WorldConnex @ World Cancer Congress 2018

At World Cancer Congress 2018, one of the most relevant global events against cancer organized by UICC  (Union for International Cancer Control), WorldConnex presented the latest milestones reached by ​WaidX.

During the last WCC edition, held last October in Malaysia, WorldConnex and  APOF NGO chaired a 90-minute session dedicated to two topics of cutting-edge innovation in Digital Health: Teleoncology and Telepathology. 

This session was aimed at illustrating the disruptive potential of the ECHO e-learning project and of remote oncology diagnostics in association with telepathology. After the presentations by the speakers from the involved organizations, we moved to the heart of the event: the discussion of a patient case via remote tumor board collecting different teams of medical oncologists and pathologists, spread over 4 continents (Malaysia, New York, Djibouti, Italy and San Marino).
The session audience was very impressed by the powerful interaction gained by our telemedicine model, fueling an intense discussion during the final question time. 

One of the most astounding aspects which characterizes our approach is the integration in WaidX of cost-effective tools, specifically designed to enable the spread of healthcare in Low and Middle Income Countries that dramatically lack of expertise and resources.
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The commitment of WorldConnex in favour of the most modern diagnostics and treatment methods does not stop here. 

Within a WCC "rapid fire" session, the 3-minute presentations format, WorldConnex CEO showed the key points of the Teleradiotherapy project designed in partnership with the New York Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medicine and the Armenian National Center of Oncology, in Yerevan.  

On the occasion of World Cancer Day 2019, the "Armenia Project" turned its first birthday celebrating several achieved goals: 

• activation of a series of biweekly web-based chart rounds between medical staff in New York and Yerevan;
• remote tumor board with real-time sharing of diagnostic images to review radiotherapy plans, discuss disease management and conduct remote quality control;
• E-contouring activity performed by parties in Yerevan and New York on radiographic images;
  
• constant know how transfer among the staff, supporting the implementation of new technologies in the Armenian Radiation Oncology Department.

The next step of the project concerns the generation of a specialized Medical Record system for sharing of clinical data, that serves as a departmental registry and a tool for future research use.

A special thanks goes to our project partners, who enriched the presentations with their enlightening contributions:  

• Vincenzo Stracca and Stefano Guzzetti  (APOF NGO)
• Linus Chuang  (Larner College of Medicine - University of Vermont, ECHO project)
• Lai-Meng Looi (Pathology Department - University of Malaya, past-president of WASPALM)
• Onyinye Balogun (Radiation Oncology Department - Weill Cornell Medicine)
• Nerses Karamyan (Radiation Oncology Department - Armenian National Center of Oncology)

tag: #teleOncology #telePathology #teleRadiotherapy #WaidX