ORBIS Intl'

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ORBIS Intl.

• Telemedicine (Cyber-Sight)
• The ORBIS Experience 2003
• Wondu Alemayehu (MD, MPH)
• ORBIS Ethiopia

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ORBIS Intl.

• Is a non-aligned, non-profit global development
  organization
• Mission
• To preserve and restore sight by strengthening
  the capacity of local partners in their efforts
  to prevent and treat blindness.
• Vision
• ORBIS envisions a world in which no one is
  needlessly blind, where quality eye care,
  education and treatment are available to every
  human being.
• Goal
• Reduction of Blindness Prevalence Rate Through
  Strengthening the Capacity of Local Partners in
  their Efforts to Prevent and Treat Blindness

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ORBIS Intl.

• Four Global Programs
• Global Fellowship
• Global Hospital Based Program
• DC-10 Flying Eye Hospital
• Telemedicine (Cyber Sight)

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ORBIS Intl. ETHIOPIA

• Legally operational in Ethiopia since 1999 to
  carry out the organizations mission, goal and
  vision.

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ORBIS Intl. ETHIOPIA

• Implements a country program with the following
  components
• Advocacy/Public Awareness
• Institutional Strengthening
• Eye Banking
• Biomedical Engineering
• Developing and Strengthening Rural Eye Care
  Service
• Research

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Telemedicine

• Definition
• The practice of medicine at a distance

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Cyber-Sight
How does it work?
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The Server
sends consult
receives consult
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Located at Flight Safety, Flushing, NY
receives answer
sends answer
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E-Consultation

• As described in the previous slide offers
  partners the opportunity to obtain consultation
  on difficult patients from an expert with the
  added opportunity to interact during the
  evaluation process and to share results of
  treatment in these patients

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The consultation process goes like this

• The partner is identified, trained, assigned a
  password and user name, and when needed given a
  camera and computer
• The partner is assigned to a mentor team
• A challenging patient is photographed by the
  partner and the history and pictures of the case
  are uploaded and sent
• The mentor is alerted, answers the consult, and a
  dialogue is established
• The partner closes the case when it is completed

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Mentor Teams are made up of experts in the
following sub-specialties

• Cornea
• Retina
• Glaucoma
• Oculo-plastics
• Pediatric ophthalmology/strabismus
• Uveitis
• ROP
• Genetics
• Retinoblastoma
• Cataract
• Neuro-ophthalmology
• Etc.

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Partner logs on to web site

• Go to www.orbis.org
• Click on Cyber-Sight (left side of screen scroll
  down ¼ screen)
• Click on Cyber-Sight again on right side of
  screen
• Click on E-consultation
• Add user name and password these are assigned
  by ORBIS
• This brings up the formatted page for patient
  information upload

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Two other parts of the

• Cyber-Sight Program

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E-Resource

• Ophthalmology Minute
• Featured Cases
• Question of the week
• Decision Making in Strabismus
• Eye Pathologist (link)

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E- Learning

• BCSC questions
• Student course activity log in
• CME opportunities

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Cyber-Sight is ORBISs Telemedicine

• Full program initiated spring 2003
• 140 mentors
• 296 partners
• 68 sites
• 32 countries
• 135 mentors 40 answering consults
• W2,075 consults 6,000 communications
• 1,372 strabismus / ped. ophth.
• 200 E-Learning students

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Telemedicine in Ethiopia

• Great opportunity to fully utilize the ORBIS
  program as part of ICT for Health in Ethiopia
• Prevent blindness and restore sight

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Thank you