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Le Docteur Daniel Georges, radiologue inscrit au tableau de l’Ordre du Nord sous le N°59/11194 nous rejoint.

Le Dr Georges justifie de compétences en imagerie ostéoarticulaire, thoracique ainsi qu’en imagerie de la femme.

Son expérience acquise en matière de téléradiologie notamment avec le CH de Dunkerque sera un atout supplémentaire dans son implication régionale. Il vient en effet renforcer notre équipe déjà constituée dans le Nord-Pas de Calais. Au nom de chacun de nos membres, nous lui souhaitons la bienvenue.

Dans le cadre d’un nouvel appel d’offres, les Hôpitaux de Chartres (Eure-et-Loir) ont choisi de renouveler leur confiance au réseau TelConsult France pour l’interprétation de leurs radios et de leurs scanners en téléradiologie.

Les radiologues membres du réseau TeleConsult France mobilisés autour de la région Centre continueront ainsi d’apporter leur appui distant de diagnostic et d'expertise au service d’imagerie du CH.

Nous accueillons cette décision avec beaucoup d’enthousiasme et nous attacherons à poursuivre nos efforts au coté des équipes du CH dans l’intérêt des patients.

Le Docteur Salah Bourbia, radiologue inscrit au tableau de l’Ordre des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence sous le N°04/1344 nous a rejoint.

Le Dr Bourbia justifie de compétences en imagerie Digestive, Thoracique, Neurologique et Cardio-vasculaire.   Basé à Pierrevert, il apportera désormais son soutien aux établissements en PACA.

Nous lui souhaitons la bienvenue et beaucoup de réussites dans son implication en téléradiologie.

Le Docteur Jean Goasguen, radiologue inscrit au tableau de l’Ordre des Médecins des Hautes-Pyrénées nous rejoint.

Anciennement Chef de service au Centre Hospitalier de Lourdes, le Dr Goasguen justifie de compétences liées à l’appareil locomoteur et d’une expertise particulière dans la prise en charge d’examens en urgences.

Basé à Pau, il apportera désormais son soutien en priorité aux établissements partenaires au sein de la région Aquitaine.

Nous lui souhaitons la bienvenue et beaucoup de réussites dans son implication en téléradiologie.

Doctor Pierre Jaeger radiologist registered to the College of Physicians of the Loire county joined us. Former intern and ex head of Clinic within Toulouse university hospital, Dr. Jaeger relies on various skills including osteoarticular and ORL imaging.

We welcome him and wish her many successes in its involvement in teleradiology.

Dans le bulletin Interne du CH de Chateauroux " regard sur l'hôpital édité début 2015 , les principaux intéressés dressent un 1er bilan de leur expérience nouvelle en téléradiologie ; un pari réussi :

Face aux difficultés rencontrées pour recruter un radiologue et afin d'exploiter pleinement son second scanner, le centre hospitalier confie, depuis juin 2014, à un partenaire extérieur, l'interprétation d'environ 20 % des examens. Avec à la clé pour le patient, des délais d'attente devenus très raisonnables.

Le recrutement d'un(e) radiologue est ouvert depuis 2012 mais face à la pénurie de médecins, l'hôpital de CHATEAUROUX s'est résolu à faire appel à un service « intérimaire », à des prestataires en télé-radiologie.
Après un appel d'offres et une rencontre avec les praticiens, la société « Téléconsult France » a été retenue pour optimiser l'exploitation des deux scanners (le second est opérationnel depuis septembre 2013) et assurer l'analyse d'une partie des examens réalisés en consultations externes.
L'objectif était de ramener les délais d'attente au niveau des normes nationales, soit environ deux semaines. Il est atteint : « Fin juin, il fallait attendre 60 jours pour un examen, un mois plus tard, ce délai était ramené à 30 jours.

Aujourd'hui, il est d'une semaine » constate Valérie DESCOUX, cadre supérieure de santé du service d'imagerie médicale.

Lors de la prise en charge, le patient est informé que l'examen sera réalisé en télé-radiologie, il doit consentir et signer un formulaire. « Cela demande de faire de la pédagogie, notamment auprès des personnes âgées qui, pour certaines, se méfient des nouvelles technologies ».

Les manipulateurs radios reçoivent les protocoles d'acquisitions par internet et envoient ensuite les images recueillies sur un portail sécurisé où les radiologues les récupèrent pour analyse.
Les Dr PRIVAT et REGNIER, de l'unité régionale de « Téléconsult France » basée à CLERMONT-FERRAND, sont les interlocuteurs privilégiés des praticiens et « manips radios » castelroussins. Les interprétations sont assurées par une équipe de 25 radiologues parmi lesquels toutes les spécialités organes sont représentées.

Les médecins du centre hospitalier peuvent également solliciter une télé-expertise si un résultat exige un second avis. « Le choix de cette société a été dictée par les excellentes références des radiologues associés, par leur démarche qualité et par leur souci de placer l'humain au centre de leur travail » détaille Martine GIRARD-BLANC-MOREL, médecin qui a participé à l'introduction de la télé-radiologie au sein du service. Un collège formé de professeurs d'université triés sur le volet sont en charge du contrôle qualité et répondent des meilleures pratiques de leurs confrères en terme de diagnostic.

Le contrat qui lie l'hôpital et « Téléconsult France » est très flexible : si demain le centre hospitalier de CHATEAUROUX recrute un radiologue, la collaboration pourra être interrompue sans délai.

Propos recueillis auprès du Dr Martine GIRARD-BLANC-MOREL et Valérie DESCOUX

The Digne hospital located in the Alpes-Maritimes area (south east of France) is now connected to the TeleConsult France network to ensure its readings of radios, Scanners and MRIs via teleradiology

It’s the third hospital to join us in this district. TCF’s radiologists based in the PACA region shall bring their remote support to relieve the imaging department.

The node of establishments in the region will most likely help sharing the experiences.

Le Docteur Julien FRANDON, radiologue inscrit auprès de l’Ordre des Médecins d’Isère nous rejoint. Il travaille actuellement en qualité d’assistant chef de clinique en imagerie cardiovasculaire diagnostique et interventionnelle dans la clinique universitaire de radiologie et d’imagerie médicale du CHU de Grenoble.

Le Dr Frandon justifie de compétences notamment en imagerie cardio-vasculaire et digestive mais également dans la prise en charge d’examens en urgences.

Il apportera ses compétences en priorité son soutien aux interprétations au sein de la région Rhône-Alpes.

Nous lui souhaitons la bienvenue et beaucoup de réussites dans son implication en téléradiologie.

Doctor Arnaud radiologist registered to the College of Physicians of the Hautes-Alpes and currently working alongside Dr Paul Philippe in the Manosque’s hospital, joined the network.

Dr. Arnaud relies on various skills including osteoarticular and neurological imaging. He shall bring his support to ongoing operations in the PACA region.

We welcome him and wish her many successes in its involvement in teleradiology.

En marge des Journées Françaises de la Radiologie, le Pr François COTTON a organisé un EPU sur le TeleAVC
à l'attention des radiologues du réseau TeleConsult France.
Il s'agissait de faire le point sur les modalités d'imagerie, protocoles et interprétation
dans les AVC notamment à la phase précoce. La problématique de l'AVC reste une préoccupation majeure
des médecins radiologues lors de leurs astreintes (permanence des soins nuits, week-end et jours fériés)
pour les patients pris en charge dans les établissements rattachés au réseau (en IRM et au Scanner).

Ce premier EPU s'inscrit dans la démarche qualité organisée au sein du réseau et dans la volonté collective
d'une appropriation régulière des meilleures pratiques. D'autres sessions suivront...

The Chartres hospital located in the Eure-et-Loir area (28) is now connected to the TeleConsult France network to ensure its readings of radios. Scanners and MRIs via teleradiology

TCF’s radiologists based in this region and the ones next to it shall bring their remote support to relieve the imaging department.

This new hospital gives us an additional anchor in this region where the network already assist the hospital of Châteauroux since couple of months now.

Doctor Laurent Hauret radiologist registered to the College of Physicians of Gironde joined the network.

He will bring his support adding extra skills in Aquitaine region after the arrival within the network of 9 new members in this area.

Dr. Hauret relies on various skills including Digestive, Neurologic and ENT imaging.

We welcome him and wish him many successes in its involvement in teleradiology.

The Saint-Gaudens hospital located in the Haute-Garonne area (31) is now connected to the TeleConsult France network. TCF’s radiologists based in this region shall bring their remote support to relieve the imaging department.

We shall kick-off teleradiology activities in mid-October. By now, the service is accessible to around 40 users within the hospital’s walls in various departments (surgery, emergencies,...) that are stakey keholders in this project and which now can fully access the reports online.

This new hospital comes reinforce the existing cluster in this region in which the network already assists 4 hospitals : Villefranche de Rouergue, Saint-Affrique, Castres-Mazamet et Albi

Les docteurs Pascal HUOT, Philippe MEYER, Maryse MOINARD, Marie-Hélène MOIREAU-DURIEUX, Eric PELE, Lionel PESQUER, Nicolas POUSSANGE, Alain SILVESTRE et Nicolas WAKIM rejoignent le réseau TeleConsult France.

Leur arrivée renforce significativement les compétences mobilisables en imagerie de l'appareil locomoteur via le réseau ainsi que notre présence dans l'Ouest de la France.

De plus, leur expérience en matière de téléradiologie sera un atout précieux pour l'ensemble de la communauté.

The Saint-Junien hospital located in the Haute Vienne district, is now connected to the TeleConsult France network.

TeleConsult France’s radiologists will bring their remote support to relieve the imaging department run by Doctor Sylvie Taillefer.

We began teleradiology activities in mid-September. By now, the service is accessible to around 70 users within the hospital’s walls in various departments (surgery, emergencies, obstetric ...) which can now fully access the required reports.

Doctor Sylvie Mercier radiologist registered to the College of Physicians of the Rhône and working within the Saint-Louis Clinic, joined the network.
Dr. Mercier relies on various skills including osteoarticular and oncology imaging.

She shall bring his support to ongoing operations in the Rhône-Alpes region.

We welcome her and wish her many successes in its involvement in teleradiology.

Doctor Laurent Rabeux radiologist registered to the College of Physicians of the North and already working part-time within the Quesnoy hospital, joined the network.

Dr. Rabeux relies on various skills including cardio-vascular, thoracic and uro-nephrology imaging.

He shall bring his support to ongoing operations in the North of France in priority for Arras hospital.

We welcome him and wish him many successes in its involvement in teleradiology.

The Centre hospitalier du Forezwhich gathers Montbrison’s and Feurs’ hospitals (located in the Loire district) is now connected to the TeleConsult France network.

Many TeleConsult France’s radiologists mobilized within Rhône-Alpes will bring their remote support for both on-call and programmed activities.

These new establishments shall begin their teleradiology activities in mid-August for standard radio/scanner and later in September on their new MRI, this modality currently being installed on the Montbrison’s site.

As part of the tender issued by the hospital to find a partner able to support the radiology department, this establishment located in the Centre region has chosen to trust the TCF network for the remote interpretation of its radiological examinations.

It is more than 5000 exams that will be analyzed in the general frame of continuity of care which will take the form of an operational on-call availability during nights and weekends from our specialists and for day set vacations by organ’ specialty (radiography, scanner and MRI).

The hospital of Embrun joined us. Radiologists based in PACA’s region (southern France) shall provide support to the imaging department for the interpretation of conventional radios by organ’s specialty.

The Briançon Hospital joined TeleConsult France’s network.

Radiologists from TeleConsult France based in PACA (in priority) shall therefore bring their remote support in an operational on-call coverage and programmed activities by organ’s specialty (radio and scanner).

DoctorAlioune Badara FAYE, radiologist registered to the College of Physicians of the North and already working part-time with Doctor Arnaud Boulinguez within the Denain hospital, joined the network.

Dr. FAYE relies on various skills including vascular, gastrointestinal and oncological imaging.

We welcome him and wish him many successes in its involvement in teleradiology.

With the financial support of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Regional Council, the Arras’ hospital was able to acquire a last generation MRI ready to operate at the end of April 2014.

To secure the operation of this equipment, and allow access to best practices, the Hospital has chosen to entrust part of its vacations to TeleConsult France’s network radiologists (local support in priority) who provide reports by organ’s specialty.

Both joined establishments forming the Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal of Evreux-Vernon (27) located in Northern France (Haute-Normandie) has joined the TeleConsult‘s network.

The support of our members in the medical imaging department directed by Doctor Slim Jouini first concern the cross-sectional imaging (scanner / MRI) by organ’s specialty for both institutions which shall begin in June.

As a reminder, TeleConsult’s members have been supporting, in the same region, the Henri Becquerel Center against cancer of Rouen for over a year now.

Sélestat's Hospital (67) located in Alsace has joined the TeleConsult France network.

The support of our members will mainly participate in the continuity of care for the establishment as an operational on-call duty support, starting by the end of April.

Doctors Patrick Baur and Alain Ott are already mobilized in the region.

The Grouped hospitals of Castres-Mazamet (81) located in the southern part of France is now connected to the TeleConsult France’s network. ( 37 000 ER visits per year).

Radiologists mobilized in Midi-Pyrénées will intervene in priority. TCF began to support the imaging department last weekend.

This is the 4th hospital in the region to seek our remote support by teleradiology.

The kick off for teleradiolgy activities have been planned for early April, but last weekend the Albi’s hospital was able to experience this organization in advance.

Thanks to the training provided and the preparation of the hospital teams upstream the previous week, the withdrawal of a replacing radiologist at the last minute did not prevent the radiology department to function normally.

So congratulations to all the actors in Albi’s hospital for their successful startup and to all the TCF radiologists who rallied to support the radiology service on such short notice.

The ESR (European Society of Radiology) in its ECR Newspaper article's entitled "French Society working to Ensure safety of teleradiology," highlights the work of standardization of the G4, whose SFR is part of,regarding Teleradiology and summarizes its charter in 11 points.

"At the national level, the role of the SFR is to promote healthcare policies which ensure patients have access to the best care and innovations throughout the country. Telemedi­cine, including teleradiology, is now part of healthcare, and the SFR sup­ports the development of new med­ical organisations for teleradiology, quality control and radiation expo­sure guidelines in order to improve patient care.
For teleradiology, the French Council of Radiology (G4), presided by the SFR and including all four representatives* of French radiologists, has noticed lower levels of patient care within teleradiology in some hospitals.
Such teleradiology programmes just do readings of CT and x-rays images with no validation of the requested examination, no support to the radiographers team, no management of the radiological department, questionable organisa­tion, and doubtful credentials from the remote radiologists.
With the French National Council of Physi­cians (Conseil National de l’Ordre des Médecins, CNOM) and the G4, the SFR promotes a teleradiology charter (see boxed text) which lists several key duties of the radiologist, along with ethics, and consideration for patients. This charter also refers to several other teleradiology guide­lines on medical convention, the role of radiographer, etc."

To read the entire article, you can go directly to ESR’s website by clicking on the following link: Publications ECR

The hospital located in Albi in southern France (81) is now connected to the TeleConsult France network.

TeleConsult France’s Radiologists mobilized in Midi-Pyrénées shall bring their remote support mainly during weekends.

This new establishment reinforces our presence in the region where the network already supports two other hospitals:Villefranche de Rouergue and Saint-Affrique.

Doctor Benjamin DE BATS, radiologist registered to the National College of Physicians of Rhône (Lyon) working within the Val d'Ouest - Charcot imaging department has joined us.

Dr De Bats relies on recognized medical expertise in osteo-articular imaging.

We welcome him and wish him many successes in his involvement regarding teleradiology.

Doctor Lionel MEYER-BISCH, radiologist registered to the National College of Physicians of Rhône (Lyon) working within the Val d'Ouest - Charcot imaging department has joined us.

Dr MEYER relies on recognized medical expertise in various fields such as vascular, digestive and thoracic imaging.

We welcome him and wish him many successes in his involvement regarding teleradiology.

Doctor Guillaume GAUTIER, radiologist registered to the National College of Physicians of Rhône (Lyon) is currently working within the Val d'Ouest - Charcot imaging department.

Dr GAUTIER relies on recognized medical expertise in various fields such as Oncology and Digestive imaging. We welcome him and wish him many successes in his involvement in teleradiology.

Doctor Aygulphe CHOUSTA, radiologist registered to the National College of Physicians of Rhône (Lyon) working within the Val d'Ouest - Charcot imaging department has joined us.

Dr CHOUSTA relies on recognized medical expertise in various fields such as osteo-articular, pediatry and obstetric imaging.

We welcome him and wish him many successes in his involvement regarding teleradiology.

The President of our Medical Committee and Ethics Governance, Dr Gérard Morvan, was officially named to the National Academy of Medicine.

All the network’s members rejoice and congratulate him! See this link: http://www.academie-medecine.fr

An article entitled "TeleConsult France: a network to improve the continuity of radiological workflow" was written on Thema Radiology website. This article briefly restates the principles of the structure while welcoming the arrival of another teleradiology organization into the network.

"The TeleConsult France project, which includes over 100 hospital and liberal radiologists structured by regions, recently expanded with the arrival of nine additional physicians. This is an opportunity here to expose the missions and values of such a network, which provides, since 2009, support several healthcare establishments via teleradiology especially regarding Permanence of care, scheduled activity as well as tele-expertise."

The rest of the article can be read: here (in french)

The following Doctors: Jean Marc Badere, Christian CHEVROT, Mickael DAHAN, LAURAC Jacques Laurent PLACE, Elie Mubarak, Alain OTT, Eric Roy and Patrick WILSHIRE joined TeleConsult France. Their profiles are displayed here.

These radiologists have been involved since November 2011 in the remote support on continuity of care in addition to their hospital and liberal activities.

Over the past two years, they have participated in the remote interpretations for hospitals such as Villefranche-sur-Saône and Point-à-Pitre, but also in the context of regional teleradiology project in Lorraine (T-Lor) in several hospitals: Bar-le-Duc, Toul and Freyming Merlebach.

The proximity of the values ​​held by the two entities has facilitated this merger.

Source : Tic Santé (in french)

Doctor Hatem CHEIKH KHELIFA, radiologist registered to the National College of Physicians of Hérault ( Southern France), which works closely with Doctors Jean-François Vendrell and Olivier Alice at the Beau Soleil Clinic of Montpellier, has joined the network .

Dr CHEIKH KHELIFA has recognized medical imaging experience including musculoskeletal imaging, digestive and uro-nephrologic skills.

We welcome him and wish him many successes in his involvement regarding teleradiology.

Arras hospital (located in northern France) is now connected to TeleConsult France.

Radiologists within the network shall support the interpretations starting December.

The first partof the last issue of E =M6 broadcasted on November 17 untitled “Twins, how do they manage to synchronize their actions” in which Dr. Julien Savatovsky intervenes (Neuro-radiologist at Adolphe de Rothschild Foundation in Paris and also involved as organ specialist within the TeleConsult France network).

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In this quarter’s issue of Technologies et Innovations Hospitalières, a french magazine orientated toward IT subjects in hospital environment ( p.64 No. 18 ) .

Radiologists working at the clinique du Parc : Olivier Fantino, Julien Borne et Bertrand Bordet, all of them committed toward the TeleConsult France network worked alongside System X (a French editor and integrator of solutions for medical imaging ) to develop M2V : a software designed to produce, transmit and save animated images. This is the first solution so far to allow a DICOM dynamic audio-video medical report.

"With M2V, the correspondent receives animated and guided medical images: a real revolution.There are many applications in endoscopy, ultrasound obstetrics scans, ophthalmology and particularly adapted for the preparation of a medical procedure. "

This tool allows to see, hear and understand real-time diagnosis issued by the radiologist, making it an educational tool evolved and therefore lays the foundation of tomorrow’s imaging reports.

Dr. Raphaël Bertinotti, radiologist registered to the council of physicians of Savoie, joined the TeleConsult France network.

He relies on recognized expertise in gastro-intestinal, musculoskeletal and oncology imaging.

We gladly welcome him and wish him many successes in its involvement in teleradiology.

The next meeting of the Radiological Society of France (JFR in French) is planned to be held at the Palais des Congrès in Paris from October 18th to 22nd, several members of our network will be present.

Whatever your interest in teleradiology might be, this event will provide an opportunity to discuss on all issues regarding medical organization such as practitioners recruitment problems and corresponding solutions via teleradiology support (Continuity of care, scheduled activity or expertise).

We are at your disposal (at level 1 - near the booth 1Q08).

The monthly published magazine Manip-info which bring information to radiographer has dedicated a whole article untitled “Medical deserts, teleimaging to the rescue at Saint-Affrique” drawing attention on the practice of teleradiology at the Hospital Emile Borel Saint-Afrique.

Note : the Radiologists from TeleConsult France rallied since January 2011 to support the center by providing interpretations on continuity of care thus maintaining efficiency in the imaging department.

Extract translated from the introduction of the above-mentioned article:

" Due to the shortage of practitioners before the advent of telemedicine practices, the question of the survival of the medical imaging department not to say the whole establishment arose ," says Cendrine Provençal, part of technical pole of Emile Borel Hospital at Saint-Affrique during the last few months.

Today this service relies on two practitioners, but the director Dominique Sauvaire approves this finding. «He had to face the truth: the lack of specialists will only grow. »

Over 2 years ago to remedy this situation, the director has made two strategic choices : the acquisition of a scanner - essential to handle emergencies - and the establishment of a network of radiologists who take turns to remotely interpret radios or scanners when no resident practitioners can be present on site. The system might become permanent .

Writer and photo credit : Sihem Boutlif

More information on these subjects on their website (in french) : http://www.manip-info.com/

Lora Hristova, radiologist registered to the council of physicians of Nord (northern France), joined the TeleConsult France network.

She justifies from recognized imaging skills among side digestive and oncologic areas of expertise.

We welcome her and wish her many successes in her involvement in teleradiology.

Doctor Emilie WIART, radiologist registered to the College of Physicians of Northern France joined TeleConsult's network.

Emilie WIART justifies recognized medical imaging including musculoskeletal imaging skills.

We welcome her and wish her good luck in her involvement in teleradiology.

The Sainte-Foy hospital (near Lyon) is now connected for remote interpretations via TeleConsult France.

The network's radiologists shall bring their support starting September.

Doctor Fabienne LALLOUET, radiologist registred to l’Ordre des Médecins at the Hauts-de-Seine working closely with Florence Brami at the American Hospital Of Paris (Neuilly), joined the network.

Dr LALLOUET has acknowledged skills regarding medical imaging especially on fields such as women imaging, digestive imaging and uro-nephro-radiology.

We wish her good luck in her involvement in teleradiology.

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