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8th General Meeting

28th – 29th September, 2011 9:00 – 18:00 / 9:00 – 16:00
Meeting Venue: Potsdam, Germany

7th General Meeting

28th – 29th March, 2011 9:30 – 18:00 / 9:00 – 16:00
Meeting Venue: Spain, Universitat de Barcelona

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Technological Objectives

The proposed framework's ar­chitecture and structure will be generic and thus it will enable further expansion to the support of the management of other categories of chronic diseases such as Psychiatric Disorders Management, Diabetes, and Asthma etc. This provides an added value to the proposed solution and a tremendous exploitation potential. We envisage that in its final form CHRONIOUS will be a universal solution to healthcare facilities and professionals for managing all different kind of chronic diseases.

CHRONIOUS will result in the design and development of an open platform for adaptation to the different needs of the above mentioned chronic diseases, exploiting the advantages of new and evolving IT solutions for the different tasks of chronic disease management. Furthermore, CHRONIOUS aims at the metamorphosis of chronic care, by integrating all among which innovative- disease management procedures through:

• Wearable solution for monitoring not only vital parameter but also environmental parameters and social context parameters. The wearable will be approved both by the users in means of its ergonomic structure and by the medical board in means of the scientific information that must be gathered and monitored (vital, environmental, social parameters). The wearable solution will be ready by the end of the 27th month as part of the 2nd milestone.
• Simple, customised and adaptive interfaces that take into account the user's profile, medical history and relating HCI (human-computer interaction) factors. Emphasis must be placed on designing interfaces appropriate for each user category (patients, healthcare professionals etc). Creation of a repository (knowledge base) that will aid to derive the most accurate decision of learning process. Multiple repositories of health related material (hospitals, healthcare centers etc). These objectives will be achieved by the 22nd month and will be tested internally by the consortium members in terms of functionality and usability.
• Implementation of new algorithms and methods to perform perceptual and evaluation of the subject using information from multiple sensors. Multi-fusion from heterogeneous sources decision support system. Research on algorithms that best integrate, analyze and combine data from the different sensors. Intelligent mechanisms and decision support tools for both patients and healthcare professionals (medical staff etc) for chronic disease management components. This objective will be fulfilled by the end of the project and is actually the 3rd milestone. The platform will be ready by the end of the 30th month but the validation procedure will commence at that time and will be completed the last month of the project's lifetime. Physicians will be involved in this part of the project and will be asked to fill a questionnaire prepared in order to provide clear results on the ease of use, the efficacy and the usability of the system. In the last part of the validation process the outcome variables to test the effectiveness of CHRONIOUS will be the number and duration of acute events, the number and duration of hospitalization, the medical prescriptions and home care assistance required.
• Appropriate, certified medical content and personalised views on it exploiting intelligent agent techniques coupled with flexible search and retrieval of information. Intelligent indexing system for information classification in relation to user profiling. The medical board along with the pilots and the association that will act as an external quality assurance evaluator will decide which content must be used for this purpose and will evaluate the results. This task involves mainly the ontology and will be developed by the 25th month. Existing Ontologies, concerning the certain target diseases, will be investigated and CHRONIOUS work will begin from that point.
• Interoperability with existing healthcare legacy systems based on standards such as HL7 etc. Alert and reminding mechanisms to inform end-users of several events. Universal, easy access to the system through fixed and wireless devices. Provision of guidelines and standards of the future generations of chronic disease management systems. Standard specifications of personal medical record. All the above over a secure platform, taking into account privacy and ethical issues. These objectives will be achieved throughout the project's lifetime.