An International Background
EMISPHER (Euro-Mediterranean
Internet-Satellite Platform for Health, Education and
Research) is a project co-funded by the European Commission
in the frame of the programme EUMEDIS
that aims at promoting cooperation between the countries
of the mediterranean area.
EMISPHER is supported by the European
Commission for a 2 years period : September 2002 - August
2004.
Other EUMEDIS projects in the area of Health
:
- BURNET
( Euro-Mediterranean Burn Centres Network )
- EMPHIS
( Euro-Mediterranean Public Health Information System )
- EUMED
- PARADIGMA
( PARticipative Approach to DIsease Global MAnagement
)
Networking health professionals
The 17 project partners are mostly institutions from the Health sector : hospitals, medical faculties, agencies and ministries, associations, education centres etc ...
Their role is to organise and participate to initiatives that aim to :
| • | foster networking between all health care professionals in the Euro-Mediterranean countries |
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| • | develop the virtual Euro-Mediterranean Medical University, establish durable medical and scientific links |
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| • | offer high-level remote-consultation services and remote medical expertise |
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| • | facilitate the participation of Mediterranean countries in medical and pharmacological research, as well as clinical tests |
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| • | ensure the continuity of medical care in cases where patients have to be repatriated |
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| • | contribute to a database comprising epidemiological information, medical education content, etc... |
An integrated internet-satellite service platform
From a technical point of view, EUTELSAT
and Telemedicine Technologies S.A. join
their efforts to offer an advanced integrated internet-satellite
service platform dedicated to healthcare.
The objective is to set-up a flexible infrastructure answering
the multiple expectations of the medical community in terms
of variety of services (for education, tele-health, research),
quality of services (broadband ...), access requirements,
ease of use, prices and geographical coverage.
Please refer to the MedSKY section of this web site for
additional information.
A "mutualist" approach
A challenge is to set up a permanent infrastructure offering
common minimum services : shared broadcasting satellite capacity, hosting, directory, broadcasting and
tele-consultation services etc...
This approach aims at proposing an affordable subscription
cost while taking in charge most of the technical problems : installation of satellite terminals, interconnexion
to the local area network, software maintenance etc ...
Additional services will be available on an "on-demand"
basis.
International Conferences
Four major conferences will be organised to share experiences
during project's life time :
| • Casablanca (Morocco) : | "E-Learning in medicine" |
| • Cairo (Egypt) : | "Public Health in the Euro-mediterranean" |
| • Nicosia (Cyprus) : | "Continuity of care" |
| • Istanbul (Turkey) : | "Telemedicine : best practices" |
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