Medical Opportunities by Mobile IT Usage – A Case Study in the Stroke Chain of Survival

Mobile technologies are likely to reveal a high potential to improve the information exchange in medical treatment. Especially in emergency services, the use of these technologies can support the work of the regionally distributed actors. During the last years many projects dealing with innovative mobile systems were started as pilots but in most cases the concrete effects of their application were neither analysed in detail nor were the solutions able to reach the status of operative systems. This paper presents a concrete application scenario of mobile IT in medical treatment, presents the results from especially a process analysis and discusses chances and risks that can be deduced from the case study.