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Health-e-Child (HEALTH-E-CHILD)

Funded under 6th FWP (Sixth Framework Programme)

Action Line: IST-2004-2.4.11 Integrated biomedical information for better health

There is a compelling demand for the integration and exploitation of heterogeneous biomedical information for improved clinical practice, medical research, and personalized healthcare for the citizens of EU.The Health-e-Child project aims at developing an integrated healthcare platform for European Paediatrics, providing seamless integration of traditional and emerging sources of biomedical information. The long-term goal of the project is to provide uninhibited access to universal biomedical knowledge repositories for personalized and preventive healthcare, information-based biomedical research and training, and informed policy making.

The objectives of Health-e-Child are:

To gain a comprehensive view of a child's health by vertically integrating biomedical data, information, and knowledge, that spans the entire spectrum from genetic to clinical to epidemiological;

To develop a biomedical information platform, supported by sophisticated and robust search, optimization, and matching techniques for heterogeneous information, empowered by the Grid;

To build enabling tools and services on top of the Health-e-Child platform, that will lead to better healthcare solutions in Europe:
- Integrated disease models exploiting all available information levels;
- Database-guided biomedical decision support systems provisioning novel clinical practices and personalized healthcare;
- Large-scale and cross-modality information fusion and data mining for biomedical knowledge discovery.

The project focus will be on individualized disease prevention, screening, early diagnosis, therapy and follow-up of paediatric heart diseases, inflammatory diseases, and brain tumours. The project will build a Grid-enabled European network of leading clinical centres that will share and annotate biomedical data, validate systems clinically, and diffuse clinical excellence across Europe by setting up new technologies, workflows, and standards.

Record Control Number: 79501

Update Date: 2009-11-23 09:18:24.0

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