European
Commission, 4th Framework - Health Telematics Applications
Programme
The
aim with the project is the design and development of a
mobile/portable medical device usable for medical
emergencies in European Countries that will allow telediagnosis,
remote supervision, and teleconsultation of mobile health
care providers by specialised physicians located in key
positions or sites. In the design of the proposed system
emphasis will be given on the image and biosignal acquisition
and processing units, the GSM transmission/reception multimedia
telematics unit, the teleconferencing and teleconsulting
software tools, and a distributed DBMS environment for storage
and retrieval of multimedia information.The proposed device
will allow the acquisition and transmission of critical
biosignals as well as the acquisition and transmission of
images of the patient, that will allow for a visual inspection.
The
Co-ordinator for this project is the National Technical
University of Athens and the other partners are: Ericsson
Infocom Consultants-Sweden, Eurotechnology-Sweden, Malmo
Cardiologiska Instituten-Sweden, Epsilon Software-Greece,
Athens Medical Centre-Greece, Medical Diagnosis & Treatment-Greece,
Panafon-Greece, R&S Informatica-Italy, and Ministry
of Health-Cyprus.