Session 18

Tuesday, 23rd November 2004

Information Technology II - Profs. Josep Valor & M Rosenmöller

 

Prepare	Case: Carelink How to save millions by just cooperating
	Assignment Questions
Visitor	David Backström, Director, Telemedecine Clinic, Barcelona

Please think about interesting questions you want to ask our Visitor, David Backström

Assignement Questions

• Should a more business-like approach be used to generate income from the use of the national network? - or just stay happy with the very welcome state support? -
• Should Carelink continue to be dependent on public funding - or was there a market to make it private?
• Was it time to revise the initial decision to have the "traffic" on Sjunet free-of charge now that more and more partners were connected? The network needed continuous investments in the range of 10 Mkr (1 M €)/year to develop security, basic services etc.
• How to deal with the decentralised decision making - with a large number of independent actors - how could such an environment be "managed" when projects became more and more complex and resource-demanding. Some members were showing signs of impatience with the pace of development - and some thought things were moving too fast.
• Should Carelink go for the Nordic Health Care Network? Working with more countries would add on the complexity, but what advantage would it bring? It seemed as if technology was not the main challenge - but rather legal and bureaucratic issues. How would Carelink and its partners in the Nordic countries be able to navigate in such domains?
  

Check the Websites: www.carelink.se, www.telemedicineclinic.com