implementing transnational telemedicine solutions: project overview
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Implementing Transnational Telemedicine Solutions: Project Overview. New Project: ITTS. Innovative telemedicine solutions to transform health service delivery in Northern Europe. ITTS Fact Sheet. Start Date: 1 st September 2012 End Date: 31 st December 2013 Budget: €2,321,755 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Implementing Transnational Telemedicine Solutions:
Project Overview
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New Project: ITTS
Innovative telemedicine solutions to transform health service delivery in Northern Europe
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ITTS Fact Sheet
• Start Date: 1st September 2012
• End Date: 31st December 2013
• Budget: €2,321,755
• Lead Partner: Centre for Rural Health, University of Aberdeen
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Project Partners
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Project Aims
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Objective
The ITTS project will implement
10 demonstrator projects throughout
6 partner countries
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Objective
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Project Structure
The project will be implemented through 5 workpackages:
• Workpackage 1: Management, coordination and communication
• Workpackage 2: Telemedicine expertise to ensure excellence of the project
• Workpackage 3: Identification and planning of demonstrator projects
• Workpackage 4: Implementation of demonstrator projects
• Workpackage 5: Evaluation and sustainability of demonstrator projects
The workpackages are based on a set of interrelated activities, including best practice and transnational learning
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Telemedicine Expertise: ITAS
• ITAS will bring together clusters of expertise to provide advice on the selection, design, implementation, evaluation and dissemination of demonstrator projects.
•It will consist of:oAcademic expertsoExperienced service providersoCliniciansoPolicy makersoEnterprise and business representatives
• ITAS will encourage the growth of transnational clinician networks across the partnership
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Services in Existence
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Planned Implementation
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Demonstrator Projects: Video-consultation
• VC Links for Speech Therapy Services
• VC Links for Remote Renal Services
• VC Links for Emergency Psychiatry Services
• VC Links for Remote Diabetes Services
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Project 1: VC Links for Speech Therapy Services
• Established in Sweden since 2007 where speech therapists consult with patients in their own homes
• Previously trialled in Scotland
• Now expanding in Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland
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Project 1: VC Links for Speech Therapy Services
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Project 2: VC Links for Remote Renal Services
• Established in Norway (2002) and Scotland (2010) where specialists consult with patients in or near their own homes
• To be implemented in Northern Ireland and expanded in Scotland and Sweden
• Service to extend to include both outpatients and home dialysis patients
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Project 2: VC Links for Remote Renal Services
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Project 3: VC Links for Emergency Psychiatry Services
• Norway: Decentralised on-call service via VC offered for adult mental health patients since 2009
• North Norway and Sweden expanding this service to child psychiatry
• Adult service to be exported to Scotland, leaning on knowledge gathered from existing service in Norway
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Project 3: VC Links for Emergency Psychiatry Services
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Project 4: VC Links for Remote Diabetes Services
• Established in Finland and Scotland where video-clinics help minimise travel times for specialists, enabling more patient consultations
• Finland to export service to Northern Ireland
• Scotland to expand service and exchange knowledge with Finland and Northern Ireland
• VC technology to be applied to other specialties and used to deliver teaching
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Project 4: VC Links for Remote Diabetes Services
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Demonstrator Projects: Smartphones
• Smartphones for Tracking Physical Activity
• Smartphones and Internet Support for Diabetes
• Smartphones for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
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Project 5: Smartphones for Tracking Physical Activity
• Smartphone app (‘Accupedo’) using accelerometer technology to be trialled in Ireland
• Project to be exported to wider partnership based on pilot scheme’s findings
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Project 5: Smartphones for Tracking Physical Activity
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Project 6: Smartphones and Internet Support for Diabetes
• International knowledge exchange forum
• Discussions around technology challenges and solutions
• Learning to inform future commercial development
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Project 6: Smartphones and Internet Support for Diabetes
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Project 7: Smartphones for IBD
• Use of smartphones in disease management to deliver more personalised care to patients with IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease)
• Service being implemented in Scotland and will be exported to Ireland
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Project 7: Smartphones for IBD
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Demonstrator Projects: Home-based services
• Remote Support in Medical and Social Care Emergencies
• Remote Exercise Classes for Rehabilitation
• Home-based Service Delivery for Patients with Multimorbidity
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Project 8: Remote Support in Medical & Social Care Emergencies
• In Scotland, Highland Hub provides streamlined out-of-hours service across 4 health boards
• Service to be exported to Finland
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Project 8: Remote Support in Medical & Social Care Emergencies
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Project 9: Remote Exercise Classes for Rehabilitation
• Delivery of rehabilitation classes to communities or patient homes
• Previously trialled in Scotland and service to be expanded
• Now exporting to Ireland, Northern Ireland, Sweden and Finland
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Project 9: Remote Exercise Classes for Rehabilitation
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Project 10: Home-based Service Delivery for Patients with Multimorbidity
• Scotland and Northern Ireland using home-based monitoring to support patients with complex health needs
• Service to be exported to Finland and Sweden
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Project 10: Home-based Service Delivery for Patients with Multimorbidity
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EvaluationDemonstrator projects will be evaluated using common methods, a researcher will coordinate activity across the partner countries. Methods include:
– use of an evaluation toolkit; – an analysis of health service activity; – surveys of staff and patients; – interviews with stakeholders; – a health economics analysis; – socio-economic modelling of the impact of roll out
Outputs: – final report, – a guide, interactive checklist for policymakers and service planners– academic papers
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Outcome of the Project
• Sustainable telemedicine services
• Delivered at scale
• Demonstrated to be working
• Demonstrated to be effective
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