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ATTRACT is a project that intends to provide telemedicine services over Cable Television Networks. ATTRACT is an European Commission funded project (Healthcare Telematics). The main objective of ATTRACT is to take advantage of emerging European Cable Television network infrastructures and offer cost-effective care to patients at home. This will be achieved through a set of broadband network applications that competitively provide low cost interactive health-care services at home. The applications will be based on existing or developing European Cable Television network infrastructures in order to provide all kind of users with affordable homecare services. It is ATTRACT's intention that citizens and users benefit from high quality access to home telemedical services which also implies cost savings for patients, their families and the already over burdened health institutions. In addition, the European industries will have extensive opportunities to develop, evaluate and validate broadband network infrastructures providing multimedia and interactive telemedical services at home. ATTRACT contributes to the EU telecommunications and telematics policy objectives that promote the development and validation of "applications and services" which "provide an intelligent telematic environment for the patient in institutions and other points of care that helps the patient to continue, as far as possible, normal activities and external communication".
ATTRACT是一个旨在通过有线电视网络提供远程医疗服务的项目。ATTRACT是一个由欧盟委员会资助的项目（医疗保健远程信息处理）。ATTRACT的主要目标是利用新兴的欧洲有线电视网络基础设施，为在家的患者提供具有成本效益的护理。这将通过一系列宽带网络应用来实现，这些应用在家中以具有竞争力的方式提供低成本的交互式医疗保健服务。这些应用将基于现有的或正在发展的欧洲有线电视网络基础设施，以便为各类用户提供负担得起的家庭护理服务。ATTRACT的意图是让公民和用户受益于高质量的家庭远程医疗服务，这也意味着为患者、他们的家庭以及已经负担过重的医疗机构节省成本。此外，欧洲产业将有广泛的机会来开发、评估和验证在家中提供多媒体和交互式远程医疗服务的宽带网络基础设施。ATTRACT有助于实现欧盟的电信和远程信息处理政策目标，这些目标促进了“应用和服务”的开发和验证，这些“应用和服务为机构及其他护理点的患者提供智能远程信息处理环境，帮助患者尽可能继续正常活动和外部交流”。
