Updated: Aug 26, 1998
This is the most recent structured information on this project. Complementary data can be found on previous documents
EHTO European Health Telematics Observatory

Overview

The objectives are to help:

1) user groups to define their requirements,

2) decision makers in their choice of telematics solutions,

3) industry to deliver more appropriate products. The information held by this European Centre is organised into categories corresponding to the needs of the different sector actors and its dissemination is amplified through a network of “affiliated” observatories in the National languages both inside and outside the European Union.

Purpose and objectives

A major goal is to bring together on a specifically tailored “electronic market place” (which extends world-wide and in different languages thanks to the concept of "affiliated" sites) the entire range of actors from the health telematics sector, including top policy makers. This Action will benefit programme participants, projects, health telematics users and the health telematics industry and services.

The information display and retrieval system will be permanently adapted to the quick changing pace of the web technology and to the transformations in the health care environment. The ultimate objective is to become independent of EU funding shortly after the end of 1998 as this is felt to be the only proof that an initiative is useful to the user and to the industrial community.

Results

Creation of a network of National language “affiliated” sites adapted to the dissemination of health telematics information relevant to the language and the health structure of each Country or Region. A publicly available Memorandum of Understanding describes the objectives and purposes of this network.

Development of a virtual Demo Site, allowing the user community to evaluate products and services in real time.

Coherent updating policy allowing the site to become a repository of the history of health telematics since 1992

EHTO in numbers (March 98)

Number of pages: more than 2.000 (this is without dynamic pages and data stored in databases, totalling 150 Megabytes of data)

Number of project sites developed and hosted: 10

Project documents analysed and converted to html, since jan 98 : + 45 documents (some of more than 300 pages, stored in databases)

Number of fully functional "affiliated" sites: 6

Number of affiliated sites in preparation: 6

Average number of hits for the first 3 months of 1998: 135.315

List of deliverables

• 3-monthly Observatory Journal (3, P)
• Draft Guidelines for Information Providers (4, P)
• Draft Guidelines for Navigation and Retrieval (4, P)
• The information knowledge base (6, P)
• Frequently asked questions list (continuously updated) (P)
• Principles, Criteria and Methodology for Quality Management (9, P)

Year 2

• Reports on activation of Satellite-Sites - Spain (19, P)
• Report on activation of Satellite-Sites - Portugal (19,P)
• Assessment Report of the impact of EHTO (Preliminary Report) (21, R)

Year 3

• Creation of a “EEGI” (European Economic Group of Interest) (31, P)
• Establishment of a Foundation or a European Institution (36, P)
• Assessment Report on the impact of EHTO (33, R)

List of participants

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