadcast operator for the International Medical Film Festival in Québec, on September 14^th and 15^th.

The MedTech startup, pioneer in the medical field, has been working for years with international cardiology conferences and has been specialized in broadcasting surgeries for over ten years.

For the Quebec festival, Next Media Factory directed all technical aspects of the broadcasts from the University Institute of Cardiology and Pneumology of Quebec (IUCQ) and the Homogeneous Patient Groups (GHM) in Grenoble, to the venues of the festival in Quebec.

For the two-days duration of the festival, about a hundred and fifty participants were able to follow different types of interventions, being livestreamed from five different ORs all equipped by Next Media Factory (cardiac surgery, thoracic, bariatric, interventional cardiology, urology, electrophysiology and pneumology).

A total of six projects on telemedicine are finalists for the E-Health Trophies in Castres, France, on July 1^st.

The 2015 edition of the E-Health Trophies is being held in the Summer University of E-Health, in Castres, from the 1^st to the 3^rd of July.

Twenty-seven finalists have been selected for an audition in front of a jury on July 1^st. that will be broadcasted to tv-esante.com.

Those finalists are ranked into five categories: m-santé, telemedicine, social networks of both patients and health actors, autonomy and home support, a student project.

You no longer need a film crew. A British cardiologist just live transmitted his colleague’s intervention in one of the ORs of the Hammersmith Hospital of London. At the exact same time, over forty foreign specialists were watching. “They were able to follow the intervention in every aspect, says MD Nijjer Sukhjinder. It is a high-quality video, with an intuitive software that allows a beginner to create great content!” The Hammersmith Hospital was using for the very first time, last February 4^th, the new Medinbox System.