| Lead partner in the Baltic eHealth project is the
Region of Southern Denmark - MedCom International.
Can
a health care institution join the Baltic eHealth project?
The objective of Baltic eHealth is to facilitate the use of
telemedicine across national borders in the Baltic Sea Region. One
of the major results of the project is a secure Internet-based
infrastructure - the Baltic Health Network (BHN) - which connects
all hospitals and many other health care institutions from Denmark,
Norway and Sweden (plus East Central Tallinn Hospital and Vilnius
University Hospital). The BHN consists of more than 200 hospitals
which now very easily (from a technical point of view) can initiate
collaborations with each other using the BHN and - if the wish to -
the applications provided on the network.
In addition to the closed network a
Service Portal has just
recently been released on the open Internet - a kind of yellow pages
where supply and demand of eHealth/telemedicine services can find each
other. The Portal is still empty with regards to institutions that
have placed adds on the Portal, but we hope that many will do so in
the future. If an healthcare organisation/institution is interested,
it is possible place an add on the
Portal.
During the project period, guidelines are being produced on how to
overcome legal, economical, cultural and linguistic barriers when
establishing an eHealth service. The guidelines are developed based on
1) theory/previous experience about eHealth 2) practical experience
from the two pilots in the project (eRadiology and eUltrasound).
The plan is that by the project end all these above-mentioned
results will be freely available for the benefit of the healthcare
institutions and ultimately for the patients and taxpayers of the
Baltic Sea Region. At this stage only the BHN and the service portal
is finalized.
At this stage we cannot take in new formal partners into the
project but we do wish to disseminate our results so they are used by
as many as possible.
Any healthcare institution in the Baltic Sea
Region is welcome to join the BHN if they 1) can assure that their own
network is secure (the BHN is basically secure because it is a
VPN-network of secure networks) and 2) have a reason to be on the BHN.
The second condition means in practise that they should have a
communication need with one or more of the hospitals already connected
to the network.
Should you be more interested in the project, please contact the
project coordinator at the Danish
Centre for Health Telematics, Ms Janne Rasmussen,
jar@medcom.dk,
phone: + 45 6543 2030, direct: +45 6543 2017
Technical information about the
Baltic Health Network
1. The Internet-based Health Data Net.
Download here >>
2. Security and Responsibility Health Data Net.
Download here >>
3. Agreement System for Health Data Net.
Download here >>
4. Agreement Terms for connection to the node of the Health Data
Net.
Download here >>
5. Service Order Form for Health Data Net.
Download here >>
The Collaboration
Server
Material regarding the Collaboration Server and the Collaboration
Client can be downloaded below:
Please, note that there are two versions of the Collaboration
Client.
Download the
Collaboration
Client v1 (WHO and testing purposes)
Download the Collaboration Client v2
(for use on the Danish Health Data Network)
Technical Overview
User manual
to the Collaboration Platform version 1.0
User Manual
to Collaboration Platform version 2.0
User administration of Collaboration Platform
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