Abstract :
Black Sea Tele Diab, a diabetes computer system and communications network for the Black Sea region, is a new multidisciplinary research project, led by Sheffield University, UK, and supported by the EU Inco-Copernicus programme, whose aim is to promote the exchange of healthcare information between clinicians and scientists in countries of the Black Sea area to provide a means by which the care of patients with diabetes may be enhanced. In this project, the first objective is the building of a modern communication infrastructure for the transfer of clinical data, including text, sound, waveforms and images, by structured E-mail among institutions in each participating country. Since this is new to most medical doctors, the aim of this research was to develop a few standard instructions for the storage and transfer of medical information and healthcare data between the national district centres and the transnational centres in the Black Sea area
Keywords :
electronic data interchange; electronic mail; health care; medical administrative data processing; multimedia communication; Black Sea Telediab; Black Sea region; Inco-Copernicus programme; clinical data transfer; clinicians; communication infrastructure; communications network; diabetes computer system; healthcare information exchange; medical information storage; multidisciplinary research project; national district centres; scientists; standard instructions; structured electronic mail; transnational centres; Biomedical computing; Biomedical imaging; Clinical diagnosis; Computer networks; Decoding; Diabetes; Electronic mail; Hospitals; Material storage; Telematics;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, 1997. ITAB '97., Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Region 8 International Conference
