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Coplintho develops ICT applications for the support of the care process in the home environment (eHomeCare or eHome care). This environment places the patient in a central position in his home environment. Domestic comfort is essential in this context. Coplintho offers a “tailor made ICT network” for the support of all care-related aspects. This network makes interaction possible (passive or active; images, sound and data) with all actors (home health care personnel, hospitals, the family practitioner, and if necessary an alarm centre) involved in the care process of the patient. |
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 Network of Excellence aiming to integrate Medical Informatics (MI) and BioInformatics (BI)
The EC-funded BIOINFOMED Study (EC-IST 2001-35024) has carried out a prospective analysis of the relationships and synergy between Bioinformatics (BI) and Medical Informatics (MI). The study concludes that there is a great potential for synergy between both disciplines with a view on continuity and individualisation of healthcare, so that the benefits of the human genome elucidation can reach the population, but that a collaborative effort between the two disciplines is needed to bridge the current gap between them. Biomedical Informatics (BMI) is the emerging discipline that aims to put these two worlds together so that the discovery and creation of novel diagnostic and therapeutic methods is fostered.
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Privacy Enhancement in Data Management in E-Health for Genomic Medicine, FP5-IST-2001-38719  PRIDEH-GEN was an EC cluster project that combined the fields of Privacy Enhancing Techniques (PETs) and Medical Genomics through the co-operation of the PRIDEH and INFOGENE projects. The joint expertise of ICT-specialist regarding privacy protection solutions at one side and genomic researchers expressing privacy needs in genomics in the other side lead to the production of guidelines and recommendations for privacy protection in genomic medicine. To achieve this ambitious objective, PRIDEH-GEN was focused both on evaluation of existing PETs for privacy protection of databases and the development of new privacy protection methods dealing with characteristics of genetic information. The PRIDEN-GEN project aimed to provide a better understanding of ethical, social and legal issues that impact the creation and the maintenance of databases for healthcare or research purposes that contain genetic information. The most important aspect of the PRIDEH-GEN project was to create awareness about the privacy threats that exist today, and to lead to more specific and better-adapted privacy protection measures. Custodix was project leader of this project and wrote the majority of the deliverables.
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PRIDEH was a take-up action that aimed at a rapid and efficient take-up of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) in healthcare and beyond. Starting in September 2001, it ran for two years in which it addressed different groups of professionals: health professionals, legal professionals, ICT and security specialists. During the project, a major achievement towards the legal acceptance of privacy enhancing technology (pseudonymisation) was the consultation on the Data Protection Directive that has resulted in a recommendation to consider the introduction of PETs in the Directive. PRIDEH also took the first steps to fill the gap of formal certification and accreditations for Trust Services Providers that provide PET-based services (CEN initiative). The PRIDEH demonstrators have proven to be successful and customers of both demonstrators continued the use of the trust services after the project (and have extended it to other types of applications). Custodix was project leader of this project and wrote the majority of the deliverables. |
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