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Research in eHealth
The European Union has supported research efforts in the field of eHealth for more than two decades now. The technologies developed in hundreds of successful projects have contributed to improving healthcare provision in many and varied areas. eHealth is a priority for EU research funding in the current Framework Programme (FP7) which runs until 2013.
The EU’s Research and Development Framework Programmes bring together teams from different institutions and countries, ensuring that the best research brains combine their knowledge and experience to improve Europeans’ standards of living. The Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7) will continue these efforts over the years 2007 to 2013, with a total budget of more than €50 billion for the period.
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eHealth research is being tackled under “Challenge 5 –
ICT for
Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance” within FP7’s Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
work programme. This challenge addresses advanced ICT research for sustainable
high-quality healthcare, demographic ageing, social and economic inclusion, and
the governance of our societies. Work in Challenge 5 focuses for ICT for Health
part on:
- Personal Health Systems (PHS): research that aims for disease management and also targets rehabilitation and treatment at the point of need with a focus on specific diseases.
- Patient Guidance Services (PGS) to enable patients' active participation in care processes. A special emphasis will be given to semantic interoperability to enable integration of patient information from multiple sources and locations and to ubiquitous and secure access to these personal health records.
- Virtual Physiological Human (VPH): research focused on more elaborate and reusable multi-scale models and a VPH information infrastructure of larger repositories. Preparatory actions will aim at a grand challenge on a "Digital Patient", being the integration of patient-specific models for better prediction and treatment of diseases.
Call for Proposals:
- Information about the different ICT programme calls for proposals are regularly updated on the Participant portal - Research and Innovation
- ICT for Health is present in call 9 open from 18/01/2012 to 17/04/2012
- Call 7 for Objectives ICT-2011.5.1, 5.2 and 5.3
- Call 6 for Objective ICT-2009.5.3 - Virtual Physiological Human
- ICT Challenge 5 - Sustainable and personalised healthcare: Projects selected started from January 2010.
>> List of current FP7 projects.
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FP7 projects fact-sheets are available online under each theme.
A final portfolio presenting the FP6 projects was published in September 2007:
- Full report (pdf 5.6 MB)
- Cover/Introduction - Projects - Studies/Annexes
More than 50 projects have been funded under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) (2002-06), some of which are still ongoing.
Information on earlier projects, now completed, is at:
- Fifth Framework Programme, 1998-2002.
- Fourth Framework Programme, 1994-98.
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| Last update by the Editor (ehealth(AT)cec.eu.int): 19/01/12 |