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Updated: Jun 3,97 |
G7-GETS | |
| Global Emergency Telemedicine Services |
| Project Nr: | G7-78973 (HC) | Group: G7 | Project Duration: 12 months |
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| Summary: | Transnational and multilingual health emergency systems able to improve promptness and effectiveness of interventions, to be achieved by interlinking a remote place with a medical centre via satellite, ensuring the permanence of qualified advice by interconnecting different medical centres. | ||
| Mission: | The GETS study constitutes the European component of a sub-project in the framework of the G7 Global Healthcare Applications Project. It is aimed at establishing a prompt and effective 24-hour global, multilingual, multidisciplinary telemedicine surveillance and emergency service in any land, sea or air location. The study will assess the feasibility of this initiative, suggesting solutions to problems of communication, security and confidentiality, medical liability, cost effectiveness and management. It will also propose an implementation plan for gradual deployment of the service, interconnecting telemedicine centres around the world by means of satellite communications and other key technologies. | ||
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| Name of Institution | City+Postal Code | Country | Region |
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| MATRA MARCONI SPACE - FRANCE | Toulouse F-31077 | France | FR62 |
| FRANCE TELECOM GROUP | Paris F-75903 | France | FR1 |
| CIRM | Roma, I-I-00144 | Italy | IT |
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This feasibility study represents the European component of the G7 Global Healthcare Applications sub project 4 (G7-H4) entitled "A 24 hour multilingual and multidisciplinary telemedicine surveillance and emergency service around the world".
There is an increasing social demand that emergency medical services be made available regardless of location. As an example, every day thousands of vessels are at sea and victims of accidents or disease on board are very often left to their own resources. This also holds true for people working or travelling in isolated places, under Artic conditations, in deserts, on oil rigs, on small islands, in regions and countries with less developed healthcare services, aeroplanes and even for people being treated by duty surgeons in operating theatres at night. For the time beeing, in case of emergency, sometimes unnecessary and costly evacuations of patients or changes in the route of ships or aircrafts are still performed due to the lack of appropriate medical advice. The objective of this sub project is the establishment of a transnational and multilingual health emergency system able to improve promptness and effectiveness of interventions and service management through telematic interconnections of the emergency points of care of all actors and services involved. This will be e.g. achieved by interlinking a remote place with a medical center via satellite ensuring the permanence of qualified advice by interconnecting different medical centers. This study will assess the feasibility of this sub project. The study will address user needs and suggest solutions to problems of communication, security and confidentiality, medical liability, cost effectiveness and management. This study will propose technical solutions and also address organisational issues, development and operational cost, and financing ... In addition, this feasibility study will propose an implementation plan for an actual and gradual deployment of the service, interconnecting existing telemedicine centres around the world. Mobile and satellites communications, interoperable portable devices, advanced localisation systems are key technologies for such a service. This study is supported by official operational coordinators from France and Italy in the G7 sub project 4. An important event will be the World Congres of Telemedicine, Toulouse , November 30 - December 1, 1995, mainly dedicated to emergency telemedicine.
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Users involved End users like sailors, travellers, people in remote location and medical institutions: Many contacts are already established with some other major users (insurance companies, emergency centres...), in France, Italy, Germany, UK, other EU countries, other G7 countries for participation to the conferences, workshops, and reviews. Technologies and/or approach used Communications satellites (e.g. INMARSAT, ....), ISDN for the terrestrial network, multimedia databases, video conferencing, and interactive multimedia; this study will follow a straightforward approach to assess the feasibility of the project including the identification of user needs, relevant centres and projects, an assessment of communications technologies and services, a definition of an operational concept, a technical design and finally a layout of the implementation plan. Expected benefits for the citizen This project will contribute to satisfy the ever increasing social demand for equal access of citizens to emergency medical services regardless of location. Expected benefits for the users of the application This project will bring reliable medical advice, will upgrade the ability of users to deal with medical emergencies, giving them a tool that can be used for other applications (on-the-job learning, training, ...), will cut costs by reducing unnecessary medical evacuations and improve quality of life. Expected benefits for the European Industries European Industries and Operators are associated to this project, promoting the role of European industries and operators within the G7. New products and new market is expected. Contribution to EU-policies Contribute to develop the European component of emergency telemedicine services, including multilingual aspects; promotion of competitiveness of European industries |
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