Objective
Current medical needs, the growth of targeted therapies and personalized medicines, and escalating R&D costs result in formidable cost pressures on healthcare systems and the pharmaceutical industry. Clinical research is also growing in complexity, labour intensity and cost. There is a growing realization that the development and integration of Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) for medical research can enable substantial efficiency gains, make Europe more attractive for R&D investment and provide patients better access to innovative medicines and improved health outcomes.
EHRs can now be designed to seamlessly integrate with existing research platforms and healthcare networks to create opportunities for many stakeholders, including the pharmaceutical and bio-pharma industries. However, key challenges are compliance with various ethical, legal and privacy requirements (and acceptance by the general public, patients, and medical professionals), providing a platform that works across many EHR systems and is sustainable within a scalable business model.
A 4-year project, EHR4CR will involve a team of recognised European academic and industrial partners. The project will build a platform to enable the use of EHR for more efficient medical research and run pilots (on interoperability, security, data quality, data storage solutions, organisational issues, accreditation and certification, etc) to demonstrate the viability and scalability of an EHR4CR business model.
The EHR4CR project supports the IMI strategic agenda with an information gateway solution to enhance clinical research efficiency and innovation. A key IMI aspect is the development of a knowledge management capability that can, for example, provide information management support for other research on personalized medicines, now an IMI 2010 call topic. EHR4CR also supports other IMI R&D projects by enabling the use (and reuse) of large amounts of health data – in an ethical and cost-effective way.
Fields of science
Call for proposal
IMI-JU-02-2009
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Coordinator
151 85 Sodertaelje
Sweden
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Participants (34)
59000 Lille
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Participation ended
TQ14 9DP Teignmouth
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69117 Heidelberg
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67860 Friesenheim
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10561 Athina
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9830 Sint-Martens-Latem
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WC1E 6BT London
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WC2R 2LS London
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DD1 4HN Dundee
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75654 Paris
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35065 RENNES CEDEX
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48149 MUENSTER
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91054 Erlangen
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10117 Berlin
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1205 Geneve 14
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80335 MUNCHEN
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75012 Paris
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M13 9PL Manchester
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02 091 Warszawa
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G12 8QQ Glasgow
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3000 Leuven
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EH8 9YL Edinburgh
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40225 Dusseldorf
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4070 Basel
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RG21 4FA Basingstoke
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94250 GENTILLY
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64293 Darmstadt
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1831 Diegem
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2340 Beerse
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TW89GS Brentford
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13353 Berlin
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4056 Basel
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1060 Bruxelles / Brussel
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9630 ZWALM
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