On Thursday, March 18, 2010, the CATEL network and its partners held for the 10th consecutive year a day-long conference dedicated to e-health. The conference was simultaneous broadcast by videoconference in cities across France and abroad.
Antoine de Clerck, Co-founder of Pesinet and Representative of the association in Mali, presented the Pesinet’s child health monitoring program as part of a roundtable on “patient-doctor relationship: from prevention to permanent care”, from the Ministry of Health of Mali, in Bamako, alongside the Director of the National e-health Agency (ANTIM).
During the discussion, facilitated by Lionel Buannic who animated the whole conference, Antoine explained the origin and the founding principles of Pesinet and presented the activities through a video. He explained how the relationship between patients and doctors improves thanks to Pesinet. He emphasized the key role played by our health workers to renew the bonds of trust between population and the local healthcare structures, as the representatives of health in families, the medical advisors for mothers and as the ones who encourage mothers to go to the doctor for their child when a disease is detected. Their proximity groundwork helps reconnect families with the doctors and raise awareness of 
prevention and medical follow-up.
Antoine also highlighted that Pesinet’s innovation does not lay as much in the technology used as in the application designed by the founders of the association and in the integration of simple technologies and tools to provide a unique response to a major health concern: reducing child mortality.
The presentation of the project attracted strong interest from the participants connected around the world. They asked many questions about the implementation of the project, lessons learned from the field, potential challenges of the family
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model and program evaluation.
Many e-health professionals attended the conference: occupational health professionals, industry, and institutional partners, researchers, non-profit organizations,… The goal was to highlight the experiences and existing projects in the field of Information and Telecommunication technologies and health, to facilitate their replication, and assist in developing cooperation between the multidisciplinary participants who were gathered on that day.
Objective reached as far as Pesinet is concerned: this conference has allowed us to meet in particular a nurse specialized in e- training and e-health projects who is about to join our team of volunteers to participate in the training program of our health agents during a field mission in September and a Professor of the University of Laval, Quebec, who has offered to work on an independent assessment of the project.
Read the report from CATEL and dicover photos, video and press review of the event… (in French only)
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