EuroConference on Telemedicine

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: HPCF-CT-1999-00169-02

Start date 15 December 2002

End date 14 December 2002

Funded under

• Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002)

Total cost € 0,00

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

Type of Event: Euro Conference
Sweden

Objective

Telemedicine, "medicine and health at a distance" is a method and tool on the way to be introduced in health care systems, worldwide. Telemedicine was proposed and introduced in the sector of maritime medicine in the early 1920s and pioneered in other fields during the 1940s and 1950s. Developments in telecommunications and other technologies initiated further technology focused telemedicine projects during the 1970s and 1980s. In the beginning of the 1990s there was a shift in research and telemedicine projects towards identifying and solving medical and health care system problems with telemedicine technology. This has been further strengthen during the latest years e.g. to see telemedicine as a tool to reorganise the health care system to offer more efficiency, effectiveness, quality and to offer the patients more service, freedom and safety, not the least amongst the growing part of elderly in Europe. Although we have decades of telemedicine experiences in the technology and health care community, still very few applications are used in the day to day clinical practice.

There are many reasons for this slow development:
a) health care is a very special "business" sector with its unique requirements;
b) it is a truly multidisciplinary environment;
c) the infrastructure (standards) are nor yet fully developed;
d) the cost-benefit relation of telemedicine is not yet proven sufficiently. On the other hand the potential for telemedicine is huge both regarding the benefits in the social and health care systems as well as for industrial developments and business.

Fields of science

• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › information engineering › telecommunications

Programme(s)

• FP5-HUMAN POTENTIAL - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002)

Topic(s)

• 1.4.1.-3.1S3 - Engineering Sciences

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

ACM - Preparatory, accompanying and support measures

Coordinator

Type of Event: Euro Conference

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: This event takes place in Gothenburg ; ; Sweden
• Total cost: No data