WSA 07 Awards in Venice (9)

Category; e-Health

This category showed a wide range of applications. The majority onf entries is made up with applications for the patients. The Kilogram Coach helps people to controil their weight. Ratemyhospital offers the patient who has been in hospital to give feedback about the treatment and service. The database medicine combination offers people taking medicines the possibility to check what combinations can be harmful. The AIDS programme is an awareness campaign. The Arabic Video Phonetics application helps patients to learn the pronunciation of proper Arabic pronunciation with the help of video sequences.

These are the jury laudations:

Title: Kilogram Coach
Title in Original Language: KiloCoach - das interaktive Ernährungsprotokoll
Media Format: broadband/online
URL: kilocoach.kurier.at
Producer: Telekurier Online Medien GmbH & Co KG
Country: Austria
Description of the Product
Got a problem with your body weight? Based on medical and scientific nourishment insight the Kilogram Coach enables you to lead a healthy life style. You can develop online a personal nutrition and exercise program based on a food and exercise data base of more than 13,000 records. You can calculate your personal daily calorie values based on your desired weight loss and accounting for differences in age, sex, size, and state of health. The Kilo Coach focuses on autonomy and motivation of the participants. It aims to enhance self consciousness, motivation for exercise and flexible control of calorie intake. Community tools, individual support by nutrition and sport experts, medical advice and psychological support complete a most needed e-health application.

Title: National AIDS Programme
Media Format: broadband/online
URL: www.hiv.gov.gy
Producer: Guyana Ministry of Health
Country: Guyana
Description of the Product
AIDS is a global curse. The National HIV/AIDS website from Guyana provides HIV/AIDS related information to various targeted groups including medical professionals, programme staff, media professionals and general users. It is the primary storage site for HIV/AIDS information and related documents for the country and a tool for organizing, managing and sharing information among partner and donor organizations involved in HIV/AIDS programmes. Excellent features include a community building forum, a virtual library, an events calendar, a photo-gallery, a directory of implementing organisations, sections for ads and campaign materials, news articles, presentations, training materials, service listings and fact sheets. Let’s fight AIDS!

Title: ratemyhospital.ie
Media Format: broadband/online
URL: www.ratemyhospital.ie
Producer: MedMedia Group
Country: Ireland
Description of the Product
Have you ever been unhappy with a hospital? If yes, you will love Rate My Hospital! The web site is a rolling online survey of patient satisfaction with the Irish health system. In line with the best of social software sites, it provides a single, clear platform for feedback on hospital treatments and services. To date close to 10.000 people have completed a comprehensive 23-part online questionnaire on their experiences in Hospitals. The site aims to provide patient-centred transparency in the Irish Hospital system leading to improvements in the entire Health infrastructure.

Title: Arabic Video Phonetics Application
Media Format: offline/DVD, CD-ROM
Producer: Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
Country: Kuwait
Description of the Product
e-Contents can heal. The Arabic Video Phonetics software is the first of its kind as an Arabic augmentative speech therapy. It can be used by all ages to help Arabic speakers cope with phonological disorders to improve their speech. A main screen displays a table consisting of all Arabic phonemes divided into rows and columns depending on the place of the articulation. Users can select any of the Arabic phonemes to be displayed. This can be used with teachers or for individual practice. A user-friendly interface and videos representing Arabic phonemes make for clear and helpful innovation application

Title: Medicine Combination
Media Format: broadband/online
URL: www.medicinkombination.dk
Producer: Danish Medicines Agency
Country: Denmark
Description of the Product
Medication can make one sick, if it is combined in the wrong way. Medicinkombination.dk helps multiple drug users to find out about how different drugs interact with each other. Users who take several kinds of drugs, herbal medicines, strong vitamins or mineral supplements can search on the website and quickly examine the consequences of their drug consumption and healthier combinations. The information on Medicinkombination.dk comes from the National Drug Interaction Database in Denmark which used by health professionals based on scientific articles and independent expert views. The user does not need to have any medical knowledge to use the service and a simple and straight forward interface makes the content service a perfect example for other countries.

Blog Posting Number: 919

Tags: e-health