Objective To efficiently implement e-Health to meet the rising needs of mobile citizens, patients and providers, the fragmented interoperability initiatives now distributed throughout different EU and Member State (MS) programmes must come together.They must be coordinated with the increasing need to link clinical data to information from basic biological sciences and evidence of best clinical practice. Considering the need for interoperability at the MS and cross-border level of the EU - as expressed in the EU e-Health Action Plan - and for global interoperability - as represented by WHO - it is necessary to embark on a process that will prompt the divergent initiatives to join forces for the benefit of all citizens.This SemanticHEALTH SSA develops a European and global roadmap for research in health-ICT, focusing on semantic interoperability issues of e-Health systems and infrastructures. The roadmap will be based on consensus of the research community, and validated by stakeholders, industry and MS health authorities.It- identifies key short-term (2-5 years) and medium-term (4-10 years) research needs to achieve semantic interoperability of e-Health systems (including issues of nomenclatures presently in use, classifications, terminologies, ontologies, EHR and messaging models, public health and secondary uses, and decision support, their relationships, mapping needs, limitations)- analyses unsolved research issues arising in the context of realistic approaches to priority clinical and public health settings (reflecting on models of use, benefits expected, concrete application experience and lessons learned; relevance of open source model)- takes account of the impact of non-technological (health policy, legal, socio-economic) aspects- reflects and integrates results of related FP6 (e-Health ERA, i2-Health and other) studies.The consortium and associated experts represent centres of excellence from four continents and the WHO. Fields of science medical and health scienceshealth scienceshealth care serviceseHealthnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesknowledge engineeringontologymedical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthnatural sciencesbiological sciences 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-2004-2.4.11 - Integrated biomedical information for better health Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme SSA - Specific Support Action Coordinator EMPIRICA GESELLSCHAFT FUER KOMMUNIKATIONS- UND TECHNOLOGIEFORSCHUNG MBH EU contribution No data Address OXFORDSTRASSE 2 53111 BONN Germany See on map Total cost No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all EGESZSEGUGYI STRATEGIAI KUTATOINTEZET Hungary EU contribution No data Address SZENTKIRALYI U. 21 1088 BUDAPEST See on map Total cost No data THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address OXFORD ROAD MANCHESTER See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITE JEAN MONNET SAINT ETIENNE France EU contribution No data Address RUE FRANCIS BAULIER 34 000 SAINT ETIENNE CEDEX 2 See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON EU contribution No data Address See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UPPSALA UNIVERSITET Sweden EU contribution No data Address SANKT OLOFSGATAN 10B 75105 UPPSALA See on map Total cost No data WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Switzerland EU contribution No data Address AVENUE APPIA 20 CH-1211 GENEVE 27 See on map Total cost No data
