NATO has been testing its telemedicine platform and portable medical kits in Lviv, Ukraine and could soon expand its usage to other places around the globe. Powered by Avera Health’s Care tech, the trial involved some 1,100 rescue workers from 34 countries this past September.

Called the NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) telemedicine project, it enabled rescue workers to assess, diagnose and treat patients in the field and communicate in real time with healthcare providers.

“The idea is to develop a multinational capacity for disaster response,” Raed Arafat, Secretary of State in the Department of Emergency Situations of the Romanian Ministry of Interior and Director of the NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) telemedicine project, said in a press release supplied by NATO.

The field test was organized by the Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) and the State Emergency Service (SES) of Ukraine, and witnessed by, among others, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. NATO members Finland and Moldova participated in the project as well.

[Via: mHealthNews]