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This cluster of projects is aiming at supporting European citizens to stay healthy by researching IST technologies and systems for health promotion and disease prevention. In particular the cluster targets citizens, including those predisposed to diseases, to respond to risk factors (such as high cholesterol level, high blood pressure, or if appropriate genetic profile) by actively facilitating lifestyle changes. To illustrate, three out of four Europeans die as a result of cardiovascular diseases or of cancer. Both diseases can be prevented to a significant extent by adopting appropriate lifestyles. Unfortunately, a number of barriers impedes widespread implementation of the relevant lifestyle changes. Examples of these barriers are that relevant information about risk factors or lifestyles is unavailable to the citizens and the food producers or about the products and services to health professionals. To facilitate the citizen to implement the appropriate lifestyle changes research in the following areas in needed:
As mentioned above, two diseases are responsible for a vast majority of deaths in Europe, some of which could be avoided through appropriate lifestyle changes. Although both diseases can be prevented with the implementation of almost the same lifestyle, assessment of the effectiveness of the appropriate lifestyle response to cardiovascular diseases can be more easily and quickly performed but the response to cardiovascular diseases also helps preventing cancer and other diseases. The socio-economic challenge is therefore to reduce the number of avoidable deaths due to cardiovascular diseases. The factors related to lifestyle, which a citizen can act upon, can (roughly) be categorised into (1) smoking cessation, (2) nutrition, (3) physical exercise, (4) social relationships and (5) environment. Each project has chosen to focus on a particular factor and through the cluster it will be ensured that the technologies and systems developed act in harmony. Within the limit of the cluster budget, it is envisaged to design a skeleton generic enough to accommodate other types of risk factors and a response to them. The expected impact is the ability to use this result as a lever for other health programmes to join in.
The size of the healthy lifestyle market is growing rapidly and is expected to exceed the traditional health systems market since it addresses personal systems for all citizens and encompasses new products and services in all aspects of life (leisure, work).
The cluster covers a wide variety of activities and technologies from personal health devices to complex intelligent systems for timely delivery and monitoring of health information. There are two thematic sub-clusters.
Sub-cluster 1 "Intelligent Environment for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention" focuses on IST for (a) enabling citizens to implement appropriate lifestyle changes for better health and illness prevention and (b) supporting information flows between the citizens, the medical (and paramedical) professions and the health-lifestyle industry. The 3 main axes of action of the cluster are: (1) promoting interoperability of integrated intelligent portable health devices; (2) developing generic and coherent approaches in the use of IST tools which help reduce risk factors related to lifestyle; and (3) staging common and coherent dissemination activities. This work is supported by the ACTIVE HEALTH cluster.
Sub-cluster 2 "Security issues and promotion of Open Source software" focuses on the protection of the personal health information, which forms an important prerequisite for building confidence of citizens in the use of personal information systems. The use of Open Source software can foster earlier adoption of the needed security techniques and the relevant methodologies of risk assessment. A wide variety of technologies are being explored in a medical context. These include secure electronic document sharing, intelligent and highly customisable user interfaces, expert systems, user authentication, data security, risk assessment methods and web technologies.
No of projects: 29
No of organisations: 238
EU Funding: 48.9 M€
Total budget: 90.3 M€
Please click on the Project Number for more information or on the Acronym for the project specific web site
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| Project Number | Acronym | Full Title / Contents | Start Date | Duration (months) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IST-2001-37857 | ACTIVE HEALTH | Active Environment for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention | 9/2002 | 18 |
| IST-1999-14027 | ADICOL | Advanced Insulin Infusion using a Control Loop | 1/2000 | 36 |
| IST-2001-33296 | ASTHMAWEB | ASTHMA Public Awareness Enhancement and Collaboration Management over the WEB: ASTHMAWEB | 8/2001 | 24 |
| IST-2000-25252 | BEPRO | Enabling Best Practices For Oncology | 1/2001 | 18 |
| IST-2001-38344 | BIOGRID | Biotechnology Information and Knowledge Grid | 9/2002 | 24 |
| IST-2000-25410 | BODY LIFE | Intelligent system monitoring the body compostion for better healthy life style and illness prevention | 1/2001 | 36 |
| IST-2000-25031 | CORAS | A Platform for Risk Analysis of Security Critical Systems | 1/2001 | 30 |
| IST-2001-33371 | DROMEAS | A Wearable Platform for the Monitoring of Health Condition and Sport Performance of Athletes and the real-time Prevention of Sport Injuries. | 8/2001 | 30 |
| IST-2001-37153 | GEMSS | GRID-enabled Medical Simulation Services | 9/2002 | 30 |
| IST-1999-10923 | HARP | HArmonization for the secuRity of the web technologies and aPplications | 1/2000 | 24 |
| IST-2000-25334 | HEALTHSAT | Health Interactive Satellite Channel | 12/2000 | 36 |
| IST-2001-33204 | HEALTHY-MARKET | A VIRTUAL MARKETPLACE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF HEALTHY NUTRITIONAL PLANS | 9/2001 | 30 |
| IST-2000-26353 | H-LIFE | INTELLIGENT PERSONAL HEALTH ASSISTANT | 1/2001 | 24 |
| IST-2001-33402 | INFOGENE | INteractive platform FOr personal GENEtic profile construction, decision support | 10/2001 | 36 |
| IST-2001-38165 | LIFEBELT | An intelligent wearable device for health monitoring during pregnancy | 8/2002 | 30 |
| IST-1999-11490 | MEDITRAV | OPEN MEDICAL INFORMATION PLATFORM FOR CONTINUOUS HEALTHCARE SERVICES TO EUROPEAN TRAVELERS | 1/2000 | 36 |
| IST-2001-33369 | PANACEIA-ITV | Citizen Centered Health and Lifestyle Management via Interactive TV: The PANACEIA Health System | 8/2001 | 30 |
| IST-1999-10345 | PICNIC | Professionals and Citizens Network for Integrated Care | 1/2000 | 35 |
| IST-2001-38198 | PREVENTIVE | AN INTELLIGENT WEARABLE PLATFORM FOR ILLNESS PREVENTION RELATED TO AMBIENT AND ATHLETIC CONDITIONS AT OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS | subject to contract signature | 24 |
| IST-2001-32647 | PRIDEH | Privacy Enhancement in Data Management in E-Health | 9/2001 | 24 |
| IST-2001-38719 | PRIDEH-GEN | Privacy Enhancement in Data Management in E-Health for GENomic Medicine | 9/2002 | 18 |
| IST-1999-13109 | REHAROB | Supporting Rehabilitation of Disabled Using Industrial Robots for Upper Limb Motion Therapy | 1/2000 | 36 |
| IST-2000-25354 | RESHEN | Regional Secure Healthcare Networks | 1/2001 | 24 |
| IST-2000-25026 | SALUT | Intelligent Environment for Diagnostics, Treatment and Prevention of Eating Disorders | 1/2001 | 39 |
| IST-2000-26162 | SPIRIT | Priming the Virtuous Spiral for Healthcare: Implementing an Open Source Approach to Accelerate the Uptake and Improvement of Best Practice, Regional Healthcare Network Solutions | 1/2001 | 24 |
| IST-2001-37778 | WEALTHY | Wearable Health Care System | 9/2002 | 30 |
| IST-2000-26251 | WEIGHT-INFO | Providing trustable information context and implementation support for weight control | 1/2001 | 30 |
| IST-2001-32672 | WOMAN II | European Network of Services for Women Health Management | 9/2001 | 18 |
| IST-2001-33260 | WRAPIN | Worldwide online Reliable Advice to Patients and Individuals | 9/2001 | 24 |