Recipient Institution:
Research Group on Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering Programm
Department of Electrical Engineering
Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB)

Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Soegijardo soegi@ieee.org

URL: http://biomed.ee.itb.ac.id

Amount and Duration: USD $ 26, 992 / 20 month

Abstract of Project
This project proposal describes the development of a pilot internet and communication technology-based telemedicine system for primary community health-care in both urban and rural area in Indonesia. As a large archipelago country with more than 202 million population, Indonesia has relatively very complicated heatlh-care problems to solve, due to shortage of human resources, health care faiclities, and financial resources. The maternal mortality rate is among the highest in South-East Asia, it should therefore be reduced throught systematically implementing well-planned policy and appropriate technology-based infrastructure.

The proposal development project will utilize the existing internet tehcnology to further developPC-based medical stations and to do field testing in at least eight locations. The pilot telemedicine will consist of 6 medical stations for community health centers, and a station each for each referral hospital, health office, and a test- laboratory. Both hardware and software development, as well as system/network integration will be conducted and the system will gradually be expanded to cover larger number of stations.

After the completion of the pilot system, it is expected that a series of systematic clinical-field experiments will be conductred. They should include testing the following functions, namely: recording and reporting, improved diagnosis, limited tele-consultation, tele-coordination, and tele-education. It is also expected that during the imlementation of the project, it could disseminate and recommend an "ICT-policy and infrastructure for social and community usage, especially in improving the primary community health care in Indonesia.