Developing, implementing, qualifying and validating a telemedicine system aimed at reducing the impacts of chronic diseases, improving lifestyles and empowering citizens

The TESHEALTH project is dedicated to developing, implementing, qualifying and validating a telemedicine system promoting the use of satellite communications aimed at reducing the impacts of chronic diseases, improving lifestyles and empowering citizens to adopt a healthier behaviour. Primary prevention promoting the adoption of a healthy lifestyle is becoming an integral part of a number of national healthcare systems programmes. The presence of a comprehensive methodology for disease prevention, surveillance of behavioural risk factors and lifestyle adoption plays an important role in facilitating the implementation of a healthcare prevention programme. Telemedicine, due to its ability to gather, transfer, share and process user’s data will very likely become a fundamental enabler for the implementation of such a methodology. The “universality” of the proposed services becomes an imperative and a driver for the project: all people shall have the same opportunity to access services that promote the diseases prevention and healthy lifestyle. The integration of the satellite network with other types of networks (XDSL, Wifi, GPRS, etc.) as redistribution systems can provide a competitive solution in specific instances. The possibility to exploit the terminals in the ASSISTED and SELF-CARE scenarios, helps to optimise the usage of communication resources and lower the operating expenses for terminals and therefore for users.