Background

Existing ICT systems are primarily designed and developed with the aim of supporting entertainment applications and do not embrace the security, reliability and availability expected from a wide range of existing or future telemedicine applications.

Purpose

The project will partly uncover which types of telemedicine experiments that can be performed today with a high probability of success and what it will take for future (thought) processes, and partly uncover how infrastructure can be upgraded/modified in terms of stability, availability and safety for home care patients.

The project will launch a report on the maturity of the Danish ICT platform for telemedicine use and identify opportunities for improvement. The project will simultaneously develop a questionnaire for patients and the health care system in order to quickly clarify whether the infrastructure and the patients are "ripe" for a given home health care service.

The project will simultaneously pursue dialogue with infrastructure providers and different types of health care professionals.

Expected Results

The project partners expect to establish a system at different levels that can reveal which demands a specific telemedicine treatment require from the ICT system, and to create a structured analysis of the patient's existing ICT solution and ICT properties. In addition, they will make a mapping of how complicated and risky it would be to initiate the desired treatment, and whether the treatment can be performed outside the patient's own home - for example at work, with family or in public spaces.