<<January 24, 2000>>
Yosuke Komatsu <yosuke_komatsu@hotmail.com>
Maj. Christian Macedonia <cmacedonia@aol.com>
Frank S. Govern <fg36q@nih.gov>
Kenneth M. Kempner <kempner@helix.nih.gov>
Salah H. Mandil <mandils@who.ch>
Kenichiro Kajiwara <kenchan@kurume.ktarn.or.jp>
Victor Kotelnikov <vkotelnikov@unov.un.or.at>
Dear Mr. Komatsu:
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(1) Many thanks for your msg (in Japanese) of 1/11th with
your very
interesting background -- sorry for my replying to you in
English.
(2) I came back last week from my trips to the International
Consultation
Conference on TeleHealth and TeleMedicine at the WHO in Geneva
(1/12th-14th) and to the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
and the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs in Vienna.
(3) At the former mtg, as requested by Ken Kempner, I distributed
the
materials about his TeleSynergy System on the medical consultation
workstation (ATTACHMENT I) to many attendees from around
the world who
showed their strong interest in it.
(4) Ken's first idea is to demonstrate it during our Tokyo
conference (which
will be discussed during our mini-workshop in Manila on March
29 to 31),
with cooperation of the National Cancer Institute of Japan
-- as he did
with Ireland people last October (see below at his web).
Ken Kajiwara (whom I met at the WHO mtg) told me that
he would introduce
me to an appropriate person at the institute in Tokyo when
I will be in Tokyo
on my way back from Manila in early April.
(5) Ken's second idea is that, since about 80% of the total
cost (about
$200,000) is for Japanese made equipment, we may ask Japanese
government's subsidizing them for distributing the work stations
around
the world to form the worldwide network of the medical consultation
system -- through our proposed broadband Internet.
I would like to bring this idea to Mr. Taro Nakayama (former
Minister of
Foreign Affairs whom Salah Mandil of WHO once kindly introduced
me in
the spring of 1998) and Mr. Sohei Miyashita (current Minister
of Health
and Welfare who is my long-standing acquaintance).
(6) I would greatly appreciate it if you can kindly visit
Ken Kempner and
make up a list of equipment of his workstation -- particularly
of those
Japanese made -- with their rough estimate costs. I would
like to show
it to Mr. Nakayama and Mr. Miyashita.
I would also appreciate it if I can have photos of his workstation.
(7) During my mtg at the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs
in Vienna, Victor
Kotelnikov told me his Ukrainian colleague's very interesting
wireless
medical units. He will send me the materials about it --
which is a
wearable warning system for heart failure, diabetics, etc.
Because of your expertise on wireless field, I will forward
the info to
you as soon as I receive it from him.
Keep in touch.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 13:04:45 -0500
To: utsumi@columbia.edu
From: "Kenneth M. Kempner" <kempner@helix.nih.gov>
Subject: Your Visit to the NIH
Cc: fg36q@nih.gov, cmacedonia@aol.com
Dear Dr. Utsumi,
My colleagues and I were very pleased to meet with you yesterday
afternoon,
and we enjoyed the active discussion about our common interests.
Hopefully
we will be able to work together on an international telemedicine
collaboration in the near future.
Please have a pleasant journey to your meeting in Geneva next
week, and we
would like to be in contact with you when you return to the United
States.
We would also like you to describe our TELESYNERGY System to your
colleagues, if it is appropriate for the topic being discussed.
The TELESYNERGY System is described on the following web site:
http://www-dcs.nci.nih.gov/branches/rosp/index.html
The National Cancer Institute's new "Partnership in Science
Program",
provides institutional outreach to distant hospitals that wish
to
participate in NIH Clinical Trials. The TELESYNERGY System is
the official
medical consultation platform which links institutions that participate
in
this program. The "Partnership in Science Program"
is described on the
following web site:
http://www-dcs.nci.nih.gov/branches/rosp/partnersci.html
The NCI All Ireland Cancer Conference was held October 3-6,
1999. The
TELESYNERGY System was transported to this conference and demonstrated
via
a dial-up ISDN PRI circuit to the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda.
See the
following Web site for detailed information about this conference:
http://www.allirelandcancer.com/
For further technical information about the initial version
of our
TELESYNERGY Medical Consultation WorkStation (MCWS), see the following
web
site: http://imcs.cit.nih.gov/publications/spie97/
Thank you for your interest in our medical consultation activities
here in
Bethesda, and we are looking forward to meeting with you again
soon.
Best Wishes,
Ken
_________________________________________________________
Sent by Kenneth M. Kempner
Chief, Image Management and
Communication Section
Computational Bioscience and
Engineering Laboratory
Center for Information Technology
National Institutes of Health
Building 12A, Room 2019
12 South Drive MSC 5624
Bethesda, MD 20892-5624 USA
E-mail: kempner@helix.nih.gov
Tel: (301) 496-9344
Fax: (301) 402-2867
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List of Distribution
Yosuke Komatsu, MD, PhD
LCDR, MC, FS, JMSDF
Visiting Scientist
Clinical Sciences Division
Department of Military and Emergency Medicine
National Naval Medical Center
and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)
8901 Wisconsin Avenue
Bethesda, MD 20889-5600
301-295-1774
Fax: 301-295-6773
Pager: 1-800-759-8888 PIN number 1358774
ykomatsu@usuhs.mil
yosuke_komatsu@hotmail.com
http://www06.u-page.so-net.ne.jp/ca2/yosuke-k/index-j.html
Maj. Christian Macedonia, MD
Guest Researcher, NIH-CIT
Major, US Army Medical Corps
Staff Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist
Prenatal Assessment Center
National Naval Medical Center
and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)
8901 Wisconsin Avenue
Bethesda, MD 20889-5600
301-319-5050
pager 888-470-4287
Fax: 301-319-5047
cmacedonia@aol.com
cmacedonia@mxa.usuhs.mil
www.usuhs.mil
http://cbel.cit.nih.gov/~macedonc/
Frank S. Govern, M.B.A., Ph.D.
Special Advisor for Institutional Outreach to the Director
Deputy Director, Radiation Oncology Science Program
Division of Clinical Sciences (DCS)
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Building 10, Room B3-B69
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20892-1002
301-496-5457
Fax: 301-480-5439
Beeper - 301-496-4567 then 5460 then return number
Portable Phone: 301-257-6964
fg36q@nih.gov
Kenneth M. Kempner
Chief, Image Management and Communication Section
Computational Bioscience and Engineering Laboratory
Division of Computer Research and Technology
Center for Information Technology
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Building 12A, Room 2019
12 South Drive MSC 5624
Bethesda, MD 20892-5624 USA
301-496-9344
Fax: (301) 402-2867
kempner@helix.nih.gov
http://www.nih.gov/welcome/maps.html
http://www-dcs.nci.nih.gov/branches/rosp/index.html -- about TELESYNERGY
System
http://www-dcs.nci.nih.gov/branches/rosp/partnersci.html -- about
"Partnership
in Science Program"
http://imcs.cit.nih.gov/publications/spie97/ -- about TELESYNERGY
Medical
Consultation WorkStation (MCWS)
http://www.allirelandcancer.com/ -- about NCI All Ireland Cancer
Conference on
October 3-6, 1999.
Salah H. Mandil, Ph.D.
Director-Advisor on Informatics
World Health Organization
20, Avenue Appia
CH-1211 Geneva 27
SWITZERLAND
+41-22-791-2426 (direct)
+41-22-791-2111
Fax: +41-22-791-4702
mandils@who.ch
Kenichiro Kajiwara, M.D.
MCBI/Japan
Kajiwara Hospital
285 Nakadono
Nakatsu City 871-0031
Japan
+81-979-222-535
Fax: +81-979-227-807
kenchan@neti.com
http://web.ktarn.or.jp/medical.html
geolocation: 33.35.30.4 131.11.48.4
or
Dr Kenichiro Kajiwara
Kurume University Hospital
Department of Medical Informatics
First Department of Surgery
67 Asahi machi
Kurume 830
Japan
Tel: 81.942 35 3311 (ext 5083)
Fax: 81.942 31 7710
kenchan@kurume.ktarn.or.jp
Victor Kotelnikov
Political Affairs Officer
Office for Outer Space Affairs
United Nations
Vienna International Centre
P. 0. BOX 500
A - 1400 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: (43-1) 211-31/4955
Fax: (43-1) 213-45/5830
E-mail: vkotelnikov@unov.un.or.at
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