7th Framework Programme
( eHealth co-funded Projects )

FP7 List of co-funded Projects

Personal Health Systems

CD-Medics "Coeliac disease - management, monitoring and diagnosis using biosensors and an integrated chip system"

Chronious "An open, ubiquitous and adaptive chronic disease management platform for COPD and renal insufficiency"

DIAdvisor "Personal Glucose Predictive Diabetes Advisor"

Heart Cycle " Compliance and effectiveness in HF and CHD closed-loop management"

Metabo "Controlling Chronic Diseases related to Metabolic Disorders"

Perform " A sophisticated multi-parametric system for the continuous-effective assessment and monitoring of motor status in Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases"

PHS2020 " Road-mapping personal health systems: scenarios and research themes for Framework Programme 7th and beyond" ( factsheet )

TheraEdge " An integrated platform enabling Theranostic applications at the point of primary care"

Virtual Physiological Human

Action-Grid - International cooperative action on grid computing and biomedical informatics between the European Union, Latin America, the Western Balkans and North Africa ( factsheet )

ARCH - Patient specific image-based computational modelling for improvement of short- and long-term outcome of vascular access in patient on hemodialysis therapy ( factsheet )

ContraCancrum - Clinically Oriented Translational Cancer Multilevel Modelling ( factsheet )

euHeart - Personalised and intergrated cardiac care: Patient-specific Cardiovascular Modelling and Simulation for In Silico Disease Understanding and Management and for Medical Device Evaluation and Optimization ( factsheet )

HAMMAM - Highly Accurate Breast Cancer Diagnosis through Integration of Biological Knowledge, Novel Imaging Modalities, and Modelling ( factsheet )

IMPPACT - Image-based Multi-scale Physiological Planning for Ablation Cancer Treatment ( factsheet )

NeoMark - ICT Enabled Prediction of Cancer Reoccurrence ( factsheet )

PASSPORT - Patient Specific Simulation and PreOperative Realistic Training for liver surgery ( factsheet )

preDICT - Computational Prediction of Drug Cardiac Toxicity ( factsheet)

PATIENT SAFETY

Alert "Early detection of adverse drug events by integrative mining of clinical records and biomedical knowledge"

Avert-It "Advanced Arterial Hypotension Adverse Event prediction through a Novel Bayesian Neural Network" - factsheet (Oct. 2008)

Comoestas "Electronic Interactive Patient Record" - factsheet (Apr. 2008)

DebugIt " Detecting and Eliminating Bacteria UsinG Information Technology"

Encite  “ European Network for Cell Imaging and Tracking Expertise”. The Project started in June 2009 and it is related to the theme "Cooperation Health-2007-1.2-4: in vivo image-guidance for cell therapy. ENCITE is coordinated by EIBIR,- European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research (NL)” (fact sheet) .                              

Epilepsiae "Evolving Platform for Improving Living Expectation of Patients Suffering from IctAl Events" - factsheet (Oct. 2008)

Gap " Guard, Anticipation and Prediction. A new approach to Health Risk Prediction" - factsheet

Mednet "Latin American Health Care Network" - factsheet (Apr. 2008)

PSIP "Patient safety through intelligent procedures in medication"

Remine "High Performances Prediction, Detection and Monitoring Platform for Patient Safety Risk Management"

Additional description of some FP7 Projects

• Better Breathing

Better Breathing will re-configure the care pathway for managing patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) by implementing ICT (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).

• Cidre

CIDRE aims at introducing "mobile citizen services" in the trans-European market. Mobile citizen services may be provided at locations like neighbourhood centres, libraries, hospitals or shopping malls by civil servants, using mobile equipment with wireless networks. Taking into consideration local conditions and requirements, pilot trials with mobile equipment will be carried out in various test regions in Sweden, Estonia, and the Netherlands.

• DAD

The digital-aided guide for fathers-to-be 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.

• DebugIT - Detecting and Eliminating Bacteria UsinG Information Technology

• share heterogeneous clinical data sets from different hospitals in different countries, with different languages and legislations,
• analyze large amounts of this clinical data with advanced multimedia data mining, and
• apply the obtained knowledge for clinical decisions and outcome monitoring.

The DebugIT project addresses several of the overriding call topics at once by tackling the problems around antibiotics and of antimicrobial resistance of infectious diseases in an international consortium uniting world class research facilities, SMEs and industry partners.  It is an example of partnering at the European level to keep pace with soaring research costs by making use of complex IT technology technologies.  The research consortium includes public and private research institutions, university and teaching hospitals, industry and SMEs.

The results of the application of the RTD will lead to improving the overall productivity and efficiency of healthcare systems, delivering more personalised care solutions by allowing the actual patient data to be fed immediately into the system. It will therefore deploy Quality of Life for patients and save their lives due to better, shorter and more targeted treatment. Patient safety is optimised through medical interventions with respect to treatment of infectious diseases and prescribing and administering antibiotics. The decision support will help avoid medical and other healthcare errors.

For further information, please visit: http://www.debugit.eu
Starting and final date: 2008-2010 

• Drugcheck

The objective of the DRUGCHECK project is to validate an on-line, pan-European service, which gathers, organises, stores, makes available and presents information and data covering pharmaceuticals and their interactions. The service provides a user-friendly, reliable, intelligent and fast mechanism to accept questions and advanced queries, process them and offer accurate answers justified with the relevant bibliography, in order to assist healthcare professionals in making the proper decisions on medication prescriptions and pharmaceutical treatments both in and out of the hospital without interrupting healthcare delivery.

• EPILEPSIAE

It is our main goal to improve the quality of life of people suffering from epilepsy, especially for those who are not treatable by common therapeutic strategies.

The mission of EPILEPSIAE Project is to use Information and Communication Technologies to empower the epileptic patients to monitor their own risks and improve their safety in daily life, strengthening their social integration.  The project's vision is to develop an intelligent non-invasive alarming system, which is transportable by the patient. The device automatically measures the brain activity. It will be capable of predicting the upcoming seizures considerably before seizure onsets and provides the patient with this information for example by sending a text message to the patient's cell phone. This in turn will allow the patient to assess the risk of his actual situation and acting accordingly to improve his safety and privacy. Another important output of the project is a large and well-documented European Database on Epilepsy.

The EPILEPSIAE consortium funded under the FP7-ICT Programme ( Subprogramme on advanced ICT for risk assessment and patient safety ) for 3 years , consist of six partners from 4 European countries: 2 academic teams (Portugal /Coordinatoir, Germany), 1 mixed academic/clinic team (France), 2 clinic teams (Portugal, Germany), 1 industrial company (Italy), covering the whole value chain from theoretical conception to market products and final users.

Read more:  http://www.epilepsiae.eu
Starting date: January 2008 (to 12/2010)

• GAP:  A new FP7 eHealth Support Action

(GAP: Guard, Anticipation and Prediction / A new approach to Health Risk Prediction)

GAP is a Support Action funded by European Commission- Information Society and Media Directorate-General within the 7th Framework Programme and the Specific Programme “Cooperation”.

The project aims at assessing the need and the means for a generic predictive solution able to produce alarms at EU level and to elaborate an appropriate set of actions that should define the basis for a common protocol for the management of HC threats prediction in Europe.

The project is driven by a consortium composed of high-level representatives of HealthCare Ministries of EU countries (Spain, France, Denmark, Italy) and Associated States (Israel). The partners and the experts associated with the Support Action GAP represent both of the complementary poles of excellence for the successful execution of this mission. The project is coordinated by Departament de Salut, Secretaria d'Estratègia i Coordinació, Generalitat de Catalunya in Spain.

August 2008
Read more: http://www.gaptheproject.eu/

• Myotel

The Myotel project investigates the feasibility of the deployment of a prototype myofeedback based tele-treatment service that enables subjects with neck shoulder complaints to receive personalised and remotely supervised treatment during their daily activities.

• Netc@rds

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.

• R-Bay

The R-Bay project aims at establishing an online marketplace within the field of radiology, i.e. an eMarketplace for the buying and selling of imaging related eHealth services. R-Bay paves the way for the creation of an internal market for exchanging eHealth services and this will lift the sharing of healthcare resources to a new dimension within a pan-European scope.

• Safe Chemo

In the critical area of cancer care SafeChemo increases chemotherapy safety by introducing automation - from e-prescription to robotics assisted preparation of therapy doses. Safechemo also aims at providing all the required process validation, reengineering and training expertise to ensure a better healthcare quality level for cancer patients.