Title :
Role of Arab Telemedicine Society in Support of e-Health
Author_Institution :
Arab Telemedicine Soc., Tunis
Abstract :
The Arab Telemedicine Society (ATS) has been founded under the umbrella of the Arab Medical Union in October 1999 after the recommendations of the First International Telemedicine Symposium for the Arab World Africa and Europe held in Tunis,Tunisia one year earlier.. Founding members were representatives of 6 arab countries (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco and Tunisia. Its goal is to promote the development of telemedicine, telecare and telehealth as part of e-health.
Keywords :
medical computing; telemedicine; Arab Medical Union; e-health; telecare; telehealth; telemedicine society; Africa; Assembly; Biochemistry; Councils; Europe; Law; Legal factors; Manufacturing; Telemedicine;
Conference_Titel :
Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, 2008. ICTTA 2008. 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Damascus
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1751-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1752-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICTTA.2008.4529926
