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• Mr. Jan H. Van Bemmel
  

  Erasmus University
  Dept. of Medical Informatics P.O. Box 1738 NL-3000 DR Rotterdam The Netherlands	tel: 31 10 40 87 050 fax: 31 10 43 62 882 vanbemmel@mi.fgg.eur.nl
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• a more comprehensive and more consistent recording of patient data, images, videos, and biosignals in a multimedia patient record
• facilitating the provision of diagnostic and therapeutic information and support for health care professionals in an integrated manner
• telematic access to data, information and knowledge, wherever they are stored and from all places where physicians and patients are located, or for whatever purpose the data or the knowledge are needed
• shared care for cardiac patients within the hospital and with health care professionals in primary care and secondary care by means of electronic data interchange
• support of evidence-based care by remote electronic consultation, telemedicine services, and peer review
• access to a Reference Set of Patient Data on a regional, national, and European scale by means of Europe-wide communication services to assess quality of care and to support research.

This will be achieved by implementing on a European scale a multimedia-based cardiological workstation (for patient data, images, and biosignals) containing a generic multimedia patient record adapted for cardiology.

• Clinical users will be able to use the same patient data for the support of patient care; the quality assessment of care; management and planning, and medical research.
• The users will be able to integrate patient data (CPR, signals, images) in one workstation, the CPR being the central hub for all data. The workstation will be used for patient care and (at a later stage also for other tasks).