Cardio-vascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death in developed countries. Roughly 45% of all deaths in the EU are due to cardio-vascular diseases. With the ageing population, it is a challenge for Europe to provide its citizens with healthcare at affordable costs.

It is the aim of the MyHeart project to fight CVD by prevention and early diagnosis. A healthy and preventive lifestyle as well as early diagnosis of heart diseases could save millions of life years annually, reduce the morbidity significantly and, simultaneously, improve the quality of life of the European citizen. Prevention offers the opportunity to systematically fight the origin of cardio-vascular diseases as well as to improve the medical outcome after an event. Classical medical institutions offer only intermittent, episodical treatment, while prevention asks for a lifelong continuous change of habits and therefore for a continuous health-care delivery process. With its innovative system-solutions for integrated textiles, sensors and on-body electronics, the MyHeart project significantly contributes to the European excellence in the area of bioengineering and thereby to the Lisbon strategy of the EC.

For further information, please visit:
http://www.hitech-projects.com/euprojects/myheart/

Project co-ordinator:
Philips GmbH Forschungslaboratorien, GE

Partners:

• Philips Electronics UK Limited
• Philips International B.V. – NL
• Philips Innovative Technology Solutions NV – B
• Medtronic Iberia SA – E
• Fundacion Vodafone – E
• Milior – S.P.A. – I
• Smartex – S.R.L – I
• Dr.Hein GMBH – D
• Medgate AG – CH
• Centre Suisse D’Electronique et de Microtechnique SA – CH
• Commissariat à l’énergie Atomique – F
• Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich – CH
• Universita degli Studi di Pisa – I
• Universidad Politecnica de Madrid – E
• Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas - Asociación – E
• Consorzio di Bioingegneria e Infomatica Medica – I
• Politecnico di Milano – I
• Universita’degli studi di Padova (university of Padova) – I
• Universita degli studi di Firenze – I
• Universitaetsklinikum Aachen – D
• Hospital Clinico San Carlos de Madrid Insalud – E
• Fondazione Centro San Raffaele del Monte Tabor – I
• Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri Clinica del Lavoro e della Riabilitazione – I
• Universidad Politecnica de Valencia – E
• Facludade de ciencias e technologia da universidade de Coimbra – P
• Hospital de Unisersidate de Coimbra – P
• Philips Electronics Nederland b.v. – NL
• Lineapiu S.P.A. – I
• W. Zimmermann GmbH & Co. KG – D

Timetable: from 01/04 – to 12/08

Total cost: € 34.733.599

EC funding: € 16.000.000

Instrument: IP

Project Identifier: IST-2002-507816

Source: FP6 eHealth Portfolio of Projects