To set up a user-driven, Europe-wide system, to enable doctors in remote situations to gain information and access medical expertise quickly and efficiently.  HERMES (Telematic Healthcare: Remoteness and Mobility factors in common European Scenarios) also seeks to implement 'An Agreed European Specification for Quality Assured Telemedicine Services', to be achieved through a process of harmonisation and European integration and utilising agreed medical and technical standard and accepted methods for the development construction and quality assurance of both services and technologies.