Summary

The objective is to improve the training of nursing staff using more rational diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. It addresses the development of a “smart book” with a usable medical knowledge in various situations (in the hands of a nurse in the bush as well as in clinics or in a hospital in the hands of a clinician).

Our proposal is the implementation of a visual programming workshop (toolboxes) to integrate heterogeneous data (databases, spreadsheets, images, sounds, signals, sensors...) within decision-making systems.

The interface allows the application to be drawn by the mouse and run on different targets: PC / Mac, PDA, smartphones, XO laptop, Intel Classmate, mobile phones, web server...

The obtained multimedia application, open to the outside world, communicates with existing applications (telemedicine, suitcases Medesat, Emergesat...) to capitalize the know-how to exploit the data and optimally manage decisions.

Moreover, the data collected could be transmitted by satellite, allowing specialists to focus on the clinical case without having to be present on the spot.

The essential features of MeDiagnoSAT are:

• friendly: it is not necessary to be a computer scientist to use it;
• portable, communicating : portable on any type of target (PC / Mac, PDA, smartphones, mobile phones, web server...) and interfaced with existing components (Medesat suitcases, Emergesat, telemedicine...);
• effective, reliable trainer: adjusting the training tool and reference ideal and its explanatory documents;
• cheap: compliant to the poor.

Partners

	Centre National d'Études Spatiales France
	Thales Alenia Space France
	Institut de Médecine et de Physiologie Spatiales France
	Telespazio Italy

Fields of action

This project covers the following domains:

• Education
• Health
• ICT

TSF role

• Technical: choices ICT equipment, languages, telecommunications and software development tools, portability, maintenance
• Ground feedback: education, training, training, testing, evaluation, technical improvements, telecommunications, tools for updating...