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SES
Deploys
Satmed
E-Health
Platform
And
Launches
First
Maritime
VSAT's
On
Friendship
Floating
Hospitals
In
Bangladesh
7 March 2016
SES
S.A.
and
FRIENDSHIP,
a
non-governmental
organisation,
along
with
the
technical
assistance
of
Square
Informatix
(Bangladesh)
Ltd,
launched
the
first
state-of-the-art
Maritime
VSATs
on
three
of
FRIENDSHIP’s
floating
hospital
ships
–
Lifebuoy
Friendship
Hospital,
Emirates
Friendship
Hospital
and
Rongdhonu
Friendship
(formerly
the
Rainbow
Warrior
II)
Hospital.
SATMED,
the
newly
deployed
satellite-based
e-health
platform,
will
enable
FRIENDSHIP
to
establish
communications
with
national
and
international
doctors
from
remote
areas,
to
provide
medical
counselling
to
marginalised
communities
through
telemedicine
and
to
exchange
medical
knowledge
with
local
doctors.
SATMED
is
an
IT
enabled
cloud
infrastructure
accessible
around
the
globe
that
facilitates
data
exchanges
between
professionals
and
medical
frameworks
such
as
electronic
medical
records
and
teleradiology
systems.
The
platform
is
an
open,
flexible
and
affordable
solution
that
perfectly
fits
SES’s
range
of
satellite
based
e-activities.
The
project
is
funded
by
the
Luxembourg
Government
and
implemented
in
cooperation
with
SES
Techcom
Services
and
e-Medical
Communication
(eMC).
“The
SATMED
project
is a
great
illustration
of a
true
partnership
between
governments,
the
private
sector
and
NGOs.
Mutual
trust
and
collaboration
can
enable
innovative
steps
forward,
and
lead
to
deep
benefits
that
impact
directly
on
the
beneficiaries,”
said
Runa
Khan,
Founder
and
Executive
Director
of
FRIENDSHIP
in
Bangladesh.
“SATMED
gives
us a
tool
by
which
we
are
able
to
bring
in
specialised
services
of
e-learning,
special
doctors,
specialised
back
office
resources,
decisions
of
problems
and
ethical
decisions,
all
this
can
be
centralised
and
the
same
message
can
be
given
organisation
wide,”
she
added.
“After
implementing
SATMED
platform
tools
and
services,
the
ship
hospitals
–
via
satellite
connectivity
–
will
be
able
to
support
and
facilitate
work
in
the
areas
of
e-care,
e-learning,
e-surveillance,
e-health
management,
and
digital
imaging,”
said
Gerhard
Bethscheider,
Managing
Director
of
SES
Techcom
Services.
“The
SATMED
platform
makes
e-health
available,
accessible
and
easy
to
use,
with
a
goal
to
increase
efficiency
in
healthcare
and
in-field
health
quality
for
FRIENDSHIP
(the
medical
community)
especially
in
remote
isolated
areas,”
he
concluded.
“At
the
end
of
the
inauguration
ceremony,
two
European
doctors
consulted
with
patients
from
the
remote
island
known
as
chars
through
teleconferencing
directly
from
Europe,”
said
Marc
Elvinger,
Chairman,
FRIENDSHIP
Luxembourg.
“Without
FRIENDSHIP’s
innovative
healthcare
model
and
the
SATMED
connectivity,
such
a
facility
would
have
been
simply
inconceivable
to
the
poor
marginalised
people
of
this
country.”
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