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After four centuries of delivering health care in hospitals, industrialised countries are now shifting towards treating patients at the point of need. The "Intelligent Systems for Patients" cluster is a response to this evolution/change of paradigm in health. It is divided into two sub-clusters, one dealing with the delivery of home care and the second one on fostering co-operation between health professionals delivering such home care. The best interests of the patient are at the heart of all these projects. The participation of patients and family associations is encouraged.
Hospital treatment is the most expensive component of health care. In addition, patients often find prolonged hospital stays distressing. The cluster seeks to improve patient care by researching technology that will give the opportunity for patients to be treated at home without any reduction in the quality of treatment. This will improve the quality of life of patients and will save on hospital resources. Moreover, research in the cluster will increase the efficiency of health delivery by improving the communication between the many professionals involved in the treatment of a patient, thus leading to "continuity of care".
The sub-cluster on delivery of home care is concerned with telematic environments for monitoring and exchanging information. Personal health systems are also an important feature. These include systems for personal health monitoring, and fixed/portable prevention systems (such as advanced sensors, transducers and microsystems). Other possibilities are personal medical advisors able to supervise prevention and treatment, and certified information systems to support health education and awareness. A revolution is underway in healthcare. Faced with an ageing population and rapid innovation in medical treatments, healthcare providers are looking for cheaper and more responsive ways of delivering services than through large, centralised institutions. After four centuries of delivering healthcare in hospitals, industrialised countries are now shifting towards treating patients at the point of need. Healthcare services have to be accessible to everyone, wherever and whenever they need them, at low cost. In many cases this is best achieved through home-based healthcare, which can be both more comfortable and convenient for patients and less costly for healthcare providers.
Home care can be defined as a component of medical care where patients unable to reach physically a health-care provider receive evaluation and treatment in their homes or more extensively at the point of their need. This concept can have a tremendous impact for healthcare in developing countries, where the close-to- clients concept is one of the major objectives proposed from WHO in order to promote and radically improve health in those countries.
The second sub-cluster is concentrating its efforts on improving the collaboration between health professionals for better home care delivery. It touches on several aspects, from drug delivery, like PHARMA, to co-operative work in clinical labs, like D-LAB, and to care at the point of need such as MTM and MOEBIUS. Technologies researched include IST for quality assessment, remote maintenance of medical equipment and workflow issues in the health chain.
No of projects: 30
No of organisations: 242
EU Funding: 48.5 M€
Total budget: 95.5 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-2000-26083 | @HOME | Remote Home Monitoring of Patients | 1/2001 | 27 |
| IST-2000-25239 | AMON | Advanced care and alert portable telemedical MONitor | 1/2001 | 24 |
| IST-2001-33389 | CEMAT | Contactless Environment for Medical Advenced Telediagnose | 9/2001 | 30 |
| IST-2000-25389 | CHARM | Comprehensive Health Assistance and Resource Management | 1/2001 | 26 |
| IST-1999-12158 | CHRONIC | An Information Capture and Processing Environment for Chronic Patients in the Information Society | 1/2000 | 36 |
| IST-1999-13352 | CHS | DISTANCE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR HOME CARE | 1/2000 | 36 |
| IST-2000-25107 | DAPHNE | Detection of Activity Performances for Health with New Equipment | 1/2001 | 24 |
| IST-2001-33281 | DIAFOOT | REMOTE MONITORING OF DIABETIC FEET | 9/2001 | 18 |
| IST-1999-12502 | D-LAB | ORGANISING THE DECENTRALISATION OF CLINICAL TESTING OUTSIDE LABORATORIES | 1/2000 | 24 |
| IST-2000-26164 | EPI-MEDICS | Enhanced Personal, Intelligent and Mobile system for Early Detection and Interpretation of Cardiological Syndromes | 1/2001 | 36 |
| IST-2000-25146 | E-REMEDY | Tele-Medicine Platform to support Home Rehabilitation based on Internet Technologies | 1/2001 | 24 |
| IST-2001-37751 | GAIT | Intelligent knee and ankle orthosis for biomechanical evaluation and functional compensation of joint disorders | 9/2002 | 36 |
| IST-2001-33235 | H-CAD | ""HOME CARE ACTIVITY DESK"" | 9/2001 | 36 |
| IST-2000-26154 | HEALTHMATE | Personal intelligent health mobile systems for Telecare and Tele-consultation | 1/2001 | 30 |
| IST-2001-32434 | HOMEY | Home monitoring through intelligent dialog system | 10/2001 | 36 |
| IST-2001-33483 | HUMAN | Health throUgh teleMAtics for iNmates | 9/2001 | 36 |
| IST-2001-34614 | IDEAS | An Integrated Distributed Environment for Application Services in e-Health | 4/2002 | 18 |
| IST-2001-37632 | INCA | Intelligent Control Assistant for Diabetes | subject to negotiation | 36 |
| IST-2001-32320 | KARMA2 | Knowledge and Augmented Reality Management Assistance | 9/2001 | 24 |
| IST-1999-10315 | M2DM | Multi-Access Services for telematic Management of Diabetes Mellitus | 1/2000 | 36 |
| IST-1999-11591 | MOEBIUS | MObile Extranet Based Integrated User Services | 1/2000 | 28 |
| IST-1999-11100 | MTM | MULTIMEDIA TERMINAL MOBILE | 1/2000 | 24 |
| IST-1999-12552 | PARREHA | Rehabilitation IT Aid for the Parkinsonians | 1/2000 | 36 |
| IST-2000-26230 | PHARMA | RE-ORGANISING THE LOGISTIC, DELIVERY AND DOSING OF DRUGS | 1/2001 | 24 |
| IST-2001-33299 | TELECARE | Patient TELEmonitoring, using Ultra Low Discomfort Vital Signs Sensors over Mobile Networks for Interactive Continous CARE | 9/2001 | 30 |
| IST-1999-10754 | TelemediCare | Telematic Support for Patient Focused Distant Care | 1/2000 | 30 |
| IST-2000-25068 | TOPCARE | Implementation of a telematic homecare platform in cooperative health care provider networks | 1/2001 | 36 |
| IST-1999-12364 | TOSCA | Tele-Ophthalmological Services - Citizen-centred Applications (TOSCA) | 1/2000 | 36 |
| IST-2001-33352 | U-R-SAFE | Universal Remote Signal Acquisition For hEalth | 1/2002 | 24 |
| IST-2000-25323 | VEPSY UPDATED | Telemedicine and Portable Virtual Environment in Clinical Psychology | 1/2001 | 30 |