Israel Update

Health

Evelyn Seelig*

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Providence, R.I. ()TA) — When Ilan
Atlas's face popped up on the three
television screens in the conference
room at Women & Infant's Hospital,
Skip Granai was elated to see his good
friend. The two pals schmoozed and
bantered, oblivious, Granai later said,
to the nearly three dozen medical col-
leagues watching and listening.
Dr. Atlas actually was thousands of
miles away in a room at Sieff Medical
Center in Safed, Israel. There, it was
2:30 p.m. Dr. Granai was in
Providence where it was 7:30 a.m. It
was the first gynecological-oncology
tumor board consultation by tele-
phone between the two hospitals.
Although somewhat routine for
Women & Infants', it was a milestone
for Atlas and his colleagues in Israel.
Telemedicine, or "Virtual
Presence," has become almost routine
at Women & Infants', which has been
consulting with community-based
hospitals in Rhode Island and
Southeastern Massachusetts for about
three years.
And its perinatal management team
began sharing vital information with the
Faculty Hospital in Kosice, Slovakia, in
September 1997, helping that facility
reduce its neonatal mortality rate from
24.2 percent to 7.2 percent.
Grand rounds, during which doc-
tors present key cases, and gatherings
where formal lectures are transmitted
to far-flung communities via satellite
are not new. But tumor board consul-
tations between a teaching hospital
and community physicians is innova-
tive, and so is the technology.
The link, known as Integrated
Service Digital Network, is by tele-
phone. The highly digitized pictures
are crisp, the sound lively, and the
radiology and pathology images clear.
Atlas believes the weekly tumor
board program between his small, non-
teaching hospital in Safed and Women
& Infants' in Providence is the first
such international link in the world.
On this day, there are 10 doctors
and nurses assembled in Safed and
over 20 in Providence. They comprise
their hospitals' tumor boards and rep-
resent nearly all the medical disci-
plines that can become involved in
treating women with cancer: gynecol-
ogists, obstetricians, gynecologic
oncologists, imaging radiologists,
treatment radiologists, pathologists,
cytologists, oncologists, nurses, prima-

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*Evelyn, who regularly meets with Israeli officials, is the
Immediate Past President of Women's League for
Conservative Judaism, and was a delegate to the World
Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency.

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