Initial Project Information: HECTOR
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HECTOR

Health emergency management and coordination through telematics operational resources

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Project Nr: HC 1020 Group: V Project Duration: 36 months
Key words:
Category:Health Care Emergency Management and Coordination
Summary: Co-ordination of emergency services on the territory/EU single emergency number 112
Mission:The purpose of HECTOR is to offset the general lack of a multidisciplinary approach geared to global solutions in health care emergency activities. The project will mobilise existing technology and the new capabilities of multimedia and telecommunications to pilot an integrated interoperable solution, with an optimum cost-benefit trade off. Features of the system will include prompt efficient reaction in emergencies, two-way clinical data transmission, medical telesupport at the point of care, and minimal intervention. The system will also provide training to professionals and information to citizens.
URL: www.sadiel.es/europa/hector/

Coordinator(s)

  • Mr. Juan Reig Redondo
    SADIEL, S.A.
    Avda. Isaac Newton, s/n.
    Edificio SADIEL-SODEAN.
    Isla de la Cartuja.
    41092 Seville
    Spain     		tel: 95-448 81 00
    fax: 95-448 81 01
    hector@sadiel.es
    url: www.sadiel.es

Participants:

Name of InstitutionCity+Postal CodeCountryRegion
Sociedad Andaluza para el Desarrollo de la Informatica y la Electrónica, S.A. ES-41011 Sevilla Spain ES61
On Campus Technology, S.A. ES-46010 Valencia Spain ES52
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid ES-28040Madrid Spain ES3
Institut Balear D'Innovacio Telematica ES-07014 Palma de Mallorca Spain ES53
Instituto de Salud Carlos III ES-28029 Madrid Spain ES3
Empresa Pública de Emergencias Sanitarias ES-29590 Malaga Spain ES61
Spedale Civili di Brescia ES-25125 Brescia Italy IT2
Consorzio per la Gestione del Centro CEFRIEL, Consortium IT-20126 Milano Italy IT2
Telecom Italia SPA. IT-20124 Milano Italy IT2
TSD-Projects Srl IT-20090 Milano Italy IT2
Lombardia Informatica SpA IT-20126 Milano Italy IT2
Foundation for Biomedical Engineering SE-41296 Götenborg Sweden SE05
Stena Marine AB SE-40519 Götenborg Sweden SE05
SOS-alarm i Göteborg AB SE-40229 Götenborg Sweden SE05
Svenska Telemedicin System AB SE-41288 Götenborg Sweden SE05
Fire & Rescue Service SE-40224 Götenborg Sweden SE05
County Council of Uppsala, Sweden SE-75125 Uppsala Sweden SE06
Telia Mobitel AB (Ltd) SE-42102 Västra Frölunda Sweden SE05
Chalmers University of Technology AB SE-41288 Götenborg Sweden SE05
Götenborg Health and Medical Services SE-40334 Götenborg Sweden SE05
Emergency and Disaster Planning and Education Bohus County Council and Gothenburg Health and Medical Services SE-40150 Göttenborg Sweden SE05
Eastern Health and Social Services Board UK-BT2 8BS Belfast GB UKB
North Ireland Ambulance Service HSS Trust UK-BT2 8BS Belfast GB UKB
Traffic Control and Systems. Grant Group Ltd UK-BT12 5GT Belfast GB UKB
Lancashire Ambulance Service. NHS Trust UK-PR3 5LN Preston Lancashire GB UK83
Eastern Health Board IE-Dublin 8 IE IE002
Hospital de Egas Moniz PT-1300 Lisboa Porutgal PT13
Centro de Estudos de Novas Tecnolgias de Informaçao aplicadas à Saúde PT-1300 Lisboa Porutgal PT13
Hospital de Santa Cruz PT-2795 Linda a Velha Porutgal
Serviço Nacional de Protecçao Civil PT-1200 Lisboa Porutgal PT13
Instituto Nacional de Emergência Médica PT-1700 Lisboa Porutgal PT13
Prisma Europa - Serviços e Tecnologia Integradas, AEIE PT-1400 Lisboa Porutgal PT13
SAMU'92 - CENTRE 15 FR-92380 Garches France FR1
Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris FR-75004 Paris France FR1
Centre d'Etudes Supérieures Industrielles FR-94250 Gentilly France FR1
Bremer Institut für Betriebstechnik und angewandte Arbeitswissenschaft an der Universität Bremen DE-28359 Bremen Germany DE5
Stadtkrankenhaus Cuxhaven, DE-27474 Cuxhaven Germany DE
Italtel Telesis Spa IT-00148 Roma Italy IT6
Institut International pour l'Innovation BE-1050 Bruxelles Belgium BE1
Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas GR-711 10 Heraklion Greece GR43
National Center for Emergency Care GR-11527 Athens Greece GR3
Eastern Crete Development Organization GR-71303 Heraklion Greece GR43
Knossos Technologies S.A. GR-71110 Heraklion Greece GR43
Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation S.A. GR-15124 Athens Greece GR3

Project Objectives, Summary Description and Anticipated Results

Most projects and research done in Health Care Emergency systems and activities, lacks from multidisciplinary approach to allow solutions as a whole, mainly due to multiplicity of scenarios, diversity of functions and agents involved.

HECTOR (Health Emergency management and Coordination through Telematics Operational Resources) main goal is to fill the actual gap, making available an integrated and interoperable solution, based mainly on existing technology and incorporating multimedia and telecommunications new capabilities, to satisfy in a innovative manner these needs, with an optimum cost benefit trade off.

The integrated Telematic System conceived will satisfy following aspects :

  • able to react promplty and efficiently to any emergency situation,

  • allowing clinical data transmission flow bidirectionally,

  • with a virtual telepresence of medical expertise at the point of care,

  • allocating the correct amount and type of resources,

  • guaranting continuity of care within a framework of service and quality,

  • minimising the intervention time and

  • providing training to professionals and information to citizens.

Throughout the HECTOR project, the main emphasis will be to assure the interoperability of the systems, with a complete definition of the interfaces of the different modules, in conformity with the actual existing standars in an intensitive and significative verification stage, through complete life cycle.

Other Characteristics of the Project:

Users involved
The group of users is composed by the outstanding Health Emergency management organisations in 9 countries in various sociodemographic scenarios ranging from highly populated areas to rural and isolated places.
Technologies and/or approach used
Fixed and mobile communications for transmission media (LAN & WAN Networks, PSDN, GSM, ...) telediagnostic multimedia terminals, user terminals for mobile units, geographicals positioning system (GPS) and information system (GIS), etc
Expected benefits for the citizen
Guarantee of having an optimal level of healthcare provision in emergency situations, regardless of the location of the accident, the catastrophe or simply where they demand health attention.
Expected benefits for the users of the application
To be able of counting on a "standard product" (integrated system) transferable to any interested party and thus, for further collaborations, to dispose of the same products communicable and understandable among them.
Expected benefits for the European Industries
To count on a product already developed and evaluated (great saving in engineering/develop lost, testing / QA cost, etc.). Moreover the offering of integrated system for an efective management of emergency situations, is an open market for companies devoted to ITGT.
Contribution to EU-policies
The policy of free circulation of citizens will be guaranteed with applications like HECTOR. The Bangemann Report clearly stablish the needs for the emergency operations regarding interoperability and shareability of information. Also G-7 projects will be complemented.

Validation Sites

EPES-061 Sevilla Andalucía ES
OC-118 Brescia Lombardia IT
NIAS Belfast Northern Ireland UK
HECC-SOS Goteborg Vaetsverige SE
SAMU CENTRE 15 Garches Ile de France FR
OSP. NIGUARDA Milano Lombardia IT
FORTH Heraklion Kriti GR

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