Initial Project Information: ISAR-T
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ISAR-T

Integration System Architecture Telematics

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Project Nr: HC 1027 Group: IV Project Duration: 18 months
Key words:
Category:Coordinated Health Care from Hospitals and Doctors
Summary: The project will identify, develop, evaluate and run an applicationkernel offering services within and between hospitals and between hospitals and GPs'. To support the continuity of care and enhance its quality and to control cost.
Mission:ISAR-T will pioneer and evaluate core telematics applications for partnerships within and among hospitals and general practitioners to enhance the continuity and quality of cost-effective care in Europe. It will aim to provide carefully evaluated integrated services transferable across the partnership sites of a five-country hospital consortium. The project will identify the requirements of doctors and hospital managers, reconciling broad problem-solving strategies with the need for local effectiveness. It will also develop a quality evaluation methodology to support the activities of all partners.
URL: www.univ-lille2.fr/isart/

Coordinator(s)

  • Mr. Regis Beuscart
    Cerim
    1, Place de Verdun
    F-59045 Lille
    France     		tel: +33 3 20 52 69 70
    fax: +33 20 52 10 22
    rbeuscart@chru-lille.fr
    url:

  • Mr. Alexandre Souf
    ISAR-T/DIM (Department for Medical Information)
    Hopital Clamette
    F-59 037 Lille Cedex
    France
    		tel: +33 3 20 44 69 90
    fax: . +33 3 20 44 69 45
    asouf@chru-lille.fr

Participants:

Name of InstitutionCity+Postal CodeCountryRegion
Centre Hospitalier de Roubaix Roubaix F-59056 F FR 3
Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing Tourcoing, F-59208 F FR 3
Armentières formation médicale continue Armentières F-59280 F FR 3
PREMIUM s.a. Grez-Doiceau B-1390 Belgium BE 31
Université Libre de Bruxelles Bruxelles B-1050 Belgium BE 1
Turku University Central Hospital Turku SF-20520 Finland
Turku Health Office Turku SF-20700 Finland FI
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Finland Tampere, SF-3101
Digital Equipment France Evry F-91007 F FR 1
CERIM - Ganymède Lille, F-59045 F FR 3
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Grupo de Bioingenieria y Telemedicina Madrid, E-28040 Spain ES 3
MEDICOM B-Bruxelles Belgium BE 1
CENTIS Lisboa P-1300 P PT 13
University of Nijmegen Nijmegen NL-6525 EP Netherlands

Project Objectives, Summary Description and Anticipated Results

ISAR-T specifically focuses on the following question : "how can continuity of care be ensured, by means of Telematics, between a hospital and its partners?" We can consider three partners to a hospital: partners within the hospital, other hospitals, General Practitioners. These partners must benefit from INTEGRATED services, carefully EVALUATED and TRANSFERABLE from one site to another in Europe.

ISAR-T will identify, prototype and evaluate a kernel of Telematics Applications geared at offering services within hospitals, between hospitals, and between hospitals and General Practitioners, to support the continuity of care and enhance its quality and control cost.

ISAR-T is part of the strategy of five European hospitals in five countries, especially Transfrontiers between France and Belgium, and the Co-ordinator is one of them, namely the CHRU of Lille (F). So, ISAR-T aims at producing results that are useful, effective, practical and exploitable all over Europe by hospitals and General Practitioners.

The activities of the consortium will :

  • Be precisely tuned to the detailed needs and constraints of the users: elicitation of explicit and implicit user requirements is a key activity in ISAR-Telematics.
  • Conciliate both local effectiveness and universality of solution structures: common methodological and evaluation activities will support the identification of common issues and development of generic solutions; common application kernels will be prototyped in the domains concerned : inter-hospitals and inter GP-hospitals services.
  • Rely on up-to-date, but nevertheless safe technology, and conform to standards : ISAR-T will transfer into daily practice, technology developed in extreme situations, such as telemedicine for remote places.
  • Live up to quality standards: a continuous quality evaluation methodology will be developed in ISAR-T, to support the activities of all partners throughout the project’s life.

Other Characteristics of the Project:

Users involved
General practitioners, regional hospital physicians, university hospital physicians, general managers of regional and university hospitals
Technologies and/or approach used
  • Detailed analysis of the practitioners’ needs in their daily activities.
  • Rapid application prototype.
  • Networking ; E.D.I. ; Telematic services
Expected benefits for the citizen
Setting up an approach to ensure the continuity of care in the regions, and across national borders, by facilitating the communication between hospital and non-hospital practitionners.
Expected benefits for the users of the application
Resolution of practical basic integration issues at the regional level
Expected benefits for the European Industries
Creation of common kernels (for GPs to hospital communication, for Inter-hospital regional communication) based on the confrontation of requirements from five European countries.
Contribution to EU-policies
Setting up regional health care telematics services networks with transborder applications

Validation Sites

CHRU de Lille Lille Nord-Pas de Calais FR
ULB Bruxelles Bruxelles Bruxelles Cap B
Turku Hospital Turku Etelae-Suomi FI

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