ELEARNING 2.0 AND EHEALTH APPLICATION – FIRST STEPS TOWARDS TELEMEDICINE
ELEARNING 2.0 AND EHEALTH APPLICATION – FIRST STEPS TOWARDS TELEMEDICINE

Summary/Abstract: Telemedicine is widely accepted for educational purpose and distance diagnosis but is far from routine in developing countries and has many limitations, starting from equipment and secure network connection to high operation costs. Using the Internet technologies to enhance knowledge and performance, basic eLearning tools engages students and doctors in an active use of the web as a resource for their self-governed, problem-based and collaborative activities, for the lowest possible costs. Materials and Methods: The simple installation and configuration of the websites created by Joomla let us focus more on the much difficult scientific and educational content. The normal use of Joomla can be changed in a few steps to an oriented medical based use, building up a proper learning management system for the study of Human Pathology. With the help of the Pathology department of “Victor Babes” National Institute we’ve managed to digitize and upload many high scientific or teaching interest slides to our platform and to further develop an useful eHealth application. Results: We present ePathology.ro, a student approach to organizational models of the ideal telemedicine system as the first educational platform for pathologists in Romania. It is a simple and functional telepathology system that is used in educational purposes and in distance diagnosis as well. It provides support for an online medical community with second-opinion consultation groups and eLearning resources. Conclusion: Telepathology education is significantly part of the health care system revolution, since the event of modern medicine. Our simple and effortless solution can reach the smallest and most poorly equipped pathology departments in order to change the idea of telepathology as a highly technicalized subspecialty, and reduce it to a new and fully open way of communication among pathologists, students and other medical specialists.

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