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Updated: Oct 30, 97 |
AMBULANCE | |
| Mobile unit for healthcare provision via telematics support |
| Project Nr: | HC 1001 | Group: V | Project Duration: 24 months |
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| Category: | Emergency Teleservices Device for Mobile Health Staff | ||
| Summary: | Mobile/portable device for use in medical emergencies/telediagnosis and supervision | ||
| Mission: | AMBULANCE will develop a much-needed portable device for European mobile health care staff, such as emergency medical technicians or rural GPs, to get teleservices support from specialist doctors at distant hospitals or health centres. For staff tending bad accident victims or isolated people, the device will offer emergency telediagnosis, teleconsultation and remote supervision, with facilities enabling long-distance visual inspection of patients. Communication between mobile staff and the hospital-based unit will be delivered via a digital cellular system ensuring maximum inter-operability and portability of the proposed device. | ||
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| Name of Institution | City+Postal Code | Country | Region |
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| ICCS-NTU Zografou Campus, H/Y Building Dr. S. Pavlopoulos |
Athens 157 73 + 30 1 772 24 2 + 30 1 772 24 3 spav@biomed.ntua.gr |
Greece | |
| Espilon Software S. | Athens + 30 1 93 08 37 + 30 1 94 27 71 ed@epsilon.com.gr |
Greece | |
| Panafo Mr. G. Vorvis |
Athens + 30 1 74 83 30 + 30 1 64 07 19 vorvis@panafon.gr |
Greece | |
| Athens Medical Center MD Dr. D. Karayiannis |
Athens + 30 1 686222 + 30 1 689855 |
Greece | |
| Medic Dr. N. Georgiadis |
+ 30 1 72 22 19 + 30 1 72 94 26 endimion@compulink.gr |
Greece | |
| INBIT Dr. Z. Kolits |
+ 30 61 223 67 + 30 61 272 34 kolitsi@inbit.forthnet.gr |
Greece | |
| R&S Informatic | + 39 2 670 71 30 + 39 2 670 71 302 rs@galactica.it |
Italy | |
| Consorzio Pisa Ricerch Mr. R. Gagliard |
+ 39 50 568 52 + 39 50 540 05 t.gagliardi@cnuce.cnr.it |
Italy | |
| Ericsson Infocom A Mrs. G. Axelsson |
+ 46 54 29 42 8 + 46 54 29 00 0 |
Sweden | |
| Eurotechnology S. Dr. A. Marinidis |
Söder Gatan 3 211 34 Malmö + 46 40 30 97 0 + 46 40 12 13 6 anton@atm-group.se www.atm-group.se |
Sweden | |
| University Hospital Malmö MD Dr. P. Juhlin |
Akut 36 + 46 40 33 10 0 + 46 40 33 74 2 |
Sweden | |
| University of Cyprus Prof. C. Schizas Prof. C. Pattichis |
+ 357 2 33870 + 357 2 339 06 schizas@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy |
Cyprus | |
| Ministry of Health Dr. C. Antoniades Mr. A. Koupis |
Nicosia General Hospital + 357 2 45276 + 357 2 36950 |
Cyprus |
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The aim of the project is the design and development of a mobile/portable medical device usable for medical emergencies in European Countries that will allow telediagnosis, remote supervision, and teleconsultation of mobile health care providers by specialised physicians located in key positions or sites. Such services constitute to an absolute requirement, especially in cases of heavily injured victims of accidents, resulting from increased population mobilisation within the European Union. The proposed device will allow the acquisition and transmission of critical biosignals as well as the acquisition and transmission of images of the patient, that will allow for a visual inspection.Interactivity between mobile health providers and specialised physicians will be enhanced by the bi-directional transmission of voice and telepoiting/white boarding information. In order to maximise the amount of information available at the hospital site, the system will be linked to HIS and PACS where available.
Communications between the mobile unit and the hospital based unit will be delivered through GSM digital cellular communications system, a feasible and already broadly accepted standard in Europe, thus ensuring the maximum interoperability and portability of the proposed device. The proposed project will follow all five phases of a typical RTD&D project life-cycle. User requirements will be collected and processed and the resulting functional specifications will be compiled. In the design of the proposed system emphasis will be given on the image and biosignal acquisition and processing units, the GSM transmission/reception multimedia telematics unit, the teleconferencing and teleconsulting software tools, and a distributed DBMS environment for storage and retrieval of multimedia information. Prototypes will be installed in test sites (ambulances services) in Sweden and Greece, and their performance in terms of technical and functional specifications will be evaluated. The business plan, a first version of which has already been designed, will be regularly updated and will guide the consortium for the commercial exploitation of the results.
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Users involved Clients visiting the health care organisations, patients, visitors of hospitals, consumers at home, company personnel, health care institutions, doctors, para-medical institutions. Technologies and/or approach used Databases, knowledge processing, communication technology, hypertext technologies, multimedia technology, client/server architecture. Expected benefits for the citizen The European citizen will be informed about opportunities to make decisions about his own health, about differences in health throughout Europe, about treatment and insurances. Expected benefits for the users of the application The multimedia multilingual citizens advisory system - M2-BBS will be a tool to bridge the gap between the existing demand of the European citizen and the professionals, such as doctors, psychologists, but also insurance companies, health services, hospitals. Expected benefits for the European Industries The European industries, espacially the telecommunication industry, can benefit strongly from the input of large amount and large diversity of data to be collected from the use of the M2-BBS. This will be also a push for health insurance companies, hospitals to change their services into a more efficient and effective way. Contribution to EU-policies Through the interdisciplinarity and multi-national cooperation and the inclusion of multi-lingual applications, the project aims to reach every citizen in Europe |
| Malmo Cardiologiska Institutionen | Malmo Sydsverige | SE | |
| Athens Medical Center | Athens | Attiki | GR |
| Medical Diagnosis&Treatment | Athens | Attiki | GR |
| Malmo Cardiologiska Institutionen | Malmo Syd |
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