1. eHealth Unit FP6 - 1st IST Call for Proposals 28/1/2003 The eHealth Strategic Objective Julian Ellis eHealth Unit, DG Information Society Julian.Ellis@cec.eu.int Julian Ellis eHealth Unit, DG Information Society Julian.Ellis@cec.eu.int

2. eHealth Unit FP6 - 1st IST Call for Proposals 28/1/2003 eHealth in the 1st Call for Proposals Objectives: Development of an intelligent environment to manage health Risk management, for citizens and healthcare professionals Integration into clinical practice of advances in health knowledge Domain is multidisciplinary BUT Proposal “centre of gravity” should be IST research Proposers should consider carefully the ethical aspects of their research Objectives: Development of an intelligent environment to manage health Risk management, for citizens and healthcare professionals Integration into clinical practice of advances in health knowledge Domain is multidisciplinary BUT Proposal “centre of gravity” should be IST research Proposers should consider carefully the ethical aspects of their research

3. eHealth Unit FP6 - 1st IST Call for Proposals 28/1/2003 eHealth focus RTD for biomedical sensors using secure communication channels, and their integration into wearable or implantable systems RTD for reliable software tools to enable healthcare professionals to access the best possible information when treating a patient Research linking medical informatics, bioinformatics and neuroinformatics leading to a new generation of eHealth systems Total indicative budget: 70 M€ RTD for biomedical sensors using secure communication channels, and their integration into wearable or implantable systems RTD for reliable software tools to enable healthcare professionals to access the best possible information when treating a patient Research linking medical informatics, bioinformatics and neuroinformatics leading to a new generation of eHealth systems Total indicative budget: 70 M€

4. eHealth Unit FP6 - 1st IST Call for Proposals 28/1/2003 Intelligent biomedical clothes Objective: ubiquitous management of health status Focus: Integration of biomedical sensors and secure communications into wearable and/or implantable systems Biomedical sensors and AmI wearable systems for citizens & patients: 23 EoIs out of 242 received for eHealth Intelligent Biomedical Clothing (IBC): 15 EoIs Possible proposals types: IP, STREP, NoE Objective: ubiquitous management of health status Focus: Integration of biomedical sensors and secure communications into wearable and/or implantable systems Biomedical sensors and AmI wearable systems for citizens & patients: 23 EoIs out of 242 received for eHealth Intelligent Biomedical Clothing (IBC): 15 EoIs Possible proposals types: IP, STREP, NoE

5. eHealth Unit FP6 - 1st IST Call for Proposals 28/1/2003 Intelligent biomedical clothes Wireless & Mobile Telecommunications Biomedical Engineering Microsystems & Nanotechnologies Public Health HealthcareTelemedicine Textile

6. eHealth Unit FP6 - 1st IST Call for Proposals 28/1/2003 Intelligent biomedical clothes Unique, wearable non-obtrusive telemedicine platform for individualised health services, easily and timely accessible Involves new fibre materials and targets full integration of sensing, processing, actuating and communicating functions in a woven structure. Has the potential to substantially change the provision of healthcare and health

7. eHealth Unit FP6 - 1st IST Call for Proposals 28/1/2003 Intelligent biomedical clothes: current state of the art Mamagoose- SIDS monitor

8. eHealth Unit FP6 - 1st IST Call for Proposals 28/1/2003 Intelligent biomedical clothes: current state of the art

9. eHealth Unit FP6 - 1st IST Call for Proposals 28/1/2003 Intelligent biomedical clothes Additional information: Report of workshop on Intelligent Biomedical Clothing, Brussels, 26/4/2002 http://www.cordis.lu/ ist/ka1/health/news/workshop_ibc.htm Andreas Lymberis, eHealth Unit Andreas.Lymberis@cec.eu.int

10. eHealth Unit FP6 - 1st IST Call for Proposals 28/1/2003 Support for Healthcare professionals Objective: enable professionals to use the best information when advising, diagnosing and treating patients Focus: user friendly, reliable tools allowing access to heterogeneous health information sources new methods for decision support and risk analysis The use of open source and GRID technology is encouraged where appropriate Possible proposal types: IP, STREP, NoE

11. eHealth Unit FP6 - 1st IST Call for Proposals 28/1/2003 Support for Healthcare professionals Work is expected to further advance the state of the art in this domain, particularly with respect to 5FP projects Many of the EoIs addressed this area - likely to be strong competition in this call

12. eHealth Unit FP6 - 1st IST Call for Proposals 28/1/2003 Support for Healthcare professionals Additional information: FP6 workshop: Research addressing Major societal challenges Brussels 27/5/2002 http://www.cordis.lu/ist/events/workshops.htm Ilias Iakovidis, eHealth Unit Ilias.Iakovidis@cec.eu.int Octavian Purcarea, eHealth Unit Octavian.Purcarea@cec.eu.int

13. eHealth Unit FP6 - 1st IST Call for Proposals 28/1/2003 HealthGRID in the eHealth unit Application of the existing GRID technology from other areas to Health for both computing intensive applications and knowledge discovery. Vision: person centered Healthcare. Examples: to connect databases of heterogeneous content (biology and medicine) enabling new knowledge discovery (research, drug design), better guidance and information (healthcare professionals). to increase computing power for imaging, simulation and modelling thus allowing these fields to take into account more data and therefore to provide more accurate results. Networking of groups involved in the development of new middleware and new applications in order to enhance interoperability of systems and the existence of a European Research Area. Application of the existing GRID technology from other areas to Health for both computing intensive applications and knowledge discovery. Vision: person centered Healthcare. Examples: to connect databases of heterogeneous content (biology and medicine) enabling new knowledge discovery (research, drug design), better guidance and information (healthcare professionals). to increase computing power for imaging, simulation and modelling thus allowing these fields to take into account more data and therefore to provide more accurate results. Networking of groups involved in the development of new middleware and new applications in order to enhance interoperability of systems and the existence of a European Research Area.

14. INDIVIDUALISED HEALTHCARE MOLECULAR MEDICINE Databases Association Modelling Computation HealthGRID Computational recommendation Public Health Patient Tissue, organ Cell Molecule Patient related data Public Health Patient Tissue, organ Cell Molecule Sofie Nørager, DG INFSO, eHealth

15. eHealth Unit FP6 - 1st IST Call for Proposals 28/1/2003 HealthGRID in the eHealth unit Additional information: 1st European HealthGRID conference Lyon, 16th -17th January 2003 lyon2003.healthgrid.org HealthGRID cluster (open to participation and input) www.healthgrid.org Sofie Norager, eHealth Unit Sofie.Norager@cec.eu.int Yves Paindaveine, eHealth Unit Yves.Paindaveine@cec.eu.int

16. eHealth Unit FP6 - 1st IST Call for Proposals 28/1/2003 Biomedical informatics Objectives: Advancing health knowledge leading to a new generation of eHealth systems for prevention, diagnosis, treatment Focus: Networking of researchers in the areas of medical informatics, bioinformatics and neuroinformatics. Possible proposal types: NoE, STREP

17. eHealth Unit FP6 - 1st IST Call for Proposals 28/1/2003 "Health Knowledge Science" 2. Bio Informatics 3. Neuro Informatics 1.Medical Informatics  Electronic Health Records  Medical Imaging  Clinical Decision Support  Telemedicine  Functional Genomics  Proteomics  Computational Biology  Neuro Algorithms  Human Computer Interfaces  Machine Learning  Knowledge Discovery Biomedical informatics

18. eHealth Unit FP6 - 1st IST Call for Proposals 28/1/2003 Biomedical informatics Pharmacogenetics, DNA arrays, proteomics, SNPs, genetic diag. MOLECULAR MEDECINE Strives to explain life and disease in terms of the presence and regulation of molecular entities INDIVIDUALISED HEALTHCARE eg Application of genomics to identify individual predispositions to disease and to design therapies adapted to the genetic profiles of patients and that could be prescribed with guarantee of security and efficiency Dr. Fernando Martin-Sanchez

19. eHealth Unit FP6 - 1st IST Call for Proposals 28/1/2003 Biomedical informatics Additional Information: Workshops on Synergy between BI and MI Brussels, Crete, Valencia 2001/2002 The Bioinfomed study White paper can be downloaded from http://bioinfomed.isciii.es Sofie Norager, eHealth Unit Sofie.Norager@cec.eu.int