BRITAIN/SPAIN (Agencies) A section of the National Health Service in Britain has just started final trials with a programme called Side by Side, which was developed at the Telefónica R+D centre in Granada (photo) that specializes in e-medicine. The new tool allows remote and real time collaboration via video and voice between medical staff and/or patients sharing records, images and information from locations that could be many miles away. Called Colabor@ in Spain, the system is in trial use at the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella, where it has been working in the Cardiology Department for three years. The main beneficiaries of trials in the UK are the inhabitants of the Western Isles,>a group of islands with a population of some 26,000 spread out over 209 kilometers, and are about 50kms from the Scottish coast. Weather there often prevents health professionals from visiting the sick or from making emergency calls, a problem the Side bySide system may well dispel.
Phil Tilley, head of the Planning and Development for the Western Isles Trust, says that the new system offers a very efficient solution to medical staff, allowing greater flexibility and better quality care."
Phil Tilley, head of the Planning and Development for the Western Isles Trust, says that the new system offers a very efficient solution to medical staff, allowing greater flexibility and better quality care."
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