EHTO TELMED: The Impact of Telematics on the Healthcare Sector


	Updated: Sep 17, 97
SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1 Scope of This Report

This Report, Deliverable 02, provides an interim review of the work carried out and the provisional conclusions of the TELMED project. This Interim Report covers the following TELMED activities, as shown in Table 1 below:

Table 1: Work Activities Covered by Interim Report

WP WA Description

1

STATE OF THE ART REVIEW

1.1
Review available literature

1.2
Library search

1.3
Prelim expert interviews

1.4
Draft framework

2

APPLICATIONS AUDIT

2.1
Audit methodology

2.2
Data source search

2.3
Phone survey

2.4
Internet search

2.5
Review AIM and III Framework projects

2.6
National audits

2.7
Analysis

2.8
Interim Report

3

TELMED FORA

3.1
Contacts search

3.2
Database set up

3.3
Web page

3.4
Discussion Group monitoring

3.5
FORUM set up

3.6
Expert interviews

3.7
FORUM monitoring

3.8
FORUM meetings

3.9
Data analysis

As the Table shows, the work covered by this Report focuses on three work packages:

State of the art review of issues and practices in telematics for healthcare in Europe
An 'Applications Audit' which maps the geographical and sectoral distribution of telematics applications and interventions in healthcare, and analyses these distributions in terms of 'clusters of scenarios'
A TELMED consultation and critical review mechanism where domain experts are given the opportunity to contribute to, discuss and critically review the project outputs by means of an on-line electronic 'Forum' on the Internet

The main findings of work package 1 are presented and discussed in detail in an earlier TELMED Report, Deliverable 1 "Report on State of the Art". In this Interim Report (Deliverable 2), we briefly revisit these early findings and examine the extent to which they need to be modified with regard to the results of the Applications Audit, and the feedback given to TELMED via the experts involved in the on-line Forum.

In this sense, Deliverable 2 represents an evolving portrayal of state of the art in telematics for healthcare, in which the initial objectives of the project (and the underlying view of telematics for health represented by those objectives) are re-assessed in the light of the understandings gained from the implementation of successive stages of research activities.

1.2 Structure of the Deliverable

This Deliverable is structured to reflect this 'evolving picture'. Following this Introduction, the Report is divided into the following sections:

Section 2: Initial Perspectives on Telematics for Healthcare

- Scope of the TELMED project: the initial brief and objectives
- Rationale of the approach and methodology
- Main findings of the state of the art review (Deliverable 1)

Section 3: Telematics for Healthcare 'On the Ground': Results of the Applications Audit

- Approach to the Applications Audit
- Data Analysis
- Main Conclusions

Section 4: Interim Conclusions and Review of the Project

- The different 'world views' identified by the project brief; the literature review; the European R&D world, and the reality represented by the applications audit
- What was learned: inadequacies and misconceptions of the approach and problems encountered
- The revised TELMED conceptual and methodological framework
- Implications for selection and implementation of case studies

Annexes:

Annex I: Applications Audit Methodology
Annex II: Country-by-country summaries of telematics for healthcare provision
Annex III: Case Studies Methodology
Annex IV: Shortlist of Cases

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Table 1: Work Activities Covered by Interim Report
WP	WA	Description
1		STATE OF THE ART REVIEW
	1.1	Review available literature
	1.2	Library search
	1.3	Prelim expert interviews
	1.4	Draft framework
2		APPLICATIONS AUDIT
	2.1	Audit methodology
	2.2	Data source search
	2.3	Phone survey
	2.4	Internet search
	2.5	Review AIM and III Framework projects
	2.6	National audits
	2.7	Analysis
	2.8	Interim Report
3		TELMED FORA
	3.1	Contacts search
	3.2	Database set up
	3.3	Web page
	3.4	Discussion Group monitoring
	3.5	FORUM set up
	3.6	Expert interviews
	3.7	FORUM monitoring
	3.8	FORUM meetings
	3.9	Data analysis



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SECTION 1:INTRODUCTION

1.1 Scope of This Report

1.2 Structure of the Deliverable

SECTION 1:
INTRODUCTION