1 GSM and GPRS in hospitals STF264 HF Telecare and Wireless Health and Care Torbjørn Sund, Telenor.

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GSM and GPRS in hospitals

STF264 HF Telecareand

Wireless Health and Care

Torbjørn Sund, Telenor

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Mobiles at sea

GSM at sea

Telenor has invested in the company MCP (Maritime Communications Partner, an Ericsson off-spring), which develops a unique concept enabling the use of ordinary GSM mobile phones on board ferries and passenger cruise ships far at sea.

In practical use

Tested on board the passenger ferry ”Stena Scandinavica” between Göteborg og Kiel.

Currently being deployed on several ferries.

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Mobiles in the air

GSM in the Airbus 320

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GSM offering in airplanes

ARINC and Telenor presented a solution for GSM telephony in airplanes at the 25th World Airline Entertainment Association (WAEA) conference in Seattle, Washington (Oct. 2004)

System based on GSM picocell and satellite

Installation cost < US$ 100.000,-

Call cost US$ 3,50/minute, US$ 1,-/SMS

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Mobile phones in the hospital

Øystein Jensen (Head of engineering, Norwegian State hospital): ”mobile phones ... do not represent a special problem for medical technical equipment in the hospital” (Seminar on communication in hospitals, March 2003)

Odd Nordland (Sintef): ”… use of mobile phones is possible on certain areas in the hospital” (seminar on security in hospitals, Oslo, 2004)

BBC News: ”Hospitals could lift bans on mobile phone use following updated guidance by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency” (July 2004)

Nathan Lawrentschuk (U.Melbourne) ”… hospitals should create mobile phone-friendly zones, rather than having patients and relatives huddled outside as they do now” (Medical Journal of Australia, aug 2004)

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Data distribution in the hospital based on GSM

Cooperation between:

Ringerike hospital (www.ringerike-sykehus.no)

Ascom wireless (www.ascom.com/ws)

Telenor R&D (www.telenor.com/rd)

Within the project Wireless Health and Care (WsHC)

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Wireless Health & Care

Wireless Health and Care (WsHC) is a multi-disciplinary, collaborative R&D project with prototype development in the following areas:

- collection of sensor data (Bluetooth, Zigbee …) - data transfer to and from implantable probes- distribution of data to health personnel- communication between health personnel.

The last two of these deal with communication between health personnel at the hospital, using GSM handsets for signalling, message passing, office synchronization and (surprise!) telephony.

See home page www.wshc.no for general information

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AscomteleCARE

Patientsignal

EPR

Mobile EPRVoice dictationOffice support

Messagingcall back

MOPSIS - MObile-phone Patient SIgnalling System

Sony Ericsson P 900(nurse/doctor)

Controlunit

client

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MOPSIS - Technical solution

Controlunit

client

Patient signal

Start web client

http://…/…?id=3

web page

transfer to next call patient

demo

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MOPSIS – Further development

Access to patient journal- physiological parameters - counter-indications- patient history

Access to colleagues, based on- location - capabilities- availability

Access to expert knowledge- web- specialist databases

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Other uses of a mobile terminal

Routine office duties - meetings- internal e-mail

Patient follow-up- appointments- notes taking (written, aural)

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EPR – a key component

Today’s Electronic Patient Record: EPR == hospital’s databaseLegacy structure, content and access mechanismsInternal data format tied to external presentation format Institutionalized access, every institution its own EPR

Tomorrow’s EPR:EPR == information about the patientStructure, content tailored to network storage and accessFormat independent of presentationAccess regulated by needs and roles

WsHC and EPRCooperation with Norwegian EPR supplier for test and prototype development