HTTG

The IUPESM has set up a Health Technology Task Group (HTTG) which is intended to assist countries in defining their health technology needs, and identifying and rectifying health system constraints for adequate management and utilization of health technology, particularly through training, capacity building and the development and application of appropriate technology. Specific tasks for the Group are to help identify needs in health technologies and training for each cooperating country, to make recommendations for actions to satisfy these needs, as far as appropriate and possible, to support the countries in the necessary actions, and to set up a Medical Equipment Donations Assessment and Advisory Service to match health technology donations with appropriate recipients. More...

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IOMP President’s Report for Medical Physics World (MPW)

Last year at the world congress in Seoul, Korea, Barry Allen proposed to the IOMP that action was needed to stimulate and support the development of appropriate technology for improved health care in developing countries. Joachim Nagel, then president of the IFMBE, was supportive of a joint initiative, and noted that IFMBE already had arrangements with the WHO to this effect. The concept was adopted by the IUPESM, and the Health Technology and Training Task group was formed, with Barry Allen as chair, and Joachim Nagel as co-chair. Since then some 50 international experts from around the world have agreed to join the Task Group. More...

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HTTG started activities in Vietnam

On two different levels HTTG started its activities in Vietnam. Cooperating with medical physicists and local hospitals, Barry Allen started an initiative for improved Health Care in the Mekong Delta. In parallel, HTTG established cooperation with the Vietnamese Association of Biomedical Science and Engineering to improve the Vietnamese Health Technology (HT) infrastructure, especially in rural areas, and to coordinate HT support from a number of international organizations engaging in Vietnam. More...

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2007 Recommendations for Improved Health Care in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

In order to improve the health care for the majority of Vietnamese who live outside the cities, the capability and functions of the Health Stations (HS) need to be increased. More...

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HTTG is organized in cooperation with the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) and the World Health Organization (WHO).