Bahiana hosts RNP workshop

A Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública hosted, this Monday, November 24th, the II SAGE Panel Users Workshop. The meeting, which took place in the videoconference room of the Center for the Development of Educational Technologies (CEDETE), in the coordination, brought together representatives of the Bahiana, USP, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, UFPB, UFBA and UCSal, as well as coordinators of the SAGE project linked to the National Research Network (RNP) and the Metropolitan Network of Salvador (REMESSA).

Participants were welcomed by the director of the Bahiana, Prof. Dr. Maria Luisa Carvalho Soliani and by the coordinators of CEDETE, Prof. Antônio Carlos Costa and the Telemedicine and Telehealth Nucleus of Bahiana (NUTESB), Prof. Dr. Marta Menezes. Also participating in the meeting were the manager of the Information Technology Center, Cláudio Santos, the coordinator of the Communication and Marketing Center, Margot Soliani, the professor of the Physiotherapy course and manager of teaching and research at Hospital Santa Izabel and Patrícia Alcântara.

The main objective of the workshop was to present the innovations of the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE) platform, whose new version was launched last week in the United States. In addition, the meeting enabled a detailed exchange of experiences between the institutions involved with the use of technology.

On the occasion, teacher Patrícia Alcântara presented the activities that the Bahiana has been developing, with support, the SAGE platform, in partnership with Hospital Santa Izabel. In addition to it, other representatives also shared the benefits offered by the tool, in addition to presenting suggestions for improvements to the system to the representatives of RNP.

Professor Marta Menezes said that “the next step to be taken by Bahiana it will be the use of the platform's resources within the Master's Program in Health Technologies, already in 2015”. Currently, SAGE has been used in undergraduate disciplines to monitor procedures at Hospital Santa Izabel, from where images are transmitted to the videoconference rooms of academic units.

According to one of the coordinators of the SAGE project at RNP, Leandro Ciuffo, “the initial idea was to form a small group of users to use the tool, in order to discover and improve the benefits of its use. Our proposal is to hold an annual meeting to hear the demands and share better ways to use SAGE”.

In its new version, the tool will allow greater user interaction in image manipulation; greater possibility of collaboration, as the image will be shared with more than one reception point, in addition to the possibility of sharing images from mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones.

Participating in the meeting were the member of the University Center for Telehealth at UFBA, Adriano Azevedo, Prof. Tereza Cristina Carvalho (USP) and Fernando Redigolo, researcher at the Laboratory of Architecture and Computer Networks at the University of São Paulo (LARC-USP), Prof. Maria Amélia, representing the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Prof. Maria Amélia, representing the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Lincoln David, from the Digital Video Laboratory (LAVID) at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Prof. Arnaldo Bispo from the Catholic University of Salvador (UCSal), the coordinator of the SAGE project, Cleyton Reis (RNP) and Profa. Claudette Mary de Souza Alves (UFBA), president of the Management Committee of the Community Education and Research Network (REDECOMEP) and coordinator of REMESSA.

SAGE

The SAGE platform is a visualization tool that can be used for teaching, research and communication activities between two or more geographically distributed institutions and allows image processing in 4K ultra definition (image optimization four times greater than full-HD). With the system, it is possible to visualize complex data, simulations, time series, maps and videos in high resolution, from a remote or local source, in addition to enabling videoconference meetings while multiple data, maps, simulations and/ or presentations are displayed. 

See the video of SAGE2 on YouTube.


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