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| CONTRACT | |
| CONTRACT (COnsent iN a TRIAl & Care EnvironmenT) seeks to understand the way the European Data Protection Directive and the Clinical Trials Directive have had and continue to have an impact on the success of translational research.
two-year support action (2010-2012)
Two-year support action (2010-2012) |
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| CRESTA | |
| CRESTA brings together four of Europe’s leading supercomputing centres, with one of the world´s major equipment vendors, two of Europe´s leading programming tools providers and six application and problem owners to explore how the exaflop challenge can be met. Start date: 2011-10-01 End date: 2014-09-30 |
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| DISCIPULUS - Digital VPH Patient | |
| The DISCIPULUS project aims at the grand challenge of the "Digital VPH Patient," in particular, to produce a roadmap for its realisation. The Digital Patient is a method of integrating diverse computational models and individual data to produce a computational patient avatar. Start date: 2011-10-01 End date: 2013-03-31 |
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| EATRIS | |
| The European Advanced Translational Research InfraStructure in Medicine, EATRIS, aims at advancing translational science in Europe by providing infrastructure to allow a faster and more efficient transfer of research discoveries into new products to prevent, diagnose or treat diseases.
Start date: 2008-01-01 End date: 2010-12-31 |
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| eHealthMonitor | |
| The eHealthMonitor (Intelligent Knowledge Platform for Personal Health Monitoring Services) project provides a platform that generates a Personal eHealth Knowledge Space (PeKS) as an aggregation of all knowledge sources (e.g., EHR and PHR) relevant for the provision of individualized personal eHealth services.
Start date: 2011-12-01 End date: 2014-11-30 |
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| EHR4CR | |
| EHR4CR: Electronic Health Records for Clinical Research.
Objective: to establish an innovative and scalable pan-European platform and service framework to enable all health care stakeholders and the pharmaceutical industry to utilize hospital electronic health records (EHRs) for clinical research. Start date: 2011-03-01 End date: 2014 |
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| ELIXIR | |
| ELIXIR unites Europe´s leading life science organisations in managing and safeguarding the massive amounts of data being generated every day by publicly funded research. It is a pan-European research infrastructure for biological information. ELIXIR will provide the facilities necessary for life science researchers - from bench biologists to cheminformaticians - to make the most of our rapidly growing store of information about living systems, which is the foundation on which our understanding of life is built.
Start date: 2007-11-01 End date: 2012-12-31 |
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| epSOS | |
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epSOS (Smart Open Services for European Patients) aims to design, build and evaluate a service infrastructure that demonstrates cross-border interoperability between electronic health record systems in Europe. To enable a summary of a patient’s electronic medical record to be shared across European country borders
Start date: 2008-07-01 End date: 2013-12-31 |
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| EU-ADR | |
| The EU-ADR project aims to develop an innovative computerized system to detect adverse drug reactions (ADRs), supplementing spontaneous reporting systems.
from February 2008 to July 2011 |
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| EUDAT | |
| EUDAT project aims to contribute to the production of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI). The project´s target is to provide a pan-European solution to the challenge of data proliferation in Europe's scientific and research communities.
Start date: 2011-10-01 End date: 2014-09-30 |
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| Gen2Phen | |
| The GEN2PHEN project aims to unify human and model organism genetic variation databases towards increasingly holistic views into Genotype-To-Phenotype (G2P) data, and to link this system into other biomedical knowledge sources via genome browser functionality.
Start date: 2008-01-01 End date: 2012-12-31 |
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| I4Health Network | |
| The Integration and Interpretation of Information for Individualised Healthcare (I4Health) Network is driven by GEN2PHEN to establish a community of health, science and information technology experts. These interdisciplinary experts share an interest in addressing the challenges involved in delivering new research data and knowledge to healthcare stakeholders while feeding the clinical impact back into research, thus fully realising personalised medicine through knowledge engineering. | |
| INTEGRATE | |
| Driving Excellence in Integrative Cancer Research through Innovative Biomedical Infrastructures
Objective: There is a strong need in biomedical research, especially in the case of complex heterogeneous diseases such as cancer, to achieve an all-comprising harmonization of efforts: To integrate the available data and knowledge in comprehensive models supported by interoperable infrastructures and tools, to standardize methodologies, and to achieve wide-scale data sharing and reuse, and multidisciplinary collaboration.
Start date: 2011-02-01 End date: 2014-01-31 |
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| ITFoM | |
| ITFoM will establish the ICT workflows and structures to integrate the analytical and clinical data of the patient into an individualized model of the patient. ITFoM will join three broad technological areas: the clinical research from specimen analysis and diagnosis provision to clinical practice and patient consent, the analytical techniques, covering functional genomics and imaging technology analyses on a routine basis, and the information technology developments required to tackle the immense computational challenges.
Start date: 2011-05-01 End date: 2012-04-30 |
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| Linked2$afety | |
| The vision of the proposed Linked2Safety project is to advance clinical practice and accelerate medical research, to improve the quality of healthcare, benefiting public health, and to enhance patients´ safety; by providing pharmaceutical companies, healthcare professionals and patients with an innovative semantic interoperability framework, a sustainable business model, and a scalable technical infrastructure & platform for the efficient, homogenized access to and the effective, viable utilization of the increasing wealth of medical information contained in the EHRs deployed and maintained at regional and/or national level across Europe, dynamically interconnecting distributed patients data to medical research efforts, respecting patients’ anonymity, as well as European and national legislation.
Start date:2011-10-01 End date:2014-09-30 |
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| MD‐Paedigree | |
| MD‐Paedigree is a clinically-driven and strongly VPH-rooted project, that validates and brings to maturity patient-specific computer-based predictive models of various paediatric diseases, making them readly available not only in the form of sustainable models and simulations, but also as newly-defined workflows for pesonalised predictive medicine at the point for care.
Start date: 2013-02-01 End date: 2017-01-31 |
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| MobiGuide | |
| The aim of the MobiGuide (Guiding Patients Anytime Everywhere) project is to develop an intelligent decision-support system for patients with chronic illnesses.The system accompanies the patients wherever they go and helps them and their care providers in managing their illness, whether they are at home, at work, out and about or travelling abroad on holiday or for business.
MobiGuide research's main objective is to create a scalable, secure, ubiquitously accessible, and user-friendly mobile solution for designing, deploying, and maintaining Patient Guidance Systems based on clinical guidelines and personal health records, that provide personalized evidence-based clinical recommendations, increase the patients' satisfaction and compliance to evidence-based clinical guidelines, and reduce risk to patients and healthcare costs. Start date: 2011-11-01 End date: 2015-10-31 |
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| NoE VPH | |
| The VPH NoE is a project which aims to help support and progress European research in biomedical modelling and simulation of the human body. This will improve our ability to predict, diagnose and treat disease, and have a dramatic impact on the future of healthcare, the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
Start date: 2008-06-01 End date: 2012-11-30 |
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| OpenPHACTS | |
| Open PHACTS (Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store) is a knowledge management project of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), a unique partnership between the European Community and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA).
3-year project ending in March 2014. |
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| PALANTE | |
| PALANTE: PAtients Leading and mANaging their healThcare through EHealth
Patient empowerment is considered a potential tool to reduce healthcare costs and improve efficiency of the health systems, reinforcing healthcare quality. Patient empowerment has become an element of high priority in the EU health strategy, supported by national and regional health authorities. Building on already existing e-health platforms and services in the participating regions, the PALANTE project focuses on the implementation, scaling up and optimisation of 7 demonstration pilots based on the concept of secure and user friendly online access by citizens to their medical/health data. The main goal of this proposal is to empower patients so they will be able to make informed decisions about their health, take an active role in their care and collaborate effectively with their healthcare team thanks to the use of information and communication technologies. The PALANTE Project considers 7 new pilots in 6 countries (7 regions) and 2 additional on-going pilots in 2 other countries Start date: 2012-02-01 End date: 2015-01-31 |
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| P3G | |
| P3G: The Public Population Project in Genomics and Society (P3G) is a not-for-profit consortium that provides the international research community with access to the expertise, resources and innovative tools for health and social sciences research. | |
| p-medicine | |
| "p-medicine - From data sharing and integration via VPH models to personalized medicine" is a 4-year Integrated Project co-funded under the European Community’s 7th Framework Programme aiming at developing new tools, IT infrastructure and VPH models to accelerate personalized medicine for the benefit of the patient.
Start date: 2011-02-01 End date: 2015-01-31 |
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| RICORDO | |
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The RICORDO project [overview] is focused on the study and design of a multiscale ontological framework in support of the Virtual Physiological Human community to improve the interoperability amongst its Data and Modelling resources. To this end, it aims to build directly upon the shared experiences and published recommendations emerging from the VPH Network of Excellence and ELIXIR initiatives.
Start date: 2010-02-01 End date: 2012-01-31 |
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| SALUS | |
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Priority: Objective ICT-2011.5.3 b) Tools and environments enabling the re-use of electronic health records. In SALUS (Scalable, Standard based Interoperability Framework for Sustainable Proactive Post Market Safety Studies) project, we aim to provide a standard-based interoperability framework that will enable execution of safety studies for mining and analyzing real-time patient data in communication with disparate heterogeneous EHR systems. SALUS will provide: Functional interoperability profiles enabling exchange of EHRs, Semantic interoperability solutions enabling meaningful interpretation of the exchanged EHRs, Security and Privacy mechanisms ensuring EHRs are shared in an ethical and safe way, A novel framework for open-ended temporal pattern discovery for safety studies on top of EHR Systems, Implementation of high potential use cases enabling secondary use of EHRs for post market safety studies. Start date: February 01, 2012 End date: January 31, 2015 |
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| SemanticHealthNet | |
| SemanticHealthNet (Semantic Interoperability for Health Network (NoE) will develop a scalable and sustainable pan-European organisational and governance process for the semantic interoperability of clinical and biomedical knowledge, to help ensure that EHR systems are optimised for patient care, public health and clinical research across healthcare systems and institutions.
Start date: 2011-12-01 End date:2014-11-30 |
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| SUSTAINS | |
| SUSTAINS (Support USers To Access INformation and Services) is a three-year project aimed at developing and deploying a basket of services in 11 European regions providing patients´ access to Electronic Health Records (EHR).
Start date: 2012-01-01 End date: 2014-12-31 |
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| TRANSFoRm | |
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The underlying concept of TRANSFoRm (Translational Research and Patient Safety in Europe) is to develop a ´rapid learning healthcare system´ driven by advanced computational infrastructure that can improve both patient safety and the conduct and volume of clinical research in Europe.
TRANSFoRm has been funded by the European Union Framework Programme 7 (Project No 247787), Information Society and Media Directorate, ICT Health Unit, to a total EU contribution of €6.95Million over 5 years, Start date: March 2010 End date: Feb 2014? |
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| VPH-Share | |
| VPH-Share will develop the organisational fabric (the infostructure) and integrate the optimised services to: expose and share data and knowledge, jointly develop multiscale models for the composition of new VPH workflows and facilitate collaborations within the VPH community.
Start date: 2011-03-01 End date: 2015-02-28 |
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