ISPM’s partnership with Telefonica catalyses eHealth initiatives

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL: ISPM, a vendor of service orchestration and software for telecommunications and IT infrastructure, showcased recent efforts to catalyse eHealth markets.

In partnership with Telefonica, telecommunications operator in Brazil, ISPM demonstrated practical steps through which emerging eHealth services can be realised and delivered.

The ‘operationalisation' of eHealth projects is a step in transforming eHealth initiatives from concept to reality, making such services available to all.

Together, ISPM and Telefonica highlighted key contributions from both companies to TM Forum eHealth transformation projects. They showed how to build a digital health service by identifying what eHealth is, how it can be applied to traditional health care, and by focusing on the common challenges. Their contribution revealed the importance of communications to such services.

ISPM and Telefonica are creating their own projects and developing initiatives that are designed to encourage and promote the eHealth market opportunity. Their biggest challenge is to unite the two worlds of health care and telecommunications, which until recently were seen as different and unconnected.

eHealth is the application of health care through electronic media and telecommunications. Analysis of the eHealth market reveals that it is composed of four primary stakeholders: patients, telecom operators, healthcare providers and health professionals. Each of these stakeholders has their own goals and values, providing for a diverse and complex environment.