Alpine Hospitals Networking for Improved Access to Telemedicine Services
ALIAS project addresses medical services and information inadequacy to ensure Health Care (HC) provisions in Alpine Space (AS) where telemedicine services are not widely exploited and linguistic barriers represent an obstacle. AS touristic vocation during some periods of the year makes its HC structures “periodically” inadequate to face a widened request of services supply. On the other hand, a major receptivity of those structures during the rest of the year is unnecessary due to the low density of AS local residents. ALIAS addresses the priority aimed at securing fair access to HC public services and related communication infrastructure within the programming area. The project is aimed at linking together a number of AS hospitals enabling the creation of a Network shaping the ALIAS Virtual Hospital (VH) for sharing medical information, adopting telemedicine service and exchanging best clinical practices, to improve the efficiency of hospitals in that area.