In 2005 Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Division of Trauma, Burns and Plastic Surgery Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, and Institute of Computing Science Poznań University of Technology launched a project entitled "Telemedycyna Wielkopolska" to create a system of telemedical services for the regional healthcare in Wielkopolska to improve the quality and safety of the medical services that are provided to the patients in the region.

To this end the consortium of three partners aims to design and construct advanced ICT solutions embedded in the Polish healthcare system that will allow to flexibly and securely provide a range of diverse supportive services for the medical personnel. As a pilot deployment environment the domain of trauma has been chosen to show the capabilities of the developed telemedical services in practice.

Telemedycyna Wielkopolska aims to construct the following set of telemedical services::

• Medical teleconsultations to support the specialized remote consultations for the hard medical cases that are encountered in regional hospitals and that need to be consulted remotely with experts in a specialized clinic,
• Reference case registry to manage and provide a database of specially interesting cases that illustrate the procedures to undertake in similar cases found by doctors in their everyday work,
• Clinical decision support to enable semi-automatic decision support in the medical cases found by doctors in their everyday work,
• Medical teleeducation to allow the medical personnel to constantly widen their knowledge and thus improve the overall quality of the regional health care,
• Specialist superintendance to enable the Wielkopolska Province trauma and/or surgery supervisor control the surgery departments of the Wielkopolska hospitals.

It is planned that the primary means of access to the distributed telemedical services will be web-based portals. However, other access applications such as mobile or standalone are also envisaged.