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The cluster addresses the specific needs of the health professional for IST systems that support diagnosis and treatment, for user-friendly portable environments that allow timely access to specific health information from anywhere, or for technology that facilitates continuous learning, training and collaborative work in the health domain. The added value of the cluster is centred around interoperability, standardisation, validation, awareness and dissemination. There are currently two main thematic sub-clusters:
All projects aim to improve quality of care through improved diagnoses, more effective treatment, facilitating timely access to necessary information and providing better education of health professionals.
In particular, projects in the sub-cluster 1 develop and validate advanced medical imaging and minimally invasive techniques for diagnosis and treatment planning for cancer, heart failure and other major diseases. These systems will significantly decrease waiting and treatment time and will result in a treatment that is less painful and more effective. It is expected that these types of technologies will save lives and have a considerable impact in the public health domain, by increasing the quality of care as well as reinforcing the European medical equipment industry.
The projects in sub-cluster 2 aim at enabling doctors and nurses to remotely access vital information and consult the medical files of a patient whether from the surgery room, the hospital, the patient’s home or site of accident. The work is based on the integration of advanced interfaces (voice recognition, natural language understanding, etc) and novel mobile multimedia workstations with embedded communications means (GPRS, UMTS). The cluster will promote the use of medical digital assistants within the community of health professionals, will test and validate the interoperability of systems and explore new business models in the health market.
Work of common interests to the projects in sub-cluster 1 include the use of IST for the improving the accuracy of diagnosis of major diseases (cardiovascular, cancer, etc.), for increasing the effectiveness of intervention/surgery following this diagnosis and in the development of virtual and real scenarios for heart disease treatment. Moreover, legislation on medical devices and ethical issues related to the introduction of IST (including clinical trials) are considered and researched.
A large part of the research in sub-cluster 2 is centred around the development of medical digital assistants and ensuring their interoperability e.g. with respect to information exchange, communication means and application software. Furthermore work in the sub-cluster is concerned with the testing of user centred design models for accessing health information, the implementation and validation of state-of-the-art speech recognition technologies in specific environments (hospitals, surgery rooms…) and the use of natural language understanding systems in health care. Consideration is given to the market for these medical personal assistants and the business model(s) for making a success of these.
Number of projects: 49
Number of organisations: 364
EU funding: 70.8 M€
Total budget: 119.9 M€
Additional SME specific actions:
Number of projects: 21
Number of organisations: 96
EU funding: 5.4 M€
Total budget: 11.3 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-1999-10837 | ADEQUATE | Assessment and Diagnosis in Echocardiography using Quantitative Techniques | 3/2000 | 36 |
| IST-1999-11412 | AMIT | Advanced Minimally Invasive Therapy by using MRI | 1/2000 | 36 |
| IST-2001-35024 | BIOINFOMED | Prospective Analysis on the Relationships and Synergy between Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics | 3/2002 | 12 |
| IST-1999-10217 | C-Care | Continuous Care | 1/2000 | 30 |
| IST-2001-33383 | CHILDCARE | Intelligent collaborative environment for out-of-hospital children healthcare | 9/2001 | 24 |
| IST-1999-57332 | CLEANWORLD | An Integrated Management System of Prevention for Information and Training | 1/2001 | 6 |
| IST-2001-52101 | DEVASPIM (EA) | Development of a tool based on new technologies for the design and evaluation of spine implants | 11/2001 | 6 |
| IST-1999-57446 | DEVASPIM | DEVELOPMENT OF A TOOL BASED ON NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF SPINE IMPLANTS | 9/2002 | 24 |
| IST-2001-52126 | DIAPOLE | DEVELOPMENT OF A NON-INVASIVE BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVEL MONITORING TECHNOLOGY FOR DIABETES AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS | 1/2002 | 24 |
| IST-2001-38143 | DICTATE | A voice meDIated system for struCTured entry of medicAl daTa | 7/2002 | 24 |
| IST-2000-25318 | DOCMEM | Ubiquitous, Permanent and Intelligent Access to Patients' Medical Files | 7/2001 | 24 |
| IST-1999-10515 | DynCT | Real Time Motion Compensated Reconstruction and Visualisation for Dynamic Computed Tomography | 1/2000 | 36 |
| IST-2001-33261 | E-CARE | MEDICAL EXPERT SYSTEM FOR CONTINUITY OF CARE AND HEALTHY LIFESTYLE | 9/2001 | 30 |
| IST-1999-10100 | EDISCIM | Early Diagnosis of Skincancer using confocal Imaging | 1/2000 | 36 |
| IST-2001-33294 | E-SCOPE | Fully Digital Microscopy for routine diagnostics and integration into hospital information workflow | 9/2001 | 24 |
| IST-2001-52102 | GLANCE | InteGrated Analyser for CLinicAl laboratories, to eNhanCe the analysis rEliability and efficency | 12/2001 | 4 |
| IST-2001-38181 | HEALTH MEMORY | ESTABLISHING A HEALTH COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | subject to contract signature | 30 |
| IST-2001-37403 | HEARTS | HEALTH EARLY ALARM RECOGNITION AND TELEMONITORING SYSTEM | 7/2002 | 24 |
| IST-2000-31127 | HIN-EUROPE | Health Information Network in Europe | 10/2001 | 24 |
| IST-2001-38153 | HKIS | Integrated Software Platform for Biological and Biomedical Data Processing in Cancerology | 7/2002 | 30 |
| IST-1999-90159 | ICOTEL | International Conference on Telemedicine and Telecare | 4/2002 | 6 |
| IST-1999-90130 | ICUST 2001 | ICUST 2001 | 4/2001 | 6 |
| IST-1999-12175 | IERAPSI | An Integrated Environment for Rehearsal And Planning of Surgical Interventions | 1/2000 | 36 |
| IST-2001-92502 | IFG | "Health in the Information Age" | 6/2001 | 12 |
| IST-2000-29221 | IHE-E | Integrating the Health Care Enterprise in Europe Concerted Action | 9/2001 | 18 |
| IST-2001-33269 | IHELP | Electronic Remote Assistance in the Operating Room | 9/2001 | 18 |
| IST-1999-55012 | IMAGUM | DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH RESOLUTION ULTRASONOGRAPHY FOR GUM IMAGING | 1/2001 | 24 |
| IST-1999-57449 | IMP-ART | IMPLEMENTATION OF AUTOMATIC REMOTE TRIAGE FOR ALTERNATIVE SITE PATIENT MONITORING AND CARE | 8/2002 | 24 |
| IST-2001-38187 | INFACE | Advanced Visual InterFACEs for timely Retrieval of Patient Related Information | 9/2002 | 24 |
| IST-2001-39013 | INFOGENMED | INFOGENMED: A virtual laboratory for accessing and integrating genetic and medical information for health applications | 9/2002 | 24 |
| IST-1999-57447 | INHALE | THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTELLIGENT CRISIS PREVENTION MANAGEMENT TOOL FOR ASTMATICS | subject to contract negotiation | 24 |
| IST-1999-10310 | INTERPRET | International Network for Pattern Recognition of Tumours using Magnetic Resonance | 1/2000 | 36 |
| IST-2001-52100 | IR-BOSS | A New Portable Infra-red Bone Scanning System Allowing On-Site Bone Damage Assessment And Teleradiology | 11/2001 | 6 |
| IST-1999-14101 | IS4ALL | Information Society for All | 10/2000 | 36 |
| IST-2001-35169 | IVP | Intracorporeal VideoProbe | 4/2002 | 36 |
| IST-1999-12581 | JUST | JUST-in-time health emergency interventions - Training of non-professionals by Virtual Reality and advanced IT tools | 1/2000 | 36 |
| IST-1999-57448 | LIFELINGER | A NEW ICT-BASED DIAGNOSIS PROCEDURE AND TOOL SET FOR EARLY DETECTION OF CERVIX CANCER | 9/2002 | 24 |
| IST-2000-52003 | LIQUAMO | Contactless monitoring of electric fields generated by living beings for life quality control | 7/2001 | 4 |
| IST-2001-37614 | MAMMOGRID | European federated mammogram database implemented on a GRID structure | 9/2002 | 36 |
| IST-1999-90110 | MEDINFO | 10th World congress on Health and Medical Informatics (UK, London, 2-5 September 2001) | 7/2001 | 6 |
| IST-2001-35495 | MEMO | Medical Mobile Devices - Cluster Project | 5/2002 | 24 |
| IST-1999-12338 | MI3 | Minimal Invasive Interventional Imaging | 1/2000 | 36 |
| IST-1999-10618 | MITTUG | Minimally Invasive Therapy for Tumors 3D Ultra-sound guided | 1/2000 | 33 |
| IST-1999-70618 | MITTUG DEMO | Minimally Invasive Therapy for Tumors 3D Ultra-sound guided | 1/2000 | 33 |
| IST-2000-26402 | MOBI-DEV | Mobi-Dev: mobile devices for healthcare applications | 1/2001 | 30 |
| IST-2001-36006 | MOBIHEALTH | Mobile Health Care | 5/2002 | 18 |
| IST-1999-57303 | MONITORHEALTHCARE | MONITORING SERVICE FOR RESIDENTS IN HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS | 1/2001 | 6 |
| IST-2001-38052 | NISAN | Administered Tests with Network Diagnostics via a NonInvasive Sensor | 8/2002 | 24 |
| IST-1999-57247 | NUCLEO | New Ultrastructural Cytometry by Laser scattering and Electronic image processsing in Oncology | 1/2001 | 6 |
| IST-2001-52071 | OHM | ON-LINE HEALTH MONITORING | 10/2001 | 9 |
| IST-2001-37711 | OPENECG | Computerized ECG Standards Interoperability Portal | 7/2002 | 24 |
| IST-2001-32516 | OTELO | MOBILE TELE-ECHOGRAPHY USING AN ULTRA-LIGHT ROBOT | 9/2001 | 30 |
| IST-2001-52107 | PHARMDIS-E+ | Pharmacokinetic & Pharmacodynamic Drug Information and Dosage Adjustment System | 1/2002 | 24 |
| IST-2001-35270 | PLACEBO | An innovative Computational Platform For Solving differential equation of modelling biomedical processes | 4/2002 | 24 |
| IST-1999-56408 | PRE-HIP | Predicting clinical performances of cementless-hip replacements in the early stages of the design process | 2/2001 | 24 |
| IST-2001-38626 | PRO-ACCESS | IMPROVING ACCESS OF ASSOCIATED STATES TO ADVANCEDCONCEPTS IN MEDICAL TELEMATICS | 7/2002 | 24 |
| IST-1999-29029 | PROEHTEL | PROEHTEL | 1/2001 | 30 |
| IST-1999-10246 | SCREEN | Development of a Soft-Copy Reading Environment for Digital Mammography in Breast Cancer Screening | 1/2000 | 27 |
| IST-2001-33439 | SCREEN-TRIAL | The Screening Mammography Soft-Copy Reading Trial | 4/2002 | 24 |
| IST-2000-25429 | SMARTIE | Smart Medical Applications Repository of Tools for Informed Expert Decision | 1/2001 | 30 |
| IST-1999-50077 | SME AWARD | Predicting the clinical performance of cementless hip replacements in the early stages of the design process. | 1/1999 | 6 |
| IST-2000-26117 | STEMNET | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY for STEM CELL REGISTRIES NETWORK | 5/2001 | 24 |
| IST-2001-52104 | STRESST | Psychological Stress Control and Reduction Methodology and Equipment | 11/2001 | 5 |
| IST-1999-11567 | TEAM-HOS | Methodology and Tools for World-best Teamwork in Hospitals | 1/2000 | 36 |
| IST-2000-26292 | TELELOGOS | NExt Generation of Methods and Tools for team Work based Care in Language and Speech Therapy | 1/2001 | 24 |
| IST-1999-11999 | TELEPLAN | A distributed Telematics Environment for Treatment Planning in Stereotactic Radiosurgery | 1/2000 | 24 |
| IST-1999-11459 | TREAT | TREAT - a system for balancing antibiotic treatment against development of drug resistance | 1/2000 | 48 |
| IST-2001-52099 | TTOOL | Target Tracking Tool | 12/2001 | 6 |
| IST-2000-26350 | USBONE | A REMOTELY MONITORED WEARABLE ULTRASOUND DEVICE FOR THE MONITORING AND ACCELERATION OF BONE HEALING | 1/2001 | 24 |
| IST-2001-52103 | VALIDON | Validation of Sterilization Equipment on-line | 11/2001 | 9 |
| IST-1999-10479 | WARD-IN-HAND | Mobile Workflow Support and InformAtion distribution in hospitals via voice-opeRateD, wIreless-Networked HANDheld PCs. | 1/2000 | 27 |
| IST-2001-33257 | WEBLINC | LIAISON NETWORK FOR CANCER PREVENTION, CARE AND DIAGNOSIS ON THE WEB | 11/2001 | 18 |
| IST-1999-14203 | WIDENET | Offering World-Wide Services through an International Network on Health Records | 12/2000 | 36 |
| IST-2001-52058 | WUNSENS | A NEW CONCEPT FOR A FUILLY INTEGRATED WOUND ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING SYSTEM | 10/2001 | 24 |