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Updated: Jun 3, 97 |
PROMPT | |
| Protocols for medical procedures and therapies |
| Project Nr: | HC 1041 | Group: II | Project Duration: 36 months |
| Key words: | decision support systems ; protocol based care ; knowledge based systems ; computer based patient records ; integrated care station | ||
| Category: | Multi-purpose Telematics Care Station | ||
| Summary: | Telematic support for high-quality cancer care in Europe. Data acquisition, clinical decision making, therapy monitoring, best practice guidelines will be covered and coordinated with international healthcare companies. | ||
| Mission: | The goal of PROMPT is to use telematics technologies to build an integrated care station for use in specialist inpatient hospital care, and primary and shared care. The care station will combine several operational technologies already developed within EU projects, including electronic patient records and multimedia medical reference systems. A priority will be the implementation of high quality guidelines and protocols for the treatment of cancer. Project technologies will support routine care activities, from data acquisition and the execution of care plans to the recording of the results and communication between clinical professionals. The technologies will be generic and therefore widely applicable. PROMPT participates in the project cluster entitled: action for Telematics Applications for Cooperative work of Healthcare Professionals. | ||
| URL: | http://www.acl.icnet.uk/lab/rtp_home.html | ||
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| Name of Institution | City+Postal Code | Country | Region |
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| Institut Bergonié | Bordeaux, F 33076 | France | FR61 |
| Dept. of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University, | Rotterdam, 3000 DR | Netherlands | NL33 |
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The goal of PROMPT is to build an integrated care station for use in different clinical settings, principally specialist inpatient hospital care, primary care and shared care. The care station will combine several operational technologies already developed by partners in the consortium: an electronic patient record system; software for clinical decision support and protocol-based care; multimedia medical reference systems and telematics communications technologies.
Prompt technology will aim to offer a wide range of services centred around the provision of high quality healthcare based on guidelines and protocols. These are increasingly being recognised as the means by which best practice can be translated into effective routine healthcare. PROMPT will implement protocols for specialist care and guidelines for primary care, drawing upon published work from sources including the Dutch College of General Practitioners and the action cluster of projects. One area of specialist care where the use of protocols is seen to be particularly important is cancer. Cancer will affect one in three individuals in Europe, yet the provision of consistent high-quality cancer care remains one of the most difficult challenges to clinicians: cancer is also an area where there is well-defined medical scope and a relatively systematised body of knowledge. For these reasons, PROMPT will focus its specialist care work on developing protocol-based decision support applications in this area. In oncology, PROMPT technology will be capable of supporting all phases of the routine care cycle: data acquisition, clinical decision making, execution of care plans, therapy monitoring, follow up, recording of outcome data for clinical audit and research, and communication between clinical professionals in a care team, both locally and across networks. The technologies will be generic and therefore widely applicable.
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Users involved Primary care physicians, oncologists, specialists, primary care and hospital nurses, authors of clinical protocols and guidelines. Technologies and/or approach used Goal is development of care station software for high quality protocol-based cancer care. It will integrate: an electronic patient record system (PromptPR), software for clinical decision support and protocol-based care (PROforma), multimedia reference systems and telematics communications. Expected benefits for the citizen Provision of more consistent, high quality healthcare and patient management based on best clinical practice (state-of-the-art guidelines and protocols). Expected benefits for the users of the application Support for recording, processing, retrieving and communicating clinical data in order to support clinical decision making, compliance with clinical best-practice (protocols and guidelines), data collection and knowledge retrieval and review. More efficient use of resources. Improved treatment for patients. Expected benefits for the European Industries Integrated workstation technology addresses a rapidly increasing demand for new software and telematics products for healthcare. PROMPT partners will license results to users, healthcare providers and European healthcare products vendors. Contribution to EU-policies PROMPT will be involved in the development of electronic patient records, clinical decision support systems, telematics communications technologies for improved workflow and data access in primary care, specialist hospital care and shared care. PROMPT’s main contributions to the Health Telematics programme will therefore be in the following task areas:
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| Institut Bergonié | Bordeaux | Aquitaine | FR |
| Centre Léon Bérard | Lyon | Rhône-Alpes | FR |
| Institut Gustave Roussy | Paris | Ile de France | FR |
| Union Régionale des Médecins Libéraux d'Aquitaine | Bordeaux | Aquitaine | FR |
| Université de Bordeaux II | Bordeaux | Aquitaine | FR |
| Hospital De Weezenlande + associated GPs | Zwolle | Overijssel | NL |
| Hospital Reinier de Graaf + associated GPs | Delft;Zuid-Holland;NL | ||
| Chelsea and Westminster Hospital | London | Hampshire, Isle of Wight | UK |
| North End Medical Centre | London | Hampshire, Isle of Wight | UK |
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