Paper Info
Title
Innovative ICT Platform for Emerging eHealth Services: Towards Overcoming Technical and Social Barriers and Solving Grand Challenges in Medicine
Abstract
The progress in solving grand challenges in eHealth is not as dynamic as the development of advanced Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Despite many accomplished achievements in research, systems and solutions available on the market are not comprehensive. There are two main reasons for this: the progress in overcoming existing barriers is insufficient and we will face a social revolution corresponding to the expected development of Future Internet and the transformation into ubiquitous society. The paper presents a possible solution for this situation and is relevant for two important topics: telemedicine/eHealth services and integration between classical medicine and eHealth. We introduce the concept of innovative ICT platform for eHealth services which arose within an advanced Polish eInfrastructure. Accordingly, the paper is focused on well characterized components of this infrastructure, which are already used by different eHealth projects and activities. The set of components include PIONIER Optical Network, GRID computing infrastructure, virtual laboratories, video content distribution system, digital libraries and high definition videoconferencing. These components allow to create an integrated eHealth living laboratory platform which lets users to participate in a new model of interaction where doctors, nurses, patients interact with virtual space and at the same time they use real facilities available in hospitals, which are to be parts of the lab infrastructure. The pilot realization of this concept has begun to enable applications for disease research and treatment organization, virtual laboratory for medical imaging, clinical decision support system, medical teleeducation and teleconsultations. This is the way we propose to break down technical and social barriers and possibly accelerate solving grand challenges in medicine.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/eTELEMED.2010.13
eTELEMED
Keywords
Field
DocType
social barriers,ehealth services,advanced information,virtual space,lab infrastructure,grid computing infrastructure,virtual laboratory,integrated ehealth,different ehealth project,innovative ict platform,grand challenge,ehealth service,towards overcoming technical,advanced polish einfrastructure,ehealth,information and communication technology,information and communication technologies,digital libraries,ubiquitous computing,health care,medical imaging,clinical decision support system,digital library,grid computing,living lab,internet
Telemedicine,Virtual Laboratory,Knowledge management,Grand Challenges,eHealth,Information and Communications Technology,Ubiquitous computing,Living lab,Videoconferencing,Medicine
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.34
9
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cezary Mazurek15415.65
Maciej Stroinski2216.49