Project coordinator : MSPB Bagatelle
Duration of the project : 18 months
Project commencement date : 1/10/2002 |
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The MEDEXIS project aims at implementing and developing an expertise virtual network using satellite multicast facilities and combining expertise sharing through live demonstration, virtual meetings and tutored expertise transfer and that will contribute to competence transfer from excellence centers to hospital, clinic, universities employing less qualified practitioners and students.
Good practice concerning new techniques, instruments handling, relevant gestures is transferred and contributes to the improvement of the global health care. Much more than the technical/satellite network validation is the validation of a generic concept of diffusion including multicast performance over satellite and pedagogical support to the expertise formulation to transfer expertise and medical knowledge of famous experts, surgeons to a large set of health care users (surgeons, students, nurses, specialists).
The concept is thought to be opened to different medical fields : Mini-Invasive Surgery (MIS) and Chronic Respiratory Diseases (CRD) which are quite different application fields, have been chosen to provide us with a reliable validation of the concept of tranferring expertise and knowledge via multicast satellite network and associated with a pedagogical support.
Strategy is improved by the design and integration of a unic service platform and a virtual private network, optimised for quality, security and costs.
The system will be thereafter extended, in the deployment phase to multiple medical disciplines (neurology, gynecology, …) and coverage (East and Mediterranean countries), and completed by remote expertise which is already prototyped by the MIS environment.
The project organisation relies on a complemarity of the partners by federating sensible competences such as telecommunication, medical expertise and multimedia training, to ensure optimal benefits for the patient confort and security with a good effectiveness cost..
Among MIS laparoscopic surgery (LS) has prouven its efficiency regarding benefit for patient (less pain, shorter hospitalisation) and cost effectiveness 65% on post-operating.
LS requiers long training, there is a huge demand over Europe . Similarly, CRD better knowledge dissemination will improve and harmonise the level of qualification of respiratory professional over Europe and then the level of care administered to the patients. The dissemination of such results contributes so in the global improvement of care quality |
| | The main objective of the project is a full scale Market Validation of a new family of educational services for the medical professionals using multimedia over the satellite.
The project will focus on two specific medical applications, Mini-Invasive Surgery (at present 20% of the surgical interventions are realized in Europe and our challenge is to reach 80% during the next 10 years) LS is performed through television imaging system, it’s one of the best example for teleteaching.
And Chronic Respiratory Diseases (which concerns 38 millions of european people). The technical objective of this choice is to demonstrate the exploitation of all main means to carry medical information : sound (CRD-lung noise recordings), image (CRD-radiographies) and video (MIS).
Another objective is to optimise the existing and up-coming capabilities of the technological infrastructure to the pedagogical services set-up, by using resources specialised in each specific field (multimedia training, telecommunications technology, medical content providers and adapters).
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First, the pedagogical structure of the course will be adapted in order to optimally present the course material by best exploiting technology. In parallel the telecommunication networking structure will be tailored to fit the needs of the aforementioned design.
This knowledge (cost of equipment, requirement of bandwidth, etc..) will allow to prepare a first version of the business plan for the end of the first eight months of the validation phase. After the first eight months period, the technology infrastructure will get ready and installed. Simultaneously, the course will be realised, according to the pre-designed structure, and then deployed for the system commisioning.
At this time, the full chain is optimised, including content production and shaping, data transmission and hosting. Fine tuning of the technology will focus next on interoperability issues between protocols and standards. Integration of transmission, reception modules, installation of host computers and interfacing of commercial video equipment with the telecommunication infrastructure are key parts of the technological work.
Evaluation material will be prepared in order to assess the quality of the overall service (from pedagogical details to possible technological issues). Pricing issues will be addressed. Then experimental courses will be dispensed to experienced pupils, which-preferably- would have already received this training by the same tutors in real classrooms. Then the dispensed courses will be refine for taking into account the first reaction of the users. The same cycle will be repeated up to reliable operational service is obtained.
Last period, from month eleven to month eighteen, is dedicated to users acceptance, statistics collection and final processing of the service. Works on the validation with hypotheses of marketing and exploitation are led from the beginning by the project, the orientations are valided to etablish the business plan. The business plan is re-engineered on the basis of the final service assessment and optimisation and the final version is delivered at the end of the project.
Dissemination efforts which will be undertaken, will focus to unveil the optimal pricing profile, to understand the use of the service interest for other market niches to be exploited during the deployment phase and beyond, to inform lead users on the emergence of this new category of service, using also European medical web sites. |
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| | Set up of an expertise virtual service, based on a progressive constitution of a knowledge database, a virtual private networks optimized for quality, cost, and security criteria that is already expected to increase in terms of services, geographical and medical coverage.
Extension is already required for remote expertise, mainly for less developed countries.
Besides, the diffusion of the results is ensured by a medical portal, that will also open the access to contents for other medical teams by an extranet access.
By the use of this service, the medical staff formed per year should increase about 50%, then the project could contribute to promote the European expertise and exchanges of competences for a better quality of medical care. |
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Name of the project : MEDEXIS
Medical Expertise Dissemination over Satellite
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