Updated: Apr 27, 1999
This is the most recent structured information on this project. Complementary data can be found on previous documents
INTRANET HEALTH CLINIC   Interactive Information System for Health/Social Care

Overview

INTRANET HEALTH CLINIC is an international effort involving EU Member States and Canada, which will draw on the experience gained from the Alberta Research Council in Canada. It concerns a deployment of an Internet-based application for patient care using advanced multimedia techniques. The aim is to offer high quality care to users of health services over inexpensive communication pathways, using Internet-based, interactive communication tools, like videoconferencing.

Purpose and objectives

INTRANET HEALTH CLINIC concerns a deployment of an Internet-based application for patient care using advanced multimedia techniques. Its aim is to offer high quality care to users of health services over inexpensive communication pathways, using Internet-based, interactive com-munication tools, like video-conferencing. Issues of confidentiality and security, as well as diverse legislative and sociocultural environment have been addressed. The Canadian partners have provided a unique experience and an environment to test the capability of the proposed approach in Europe. This extensive experience with web-based adoption strategies in the participating site in Canada, and the willingness and ability of the European participating industrial partners and end-users (health professionals' and citizens' groups) to further extend, validate and widely utilise and exploit those effective and inexpensive inter-active communications strategies are invaluable and very promising. INTRANET HEALTH CLINIC addresses patients’ needs in three key health domains (oncology, respiratory diseases and obstetrics/ gynecology), along with the Canadian rheumatic disease patients, as they seek health services in a complex regional environment of large tertiary hospitals, secondary level hospitals, remote primary health care centers and homes. The European experience in the deployment of clinical services through the proposed model of the Website-oriented, interactive com-munication is based on the peculiarities of the European culture and organisational niche and it will be inked to the specific European telecommunication environment. This effort is considered to be an added value as it expected to contribute to a more equal and universal access, higher quality, as well as more efficient delivery of health care services to European citizens

Results

INTRANET HEALTH CLINIC project:
·       enables the European citizen to receive health care services at higher level of quality and reduced cost by fruitfully collaborating teams of health professionals, at health care promises or even at patient’s home, whenever this is perceived necessary.
·       enforces the EU policy addressing patients’ rights and the principles of well informed and dynamically involved in the delivery of their care European citizens.
·       seems to become an effective tool for the health professional and a strong protective shield for the citizen who seeks for high quality health services.
·       contributes to the expansion of the market, especially for SMEs, which have a large share of the market by supporting specific healthcare activities.

List of deliverables

Year 1

- Report on users needs, user requirements and catalogue of applications. Report on issues of security and confidentiality. Report - on issues of medical liability. Report on success indicators. Market assessment, month 5, PU
- Implementation plan for the information content of the service, month 8, LI
- Report on specification of data structure and access modes and report on specification of the service, month 8, RP
- Specification of the telematics environments, month 11, RP
- Information and dissemination material, month 12, PU
- Yearly quality assurance report, month 12, RP

Year 2

- Report on the security requirements of the overall system and on the translation of the security needs into functional specifications for use in the implementation phase. Guidelines for the development of a suitable High level and database Security Policy, month 15, PR
- Final phase implementation of the database, month 16, RP
- Report on the implementation of the architecture, month 16, RP Report on the verification, validation and assessment of the service. Final specifications, performance evaluation and management procedures. Results of systems assessment from verification phase. Results from validation (demonstration stage), month 24, RP
- Exploitation and marketing Plan, month 24, RP
- Information and dissemination material, month 24, PU
- Yearly quality assurance report, month 24, RP

List of participants

Y. Skalkidis
ALMA
Av. Tervuren 32,
B-1040, Brussels,
Belgium
+32 2 273 66610
+32 2 273 66337

Devlies Jose, H.
Datasoft Management N.V.
Edward Vlietinckstraat 20,
Oostende, 8400,
Vlaanderen, Belgium
+32 59 508695
+32 59 806671
 jdevlies@datasoft.unicall.be

Moortgat Jean-Louis
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50,
Brussels, 1050, Belgium
+32 2 6503584
+32 2 6504523
E-mail: jlmoort@resulb.ulb.ac.be

Schetgen Gilbert
Entente des Gynecologues
Rue Edith Cavell 32,
Bruxelles, 1180, Belgium
+32 2 3470087
+32 2 3404065

Schilders Louis
MediBRIDGE N.V.
Joseph Wybranlaan 40B,
Brussels, 1070, Belgium
+32 2 5299898
+32 2 5295911
E-mail: louis.schilders@medmail.medconf.be

Tarpataki Paul     
Utilisateurs Francophones de
Medidoc, UFM
7, Rue Albertler, 7740,
Wallonie, Belgium
+32 2 5228407
+32 2 5211377
E-mail: paul.tarpataki@medmail.medconf.be

Y. Skalkidis
HOPE
15, Okeanidon Str.,
11745, Athens, Greece
+30 1 7294094
+30 1 7294084
E-mail: helcohop@hol.gr

Vasilios Smirniotis
Areteion University Hospital
Vas. Sofias 76,
Athens, 11528, Greece
+301 7253902
+301 7253902
E-mail: helcohop@hol.gr

Stavroula Maglavera
BIOTRAST S.A.
111 Mitropoleos Str,
GR-54622, Thessaloniki, Greece
+3031277904
+3031277960
E-mail: stav@biotrast.gr
Home-page: http://www.biotrast.gr

Sotiris Pavlopoulos
ICCS-NTUA
9 Iroon Polytechniou Str.,
Zografou, 15773, Athens,
Greece
+301 7722429 / 7723926
+301 7722431
E-mail: spav@biomed.ntua.gr

George Pangalos
AUTH
Aristotle Univ. Campus,
54006, Thessaloniki, Greece
+30 31 995943
+30 31 995949
E-mail: gip@eng.auth.gr

J. Taloumis
STAT S.A.
36-38 Ag. Paraskevis Str.,
Athens, Greece
+30 1 5707000
+30 1 5707070
E-mail: jtaloumis@stat.gr

Roca, Josep
Corporacio Sanitaria Clinic
Villarroel 170,
Barcelona,08036, Spain
+343 2275540
+343 2275455
E-mail: roca@medicina.ub.es

Gomez-Jordana, Alfonso
Sistemas de Imagen y Palabra
Ronda de Poniente, 6
Tres Cantos,
28760, Spain
+34 1 804 1100
+34 1 804 1400
E-mail: agomez@sip.es

Maruja, Dulce
Servei Catala de la Salut
Travessera de los Corts 131
Barcelona, 08028, Spain
+343 403 8609
+343 403 8923

Ruiz de Querol, Ricardo
Telefonica Sistemas S.A.
Sor Angela de la Cruz, 3,
Barcelona, 08007, Spain
+34 3 317 15 40
+34 3 318 9591
E-mail: rrq@ts.es

Calgary Regional Health
Authority, CRHA
1053-7^th Avenue SW,
Calgary, TAP 3E9,
Alberta, Canada
+403 209 8401
+403 205 2691
E-mail: murray.glending@crha-health.ab.ca

Niebergal Dennis
Clinicare Corporation
1053-7^th Avenue SW,
Calgary, T2E 6K3,
Alberta, Canada
+403 291 3949
+403 2508950
E-mail: niebergal-d@clinicare.com

Shaffer, Eldon
University of Calgary
University Drive 2500,
Calgary, T2N 1N4,
Alberta, Canada
+403 670 1500
+403 270 7349

Edworthy, Steven
Alberta Research Council
PO Box 8330, Edmondon,
T6H 5X2, Alberta, Canada
+403 220 2854
+403 270 7349
E-mail: edworthy@arc.ab.ca

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