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Updated: Jun 3, 97 |
SAMMIE | |
| Solution Avancee pour le Marche Medical Intra-hopital Europeen |
| Project Nr: | HC 1044 | Group: III | Project Duration: 20 months |
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| Category: | Enhanced Hospital Telematics Infrastructure | ||
| Summary: | To provide a multifunctional departmental system, consisting of a multimedia patient folder and management system, a platform for teleconsultation and a diagnostic tool for treating brain diseases. | ||
| Mission: | Hospitals in the EU account for nearly half of its total health budget, so they have to combine improved quality assurance with increasingly transparent cost-effective services. SAMMIE will bring this objective closer via a multi-functional telematics system for better patient data management, more effective overall coordination of health care within and outside hospitals and the inter-departmental sharing of costly medical equipment. This flexible validated infrastructure is expected to point to a huge international market for countless similar systems. | ||
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| Name of Institution | City+Postal Code | Country | Region |
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| Acumen | GB - BH23 8BZ | GB | UK63 |
| UHD | D - 40629 | Germany | DEA1 |
| Stork | D - 40237 | Germany | DEA1 |
| FhG | D - 66 | Germany | DEC |
| AUTH | GR - 54006 | Greece | GR12 |
| AHEPA | GR - 54006 | Greece | GR12 |
| Panagia | GR - 55132 | Greece | GR12 |
| Siemens | D - 81739 | Germany | DEC |
| VUB | B - 1050 | Belgium | BE1 |
| Erasme | B - 1050 | Belgium | BE1 |
| BU | GB - B15 2TT | GB | UK73 |
| Queen Elizabeth | GB - B15 2TH | GB | UK73 |
| Selly Oak | GB - B29 6JD | GB | UK73 |
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Hospitals consume nearly half of the total budget in health care and must in creasingly justify and make transparent what services they deliver to which patients, at which price and for what reason. New health care laws in European countries ask for (i) data and cost transparency at hospital and department level, (ii) cost reduction e.g. by sharing resources between health care professionals and (iii) improved quality assurance of medical services. Approximately 2000 medium to large hospitals in europe (5-10 departments each) need suitable telematics-systems in clinical departments to measure up with these requirements. However, this cannot be achieved with today's telematics infrastructure in most of the medical departments. They urgently need (i) information management of patient data for medical reporting and administrative statistics, (ii) access to other health care providers within and outside the hospital and (iii) applications to exploit and share the costly medical devices, e.g. for advanced imaging.
SAMMIE is geared for improving the telematics infrastructure in hospital departments. The objective of the SAMMIE project is to provide and test CLINWORKS, a multifunctional departmental system consisting of three main modules: (i) InfoWorks, the departmental patient folder for versatile management and documentation of patient data (ii) TeleWorks, a platform for teleconsultation and sharing of advanced diagnostic applications and (iii) BrainWorks, a diagnostic tool for the physician treating brain diseases. Currently, the focus is on diseases of the brain (up to 20% of all non surgically treated diseases). However, tools for other organs can be added easily. Validation is performed at a number of representative clinical sites to cover different requirements. The result of the project is a validated, modular, interoperable telematics-platform used by doctors, nurses and administrators. CLINWORKS builds upon modules of previous EU-projects (i.p. SAMMIE in the 3rd FP) with the involvement of major European IT-industry. A European and eventual world-market of several thousand systems is expected. CLINWORKS is commercialized by SAMMIE partners.
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Users involved "real-life" mixture of University-, Municipal-, and District- Hospital Departments (Int. Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Radiology, Neuroradiology) Plus Radiology Practice; Alltogether 7 clinical sites Technologies and/or approach used i. multimedia database and management system, ii. Euro-ISDN Telemedicine system, and iii. medical software against major neurodiseases (database, atlases, imaging tools); interoperable modules, common "look and feel" Expected benefits for the citizen Better disease outcome and less severe socio-economic consequences of (brain) diseases by faster and better diagnoses and therapies;more cost effectiveness (transparency) of services in the Hospital Department Expected benefits for the users of the application more effective patient services (diagnostic and therapeutic procedures), better reporting/statistics facilities, more accurate and faster diagnoses, better and faster access to high-level expert knowledge via telemedicine Expected benefits for the European Industries a new product: a modular multifunctional departmental system for many professionals in the Hospital Department with a considerable market in Europe and elsewhere (potentially several thousand systems in Europe) Contribution to EU-policies |
| Dept. Neurology, Rheinlandes-hochschule Klinik Düsseldorf | Düsseldorf | Düsseldorf | DE |
| Röntgen Inst. Düsseldorf | Düsseldorf | Düsselsdorf | DE |
| Dept. Neuroradiology, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles | Brussels | Bruxelles Cap. | BE |
| Dept. of Neurosurgery, AHEPA Univ. Hosptial | Thessaloniki | Kentriki Makedonia | GR |
| Dept. of Int. Medicine | Thessaloniki, Neakrini | Kentriki Makeonia | GR |
| Dept. of Neurology Panagia Hospital; Dept. of Radiology, University Hospital | Birmingham | West Midlands | UK |
| Birmingham, NHS Trust;Dept. of Radiology, Selly Oak Hospital | Birmingham | West Midlands | UK |
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