This document discusses how telemedicine and technology could help improve European healthcare systems. It notes that Americans have developed military strength through technology while Europeans have stronger healthcare, but are aging. Telemedicine could help address issues like an older population. Successful telemedicine requires overcoming challenges like different priorities between medical and tech staff. Recent projects in Catalonia show telemedicine's potential. Living labs that involve users can also drive healthcare innovation. With the economic crisis, Europe has incentive to innovatively redesign its welfare systems using information and communication technologies.
3. “American are from Mars,
European are from Venus”
“Power and Weakness:
Why the United States and Europe
see the world differently”
By Robert Kagan
Foreign Affairs, June & July 2002
18. A first IT health
innovative project
• From an health problem and IT
Health Service
• To an IT health innovative project
• To a new IT Health Service...and
again
22. Current i2cat eHealth projects
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Eye-Health Tele-Ophthalmology
•
Linkcare Biomedical parameter home monitoring
•
Catalan TeleStroke Network TeleStroke emergency service
E-Health •
home
Help4Mood: A distributed system to support depressed people at
•
Attentianet Elderly home support platform
•
connectAlzheimer Pacient social network
•
LivingLab4Carers User driven tools development
•
SegureHealth RFID tracking & monitoring
•
Selene Multidisciplinary knowledge center (product innovation
trough livinglab procedures)
e-Dependence •
Visual-Health Medical media platform
24. TIC Salut:
the Public IT Health unit
• First victory: TIC Salut helps to coordinate
the IT policy in the Catalan Health
Department.
− Putting order in big IT health projects
Patient Medical Records
Electronic medicine recipes.
Digital image network
Personal health archive
• The eHealth is already established
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28. The new actor in IT Health:
The people
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29. 3. Open innovation
• User-driven innovation.
• Web 2.0, Living Labs,
• European Network of Living Labs.
• People are using Internet health services
faster than healthcare systems.
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35. Seniorlab: a LL project:
• A community of seniors interested in
independent living and innovation
– Seniors and Elders, a new age group.
– Innovation as a culture for promoting
independent way of living.
• Socialization
• Interest in novelty. Neotenia
• Learning again
• Designing their own future.
– The knowledge/wisdom society
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37. Some conclusions
• 1. IT Health can be strategic for reforming
the European Welfare systems.
• 2. The ICT Medical community can be a
driver of the innovation in the healthcare
systems.
• 3. Patients, even seniors, can be an ally in
this innovative effort.
• 4. The economic crisis offers the possibility
and the need to take innovative solutions.
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38. The big challenge?:
Re-designing the
European Welfare State:
Innovating in
healthcare systems with ICT
39. Thanks a lot
Tack så mycket
artur.serra@i2cat.net
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