The medical practitioners at all levels are becoming more overloaded as the aging population of Europe increases. The decrease in mortality rate among elderly people increases the demand for healthcare. Advances in networking, mobile communications and wireless medical sensor technologies offer a great potential to support healthcare professionals and to deliver healthcare services at a distance hence providing the opportunities to improve healthcare.
The SAPHIRE project will develop an intelligent healthcare monitoring and decision support systems (DSS) to address the delivery of healthcare problem in the enlarged Europe. In the SAPHIRE project, the patient monitoring will be achieved by using agent technology where the agent behavior will be supported by intelligent decision support systems based on clinical practice guidelines. In SAPHIRE system, patient history stored in medical information systems will be accessed through semantically enriched Web services to tackle the interoperability problem. In this way, the observations received from wireless medical sensors together with the patient medical history will be used in the reasoning process.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/projects/saphire/
Project co-ordinator:
Middle East Technical University - Software R&D Center (TR)
Partners:
- Software R&D Center, Middle East Technical University , METUSRDC, (TR)
- Cyberfab, (FR)
- Kuratorium Offis E.V., OFFIS, (DE)
- Altec Information and Communications Systems S.A., ALTEC, (GR)
- Institute for Automation Bucharest, IPA, (RO)
- The Internal Medicine and Cardiology Department of the Emergency Hospital of Bucharest, SCUB, (RO)
- Schüchterman-Klinik, SSK, (DE)
- Tepe Teknolojik Servisler AS,Tepe Technology, (TR)
Timetable: from 01/06 to 12/08
Total cost: 2.917.016
EC funding: 2.040.775
Instrument: STREP
Project Identifier: IST-2004-027074