欧洲——地中海地区构建虚拟医院情况介绍

The Introduce of Virtual Hospital Construction of Euro-Mediterranean

虚拟医院的建立实现了由不同机构提供的各种医疗服务平台间的互动。对欧洲远程医疗项目实施进行了深入探讨,在此基础上提出建立以欧洲-地中海联盟为平台的虚拟欧洲-地中海医院(VEMH)倡议。VEMH可以向欧洲和地中海国家提供同样的先进技术,有助于体系框架内各成员单位之间开展业务交流和对话。由卫星和地面链路组成的VEMH平台可供使用者开展医疗网络学习、实时远程医疗和网络卫生保健工作。VEMH工程实现的途径是因医疗需求驱动,并非来自技术方面。它们为虚拟医疗社区提供了新的管理工具,并且按照循证医学模式管理临床结果。随着将虚拟医院的数据、资源分布到各个站点,网格化的概念应与其他通信网络和平台相集成。其中一个有效的途径是创造一种无形的网络为应用开发者和终端用户服务,同时开发一个网格化工具套件,隐藏其复杂性。VEMH将提供理想化的医疗服务需求,而医疗服务内容则取决于每一个网络合作伙伴的个性化需要。

The development of virtual hospitals enables the interoperability of the various medical services offered by different institutions. Due to the experience in the exploitation of previous European telemedicine projects an open Euro-Mediterranean consortium proposes the Virtual Euro-Mediterranean Hospital （VEMH） initiative. The provision of the same advanced technologies to the European and Mediterranean Countries should contribute to their better dialogue for integration. VEMH will provide a platform consisting of a satellite and terrestrial link for the application of medical e-learning, real-time telemedicine and e-health. The methodologies for the VEMH are medical-needs-driven instead of technology-driven. They supply new management tools for virtual medical communities and allow management of clinical outcomes for implementation of evidence-based medicine. As data and computing resources in a virtual hospital are distributed over many sites the concept of the Grid should be integrated with other communication networks and platforms. A promising approach is the creation of an invisible grid, hiding complexity for both application developers and end-users and development of a Grid tools suite. VEMH will provide access to the required quality of medical services depending on the individual needs of each of the partners.