Parthasarathi Ramakrishnan, Gomes Rachel M, Palanivelu Praveen Raj, Senthilnathan Palanisamy, Rajapandian Subbiah, Venkatachalam Ramasamy, Palanivelu Chinnusamy
Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, GEM Hospital and Research Centre , Coimbatore, India .
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Conferences and meetings bring together thousands of doctors from diverse locations. However, the traveling, accommodation, and arrangement of venues for conferences and meetings are expensive and a lot of time needs to be devoted to these logistics. The purpose of this article was to present our own virtual live conference experience using web conferencing and to briefly outline the basics and advantages of this technology in organization of healthcare conferences.
Web conferencing technology was used to organize an international bariatric surgery conference, allowing a large number of attendees to participate and interact from wherever they were, using merely an Internet connection with a video player on their personal computers, laptops, or smartphones.
A virtual live conference saves a lot of time and cost and simplifies the logistics needed to organize a learning conference with worldwide participation.
As far as we know, this is the first report of a virtual live conference in healthcare. We see it as the future of organizing experts as well as medical teaching conferences.
会议将来自不同地点的数千名医生聚集在一起。然而，会议的差旅、住宿以及场地安排成本高昂，并且需要投入大量时间处理这些后勤事务。本文的目的是介绍我们使用网络会议举办虚拟现场会议的经验，并简要概述这项技术在组织医疗会议方面的基本情况和优势。
使用网络会议技术组织了一场国际减肥手术会议，使得大量参会者无论身处何地，只需通过互联网连接以及个人电脑、笔记本电脑或智能手机上的视频播放器，就能参与会议并进行互动。
虚拟现场会议节省了大量时间和成本，简化了组织一场有全球参与者的学习会议所需的后勤工作。
据我们所知，这是医疗领域虚拟现场会议的首份报告。我们将其视为组织专家会议以及医学教学会议的未来方向。
