EMPOWER explored related research projects, focusing on activities that are supported by the European commission. The projects are divided into three groups according to the main research fields of EMPOWER.
Patient Empowerment Projects
| Help4Mood | The aim of Help4Mood is to develop a system that will help people with major depression recover in their own home. The system has three main components a personal monitoring system including behavior an interactive virtual agent and a decision support system. It is designed to be used together with other forms of therapy, such as self-help, counseling, or medication. | Funded by EU FP7 ending 2013 |
| Co Creating Health | Co Creating Health aimed to embed self-management support within mainstream health services and equip individuals and clinicians to work in partnership to achieve better outcomes. It showed that after attending the programme people indicated: significant changes in positive engagement in life, having more positive emotional well-being, increased job satisfaction of health professionals. |
Funded by Health Foundation (NHS) ending 2012 |
| Active Learning Facilitators | The active Learning Facilitators project has succeeded in engaging people with long term health conditions to become actively involved with improving the lives of other patients and service users. Key aims were to: mobilize the potential of local people with long term health conditions to become expert facilitators of informal adult learning, design and implement a model of self-managed learning. |
Funded by NHS Lambeth ending 2011 |
| Expert Patients Programme | The National Rheumatoid arthritis Society in UK and Expert Patient Programme CIC jointly developed a self-management programme for adults who are currently being treated for autoimmune inflammatory disease (rheumatoid arthritis). The pilot evaluations have shown very encouraging outcomes and a clear increase in the acquisition of health-related skills and techniques with which to manage symptoms. | Funded by NHS |
Disease Management and Guidelines for Diabetes
| DIAdvisor | DIAdvisor is aiming at the development of a blood glucose prediction device to optimise the therapy of patients with diabetes. The concept includes non-invasive and minimal invasive sensors providing information on the patient, a mathematical model for prediction of near-term blood glucose levels and a handheld device platform for computation and interface to the patient. |
Funded by EU FP7 ending 2010 |
| SWAN-ICARE | SWAN-iCARE aims at developing an integrated autonomous device for the monitoring and the personalized management of chronic wounds. Core of the project is the fabrication of a conceptually new wearable negative pressure device equipped with Information and Communication Technologies. The physician’s analysis of the collected data will be the basis for the decision and the remote control of the therapy. |
Funded by EU PF7 ending 2014 |
| REACTION | The aim of the REACTION project is to develop an integrated ICT platform that supports improved long term management of diabetes based on wearable, continuous blood glucose monitoring sensors and automated closed-loop delivery of insulin. The platform will provide integrated, professional, management and therapy services to diabetes patients including: professional decision support for in-hospital environments, safety monitoring for dosage and compliance, long term management of outpatients. |
Funded by EU FP7 ending 2014 |
| PALANTE | PALANTE aims to give patients more awareness of and responsibility for their disease providing online disease management. The PALANTE pilot will enable Ankylosis Spondylitis patients to send their health information to their assigned doctors, and doctors will be able to respond to the patients very quickly. Thus it seeks to empower patients so they are able to make informed decisions about their health, take an active role in their care and collaborate effectively with their healthcare team. | Funded by EU ICT PSP ending 2015 |
| COMMODITY12 | COMMODITY12 will build a multi-layered multi-parametric infrastructure for continuous monitoring of diabetes type 1 and 2. The system will exploit multi-parametric data to provide healthcare workers and patients, with clinical indicators for the treatment of diabetes. Therefore it will combine state-of-the-art networks, software interoperation, and artificial intelligence techniques in order to realize a Personal Health System. The main focus will be on correlating the multi-parametric data with established biomedical knowledge to derive clinically relevant indicators. |
Funded by EU FP7 ending 2014 |
| AP@Home | The artificial pancreas (AP) is a technology in development to help people with diabetes automatically control their blood glucose level by providing the substitute endocrine functionality of a healthy pancreas. The project is developing: a two-port AP system with automated closed–loop glycaemic control, a risk assessment model built on heterogeneous clinical data, an algorithm for continuous glucose monitoring for more precise assessment of the health status, a hypo-/hyper-glycaemia alarm for safer and more accurate treatment. |
Funded by EU FP7 ending 2014 |
Electronic Health Records and Health Information Exchange
| SemanticHealthNet | SemanticHealthNet will develop a scalable and sustainable pan-European organisational and governance process for 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.Experts in EHR architectures, clinical data structures, terminologies and ontology will combine, tailor and pilot their best-of-breed resources in response to the needs articulated by clinicians and public health physicians. |
Funded by EU FP7 ending 2014 |
| epSOS | epSOS aims to design, build and evaluate a service infrastructure that demonstrates cross-border interoperability between electronic health record systems in Europe. epSOS is trying to achieve that by setting up a Patient Summary and exemplifying it in a European network. Besides the Patient Summary the so called “epSOS Services“ define data structures regarding ePrescription and eDispensation, which are pretty basic in general but the merit is indeed that the 25 national (22 EU countries) partners managed to agree (at all) on some common data set which is necessary when patients are receiving treatment abroad. |
Funded by EU ICT PSP ending 2013 |
| MobiGuide | MobiGuide develops a patient guidance system, that integrates hospital and monitoring data into a Personal Health Record (PHR) accessible by patients and care providers, and provides personalized secure clinical-guideline-based guidance also outside clinical environments. The project aims to achieve ubiquity by having a Decision Support System at the back end, utilizing Body Area Network (BAN) technology at the front end and developing a coordinated light-weight Decision Support System that can operate independently. Personalization will be achieved by considering patient preferences and context. Retrospective data analysis will be used to assess compliance and to indicate care pathways shown to be beneficial for certain patient contexts |
Funded by EU FP7 ending 2015 |
| MyHealthAvatar | MyHealthAvatar is a proof of concept for the digital representation of patient health status. It is designed as a lifetime companion for individual citizens that facilitates the collection of, and access to, long-term health-status information. Also, it is an interface to access integrated predictive computer simulation models which foresee the growth of the disease and the effect of treatment. Doctors will be assisted by: displaying related information in a body-centric view around the avatar, allowing simulation via access to the model repositories, performing visually assisted data analysis to extract clinically meaningful information from the heterogeneous data. |
Funded by EU FP7 ending 2016 |
| eHealthMonitor | eHealthMonitor aims at developing a platform for individualized personal healthcare services, designing knowledge sharing methods which consider privacy protection requirements. Furthermore, it aims at providing a platform that generates a Personal eHealth Knowledge Space as an aggregation of all knowledge sources (e.g., EHR and PHR) relevant for the provision of individual personal eHealth services. The main goal is addressed by following objectives: development of a platform for individualized personal healthcare services, acquisition of distributed knowledge from heterogeneous sources, develop eHealth services supporting cooperation of all stakeholders in the decision making process. |
Funded by EU FP7 ending 2014 |
| iCARDEA | iCARDEA aims to expose cardiac implantable devices data through standard interfaces to develop an intelligent platform to semi-automate the follow-up of patients with context-aware, adaptable computer interpretable clinical guideline models. EHR interoperability will be achieved by exposing legacy EHR systems through standard HL7 CDA interfaces so that information about patients’ medical histories can be obtained from the patient EHR data and used in the clinical follow-up workflow. The clinical guidelines will automate the risk assessment and hence support medical professionals by automatically assessing the situations and generating alarms. |
Funded by EU FP7 ending 2013 |
| SAPHIRE | The SAPHIRE project aims to develop an intelligent healthcare monitoring and decision support system on a platform integrating the wireless medical sensor data with hospital information systems. The patient monitoring will be achieved by using agent technology that is supported by intelligent clinical decision support systems which will be based on computerized clinical practice guidelines, and will access the patient medical history stored in medical information systems. In this way, not only the observations received from wireless medical sensors but also the patient medical history will be used in the reasoning process of the clinical decision support system. |
Funded by EU FP6 ending 2008 |
| METABO | This project aims at controlling chronic diseases related to metabolic disorders. METABO focuses on the improvement of diabetes disease management by providing patients and medical doctors with a technological platform to help them handle and analyze all information related to diabetes treatment, integrating it with patients´ lifestyle data. The system collects information from patients using sensors and a Portable Mobile Device. Through the system, personalized recommendations, tailored prescriptions and goals to be achieved by patients are sent from the Physicians’ Control Panel to the patients through the METABO Central System and are received in the Patients’ Mobile Device. |
Funded by EU FP7 ending 2011 |
| ByMedConnect | ByMedConnect developed and demonstrated a communication solution based on the standards Continuity of Care Record (CCR) and ISO 13606. ASTMs’ CCR describes a central data set, which was developed in close cooperation with health professionals and which provides an overall summary of a patient’s relevant medical information. ISO 13606 enables an interoperable exchange of health data facilitating that data from differing sources is correctly analysed and interpreted. By receiving relevant information from co-treating colleagues at short notice, the doctor is better informed on the patient’s health status. |
Funded by Bavarian State Ministry of Health ending 2013 |
| EHR-Arche | The objectives of the EHR-Arche project are, to identify the information needs of health care professionals when accessing the EHR, to develop concepts to fulfil these information needs by combining document meta-data and dual-model EHR architectures. The project is innovative in the sense that information needs of health professionals were analysed, and it proposes concepts to combine meta-data-based and archetype-based searching to optimize precision and recall of EHR queries. The concepts are based on international standards such as IHE XDS to provide a future-proof, vendor independent solution. The archetype-based search takes into account ISO 13606 and HL7 CDA, both important international EHR standards. | Funded by Austrian FWF ending 2012 |