ESTEEM (EUROPEAN STANDARDIZED TELEMATIC TOOL TO EVALUATE EMG KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS) - AIM PROJECT A2010

ESTEEM is an AIM project which is primarily concerned with how to deve lop, integrate and clinically test knowledge-based systems for electro myography (EMG) in order to get them generally acceptable, useful and applicable into disseminated clinical routines. A medical workstation entitled the 'EMG-Platform' on which different kinds of application mo dules including KBSs can be interfaced to a kernel is being developed. Accordingly, an EMG communication protocol is being developed. The ES TEEM consortium is composed of a technical specialist group and a grou p of clinical experts in EMG from seven European countries. The last g roup has, besides extensive data collection for building up a multicen tre EMG database, agreed on a common EMG terminology and a subsequent general EMG data set specification which covers the informatic needs f or describing an EMG examination of different 'EMG schools'.