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A Telemedicine Application Service to support medical activities in remote areas and mobility situations
An experimental system (DELTASS project) has been developed and demonstrated (4 full scale demonstrations) in 2001-2002 under a European Space Agency grants.
For further details about the demonstrations, please refer to the following links:
This experimental system combining medical, information and satellite technologies appears as a valuable tool to support medical services in remote and mobility situations including disaster context. I-DISCARE project aims to deploy the system among the users' community.
I-DISCARE ASP: a service provider
The sharing of the system features between different customers will lead to a very reasonable offer
The I-DISCARE consortium involves the following partners:
The European Space Agency (ESA)
MEDES
ELSACOM
NST (Norwegian Center for Telemedicine)
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The I-DISCARE system has been designed to deliver supports to mobile medical actors (General Medical practitionner, Search and Rescue Teams, First Medical Aid Teams and Ambulance teams) working in remote area, in a disaster medicine scenario or in a simple mobility context. These supports allow a better co-ordination of the mobile teams (teams' localisation, patients' data transmission and audio communications between field actors and dispatching console). Using the I-DISCARE Information System, a better patients' medical hand-over becomes possible.
I-DISCARE system allows:
- Permanent exchanges (voice, medical data, logistics instructions) between field actors and dispatching room consoles' operators (located in their permanent centre).
- early patient identification,
- early patient's objective medical data available,
- early start of patient's medical file and therefore a better medical and operational traceability,
- early preparation for the patient hospitalisation
- early "triage" medical process,
- a real time treacability of events concerning the patient is available, the history of the operations is permanently available
Thanks to the satellites technologies (GPS and Globalstar) utilisation the I-DISCARE Information system can be used in remote area, in disaster context (when ground infApplication Servertructures are destroyed). The area shall be covered by Globalstar (covered area) and GPS Network.
The main components of the I-DISCARE system are (click on each component to get further details):
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Who are the potential users ?
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For further details on the potential users and the related offers, go to the customer offers.
- General MD working in remote or isolated regions (for expert advice...)
- Sanitary Institution in remote or isolated regions for medical advice
- Medical Emergency Institutions covering remote or isolated regions
- Ambulance Companies working in remote or isolated regions
- Fire Brigade covering remote or isolated regions
- Civilian protection organisation working in disaster context (no more ground telecom infApplication Servertructure)
- Humanitarian medicine organisation (NGO) working specially in foreign countries
- Companies working off-shore and in isolated areas
- Mountain Emergency Organisation
- Ships, Sailors in connection with Maritime Medical Assistance companies or institution
- Airlines Company (onboard the long term flights using the onboard satellite link)
- Medical Assistance Company (Mondial Assistance, Europe Assistance, Axa Assistance ?.)
- Military Medical Departments
- Other ?..
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