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EMISPHER

Number: EUMEDIS B7-4100/2002/2165-083 P110, Strand 2 - Sector 1 - project 110
Title: EMISPHER (Euro-Mediterranean Internet-Satellite Platform for Health,
medical Education and Research)
Other Participants: Eutelsat (F); Telemedicine Technologies (F), IsMett, Palermo (I), ANDS (DZ), EHTEL (B), University of Cyprus (CY), Aïn Shams University (EG), Nasser Institute for Research and Treatment Ministry of Health and Population (EG), CICE (F), IMA (F), SEPELM (F), FORTH (GR), Casablanca Medical Faculty (MO), Istanbul Medical Faculty (TU), Faculty of Medicine of Tunis (TN), National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) "Demokritos" (GR)
Duration: 9/2002 - 8/2004

Aims:

establishing an equal access, for all countries of the Euro-Mediterranean area, to the quality of service which is required for the delivery of online services for health care
in order to widely promoting and disseminating high priority application services
and developing a sustainable economic model for a minimum set of quality services

The project is putting together the cutting edge European technology developed in the frame of previous EU funded projects, to provide an integrated Internet and Satellite platform, dedicated to health applications, and covering the whole Euro-Mediterranean area. Mature satellite technologies as shown in the very successful EU project GALENOS, can be cost-effective if combined with appropriate internet application services, to guarantee the required bandwidth when and were it is required, and therefore achieve the required quality of service (response time, quality of video transmissions and large medical records, synchronisation of databases etc.). Thanks to the advances performed in previous projects (ET-ASSIST, HC1016 - GALENOS, # 45592- TEN-TELEMED, # 45653) and to additional industrial investments, such a platform will be available right from the beginning of the project.

Three priority applications will be hosted :
· e-learning applications to develop the concept of cross-Mediterranean Virtual Medical University; establish a permanent medical and scientific link and contribute to limit corresponding emigration flows
· real-time telemedicine applications for remote expertise and second opinion and foster cross-Mediterranean cooperation at expert level or for research
· shared management of the medical assistance file in case of repatriation of travellers or expatriates, a service which is expected to significantly contribute to the continuity of care throughout the whole Euro-Mediterranean arc

A network of 10 expert centres (Medical faculties and leading hospitals) will be permanently interconnected and create a contribution network of medical centres able to foster the widest cooperation in the long term. These centres will be equipped with bi-directional satellite terminals enabling a permanent mesh connection between the various regional
areas of up to 2Mbps. It is the intention of the project to extend this network to up to 25 centres, on the basis of public regional or private initiatives.
These centres will work as "hub" centres for a wider network, built on the existing cooperation in the medical assistance area, constituted of 250 medical centres (distribution network). These centres will be interconnected using a technology demonstrated in project ET-ASSIST (European Telemedicine for Medical Assistance) enabling the exchange of multimedia patient record elements and the electronic management of the workflow in relation with medically assisted repatriations.