KA1- Second Call : Health related Proposals Proposals received: 24 Proposals selected: 3 EUR: 9,267,569 Type of projects : Thematic Network (TN) + Accompanying Measures (AM) The number of proposal received is small as this domain is completely new, and this number would be expected to increase in the future. In particular, additional R&D activities should be supported in the domain of health appliances and information to the citizens for the maintenance of their health in the work place, during leisure time, at home, etc. These activities should support the new EU public health policies. Action lin A Action line I.2.1  (Personal Health Systems)/ Action line I.2.2 (IST Tools for Healthcare Professionals) / Action line I.2.3 (New generation of telemedicine services)
ACRONYM TN or AM / (AL) Project Number	Total Cost (EUR)	EU Contribution (EUR)	Duration- months (start date)	Co-ordinators and partners	Summary
IS4ALL TN / (AL I.2.2) IST-1999-14101	1,399,990	1,399,990	36 (1/10/00)	Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (EL) plus I,B,D,D,F,B	Universal access postulates the design of products or services that are accessible, usable and ultimately acceptable by potentially everyone, everywhere and at any time. IS4ALL will establish a Working Group for the advancement of the practice of universal access in one critical application domain. This interdisciplinary and closely collaborating network of experts will consolidate existing knowledge in universal access in the context of IS technologies, translate it into concrete recommendations, and demnstrate their validity and applicability in the application domain of Healthcare Telematics. To this end, IS4ALL will develop a validated code of practice for appropriating the benefits of universal access in the Healthcare sector and undertake a range ofoutreach activities to facilitate awareness of the European Healthcare industry. Additionally, ISA4LL will liase with a variety of European and international organisations, institutions, consortia, and special interest groups.

WIDENET AM / (AL I.2.2) IST-1999-14203	972,000	972, 000	36 (1/12/00)	Sadiel S.A (E) plus P,HU,NL,B,F,I,SI,D	Europe has always been up with the best at research in Healthcare IT, though there is a lack of joint impulse of the Member States in terms of exploitation due to the fact that their policies and practices often diverge. From the industrial point of view, companies usually operate in language-bound territories, and are eventually swamped by companies from larger home markets. WIDENET proposes to deal with these shortcomings in healthcare, specifically in healthcare records. It proposes 1) to continue building a network of national centres following the model of the already successful PROREC Belgium centre, to deal, among others, with the exploitation problem, and 2) to establish an international European leaded organisation to coordinate the network on the European scale and strengthen successful suppliers. They offer a response to the European Parliament’s call for high-quality healthcare to be available to every citizen regardless of where he is, and to the Commission’s related aims to raise the quality of life. The measures consist of raising awareness of the issues in the healthcare sector, building independent criteria and offering services for evaluating and purchasing IT solutions, and a degree of accreditation of companies, health telematics services and products.
PROEHTEL AM / (AL I.2.1) IST-1999-29029	1,000,000	1000000	30 (1/11/00)	EHTEL Association (B) plus UK,UK,F,NL,D,F,NL,UK,UK,B	The purposes of the accompanying measure are: - to address in a pragmatic manner the problems which are inhibiting the successful achievement of telematic solutions in healthcare across the EU - to bring together in a common democratic forum the different actors concerned with healthcare delivery - to carry out consensus work agreed between the different categories of actors represented in the EHTEL Association - to stimulate the creation of similar initiatives between healthcare actors at national and regional levels