Epirus-net: a wireless health telematics network in Greece

Author

Goulas, N.A. ; Nanou, D.G. ; Fotiadis, D.I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Ioannina Univ., Greece

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

3488

Abstract

The Region of Epirus, located in a rather isolated and up to now underdeveloped part of Greece, has made a significant effort in establishing and promoting an integrated environment for health care delivery through the development of a regional Health Telematics Network, the Epirus-Net. Epirus-Net is a fixed wireless data network, that gradually extends throughout the region and connects regional hospitals and health care centers. The network provides access to Integrated Electronic Health Record services, resource services (Directory of Healthcare Providers), educational services (distant learning courses on medicine) as well as specialized medical tele-conference and tele-consultation services. Within the context of this paper the network infrastructure and the computer-based patient record, CPR, system, is described.

Keywords

biomedical education; distance learning; health care; medical information systems; teleconferencing; telemedicine; Epirus-net; Greece; computer-based patient record; distant learning courses; fixed wireless data network; health care delivery; integrated environment; regional hospitals; specialized medical tele-conference services; tele-consultation services; underdeveloped part; wireless health telematics network; Asynchronous transfer mode; Communications technology; Hospitals; Intelligent networks; Medical services; Spine; Switches; Teleconferencing; Telematics; Telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7211-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1019583

Filename

1019583