Updated: Feb 1, 97
ACOSTA

Accompanying measure on Health Care Telematics Consensus Formation and Standardisation Promotion A standard Framework for AIM Selected Interconnected Applications

Project Code: A2106 Project value: 1200 KECU EC contribution: 1200 KECU No of partners: 3 No of countries: 3 Duration: 28 months

Contact Mrs Christine Thayer CNEH (Centre National de l'Equipement Hospitalier) 9, rue Antoine Chantin F-75104 Paris, France Tel.: +33-1-40.44.15.04 Fax: +33-1-40.44.82.34

The ACOSTA Accompanying Measure was created as part of the AIM response to the difficult market situation in Europe: fragmented and heterogeneous, and faced by strong US competition in a context of severe limitations on health care expenditure. Industrialists anxious about the possible of a poor return on their investments were perceived to be hesitant, making difficult the achievement of a critical mass. The needs of users were poorly expressed because of uncertainties over the potential of the rapidly evolving communication technologies.

The ACOSTA action consisted essentially of three key elements:

• consensus-building activities , including promotion of standardisation, with an active role for user/industrial groups,
• creation of an information base, a European state-of-the-art containing both health service and market information,
• development of a strategy for the development of a market in health telematics.

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