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Health cooperation with Balkan Countries in diagnosis and care of congenital heart malformations was developed since 2008 by the Heart Hospital of “Gabriele Monasterio” Tuscany Foundation (FTGM) jointly with the Association “Un Cuore un Mondo” and with the support of the Tuscany Region. A tele-echocardiography network was implemented interconnecting the Heart Hospital in Massa with selected Pediatric and Gynecology centers in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, and Romania. Up to 100 patients were transferred to Massa from Balkan countries for specialized care or cardiac surgery. This initiative was recently empowered in the frame of European IPA program by the AdriHealthMob project, aimed at providing cross border healthcare services in the Adriatic area, and since 2015 a telemedicine network for heart malformations has being developed (namely, “Arriviamo al Cuore di Tutti”) in Tuscany with the financial support of Lions Clubs and their International Foundation (LCIF), jointly with regional healthcare authorities.
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We thank for their collaborative efforts the clinical and technical teams of centers participating in the Balkan project, particularly Prof. V. Ahe (University of Rijeka – School Medicine), Dr. R. Moisiu (“Koco Gliozheni” Gynecology Univ.Hospital – Tirana), and Dr. S. Bajic and Dr. D. Djukic (Pediatric Clinical Centre, Banja Luka). Thanks to “Un Cuore un Mondo” Association and their president Mr. M. Locatelli for financial support jointly with Tuscany Region. Moreover, we thank Dr. Ilir Qose for continuing collaboration in the management of the AdriHealthMob IPA project. Finally, as concerns the project for telemedicine network in Tuscany (“Arriviamo al Cuore di Tutti”), thanks to Lions Clubs of the District 108La (Tuscany) and to the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) for financially supporting this project; special thanks to Dr. Gianluca Rocchi, District 108La Governor (until June 2015) of Lions Clubs Association, for promoting and supporting the development and implementation. Also, thanks to the clinical and technical teams of Health-Care Institutions around Tuscany for the great support to develop the telemedicine network (particularly dr. Iurato, Azzarelli, Zipoli, Cozzalupi, Marri and Martini). Thanks also to Dr. Alberto Genova for the legal advice in the definition of informed consent and protocol agreements and Dr. Maurizio Mangione for his advice in development of medical record system for reporting telemedicine examination.
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Taddei, A. et al. (2017). Telemedicine in Collaborative Diagnosis and Care of Congenital Heart Malformations. In: Rinaldi, G. (eds) New Perspectives in Medical Records. TELe-Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28661-7_16
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