{"id":808,"date":"2012-06-02T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/official\/?post_type=eactivityreport&#038;p=808"},"modified":"2019-11-14T23:06:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T14:06:13","slug":"e-health-project-thailand120602","status":"publish","type":"activity_report","link":"https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/activity_report\/e-health-project-thailand120602\/","title":{"rendered":"e-Health project in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>&nbsp;<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>&#8221;International collaborative activity by APT fund&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>This project aims to install and test remote medical systems on <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tot.co.th\/index.php?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">TOT<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> network for inhabitants in Thai rural area where no medical doctor attended, and is funded by <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apt.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT). <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">BHN Association (BHN) has cooperated for this project from initial planning phase that it has taken a role of introducing advanced Japan\u2019s medical ICT. This project has four missions which are \u201cchronic disease database\u201d, \u201cprovision of remote prenatal system\u201d, \u201cremote medical consultation\u201d and \u201cimprovement of network security\u201d. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The remote prenatal system is one with high potential expectancy by Thai medical doctors and requested to make trial installation in Phitsanulok province in the central Thailand. This system, sending fetal heart rate and uterine contraction level detected by ultrasonic sensor tapped on the pregnant woman, allows obstetrician in the city to diagnose status of pregnant woman in rural. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-932\" title=\"Presentation of remote prenatal system \" src=\"https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/official\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/clip_image001a_bhn1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/clip_image001a_bhn1.jpg 541w, https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/clip_image001a_bhn1-205x154.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/clip_image001a_bhn1-315x236.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The project kick-off meeting was held on last August to ensure overall plan to make every system operational by the end of December. Project activities, however, ceased for a while due to the flood disaster in Thail, but have restarted on February 2012 by giving demonstration at the target sites in Phitsanulok. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The demonstration was cooperated by actual pregnant woman for diagnosis through internet and presented obstetricians. Having gained good evaluation, doctors proposed to install the system into two local hospital and clinic which are 70 km and 130 km away respectively from Phitsanulok city.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp; <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-933\" title=\"Thai obstetrician setting ultrasonic sensor on pregnant woman\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/official\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/clip_image002a_bhn-315x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"223\">\u3000<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-934\" title=\"Tele-consulting between doctor and midwife\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/official\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/clip_image003_bhn-315x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/clip_image003_bhn-315x226.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/clip_image003_bhn-205x147.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/clip_image003_bhn.jpg 546w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The installation is now planned in the middle of May for actual operations for months. BHN is expecting successful operation to be further deployed in other areas suffering from insufficient medical services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hideo BABA, Executive Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17917,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[],"country":[129],"projects":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity_report\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity_report"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/activity_report"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"projects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhn.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}