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The K4CARE research project, the best of the month in health according to the European Union

Knowledge Based Homecare eServices for an Aging Europe, coordinated by the URV, was chosen as the outstanding project of the month by the health thematic portal of the European Union. The project provides home health treatment for older people with disabilities using ICT.

12 March 2010

In K4CARE 13 academic and industrial institutions from seven European countries are taking part coordinated by Professor David Riaño, from the Research Group in Artificial Intelligence (Banzai) of the URV and is funded by the Sixth Framework Program of the European Commission.

In modern societies, caring for chronically disabled patients involves long treatments under the supervision of experts that saturate the European national health services involving a great economic expense. The project works to combine the experiences of health systems and the Information Communication Technologies (ICT) in different European countries to create, implement and validate a model of home health care to elderly patients, based on knowledge.

This new model defines a European standard based on new technologies that improve the efficiency of health services for all citizens of Europe.

The e-Health processes involve a growing need to develop tele-computing applications that support those involved in basic health care (physicians, nurses, patients, relatives and citizens in general).

On the one hand, both health personnel and patients understand that the care in hospitals or residences may be unnecessary and even counterproductive in lengthy treatment processes. Moreover, the debate on the funding crisis of health systems is open to all European Union countries and may undermine the European convergence.

To address these challenges the medical care in health centres can be differentiated with that of home care. Undoubtedly, the latter can benefit from the introduction of ICT. The K4CARE project has worked to develop a prototype of Internet platform to manage the information required to ensure a home-care service based on ICT and for the automation of the coordination of the teams of professionals involved in home care.
 
The K4CARE is characterized by integrating information of different types and sources; ensuring the privacy and personalized access to the data; define in the clinical history the agents involved and the medical details of the case; integrate mechanisms to customize the system according to the physicians work and individual characteristics of patients and incorporate the protocols of the clinical guidelines on the intervention plans. If the protocols of the guides are not adequate for a particular situation, the system goes to the databases of the health centre of reference and personalize the treatment; it is designed as a support tool for decisions of all agents that intervene in the process of home care, and provides information of actual patients to integrate it with the published references.

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