Updated: Jun 20, 97
Telematics for Healthcare

The Benefits

Increase the quality and the efficiency of health in Europe by allowing quicker access to the relevant infor mation

An industrial challenge

Some Problems to be Solved

• Who is responsible when taking advice from a distant colleague or from an expert system?
• Confidentiality and security of personal data
• Does it add to or substitute for existing costs?
• Investment, obsolence
• Running costs, maintenance
• Who pays?
• User-friendliness of applications
• Fragmentation of decision responsabilities

Some Examples of Applications domains

• Information to citizens
• Helping health professionals
• Hospital without walls and home care
• Helping industry (pharmaceutical, medical equipment and devices)
• Helping administrators and planners

A brief History of European support

• 1989-1990 AIM (Advanced Informatics in Medicine)
  exploratory phase, 20 million ECUs cost-shared projects.
• 1991-1994 110 MECUS, 36 projects, 5 concerted actions, 2 accompanying measures
• 1994-1998 A sector within the Telematics Applications Programme 135 MECUs 70 projects in the 1995 first call for tender, for 77 MECUs

Some salient results

• Emergence of a "Health Care Telematics Community in Europe
• Progress in common specifications and standards (transmission of medical signals & images, medical records, data cards, ...) Creation of TC251 in CEN
• Successful applications pilots and products in many domains (pathology, transplants,…)

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