Many telemedicine projects have started with a natural focus on the new and innovative patient treatment and with less focus on the technology, either by basing the technical solution on one of the already existing expensive commercial telemedicine platforms, or by developing a new system from scratch – often re-inventing the proverbial wheel rather than integrating with existing systems that are already in use.1) The result being an impractical and/or expensive silo solution.
The page about what 4S is outlines how this situation can be improved by sharing open source modules in an ecosystem and by using (international) standards.
This page will explain how participation in this 4S ecosystem can benefit a variety of people and organisations in various ways.
A couple of wise words about business models of private enterprises joining the ecosystem would fit in nicely here…