Drago Rudel

MKS Electronic Systems Ltd., Ljubljana

MKS Electronic Systems Ltd. is a private research micro SME organisation specializing in new ICT for social and healthcare services. Experiences in telecare and telehealth services design, integration and set-up have been collected for over 27 years by pioneering in the area since 1990. MKS is an interface among service users, healthcare and social workers and ICT technology. Our current challenge is to develop a national home telehealth network to empower its user in their self-care efforts to maintain their healthy living style or regain health. With our partner organizations we've been building also a national telecare network aiming at supporting independent living of elderly and disabled persons in their home environment implementing also AAL- Ambient Assisted Living principles. We support inclusion of the network users in the information society and facilitate accessibility of ICT based home services. Clients and collaborators of MKS Ltd. are university institutions (University Rehabilitation Institute Soča, Faculty of Medicine), ministries of Republic of Slovenia (Ministry of Health of RS, Ministry of labour, family and Social affairs, Ministry of higher education, science and sport), hospitals (SB-SG, UKC LJ) and private institutions (Anton Trstenjak Institute for gerontology, Ljubljana) Although an SME by nature, MKS Ltd. contributes to national strategic policies and standardisation in telehealth, telecare and healthcare informatics. Dr. Drago Rudel, the company lead, runs several activities to promote telehealth and telecare in Slovenia. He gives courses to graduate students at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine (MF), Faculty of Health Sciences (ZF) and Faculty of social care (FSD).