Smart4Health: Building today a healthier tomorrow
Smart4Health aims at empowering EU Citizens with an interoperable European Electronic Health Record (EHR) exchange that supports EU citizens to be active participants in managing their own health. The key objective of Smart4Health is to place the citizen in the centre of decisions with regard to their own healthcare by enabling the possibility of sharing health data with different clinicians, medical centres, local and international societies, for research activities as well as to engage directly with healthcare providers. The 4HealthPlatform allows citizens to collect, store, manage, access and share their own health and healthcare data, through an easy-to-use, secure, constantly accessible and portable health data and services prototype within the EU and beyond. The 4HealthPlatform data layer connects with the 4HealthNavigator portal for services and applications to provide advanced personalised health services that are accessible anytime and anywhere. Citizens are able to upload data (from EHRs over self-collected data to work- health related data) in the use design cases MyHealthView, MyTime and MyWork. Also, they are able to share data with health care professionals in situations when reliable health information is essential to ensure efficient health care as well as with other persons of trust such as family members (MyTrusted, Mob.E.Health). Finally, citizens willing to support science can provide their data to the scientific community (MyScience). The technological elements are developed in a co-creation process drawing on eight Citizen Use Cases. These cases cover all aspects of citizens’ active role in using the 4HealthNavigator to access the 4HealthPlatform. Citizen and professional user engagement aims to understand and align user needs for a mutually valuable solution and to ensure positive user experience and system usability. Citizens from different national, cultural and institutional health-related contexts are able to interact with and test the different steps of health data management at home, at work, while traveling, or during leisure and sport activities. Smart4Health follows a truly multidisciplinary approach with a project team constituted by eighteen beneficiaries from eight different European Union member states and the United States of America, including ICT developers, hospitals, social sciences researchers, physiotherapists, nurses, informal caregivers, regional government, research centres, universities and SMEs. Smart4Health will contribute to a positive impact on EU citizens’ health and wellbeing, for building today a healthier tomorrow.
21 Key exploitable results identified
12 peer reviewed papers published
