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The DOCMEM project targets medical doctors and aims at offering them intelligent access to their patients' medical files. The Project will develop a technology and will customise it to the needs of both ambulatory and in-hospital practitioners for the context of in-hospital and homecare.
The DOCMEM platform will consist of an online service combining:
- A secure online service for storing and exchanging patients' medical files in a standard way;
- A secure mobile access facility enabling practitioners to access their patients' file with multimedia equipment for 2.5G and 3G mobile communication;
- An Intelligent user interface enabling the practitioner to interact through the mobile multimedia equipment in a natural manner.
For validation purposes, the DOCMEM solution will be implemented in 3 pilot healthcare contexts in France, Greece and Italy. For almost one year, service penetration, usability, usefulness and synergy creation will be monitored in order to assess and adjust the services.
Work description:
The DOCMEM project will first identify and analyse user needs and constraints. The methodology used for collecting information will rely on the techniques of Interviews, Surveys, and Focus Groups. The primary user group to be targeted by the project will include ambulatory and in-hospitals practitioners, professional associations and healthcare authorities. Then the DOCMEM platform will be specified, designed and developed.
This platform supports ambulatory and in-hospital practitioners in getting access to their patients' files at the time and location they need, by combining:
- Secure online Patients' Files Service: Major issues are structure of patients' files, management of security and access rights, communication facilities;
- Secure mobile access: Major development axes concern XML/XSL definition of DOCMEM services to support WAP for future mobile multimedia equipment relying on mobile communication protocols (EGPRS in 2001 and UMTS in 2002) and on wireless interface (Bluetooth or HomeRF), and the use of smart card on mobile equipment for ensuring security;
- Intelligent user interaction: Major development axes concern voice control & pattern matching to control access to patients files and virtual representation of patients.
For validation purpose, pilot operations will be run in 3 countries (F, I, EL) through interconnected domestic Web services. For each pilot, the online service will be supplemented with proximity services of network animation and support. In this context, DOCMEM will be assessed with respect to service penetration, usability and usefulness. Finally, dissemination, market assessment and implementation planning will be performed for the DOCMEM service; the exploitation of components of the DOCMEM technology will also be considered.
Milestones:
The 4 projects milestones are :
- Definition of a global system architecture suiting the needs and constraints of ambulatory and in-hospital practitioners;
- Specification and development of a DOCMEM platform integrating tools required to support the target users in getting and ubiquitous, permanent and intelligent access to their patients' medical files;
- Specification and implementation of DOCMEM services for 3 European pilots;
- Extensive validation of both the platform and services.
The main project outcome is DOCMEM Portal, which consists of two sets of services:
- A Secure Online Patients' Files Service that allows the storage and exchange of multimedia medical data in standard way. This is the core of the system that includes, in particular, a structured patients records and a system of Access Rights.
- A Secure Mobile Access Service enables healthcare professionals to access the service via wireless information devices. This access is done through an Intelligent User Interface consisting of a Patients File Assistant and a Virtual Patient Facility. The first uses voice recognition and pattern matching techniques to control access to patient files. The latter is a virtual representation of a human body to be used for the depiction of the patients' medical information.
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