Project description Strengthening the integration of the ICT research effort in an enlarged EuropeThe SAPHIRE project aims to develop an intelligent healthcare monitoring and decision support system on a platform integrating the wireless medical sensor data with hospital information systems. In the SAPHIRE project, the patient monitoring will be achieved by using agent technology where the "agent behavior" will be supported by intelligent clinical decision support systems which will be based on computerized clinical practice guidelines, and will access the patient medical history stored in medical information systems through semantically enriched Web services to tackle the interoperability problem. In this way, not only the observations received from wireless medical sensors but also the patient medical history will be used in the reasoning process of the clinical decision support system. Furthermore, through a graphical tool to be developed, while modeling the clinical decision processes, it will be possible to exploit the available computer-interpretable guideline models.The intelligent healthcare monitoring system will be deployed through two pilot applications, one for homecare monitoring of cardiovascular patients in Germany; the other to monitor cardiovascular patients in a hospital in Romania. To subscribe to critical data delivery, clinicians will simply use a Web-based program indicating desired alerts, thresholds, delivery methods (sms/e-mail/Web/pager) or to build a patient coverage list. Once subscribed, clinicians will immediately receive clinical notifications and reminders. Show the project objective Hide the project objective The SAPHIRE project aims to develop an intelligent healthcare monitoring and decision support system on a platform integrating the wireless medical sensor data with hospital information systems. In the SAPHIRE project, the patient monitoring will be achieved by using agent technology where the ¿agent behavior¿ will be supported by intelligent clinical decision support systems which will be based on computerized clinical practice guidelines, and will access the patient medical history stored in medical information systems through semantically enriched Web services to tackle the interoperability problem. In this way, not only the observations received from wireless medical sensors but also the patient medical history will be used in the reasoning process of the clinical decision support system. Furthermore, through a graphical tool to be developed, while modeling the clinical decision processes, it will be possible to exploit the available computer-interpretable guideline models. The intelligent healthcare monitoring system will be deployed through two pilot applications, one for homecare monitoring of cardiovascular patients in Germany; the other to monitor cardiovascular patients in a hospital in Romania. To subscribe to critical data delivery, clinicians will simply use a Web-based program indicating desired alerts, thresholds, delivery methods (sms/e-mail/Web/pager) or to build a patient coverage list. Once subscribed, clinicians will immediately receive clinical notifications and reminders.Creating such an information infrastructure requires safeguards to maintain security and privacy of patient data. The SAPHIRE Project proposes comprehensive security and privacy mechanisms to complement the infrastructure proposed. While providing these confidentiality and privacy mechanisms, the EU directives presenting the general principles of processing of personal data will be taken into account. Fields of science humanitieshistory and archaeologyhistoryengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technology Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2004-2.4.13 - Strengthening the Integration of the ICT research effort in an Enlarged Europe Call for proposal FP6-2004-IST-4 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY EU contribution € 494 640,00 Address Inonu Avenue 06531 Ankara Türkiye See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all SCHUECHTERMANN-SCHILLER'SCHE KLINIKEN BAD ROTHENFELDE VERWALTUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH Germany EU contribution € 111 668,00 Address ULMENALLEE 5-11 49214 BAD ROTHENFELDE See on map Activity type Other Total cost No data OFFIS E.V. Germany EU contribution € 493 200,00 Address ESCHERWEG 2 26121 OLDENBURG See on map Activity type Research Organisations Total cost No data CYBERFAB SARL France EU contribution € 235 507,00 Address 58 PLACE DE LA FAITA 38920 CROLLES See on map Activity type Other Total cost No data ALTEC INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AE Greece EU contribution € 183 800,00 Address PATMOU 12 15123 MAROUSSI - ATHENS See on map Total cost No data SPITALUL CLINIC DE URGENTA BUCURESTI-FLOREASCA Romania EU contribution € 193 860,00 Address 8 CALEA FLOREASCA SECTOR 1 014461 BUCHAREST See on map Activity type Other Total cost No data SOCIETATEA COMERCIALA PENTRU CERCETARE, PROIECTARE SI PRODUCTIE DE ECHIPAMENTE SI INSTALATII DE AUTOMATIZARE Romania EU contribution € 180 800,00 Address B-DUL MIRCEA ELIADE 18 71295 BUCHAREST See on map Activity type Other Total cost No data TEPE TEKNOLOJIK SERVISLER ANONIM SIRKETI Türkiye EU contribution € 147 300,00 Address BEYTEPE KOYU 5 06533 BILKENT ANKARA See on map Total cost No data
