Satmed

Satmed provides the satellite connectivity and integrates a wide range of capabilities in a single platform, including access and storage of patient e-records, medical imaging, virtual consultation, e-learning, remote monitoring and e-health management and video conferencing..The cloud-based system reduces the need for expensive on-the-ground ICT resources and their maintenance.

[3] Initially in a pilot phase for the design and evolution of the platform (developed by SES TechCom Services, a subsidiary of satellite operator SES and Berlin-based telemedicine technology company, e-Medical Communication), Satmed deployed satellite terminal equipment and the software platform to partner organisations, including NGOs, hospitals, medical universities, and other health care providers active in areas of Bangladesh, Benin, Eritrea, Guinea, Niger, the Philippines, and Sierra Leone.

Connectivity by satellite (otherwise unavailable to the islands) enables staff to share medical records across the three hospital ships, to synchronise information at the headquarters in Dhaka, and to use Satmed's e-learning tools in the Friendship teaching centre.

has been active in Eritrea for over ten years providing visiting teams of doctors, nurses and technicians coordinated by permanent local project partners, with a focus on child health and training of students and medical staff.

The initial focus is on using Satmed to support rolling clinics - medical teams visit local villages on a regular basis to treat patients on-site and to offer prevention measures and health monitoring.

In addition, Satmed's text messaging facility allows doctors to keep tabs on large group of patients living in remote villages whose main form of contact with the outside world is via mobile phones.

[25][26][27] During the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014, Satmed, in conjunction with German Doctors brought internet access to the Outpatient Clinic of Serabu Hospital in Bo District in Sierra Leone.

Satmed enabled the community to stay in contact with the medical staff, to gather data about the disease spread, to implement prevention measures, and to provide e-learning teaching sessions and remote consultancy.