Support Patients through E-Services Solutions

Abstract

E-learning is increasingly being utilized outside higher and university education and its traditional market. One of such places is the education of the elderly using emerging technologies in effective and conducive ways. Moreover, the development of effective ICT solutions to improve daily life of elderly and disabled people gets more significant concern during last several years. Exploitation of low cost IT equipment in combination with suitable e-health, e-learning or social services can contribute to reduction of time, costs and other expenditures not only for recipients but for providers too. These objectives motivate a formation of SPES project (Support Patients through E-Services Solutions <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">1</sup> ) that aims to design and implement an integrated software platform with health, social and entertainment services for different purposes. The implementation of this project leads to the exchange of knowledge between IT professional, researchers from universities, representatives of government on the different levels and providers of social or medical services. The usability and effectiveness of proposed solution will be evaluated within four pilots in European cities: Ferrara, Vienna, Brno and Kosice.