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In the realm of mobile telemedicine,
it is to be highlighted an on-going Telemedicine Project
entitled "Portable Telemedicine Workstation Feasibility
Study, Definition and Specification- PTW" under European
Space Agency (ESA) financing scheme, where ISS researchers
(i.e. Human Health and Safety Laboratory) have defined,
specified and prototyped a state-of-the-art mobile telemedicine
system based on space assets as satellite communication
and navigation. The project developed by means of Systems
Engineering methodology, as the relevant standard for
ESA, addressed to Romanian medical pre-hospital services
in the frame of emergencies, and optionally to health
screening services in remote areas. The innovative Portable
Telemedicine Workstation (PTW) was defined as portable-by
foot, autonomous, medical data collector tool able to
undertake wireless online data communication for enabling
tele-consultation, tele-mentoring etc. between infield
intervention medical teams and remote medical dispatchers.
The PTW specificity is given by its higher portability,
beyond any vehicle accessibility, and versatility for
fulfilling variety of users' medical needs, on the one
hand, and, on the other, by incorporating space assets
as Satellite Communication and Navigation, which support
the end users to carry out their telemedicine activities
also in remote, deprived areas where terrestrial mobile
telephony infrastructures are inexistent or damaged (e.g.
from urban areas till rural, mountainous, marshy areas).
Due to the fact that PTW development proved to be successful
within the feasibility project, the ISS Human Health and
Safety Laboratory furthermore got underway the system
potential towards creating sustainable telemedicine service.
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