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Healthsat project
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Partners
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Results
During the first 12 months SES, SES-MM, CanalWeb will focus on the SWW platform's
technical developments.
Meanwhile, various services - Health TV programming by Channel Health, interactive
Web tools by Planet Medica, Web streaming by CanalWeb and WAP applications - will
be progressively introduced. Project co-ordination, management, quality assurance and
strategic development will be the tasks of MMC Europe, while the European Association
of Cardiology will contribute to the medical quality, credibility and relevance of Healthsat
content.
As a result of project's activity, Channel Health's broadcasts via the ASTRA platform will
serve 11 million already equipped households throughout Europe, representing of the
direct-to-home (DHT/SMATV) market. By June 2000, nearly 80% of all European
digital satellite TV households were receiving ASTRA. These 7.98 million homes have
much a higher incidence of PC ownership (58.8%) and online usage (39.1%) than non-
ASTRA households (with 38.2% PC ownership and 19.3% online usage).
To provide valuable feed-back from end-users, SES is ensuring that 500 sites across
Europe, 100 in five member States, are equipped with multimedia PCs capable of
receiving the ASTRA delivered service.
Conditional access will be granted to the two-way digital communication system of SES,
for experimental two-way exchanges of huge data files.
Television broadcasting and interactive tools and services (in 6 different languages) will
be freely accessible from the e-health portal of Planet Medica and the Web-TV portal of
CanalWeb.
Healthsat's approach is innovative in terms of the technical platform, in its "anytime,
anywhere" access, its integrated development of programming across the media, its
quality content, and - importantly - in developing programming for Europeans in multiple
European languages (not just in English).
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