Solutions for education, health and human services

	Alcatel's solutions provide e-health applications that enable to link hospitals and remote areas.

Alcatel is involved in the deployment of solutions for education, health and human services in developing as well as in developed countries.

Enhancing education and research:

Alcatel, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and ESA (European Space Agency) are working together on the SpaceForScience program. SpaceForScience is part of the UNESCO initiative to strengthen cooperation between scientific centers in South-East Europe. Thanks to this program, 20 scientific institutes will be provided with innovative two-way services such as video conferencing, collaborative environment and video streaming. The satellite application platform is provided and hosted by Alcatel Alenia Space’s premises in Cannes. Alcatel Alenia Space is responsible for the deployment of the global network, from the applications platform to the user sites.
Another application for new ICT is to contribute to progress in universal health care, by enabling improved treatment and optimized resources.

Improving healthcare

In Italy, Alcatel delivers to Centro Servizi Montedomini and San Silvestro its technologies for the innovative e-health solution for the remote medical assistance and monitoring of elderly and disabled people. The new solution allows a better interaction between patients and operators by enabling video calls on an ADSL network.

In the USA, at Brigham Hospital (Boston), Alcatel has deployed an optical network that handles real-time transmission of medical imagery in order to assist surgeons during complex procedures, or for research purposes.

In France, to remedy the isolation felt by practitioners and the personnel of certain local hospital
in the Nice backcountry, a telemedicine program, called Medicin@Païs, was set up in partnership with the Alpes-Maritimes General Council and the Nice Medical School. This program, deploying communication and remote exchange systems, has emphasized the use of collaborative solutions and enabled 10 local hospitals to not only access the resource and expertise centers of hospitals on the coast but also to directly share information among themselves. Telemedicine is essential not only for the survival of rural hospitals but also to ensure the quality of the medicine practiced in these hospitals.

Supporting human services

Alcatel, the French Space Agency (CNES) and Remifor, a Euro-Mediterranean risk management training and information network, have committed to pool their skills and expertise to collaborate in the design of the emergesat humanitarian aid tool using spacebased technologies of telecommunications, Earth observation and location/navigation satellites. Emergesat is dedicated to help all players involved in humanitarian crisis management (NGOs, civil society, international organizations) coordinate their initiatives
and communicate with distant stations. It is designed to be quickly deployable and operational, easily transportable, and customizable depending on the situation. Read more...