6th Framework Programme
( eHealth co-funded Projects )

• IST co-funded Projects

Through the next TABLE, you could access each of the individual Fact -Sheets of all the e-Health IST co-funded Projects (FP6). Short summaries of some of them were also included as in below, at this same page.

• eTEN Project booklet online

December, 2007
In order to mark the end of the eTEN funding cycle at the end of 2006, we have compiled a booklet bringing together all projects of the month from the last three years (2004-2006). This booklet contributes to the goals of our communication activities and complements the short story videos, which are also available on our website. This booklet contributes to the goals of our communication activities and complements the short story videos, which are also available on our website. View the brochure

SOME PROJECT's SHORT SUMMARIES 
(Co-Funded by Diverse EC Programme Lines - 6th FWP) 

• ALLADIN

A Natural Language based decision support in neurorehabilitation The changes that occurring today in patient care and chart review demand dynamic, innovative changes in medical record keeping. The concept of Problem-oriented Medical Record, which started several years ago was the first revolutionary onset of a more organised medical record keeping. Complex problems encountered in neuro-rehabilitation however ask for a second revolution.
Therefore ALLADIN offers a new and the first reliable standard for calculating and predicting the functional recovery of stroke patients which is a crucial factor in client centred evidence based practice, discharge planning and utilization of rehabilitation resources. ALLADIN creates labels for conformity in the communication and understanding of neuro-rehabilitation data.
This is a prerequisite for taking prompt and right decisions in stroke rehabilitation 

See the Project Web site: www.alladin-ehealth.org/

• Better Breathing (eTEN Project)

"Better Breathing" will re-configure the care pathway for managing patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) by implementing Information and Communication Technology supported home hospital services. The potential is two-fold: clinical improvements (better care pathway) and economical gain (more cost-efficient care). More

• Boario Home Care Project

Salvatore Maugeri Foundation (I)
The system provides general practitioners, cardiologists and patients with devices (easy to used by unskilled people) capable of monitoring various series of electrocardiograph signals (12 leads, 1 lead for Event Recorder or Loop Recorder).

• CAALYX - From 01/01/2007 to 31/12/2008 - 24 Months

The main objective is to develop a wearable light device able to measure specific vital signs of the elder or ill person, to detect falls and to communicate autonomously in real time with his/her caregiver in case of an emergency, wherever they are.

See the Project Web site : http://caalyx.eu/

• DAD (eTEN Project)

The digital-aided guide for fathers-to-be ("DAD") is a free online service which deals in a playful way with the basics of baby care, health and safety. It is exclusively developed for men's needs and aims at motivating fathers-to-be to actively participate in infant care . More

• EGEE: Enabling Grids for E-science safety applications

DOWNLOADS Project Profiles: Avian Flu

Trying to find possible drugs on the grid in view of a possible avian flu pandemic, developing rapid earthquake analysis to aid disaster response efforts or analysing crisis management through simulated flooding. These are some of the many application of the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project, a project which brings together scientists and engineers from more than 90 institutions in 32 countries world-wide to provide a seamless Grid infrastructure for e-Science that is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day.

• EMERGE - From 01/02/2007 to 31/10/2009 - 33 Months

Delayed calls of emergency medical services is addressed in EMERGE by supporting elderly people with innovative emergency monitoring and prevention. Humans are bio-psycho-social beings, whose character is to follow typical behaviour. Especially elderly people have this character. The innovation is to algorithm this behaviour by a holistic approach in order to detect deviations from typical behaviour patterns and to reason on acute disorders in their health condition in case of strokes, falls or similar emergencies .

See the Project Web site:  http://www.emerge-project.co.uk/

• HEALTH-e-CHILD (Project of the Month, March 2007)

"Health-e-Child" focuses at individualised disease prevention, screening, early diagnosis, therapy and follow-up of paediatric heart diseases, inflamatory diseases, and brain tumours, being supported by biomedical data. It will build a GRID enabled European network of leading clinical centres, for diffuse excellence across Europe, setting up new technologies, clinical workflows, and standards.  It will be in the Market as of May 2007, in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlanda, the United Kingdom, and Slovakia.  

See more at the Project web site: http://www.health-e-child.org/

• Health Service 24: Remote health monitoring for better care, lower costs
  (eTEN Project)

The HEALTHSERVICE 24 (HS24) project – with funding from the European Commission's eTEN programme – provides one solution to the challenges ahead. The project partners have developed an innovative mobile healthcare system that supports patients' and health professionals' mobility, increases patients' quality of life and reduces healthcare costs.

See the Project Web site:  http://www.healthservice24.com/

• HYGEIAnet

HYGIAnet, Crete (GR)
HYGIAnet is an Integrated Electronic Health Record (I-HER) viewed on-line through a unified visualisation environment.

• Mammogrid

Mammogrid Project Fact-sheet ( pdf. File)
Mammogrid IST Project of the Month (Dec 2006) (pdf.File)

• MedCom

Danish Centre for Health Telematics (DK)
MedCom is a national programme enabling electronic communication between all parties in the health and social sector - both administrative and clinical.

• MobilAlarm (EC-ERA)

The MobilAlarm project tested an innovative, location-independent alarm and teleassistance service which enables older people, chronically ill, and other persons at risk to initiate an alarm call whenever and wherever he or she needs or wants to do so. The project analysed the European market for such services in general, and in particular developed and tested business models in three distinct markets. This involved providing such services to selected user groups over an extended period of time. Finally, a comprehensive plan for fast market roll-out and diffusion across Europe was developed, and market deployment was initiated. To establish such an efficient, trans-European service meeting the needs of users across the European Union, various British, German and Spanish partners - representing the whole value chain - were involved in this project.

To access more information on this Project, visit its site at: www.mobilalarm-eu.org

• MyHeart

MyHeart is an Integrated Project aiming to develop intelligent systems for the prevention and monitoring of cardiovascular diseases.The project develops smart electronic and textile systems and appropriate services that empower the users to take control of their own health status.

It is the aim of the MyHeart project to fight CVD by prevention and early diagnosis. A healthy and preventive lifestyle as well as early diagnosis of heart diseases could save millions of life years annually, reduce the morbidity significantly and, simultaneously, improve the quality of life of the European citizen. Prevention offers the opportunity to systematically fight the origin of cardio-vascular diseases as well as to improve the medical outcome after an event. Classical medical institutions offer only intermittent, episodical treatment, while prevention asks for a lifelong continuous change of habits and therefore for a continuous health-care delivery process. With its innovative system-solutions for integrated textiles, sensors and on-body electronics, the MyHeart project significantly contributes to the European excellence in the area of bioengineering and thereby to the Lisbon strategy of the EC.

Timetable : from 01/04 – to 12/08 

For further information, please visit:
http://www.hitech-projects.com/euprojects/myheart/

• NETC@RDS (eTEN Project)

The " NETC@RDS " initiative is devoted to establish new improved health care administration services for mobile citizens across the EU. The actual phase aims at deploying e-health services via the European Health Insurance Card through a wide trans-European network simplifying health care access procedures. NETC@RDS successfully tested the electronic version of the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) during its first and second Market Validation phases. The Initial Deployment phase of the project - launched on 1 June 2007 - will deploy operational services in all targeted sites, to a total of 305 service sites serving 566 service points across the participating countries .

See the Project Web site: http://www.netcards.eu/

• @neurIST

An integrated Biomedical Informatics approach for the Management of Cerebral Aneurysms.  The projcet uses an integrative Decision Support Sybased on multi-scale computational suites for personalised Brain Aneurysm rupture risk assesment and treatment.

To access more information on this Project visit is site at:  www.aneurist.org/

• OLDES - From 01/01/2007 to 31/12/2009 - 36 Months

The OLDES project will offer new technological solutions to improve the quality of life of older people. OLDES aims at developing a very low cost and easy to use entertainment and health care platform designed to ease the life of older people in their homes.

See Fact-Sheet (pdf)

• PIPS: A virtual healthcare assistant for a healthier lifestyle

Anyone who has ever been told by their doctor to steer clear of certain foods, lower their calorie intake or cut down on salt knows just how hard it can be to avoid temptation and stay motivated. A virtual healthcare assistant is being developed to offer a guiding hand. The personalised information system being created by the PIPS project will give users access to real-time healthcare advice anywhere at anytime over mobile and fixed-line devices, helping them to consistently make the best choices to lead a healthier lifestyle. People suffering from illnesses such as diabetes or obesity stand to benefit but so too do people considered at risk of developing so-called ‘lifestyle diseases' or anyone simply looking to lead a healthier life.

See the Project Web site: www.pips.eu.org/

• RoboBraille -  a European Braille Translation and Speech Service
  (eTEN Project)

The RoboBraille project is an e-mail based service that converts written text to and from Braille and Speech versions to aid visually impaired people and those who have difficulties reading. The service is available free of charge to all non-commercial uses . The Danish RoboBraille service is currently being tested in Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Cyprus and the United Kingdom. The RoboBraille service has already received considerable publicity; the project was presented on the BBC News web site giving an overview of the Electronic Braille System. 

See the Project Description.

• SCREEN: Screening for a killer disease

More: IST programme project activities

• SHARE

Supporting and structuring HealthGrid Activities & Research in Europe.

To access more information on this Project visit its site at:  http://www.eu-share.org

• SmartHEALTH

The SmartHEALTH Integrated Project will develop and deliver the next generation of smart diagnostic systems fully integrated into healthcare systems in Europe. Driven by key applications in cancer diagnostics, SmartHEALTH will enable enhanced medical diagnosis leading to earlier and more precise results and thus contributing to an increased quality of life.

To access more information on this Project (Objectives, Deliverables, etc.) visit its site at :   www.smarthealthhip.com/

• Surgetica

TIMC-IMAG Laboratory, UMR 5525 UJF & CNRS / Department of Medical Informatics, Grenoble University Hospital (F)
Surgetica's Computer Assisted Medical Interventions (CAMI) is an attempt to take up the challenge of Minimally Invasive Interventions through research.

• VEPSY

The main goal of the project is to prove the technical and clinical viability of using portable and shared Virtual Reality systems in clinical psychology.
The project will provide both innovative VR based tools for the treatment of patients, clinical trials to verify their viability and action plans for dissemination of its results.

The selected disorders are: panic disorder, social phobia and agoraphobia; obesity, bulimia and binge-eating disorders; male impotence and premature ejaculation .

• VIDAVO (eTEN Project)

e-Vital , an eTEN project from Call 2001, validated the European market for the provision of a remote monitoring telemedicine service employing vital signs monitoring devices on the move. The device transfers critical vital parameters on-line to doctors and medical consultants, regardless of their location, while getting feedback back to the patients. After the eTEN phase was completed in 2004 their final business Plan attracted the interest of a business angel in Greece. Following two years of hard negotiations and three versions of a more focused Business Plan, the business was finally supported by a venture capital, creating a new company, called VIDAVO . The focus of the new entity is on the development of novel integrated telematics solutions in the healthcare sector.

VIDAVO provides technical support for health telematics applications and consulting support for the effective integration of these solutions and for the optimization of the quality of healthcare services. VIDAVO is now starting the deployment of an eHealth solution based on the eVital concept in Greece. Discussions are ongoing with other potential European partners for the future cooperation, the most mature business case being in Cyprus. European regions have also shown interest and VIDAVO was recently invited to present its business case in ERISA (European Regional Information Society Association) which through their IANIS+ Innovative Actions (www.ianis.net) aim at accelerated deployment of the regional information society.

See the Project Web site:  http://www.vidavo.gr