Obiettivo In clinical studies of prototype drugs, including treatment of diseases typical of the elderly, performed over samples of a few hundred people, it is of paramount importance to make sure that people are observing strictly medication taking. There is, therefore, a need to develop a cheap, reliable system which delivers medication rightfully to people. This niche application opens the path to three main markets: clinical trials (a few tens of thousand units in Europe), hospitals and health care units (hundreds of thousands of units), the elderly dedicated homes (millions of units in Europe). For elderly people experiencing medical care, one of the key issues is indeed observance, i.e. taking the right medication, at the right time, in the right quantity. This is why a consortium of three SMEs- ADDS, STERICICLIN,COFOB, active in drug distribution, hospital equipment sales and elderly care, together with a private clinic have asked two SMEs acting as RTD performers (TAM TELESANTE and ERGON) and one University (IOANNINA) to validate the concept of a cheap, reliable medication distribution system able to handle any blistered medication (so that full preservation of the medication features is ensured before drug is delivered to the patient) and to control each drug absorption (time, quantity and nature). This system, which will automate medication taking, has the potential to be implemented during clinical trials, within medical care houses or hospitals and, in the long term, at elderly's dedicated homes: today in Europe, there are 3.5 Million people who need to have medication prepared three times a day. They can use, on the average, three different blistered products, whereas 80 of medical prescriptions deal with blistered products only. By addressing all the issues at once, including ethical problemsrelated,to robots in hospitals, the project outputs will generate both safer and more reliable drug taking at affordable costs. Campo scientifico medical and health sciencesbasic medicinepharmacology and pharmacypharmaceutical drugs Parole chiave 00 03 06 29 Programma(i) FP6-SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Argomento(i) SME-1 - Co-operative Research (all areas of science and technology) Invito a presentare proposte Data not available Meccanismo di finanziamento Cooperative - SMEs-Co-operative research contracts Coordinatore ADVANCED DRUG DEVELOPMENT SERVICES Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Quai Alphonse le Gallo 56 BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT Francia Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato Partecipanti (6) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto RAL, TECNICA PARA EL LABORATORIO SA Spagna Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Mare de Deu de Montserrat No 51 SANT JOAN DESPI BARCELONA Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato COFOB Francia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo 5 Rue Léonard de Vinci ORLEANS Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITQIRE DE TOULOUSE Francia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Rue de Viguerie 2 TOULOUSE Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato TAM TELESANTE Francia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Pavillon Martel - DOMAINE DU PETIT ARBOIS AIX EN PROVENCE 4 Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato ERGON LIMITED Grecia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo ANDROUTSOU STREET, 160 PIRAEUS Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato HEMATOLOGY DEPARTMENT, MEDICAL SCHOOL-UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA Grecia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo University IOANNINA-HEMA DEP IOANNINA Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato
