Summary
The people of Estonia, who until their independence had been systematically deprived
of all forms of information, have shown a ready acceptance of the use of information
technology in all areas of life. This environment and an excellent IT infrastructure
have since the beginning of the new century provided favourable conditions for
developing various individual projects in telemedicine. At the core of current
telemedical applications in Estonia is the BITNET Project (in neurology, general
medicine), built up with Swedish cooperation, and three German-Estonian projects
(in telecardiology and telepathology). These projects are accompanied by studies
of their cost-effectiveness. They constitute the basis for the plan that routine
telemedical services be taken over by the Estonian health insurance. Differing
from the situation in the Scandinavian countries, which have had an effective
national telemedical service for over ten years, the special feature of telematrics
in Estonia is its international networking with foreign centres of excellence.
This has its origin in the aim of Estonian health policy to ensure medical services
within its own country in all branches of medicine.
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Dr. med. Friedrich Köhler
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charité Campus Mitte, Medizinische Klinik
und Poliklinik mit Schwerpunkt Kardiologie, Angiologie, Pneumologie
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