Alcatel has been selected by Telbios, an Italian provider of health-care services, to provide an innovative solution to deliver video assistance and remote monitoring. Residential telemedicine services, currently under validation at the Istituto Scientifico Universitario San Raffaele, will be available to the public by the end of 2006.
This solution is based on Alcatel’s Genesys contact center platform, provided and installed by Alcatel, which combines call center functionalities with the ability to manage video calls, including those from mobile terminals, enabling a wider number of institutions and hospitals to access these services, and assist their patients with an array of residential telemedicine services.
Telbios will add video assistance to its portfolio of telemedicine services, already offered by its telemedicine center, with the TV as a preferred interaction tool between operators and patients. The new telemedicine service will be available on every broadband communication network (terrestrial, mobile and satellite) to allow every citizen to benefit, even in areas not covered by terrestrial broadband.
Besides video calls and videoconferences on mobile terminals, it will be possible to securely transmit electronic medical and life style related data over the network, and to receive interpretation and diagnosis information, sent by the medical staff of the Telemedicine Center, on the TV set at home. The solution will require the installation of a specific set-top box (STB) at the patient’s premises, which will be connected to the TV, and a web cam to enable video calls.
«Our objective is to facilitate the development of the best possible health-care services; services designed and deployed to be easily accessed by everyone» said Leopoldo Genovesi, CEO in Telbios. «Services meant for patients with chronic diseases, elderly people living alone; people that care for their wellness and health to hospitals, enabling the care for people at their home, by positively contributing to a correct life style» said Andrea Mason, CTO of Telbios. «We found in Alcatel a reliable partner to help us complete our mission ».
«Alcatel’s Genesys solution for Telbios will be first implemented in the framework of the IGEA Sat project, developed in cooperation with ESA and in partnership with Lombardy Region, Associazione Nazionale Sanitaria Piccole Isole (Small Islands Health National Association) and other companies, such as Kell, Telespazio, Telecom Italia Labs, Reallife TV, OPIS, Value Partners» commented Lina Colitta, in charge of the project for Telbios at Alcatel. «With the Genesys solution, IGEA Sta realizes ‘the network of the networks’, integrating a number of communication networks, with Telespazio ensuring the relevant role of satellites in delivering telemedicine services».
2006-07-14
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