A Medical Assistance platform will be ready up from start of EMISPHER project.

250 user sites will be selected to participate within this network by IMA (with active support of University of Cyprius out of its existing works.

Within the EMISPHER project we are focusing on the services necessary to allow efficient cooperation of the regional healthcare structures with external actors, and in specific the Assistance companies.

The main objective is to provide professionals involved in medical care, to remote rural populations, and travellers with a set of services to improve continuity of care at regional, national, and international levels, through the efficients cooperation of the regional healthcare structures with the Assistance companies. It is critical that all involved actors should obtain and exchange objectives medical data consulting an accurate and reliable image of a patien medical status and history.

The challenge faced by the EMISPHER project is to demonstrate that efficient and cost-effetcive cooperation facilities will enable the medical assistance community to make profit of the recent developments in networking.

In achieving the expressed objective the project will :

• Install a dedicated Java client software on each recruited site and perfomr on-site training of the users,

• Where necessary and possible - estimation is 1 centre out af 10 - interconnect that software to the local information system avoid double data entry,

• Operate the platform for the duration of the project and, organize and improve on-line training methodologies,

• Organize users feedback and establish a set of recommendations to adapt the proposed standardised medical assistance procedures; asses the usage of satellite capacity for the transmission of medical imagery components.