ISfTeH Working Group
Collaborative Care Team in Open Source

• Mission Statement:
• ( A ) Medical collaborations:
• Multidisciplinary care across Internet:
• A "patient centric" record shared by the members of his/her multidisciplinary "Care Team".
  
• A problem solving approach:  maintenance of an up to date overview of the patient "Problem List", with links to the details explaining why the problem has been identified and which actions haven been started.
  An iterative care process in which initial problems requiring more examinations will become updated in diagnoses requiring treatments.
  
• Initial focus on the most common requirements in most care situations.  Next such a generic patient care platform will be incremented step by step by more specific features in function of particular diseases and medical specialties.
• Education by means of contextual training:  on the occasion of the encountered problems provide explanations and references to more fundamental knowledge.
  
• Role Based Access Control based on the care team, known and accepted by the patient.
• Anonymous data could be extracted for statistical studies.
    
  
• ( B ) Informatics collaborations:
• Support of the above medical collaborations:
• Sharing technical know-how about software including source code, i.e. in Open Source.
• Telemedicine technologies allowing to get help from care team members across Internet, sharing medical know how between developing and developed regions.
  
• An integration platform intended to reuse existing medical softwares components availables as open source.
• A very modular approach, allowing to distribute developments and maintenance across an international community.
    
  
• Current projects:
• Operational IPATH network:
• World wide working telemedicine platform since 2002, to get healthcare support in developing countries from medical consultantsof several specialists area.
  As it runs on open source software, there are very low costs if necessary, only for hosting the server. We offer to set up test groups to test the functionality of the platform.
• For example isolated small health centers send pathology images and get second opinion from pathology experts across Internet.
• Experimental Care Team Prototype intended to:
• Support discussions about medical specifications, in a pragmatic way in front of visual examples.
• Evaluation of considered integration technologies.
  
• New partners are invited to join:
  
  • Rather than developing applications in isolation, consider to participate in a community sharing experience and Open Source modules.
      
    
• Contacts:  Etienne Saliez, Thomas Karopka, Monika Hubler, ...