The Momentum project has released the European telemedicine deployment blueprint to assist "telemedicine doers" introduce healthcare services at distance through information technology. Telemedicine can make healthcare delivery safer, better and more efficient and thus help address challenges to our healthcare systems, but it can disrupt conventional medicine. The blueprint for doers describes 18 critical success factors for telemedicine deployment with detail, context, indicators, and descriptions, including an attachment with case studies. The documents can be accessed here:
- Momentum Consolidated Blueprint (pdf, 112p, 6MB)
- Attachment to Momentum Consolidated Blueprint (pdf, 0.5MB)
The Momentum blueprint
builds on an earlier and shorter version of the 18 critical success factors
that was released in May 2014. Since then, healthcare stakeholders from across
the EU Member States joined dozens of conference presentations, moderated
workshops and online fora to provide feedback on the critical success factors
and to contribute to a more detailed and more refined document.
The Momentum consortium added in-depth research and consolidated the document in the period since August 2014.
The Momentum consortium added in-depth research and consolidated the document in the period since August 2014.
"This consolidated
blueprint is the main deliverable of the Momentum project. It caps almost three
years of hard work," says Diane Whitehouse, EHTEL eHealth expert and lead
author of the document. "The whole consortium hopes that this blueprint
will help telemedicine doers with their implementations, and make a substantive
contribution to the body of knowledge on telemedicine deployment."
The Momentum project
convenes telemedicine experts and stakeholders from more than 20 organisations
in Europe. The project will end in January 2015, and the focus in the remaining
weeks will be on building its legacy. This will include a Momentum
self-assessment tool and a process to facilitate telemedicine deployment
through stakeholder engagement; a thoroughly updated and revised website (which
EHTEL, the project coordinator, is committed to maintain after the project
end); and the online Momentum forum on LinkedIn that will continue to host
discussions about Momentum themes and the online tool.
For further information,
please visit: http://www.telemedicine-momentum.eu
About Momentum project
Momentum is a thematic network designed to share knowledge and experience in deploying telemedicine services into routine care. Working together, Momentum's members who come from all corners of Europe will develop, test and finalise a blueprint for telemedicine deployment that offers guidance for anybody who seeks to move telemedicine from an idea or a pilot to daily practice. The project is funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme of the European Commission, and runs from February 2012 to January 2015.