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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.
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Graschew, G., Roelofs, T.A., Rakowsky, S., Schlag, P.M. (2007). The Virtual Hospital as a Digital Tool for e-Health. In: Magjarevic, R., Nagel, J.H. (eds) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36841-0_98
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