Telemedicine training & treatment centre "a European rollout of a medical best practice".

The project aims at rolling out an already proven eHealth best practice of one of the European countries towards the other European countries. The best practice in this case is the Dutch anti-coagulation approach on treating patients with a high risk of developing coagulation (prevalence of 2%), through specialized "Telemedicine Training/Treatment Centers for Anticoagulation" (TTCA). Specifically the disease management performed by the Dutch anti-coagulation treatment centers results in lower number of complications with patients and a higher customer / patient satisfaction. This is worldwide acknowledged. The TTCA approach has proven itself over the past years to be successful in both medical outcome and patient satisfaction and therefore is ready to be offered to a wider (European) group of patients and medical treatment centers. To prepare this European rollout, all possible medical, organizational, legal and economic issues are investigated in a pragmatic way and measures or action are taken during implementation itself. This project organizes a group of professional organizations in both Germany and The Netherlands. These professionals represent all needed know-how to perform such a new implementation and gather all implementation issues that occur. The investigation is performed in a practical way instead of a theoretical approach. Therefore the project is actually rolled out through a real life pilot with both medical personnel and patients in Germany to gather the real issues by doing. The pilot will be supported by a clinical trial to gather medical and quality of life information.