The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted rehabilitation protocols. Around the world, telerehabilitation has gained increasing popularity, allowing clinicians to assess and treat patients virtually.
In this Web Forum, experts from Scandinavia and the United States will present on the swift advancement of telerehabilitation during COVID-19, highlighting the feasibility, usability, effectiveness, and security of telerehabilitation for both patients and therapists across all specialties. Furthermore, our panelists will discuss sustainability and the future of telerehabilitation post-pandemic.
Presenters
Ingebjørg Irgens, MD-PRM
PhD Fellow
Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital, Norway, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
Ingebjørg Irgens is a physician specializing in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. She has been the CEO of the Norwegian PRM Association and is now a delegate in the UEMS- PRM Association. She also acts as a Sunnaas delegate for a reference group working on a project regarding digital home monitoring…
Birthe Dinesen, PhD
Professor and Head, Laboratory of Welfare Technologies - Telehealth & Telerehabilitation
Aalborg University, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Aalborg, Denmark
Dr. Birthe Dinesen is a Professor and Head of Laboratory of Welfare Technologies - Telehealth and Telerehabilitation and Department of Health Science and Technology at Aalborg University in Denmark. Dr. Dinesen has been doing research within the field of telemedicine for more than 15 years, has published over 81 peer-reviewed…
Mary Stilphen, PT, DPT
Senior Director, Rehabilitation and Sports Therapy
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Dr. Stilphen is the Senior Director for Cleveland Clinic Rehabilitation and Sports Therapy. Over the past 6 years, she led the integration and consolidation of rehabilitation services across a health system consisting of 9 hospitals, 47 outpatient therapy centers, and over 750 therapy professionals. This evolving re-engineering project includes the…
Kathrine Rayce, PhD
Researcher, Centre for Innovative Technology (CIMT) and HTA consultant
Odense University Hospital
Odense, Denmark
Kathrine Rayce is a researcher at CIMT, Odense University Hospital in Denmark and researches in health technologies. Her focus is on the way patients, their partners, and health professionals experience the technologies as a part of their daily lives and practices. In addition, her focus is on how technologies mediate…
Moderator
Frederic Lievens, MSc
Vice Executive Director
International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (ISfTeH)
Brussels, Belgium
Frederic is Vice Executive Director of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH), the international network of telemedicine/eHealth stakeholders, enhancing collaboration, partnership, and exchange of experience and good practice. The ISfTeH is a non-profit organization, registered in Basel, Switzerland and recognized as NGO in official relations with WHO (World…
Presentation Slides
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Ingebjørg Irgens | Telerehabilitation as Acute Care Rehabilitation in Times of Pandemics
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Birthe Dinesen | Future Patient-Telerehabilitation of Patients with Heart Failure
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Mary Stilphen | Cleveland Clinic Rehab and Sports Therapy Outpatient Response to COVID 19
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Kathrine Rayce | Telemediated training for patients with very severe Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease