HealthService 24 (eTEN)

Continuous Mobile Services for Healthcare (eTEN)

Project Manager: Prof. dr. Dimitri Konstantas

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Tel.: +31 53 489 4880

Email: d.konstantas@utwente.nl

Project website: HealthService 24 (eTEN-517352)

Project Summary

The forthcoming wide availability of high bandwidth public wireless networks will give

rise to new mobile health care services. Towards this direction, the HealthService24 –

Continuous Mobile Services for Healthcare aims at realizing the mobile health dream by

an integrated mobile health service supporting patients and health care professionals

mobility.

A patient using the HealthService24 is equipped with diverse vital constant sensors

interconnected under a wireless Body Area Network managed by a PDA or a mobile

telephone and worn on the body, and thus moving around with the person. The measurements are transmitted wirelessly using UMTS (or GPRS) to a data center, from

where the data is transferred to the health care providers/ health care professionals. The

data center is also collecting the data, sending SMS or other type of alarms when

needed, providing technical support and the 1-level medical support for the service

users. This way healthcare professionals can remotely assess, diagnose and treat patients

whilst the patients are free to continue with daily life activities.

Being aware of the fact that previous technological innovations in this field were not

commercially successful because they neglected crucial issues such as social and

economic aspects, changes in medical work practices and even standardization of

technologies and integration with existing medical information systems, the consortium

will collaborate with health insurers, medical services providers, mobile network

operators, hospital organizations and law firms and make sure that the whole healthcare

value chain will be incorporated into a business and deployment approach. The

HealthService24 will define the needs, expectations and requirements of all members of

the value chain and will create benefits for all value chain members, as only such an

approach can make a sustainable market deployment possible.

The HealthService24 can potentially be used in many areas, ranging from patient

management to sports and rehabilitation, and from illness prevention to patients’

treatment. The most relevant application areas are post hospitalisation, public health

care and home care; the targeted users include post-hospitalisation patients, patients

with chronic diseases/ problems or high-risk patients.

Not only the patient mobility but also the medical personnel mobility will be targeted -

the idea is to replace the traditional medical bag with an advanced Med-BAN system

assisting the practitioner in diagnosis and treatment. The service will be implemented by

hospitals and public healthcare organizations.

The starting point of the project is an existing prototype - a technically validated and

fully functioning mobile platform and solution for ambulant patient monitoring over

public wireless networks developed within the MobiHealth project financed by the

European Union under the IST programme (IST-2001-36006). The objective of the

HealthService24 project is to validate the existing service on the market in order to have

a fully marketable solution and at the end. The solution will be validated and fine-tuned

to the extent that will enable a sustainable market deployment following the 18-months

market validation phase.

HS24 publications UT

Project duration: 18 months / 2005-2006

Project budget: 15.4 M-€ / 1.2 M-€ funding

Number of person/years: 16.5 fte

Project Coordinator: Ericsson

Participants: Ericsson, UT/CTIT, University of Cyprus, Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona, Medisch Sprectrum Twente-Enschede, LITO Polyclinic-Cyprus, Twente Medical Systems International B.V., YUCAT.

Project budget CTIT: 422.4 k-€ / 211.2 k-€ funding

Number of person/years CTIT: 2.89 fte

Involved groups: Architecture and Services of Network Applications (ASNA)

CTIT Strategic Research Orientation: ASI (A-services Internet)

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