Telesal, TELEcommunication for Health is the Italian preliminary
applicative project for telemedicine funded by ASI, Italian Space
Agency and proposed by a team of valuable national PMI and Research
Centers.
The group, leaded by Kell S.r.l. is constituted by: Space Engineering
S.p.A. (Rome); D'Appolonia S.p.A. (Genoa); Euro.Soft S.r.l. (Naples);
Techsema S.r.l. (Naples); ITS S.p.A. (Naples); University of Naples
"Federico II" - Endocrinology and Molecular and Clinical
Oncology Department (DEOMC); University of Perugia; University
of Rome "La Sapienza" - Cellular Biotechnologies and
Haematology Department (B.C.E.).
TeleSal study is compliant
to the competent Ministries assessments, with particular regard
to the Ministry of Health, which the study will be submitted to
for validation on a periodical basis. Such assessments have been
stating during last months and are reported in documents RD-2,
as excellent technical detail, and document RD-1, as sanitary
system future organization.
Those guidelines are stated in the "Scenario Analysis"
document to grant the project team will work as decided by the
relevant Entities. The next Executive Applicative Project, which
requirements and Statement of Work will be defined by TeleSal
study, will then represent the prototype development of the Ministerial
guidelines.
The study is limited to the mobile sector, taking advantage from
satellite telecommunications. The definition of mobility in the
statement of Work foresees the following scenarios, in decreasing
order of mobility:
· Mobility: mobile means (emergency vehicles,
ships, airplanes, trains, exc.)
· Replacement: transportable or easy replaceable
equipments (for ex. field Hospitals, emergency areas, homecare,
exc.)
· Not connected Areas: services for zones not covered
by fixed and mobile telecommunication networks. That scenario
comprises in Italy many hospitals and local districts, including
those serving islands and mountain communities.
The study, facing the above scenarios, shall take into consideration
the proposed applications integration with the relative fixed
applications, to be adequately included in the National Health
System and build up a scalable and exportable model.
The requirements are often similar for the mobile and fixed applications,
for example tele-consulting.
In this case the integration will be simple.
