Projects about eHealth

The IN LIFE project is devising ways to help older people with cognitive disabilities stay living at home for longer.

EU data protection rules have changed since the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). So what is the situation of medical data processing for scientific research purpose in the EU now? The EU-funded AEGLE project takes stock per country. They also published some lessons learnt after working with big data analytics for diabetes.

The PULSE project partners at the University of Padova have been working on models to predict the onset of type 2 diabetes and asthma. PULSE can be seen as a big sensor collecting a plethora of heterogeneous data: air pollution, traffic, hours of physical activity, smoking habits, weight, and height, and so on. The models developed by the project can be considered as artificial intelligence (AI) entities that automatically learn from all these data.

The EU-funded ExCAPE project is devising ways to develop new medicines fast using high performance computing and machine learning.

Bioinks containing stem cells are being used to 3D print living tissues that can be inserted into the body and provoke a damaged joint to heal itself. This is part of an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project called 3D-JOINT.

The EU-funded LUMINOUS project introduces a new treatment for minimal consciousness, and possibly even coma. Its technology might also be effective in a number of other areas, including research into foetal development and the development of drug-free anaesthesia.

The HybridHeart consortium is a European Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Open project. HybridHeart proposes to develop and bring to the clinic a soft biocompatible artificial heart, which can completely replace a patient’s heart in a procedure similar to a heart transplant.

The Slovenian company Saving, with the help of a Digital Innovation Hub, has created a light, affordable and non-intrusive wearable device to improve monitoring of patients that suffer from cardiac diseases.

Porto4Ageing, a Reference Site and partner of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing, has updated the mobile app which enables you to check how frail you are. The app is now available in English, Portuguese and Italian.

The EU-funded iManageCancer project is finding out how mobile healthcare (mHealth) and serious games help people with chronic illnesses and in particular cancer.