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Updated: Jun 3, 97 |
HERMES | |
| Telematic healthcare remoteness and mobility factors in common Europeanscenarios |
| Project Nr: | HC 1021 | Group: V | Project Duration: 36 months |
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| Category: | European Specification for Quality-assured Telemedicine | ||
| Summary: | Telemedicine services platform based on implementation of QualityAssured Telemedicine Services. Initial applications ; Range of urgentresponse activities met on a 24-hour basis | ||
| Mission: | HERMES seeks to counter fragmented telemedicine in Europe, where systems are not usable across different national health services, through harmonisation based on agreed standards and methods for the development and quality assurance of services and technologies. The project will employ existing hardware, software and networks to establish its own corporate services network. With a single European number for access and automatic routing and security/access management, this will operate via national telemedicine access points controlling all communications. The initial focus will be on emergency telemedical services (urgent response services). Out of the current telemedical services in operation over 50 % of the requests are of an urgent response nature. | ||
| URL: | telemedicine.clh.ed.ac.uk/default.htm | ||
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| Name of Institution | City+Postal Code | Country | Region |
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| HealthSkills | Cullompton GB-EX15 3RX | GB | UK62 |
| Heriot-Watt University | Edinburgh GB-EH14 4AS | GB | UKA1 |
| DLR | Cologne D-51140 | Germany | DEA2 |
| Klinikum Remscheid | Remscheid D-42859 | Germany | DEA2 |
| Werum | Lueneburg D-21227 | Germany | DEA2 |
| INESC | Lisboa PT-1000 | Porutgal | PT13 |
| SRAS | Funchal PT-9050 | Porutgal | PT3 |
| University of Athens | Athens GR-11527 | Greece | GR3 |
| Technognosis | Athens GR-11147 | Greece | GR3 |
| Intrasoft | Athens GR-11525 | Greece | GR3 |
| Huntleigh Diagnostics (HNE) | Cardiff GB-CF2 2HB | GB | UK92 |
| University of Oxford | Oxford GB-OX1 2JD | GB | UK52 |
| HDMP | Brussels BE-1130 | Belgium | BE1 |
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Current healthcare telematic developments have resulted in ‘Islands of Telemedicine Activity’ which are not interoperable with one another and are not capable of widespread uptake in the disparate healthcare systems of Europe. HERMES seeks to provide a solution for these issues by implementing a proto-platform to ‘An Agreed European Specification for Quality Assured Telemedicine Services’. This will be achieved through a process of harmonisation utilising agreed medical and technical standards and accepted methods for the development, construction and quality assurance of both services and technologies. Previously developed hardware and software as well as current networks will be utilised, but HERMES will consider amongst other options, establishing a corporate network for its own services with a single European number and automatic routing and security/access control. National Telemedicine Access Points will exist to control all communications functions. A message passing system will be developed to allow doctors to control the services. The range of activities will be met on a 24-hour basis, in all clinical specialities and involves all users and providers in the healthcare enterprise. The ‘Initial HERMES Services Specification’ will include the range of urgent response activities that are necessary for ‘24-hour On-call Services’ for ‘Home-Based Services’ and for ‘Ambulatory-Care Services’. This will align well with the activities of G7 in telemedicine services. The Consortium will also produce ‘a portable vital-signs monitoring system’ based on previous EU Health Care Telematics work and constructed to meet the requirements for the HERMES Services. The Proto-Platform is expected to have a major impact on the uptake of services and the market potential includes carers of all types as well as patients and the relatives of patients. Once the Initial backbone structures are in place other quality assured services will be added and made interoperable throughout Europe for all citizens thus providing added value.
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Users involved On-Call Doctors, Nurses, Midwifes, Health Visitors; Isolated Citizens & Ambulatory/Home Care Patients; The Travelling Public and Transport Industry Staff; Healthcare Purchasers (Private and Public); Emergency/Urgent Response and High Dependency Service Providers; Healthcare Managers, Researchers. Technologies and/or approach used TQM(PRINCE) and the FEST Framework Approach; Integration/Harmonisation of Portable and Fixed Hardware, Networks and Multimedia Software; Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), SQL Database, RPC, OO-Programming (C++), RAD (DELPHI, VISUAL BASIC), V21, ISDN, PSTN, IP Networking, Tele-Video Conferencing. Expected benefits for the citizen Quality assured and cost-efficient healthcare-telematic services wherever mobility/isolation results in a separation from the information/advice required for acceptable care. Thus the Citizen will have Improved Access to Acceptable Care throughout Europe and will be Assured of Cost-Containment with Improved Quality of Service Provision Expected benefits for the users of the application Quality Assured Telemedicine Services which are interoperable throughout Europe. Improved team-care and acceptability of care; Improved access to care and to expert advice; Scaleable Services with a corporate network and single number access for urgent responses; Automatic routing and security/access control. Expected benefits for the European Industries This project aims at developing a horizontal open platform, on which developing Telemedicine Client and Provider Services and Technologies can inter-operate as Vertical Applications, leading potentially to a Client and Service Telemedicine Market Place. Contribution to EU-policies HERMES is a project that has arisen out of previous EU HCT R&D and seeks to improve access to care for all citizens. It is therefore in line with The White Paper and the Bangermann Report. It addresses the HCT Work-Programme HC tasks of 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 3.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.4 |
| University of Edinburgh,Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh | Edinburgh | Borders-Central-Fife-Lothian-Tayside | UK |
| Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V, Klinikum Remscheid | Cologne | Köln | DE |
| Secretaria Regional dos Assuntos Sociais | Funchal | Madeira | PT |
| Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores | Aveiro | Lisboa e Vale do Tejo | PT |
| Department Of Medical Physics,University of Athens | Athens | Attiki, Notio Aigaio | GR |
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