Main Challenges
CHRONIOUS objective is to face Europe’s challenge for delivering
quality healthcare to all its citizens by offering a ubiquitous and
more personalised care solution that addresses the user needs, personal data
security, confidentiality and privacy of information and all that at an
affordable cost. Moreover, CHRONIOUS through its services and innovative
components will try to advance leadership of the eHealth, medical
sensors/devices industry that is well rooted in Europe, and attracting back to
Europe research activities of the pharmaceutical industry.
The societal and economic challenges addressed through the provision of
effective and easy to use health and lifestyle monitoring systems clearly show
the added value of the CHRONIOUS project. These challenges mainly concern:
- Raising quality of life and providing highly qualified and efficient,
holistic healthcare services to all EU citizens (e.g. through disease
prevention, ubiquitous and seamless to the user monitoring, adaptive interaction
based on user characteristics and context of activity, reduction of unnecessary
visits to hospitals and complexity of self-care especially for patients with
chronic diseases).
- Advancing medical research through the provision of advanced disease
prediction and diagnosis tools and the exploitation of the vast pool of
monitored parameters (e.g. vital signs recorded for various users groups under
diverse contexts and conditions) for the production of new diagnostic models and
protocols.
- Reduced formal care burdens, and hence improved formal care (e.g. through
the reduction of patients visits for routine examinations, the prevention,
diagnosis and in some cases prognosis of diseases, immediate intervention in
emergency or time-critical situations).
- Penetrating neighbouring future markets and creating new business
opportunities by integrating various actors (e.g. microelectronics industry and
telecommunication providers or research institutes) and reinforcing
competitiveness.
- Improved informal care effectiveness without increasing intrusion.
- Reduced cost of informal care, which is particularly high for people
suffering from chronic diseases.
- Involving the care recipient in health promoting activities and
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