Compendium of Health Telematics Projects 94-98 (Draft)
| Project code: | HC 1106 |
| Project value: | 805.0 KECU |
| EC contribution: | 700.0 KECU |
| Number of partners: | 4 |
| Number of countries: | 3 |
| Duration: | 36 months |
| Starting date: | Jan 1, 96 |
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| Contact: |
Gérard Brugal
Laboratoire TIMC
Faculté de Médecine Institut Albert Bonniot
Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I
38706 La Tronche
France
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| Tel: | + 33 76 54 94 00 |
| Fax: | + 33 76 54 95 49 |
| E-mail: | gerard.brugal@ujf-grenoble.fr |
| Web Site: | europath.imag.fr |
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Overview
Improvement of the quality, consistency and cost-effectiveness of healthcare across Europe requires that every healthcare professional should be able to apply up-to-date and relevant best practice (based where possible on best evidence from research) in his/her field. For this to happen, the flow of information and expertise between researchers and practitioners, between specialists and non-specialists, and between those who have knowledge and those who need it, has to be improved.
The ACTION cluster comprises co-ordinate the activities of 9 distinct projects each addressing a different aspect of the use of telematics to support such information flows. In order to maximise impact, the projects focus on oncology as a target area , while keeping the applications as generic as possible.
Purpose and objectives
The 9 ACTION projects are all closely related, forming complementary parts of the overall picture; however for practical reasons, they are self-contained separately-managed projects : CONQUEST assuring the quality of diagnosis and treatment, ECOLE-GRIP helping the production of systematic reviews of evidence based medical practice and guidelines, EUROPATH offering local and networked tools for remote consultation based on multimedia pathology documents, MACRO speeding up the design and execution of clinical trials, MANSEV streamlining market authorization and approval of new treatments, MEDICO offering generic tools for medical continuous education, PROMPT providing timely and appropriate knowledge to clinicians, TARGET designing advanced image-based techniques in radiotherapy. The primary purpose of ACTION is therefore to attempt to crystallise and animate the cluster identity of the ACTION group. It will co-ordinate those aspects which will benefit from a common approach, while allowing the individual projects to proceed independently. By providing focus for the project cluster as a whole, ACTION will amplify the impact on European healthcare.
Results
The ACTION team facilitates co-operation between projects through managed workshops and conferences, as well as through telematics means. It tracks and analyses the activities and achievements of the individual ACTION projects in order to form a clear architectural overview and understanding of the whole picture. As part of puling together the individual threads, ACTION has an element of planning for a major validation trial which will integrate the results of the projects on the EORTC (European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer) data centre in Brussels.
A key result will be the ACTION model: a coherent model for the exploitation of telematics for healthcare that can inform and support policy and investment decisions in both R&D and infrastructure development at EU and member state levels. This model will underpin other outputs from ACTION such as publications conferences, position papers and standards profiles, enabling the co-ordinated projects to form complementary, interoperable systems which can be jointly exploited to reach a critical mass of users. ACTION will develop co-ordinated plans for larger-scale validation of the integrated results from the various projects.
List of deliverables
- D1 ACTION EVALUATION GUIDELINES (03 PU)
- D2 STAKEHOLDER FORUM REPORT - I (08 PU)
- D3 INTERIM ACTION CLUSTER REPORT INCLUDING ACTION MODEL (09 PU)
- D4 CONCERTED VALIDATION PLAN (09 RP)
- D5 TELEMACTICS INFRASTRUCTURE PROFILE - INTERIM (09 PU)
- D6 STAKEHOLDER FORUM REPORT - II (14 PU)
- D7 STAHEHOLDER FORUM REPORT - III (20 PU)
- D8 ACTION CLUSTER REPORT INCLUDING ACTION MODEL (21 PU)
- D9 CD-ROM (21 PU)
- D10 TELEMATICS INFRASTRUCTURE PROFILE - FINAL (21 PU)
- D11 STAKEHOLDER FORUM REPORT - IV (26 PU)
List of participants
| Name: |
M. MAKARI |
| Organisation: |
The MARI Group Limited |
| Address: |
MARI, Unit 22, Boldon Business Pk, |
| Country: |
UK |
| Tel: |
(44) 191 519 1991 |
| Fax: |
(44) 191 519 1990 |
| E-mail: |
m.makari@mari.co.uk |
| Website: |
telescan.nki.nl/action/index.html |
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| Name: |
FRANKLIN, J. |
| Organisation: |
Managing Director and Principal Consultant |
| Address: |
Voorhaven, 33 1135BL EDAM |
| Country: |
Netherlands |
| Tel: |
(31) 299 372 751 |
| Fax: |
(31) 299 372 877 |
| E-mail: |
asfra@wxs.nl |
| Website: |
telescan.nki.nl/action/index.html |
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| Name: |
RENAUD SALIS, J.L. |
| Organisation: |
Institut Bergonié |
| Address: |
180, Rue de Saint Genès 33076 BORDEAUX Cedex |
| Country: |
FRANCE |
| Tel: |
(33) 556 333 333 |
| Fax: |
(33) 556 333 330 |
| Website: |
telescan.nki.nl/action/index.html |
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| Name: |
VAN DER DONK, E. |
| Organisation: |
The Netherlands Cancer Institute Antoni van Leeuvenhoek Hospital |
| Address: |
Plesmanlaan, 121 NL- 1066 CX AMSTERDAM |
| Country: |
Netherlands |
| Tel: |
(31) 205 122 672 |
| Fax: |
(31) 206 691 101 |
| E-mail: |
edonk@telescan.nki.nl |
| Website: |
telescan.nki.nl/action/index.html |
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