Southern Health Board - Advanced Telematic/Telemedicine in healthcare services in the South West of Ireland

The Southern Health Board has been involved in Telematic Healthcare service s fur the past number of years. Our involvement in a number of EU funded pr ojects has given us extensive experience and expertise in tills area. The p rimary focus of our telematic applications is optimising health services de livery with a particular emphasis towards people who are isolated due to so cial and physical boundaries and limitations. Our main projects are: NIVEMES (Network of Integrated Vertical Medical Services) intrudes the exch ange of medical information between urban centres and isolated communities including those at sea, rural, elderly and disabled persons. RISE (Remote Information Services for the Elderly) focuses on th enhanced h ealthcare services of the elderly and disabled through the use of telemedic al applications. HEALTHLINE To strengthen the successful outcome of Telehealth implementatio n by specific projects in the EU by providing the expert Training and Infor mation dissemination services to providers, beneficiaries and the general p ublic, using the Telehealth systems and infrastructure applied by those pro jects KATE (Killarney & Telecom Eireann) the SHB in conjunction with the Informat ion Age Town Project in Killarney are working towards benefiting die local community through the innovative use of information and Communication Techn ologies. TASTE (Technology Assessment in Telemedicine) An EU funded trans-national i nitiative aimed at developing a methodology for assessing medical technolog y, particularly in the area of Neurosurgery. FECV (Forward Emergency Control Vehicle) An European Space Agency project t hrough which we are developing an advance communications vehicle for major emergence/event management through Satellite linkage to SHB systems.