EU launches 27 health IT projects
The European Union has spawned 27 e-health projects this year, following a call under the EU Framework Programme 7 (FP7).
The Seventh Research Framework Programme, which runs until 2013 with a budget of €50 billion ($61.1 billion U.S.), has launched projects in three areas: Information and communication technologies (ICT) for personal health systems, ICT for patient safety and international cooperation on Virtual Physiological Human.
The EU’s Research and Development Framework Programmes stated its aim is to bring together teams from different organizations and EU countries, to combine knowledge and experience to improve the standard of living for people in Europe.
Newly launched projects include the ICT4Depression consortium and an ICT-based system for primary care to improve access to treatment by providing devices for automatic assessment of the patient using mobile phone and web-based communication.
Patient safety projects address developments around software tools to help health professionals have the greatest possible information available to them whenever they make decisions that may have an impact on patient safety, according to the EU.
In addition, Virtual Physiological Human, a network of researchers in the fields of bioinformatics, genomics and neuroinformatics, will help create a new generation of e-health systems to assist practitioners in disease prevention, diagnoses and treatment, EU added.
The Seventh Research Framework Programme, which runs until 2013 with a budget of €50 billion ($61.1 billion U.S.), has launched projects in three areas: Information and communication technologies (ICT) for personal health systems, ICT for patient safety and international cooperation on Virtual Physiological Human.
The EU’s Research and Development Framework Programmes stated its aim is to bring together teams from different organizations and EU countries, to combine knowledge and experience to improve the standard of living for people in Europe.
Newly launched projects include the ICT4Depression consortium and an ICT-based system for primary care to improve access to treatment by providing devices for automatic assessment of the patient using mobile phone and web-based communication.
Patient safety projects address developments around software tools to help health professionals have the greatest possible information available to them whenever they make decisions that may have an impact on patient safety, according to the EU.
In addition, Virtual Physiological Human, a network of researchers in the fields of bioinformatics, genomics and neuroinformatics, will help create a new generation of e-health systems to assist practitioners in disease prevention, diagnoses and treatment, EU added.