title: Health care in remote areas.
abstract: Migration from space medicine toward telemedicine services is described by potential application areas in highly populated and remote areas of Europe. Special emphasis is laid upon links between mobile patient monitoring and health care in remote areas. Pilot projects are described for home (mobile) monitoring of newborn infants endangered by sudden infant death (SID) and adults suffering from sleep apnoea. Health care in remote areas is described by the "TeleClinic-project" which will link national nodes for telemedicine services in several European states for the mobile European citizen. Another project describes the future potential of robotics for semiautonomous ultrasound diagnostics and for realtime interaction of remote experts with diagnostics and therapy.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Aerospace Medicine, DLR Cologne, Germany.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Padeken
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sotiriou
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Boddy
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gerzer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000555:Ambulatory Care Information Systems; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007256:Information Systems; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012371:Robotics; D012423:Rural Health; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology; D013398:Sudden Infant Death / Q000517:prevention & control; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000458:organization & administration*