Today I want to share impressive information about telemedicine practice in Europe. In Europe Unit eTEN programme supports deployment of e-services of public interest among the member countries. One of the main area of focus is e-Health, which promotes health and improves the prevention of illness. E-Health main objective is to remote access to patients who need specialized care, home care and ones living independently with chronic diseases. E-Health uses ICT to reach the objective. In 2005, e-health started pilot project, to provide remote e-health services chronic patients through Healthservice-24.
Healthservice-24 was innovative, integrated mobile healthcare service for supporting patient and health care professionals’ mobility. The initial project focused on COPD patients, Cardiac patients and High risk pregnancies care while decreasing healthcare expenditure. It used HS24 system, patient is equipped with sensors interconnected under a Body Area Network (BAN) managed by mobile telephone or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). The information is constantly transmitted via UMTS/GPRS network wirelessly to medical professionals. The system had content management functionality, which allowed immediate analysis of individual body data and personalized patient feed-back. Healthcare professionals remotely accessed the data to treat patient and in case of emerge data centre sent SMS alarm along with immediate primary level treatment. The result of the project was impressive; patients gave thumps up to ITC and e-health management. However, successful implementation of technology is always subject organizational matters like changes in conventional care pertaining to hospital as well as insurance policy and the legislation.
http://www.healthservice24.com/Internet/external/cms/indexca28.html?inst=healthservice24
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