Integrated system for long distance psychiatric assistance and non-conventional distributed health services

The need for health services rises because of the ageing in Europe as well as in other industrialized regions and because of the citizens' health services quality expectancies. Demographic factors - and technological progress lead to higher costs for health services. But at the same time, there is a need in reducing those costs because of lower public budgets. Facing this reality, the European Union has funded ISLANDS, a QoL (Quality of Life) project [1]. ISLANDS joins research groups (UPM, ICCS, COAT-Basel, University of Innsbruck, Charles University of Prague), companies and industry (Fundacion Vodafone, TRUTh, Interaxon, MMU), and end users (Servicio Canario de la Salud, University Hospital Fort-de-France, Kratiko Therapeutirio Lerou) to build a platform aimed to deliver Long Distance Psychiatric Services.