Satcom-based eHealth applications for health data access and exchange

KosmoMed developed a satcom-based ICT solution providing eHealth application and services supporting private and public institutions, which allow extensive access to health data exchange and create a multidisciplinary platform to provide professional tools and eHealth services for professionals, patients and citizens in the field of eClinical studies, counselling and medical research. Information technology associated with satellite communication plays a fundamental role in the challenge to dematerialise any healthcare process/service, to make the process asynchronous (e.g. deferred tele-counselling), to render more scalable the use of human and material resources, to automatise the process through a direct acquisition of diagnostic data (machine to machine data acquisition), to bring healthcare operators, diagnostic instruments and apparatus near the patient/citizen. The KosmoMed project aims to develop a series of innovative products and services based on information & communication technology (ICT) - namely on satellite telecommunication technology - in order to improve the quality of healthcare services and sustain the growth of the telemedicine sector. The aim of the project was to develop a portfolio of ICT applications to provide physicians and other healthcare professionals with efficient telemedicine solutions, despite the status of deployment of terrestrial IP communications networks. KosmoMed developed telemedicine services for market exploitation based on the use of a commercial Satcom solution. Services share a common service for the bandwidth reservation; the system provides access to the agenda of healthcare professionals and allows users to book sessions which automatically request satellite band reservation.