System of Systems - A Holistic Approach for Telemedicine

摘要

New pressure factors are threatening the sustainability of the modern health systems. According to the European Commission assessments [1], the demographic changes, are changing the diseases patterns and, along with the bioterrorism and the major physical and biological hazards induced by the technological and economic growth is causing new transmissible disease patterns. A second major aspect is the population ageing – a phenomena which is affecting the developed countries. All those issues, catalyzed by the rapid development of new technologies into the fields of communication, micro and nano technologies, powerful computing capabilities at affordable prices etc. are revolutionizing the way of predict, prevent and treat illness and have triggered a major development of the telemedicine. This paper presents the developments on the telemedicine technology undertaken by UTI Group in partnership with the Faculty of Automatics and Computer Science from the “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania. The partnership aim is to develop solutions to improve the access, efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of clinical and business processes utilized by healthcare and social care organizations, practitioners, patients, and consumers in an effort to improve the health status of patients. This paper is focused on the distributed system architecture, telemedicine system of system (SoS) emergent behavior and describes the main aspects of the distributed telemedicine systems efficiency evaluation.