Joachim
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Good afternoon all, here is the Covid-19 worldwide situation dashboard, now also optimized for mobile devices: https://qap.ecdc.europa.eu/public/extensions/COVID-19/COVID-19-mobile.html#global-overview-tab
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From a historical point of view, an interesting article was published in the “Emergency Medicine Journal” on the evolution of triage systems. It was invented during Napoleon wars, a challenging time for the organisational structure necessary to handle the growing number of casualties.
Three phases of triage have then emerged in modern healthcare systems. First, prehospital triage in order to dispatch ambulance and prehospital care resources. Second, triage at scene by the first clinician attending the patient. Third, triage on arrival at emergency department or receiving hospital.
FUll article is available on https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2564046/
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Good morning John,
If you look for “Socialcare” app on the web, you get lot of choice, including app properly related to health. I think it is worth to try first apps developped or endorsed by recognized health organisations (such as the NHS, see here a few apps: https://www.nhs.uk/apps-library/category/social-care/) than trying randomly.
Have a good day.
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Good morning Sandra,
I take this opportunity to raise your attention on the platform called ‘Digital Health Europe’, which compiled Telehealth solutions across Europe that would be used: https://digitalhealtheurope.eu/covid-19.html
Wishing you a good day.
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I am able to reply to myself: there exists another program in the field called “More Years, better lives”. This Joint Programming is a new approach to foster collaboration and coordination in R&D in Europe. It is a member-states driven activity and seeks to enhance coordination and collaboration between European and national research programmes related to demographic change.
Areas affected by demographic change cover a wide range of research fields and policy topics ranging from health to social welfare, education & learning, work & productivity to housing, urban & rural development and mobility. The JPI “More Years, Better Lives” therefore follows a transnational, multi-disciplinary approach bringing together different research programmes and researchers from various disciplines in order to provide solutions for the upcoming challenges and make use of the potential of societal change in Europe. More information on https://www.jp-demographic.eu
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Thank you for your prompt reply Sandra. I can only agree with what you said. An issue (probably the most important one) with the use of technologies by the elderly is their lack of interest to be trained with it. Many technological products developed during an AAL project did finally not manage to come on the market.
All in all, our organisation will be not be able to participate anymore in AAL calls. The Belgian funding agency is withdrawing from the program as of 2021. And I have heard that other countries will also do it.
Kind regards, JB
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Good afternoon, we drafted a detailed article on how of our member organisations – all medical organisations in Europe – work at the forefront of the pandemic, providing care and support. Rules and resulting responses are quite broad across Europe. You will find more information here.
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Dear Sandra,
If you are meaning workplaces where call center agents bring their own laptops, smartphones, or other portable devices to conduct work, I think that using those devices to retrieve work-related information and applications puts additional loads on the business’ systems and infrastructure. If those two pieces can’t scale to meet the demand, performance suffers.
Some call centers employ remote employees which almost always necessitates cloud-based solutions. Such applications typically connect to multiple and geographically dispersed data servers to not only handle additional call center agent seats but also to secure and privatize information.
If those challenges are met, Scalable Cloud Call Centres could be an interesting tool.