A tele-medicine service over satellite network.
The main objective of paper is to describe a proposed tele-medicine pilot is for establishing a telemedicine network in a Private Healthcare Organization, to be developed in the frame of the ESA project, HOSTHOST - HELLAS SAT Offering in Satellite Communications, ESA sponsored project: "


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Satcom Network Systems and Services". The HOST program focuses on the development of the Hellas Sat commercial offering in end-to-end satellite telecommunication services for supporting the delivery of bidirectional (broadband) applications in Greece, the Balkans, SE Europe, and the Middle East. To this effect a satellite broadband network will be implemented and operated 5 remote sites, three of them acting as trainers and the rest two as trainees The pilot system will allow real time exchanges of medical records to aid tele-diagnosis, coordination of medical and administrative processes, tele-assistance using videoconferencing; distant medical equipment or medical records (images and examinations, allergies, medical history, etc) monitoring and real time tele-diagnosis by specialized medical doctors on remote sites.
Intracom Telecoms S.A. tpli@intracom.gr
Thomas
T
Pliakas
Serafeim
S
Dermeitzoglou
Christos
C
Papachristos
Artur
A
Krukowski
D003199:Computer Systems; D005060:Europe; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems; D010865:Pilot Projects; D017215:Satellite Communications; D017216:Telemedicine; D014584:User-Computer Interface