Care Telematics Project

Objective

CARE Telematics was designed to demonstrate the ability of telecommunications to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of national administrations with responsibility for health, environmental health, management of natural and human-caused disasters, medical care policy, planning, financing, administration, and service delivery, surveillance and health statistics.
CARE established that national administrations with health mandates are an excellent group to demonstrate that future investments by the European Union are justified. The quality of public health decision making is improved by the speed, diversity, flexibility, and user driven design of CARE.

Within the area of telematics, CARE's technical architecture has proved to be applicable to any health communications needs, and is also appropriate for other EU agencies and national administrations. The project has demonstrated that telecommunications can provide national health administrations and national schools of public health with the tools to meet the growth demand for service in a period of expanding international competition.
CARE is based upon a series of interconnecting pilot projects involving national administrations. CARE's application platform is an Open Systems environment based on X/Open's Portability Guides (XPG3) and on open communications standards including OSI MHS/X.400 and TCP/IP protocols. CARE applications are operated in a LAN and X.25 based European wide network comprising many CARE Network Nodes (CNNs) from multiple vendors offering end user access through dial-up, X.25 and LAN connections. Multiple levels of a CNN have been demonstrated to test intra- and intercountry communications and user acceptability.

Two electronic messages (EDI) have been development in the field of Pharmacovigilance, one for urgent messages and the other for individual case reports on adverse drug reactions (proposal for UN/EDIFACT standards MEDphv and MEDADR respectively).

Fields of science

• medical and health sciences › health sciences › public health
• medical and health sciences › basic medicine › pharmacology and pharmacy › adverse drug reactions
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › information engineering › telecommunications

Programme(s)

• FP3-ENS - Specific programme of research and technological development (EEC) in the field of telematic systems in areas of general interest - Support for the establishment of transeuropean networks between administrations -, 1990-1994

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Call for proposal

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Coordinator

Ministere de la Sante Publique et de l'Environnement

Address

Boulevard Pacheco 19, Bte 5, Bureau 711
1010 Brussels
Belgium

Participants (23)

AI Engineering

Netherlands

Bureau of Chief Statistician

United Kingdom

CARLOS III

Spain

Address

Centra De Majadahonda A Pozuelo, Km2, Majadahonda
28220 Madrid

CDSC

United Kingdom

Citi II

France

Address

45 Rue Des Saints Peres
75006 Paris

Department of Health (DOH)

United Kingdom

Digital Equipment Corporation

United Kingdom

FISCHER & LORENZ

Denmark

IBM Europe

France

Italsiel SpA

Italy

Address

Via G. Vincenzo Bona 63
00156 Roma

Kommunedata

Denmark

Address

Vestersogade 10, Iv
1601 Copenhagen V

Max-von-Pettenkofer-Institut

Germany

Address

Thielallee 88-92
14195 Berlin

Ministry of Health

Greece

NIAD

Netherlands

NORSISTEMAS CONSULTORES

Spain

NORTH EASTERN HEALTH BOARD

Ireland

National School of Public Health

Portugal

REGIONAL CENTRES OF PHARMACOVIGILANCE

France

Robert-von-Ostertag-Institut

Germany

Address

Diedersdorfer Weg 1
12277 Berlin

SIMS (Information agency, Department of Health)

Portugal

Sig Services BV

Netherlands

Address

Maliebaan 50, Po Box 14066
3508 Utrecht

University of Patras

Greece

Address

Patras

World Health Organisation, Europe

Denmark

Address

8 Scherfigsvej
2100 Copenhagen