Intelligent Healthcare Monitoring based on Semantic Interoperability Platform (SAPHIRE)

Project Id

IST-2004-027074

Abstract

The SAPHIRE project aims to develop an intelligent healthcare monitoring and decision support system on a platform integrating the wireless medical sensor data with hospital information systems.

Keywords

Interoperability, eHealth Networks and Architectures, Web Services for Medical Domain, Intelligent Healthcare Monitoring, Clinical Decision Support Systems

Description

Objectives of the project

The medical practitioners at all levels are becoming more overloaded as the aging population of Europe increases. The decrease in mortality rate among elderly people increases the demand for healthcare.
Advances in networking, mobile communications and wireless medical sensor technologies offer a great potential to support healthcare professionals and to deliver healthcare services at a distance hence providing the opportunities to improve healthcare.
The SAPHIRE project will develop an intelligent healthcare monitoring and decision support systems (DSS) to address the delivery of healthcare problem in the enlarged Europe. In the SAPHIRE project, the patient monitoring will be achieved by using agent technology where the agent behavior will be supported by intelligent decision support systems based on clinical practice guidelines.In SAPHIRE system, patient history stored in medical information systems will be accessed through semantically enriched Web services to tackle the interoperability problem. In this way, the observations received from wireless medical sensors together with the patient medical history will be used in the reasoning process.

Project description

Clinical DSS broadly refer to providing clinicians or patients with clinical knowledge and patient-related information, intelligently filtered and processed to enhance patient care. Despite the widespread of different publications, healthcare professionals have difficulties in understanding and applying the given guidelines in the clinical care setting. This necessitates computerized DSS automating clinical guidelines to support the health professionals. One of the major challenges in developing computerized DSS is accessing the many disparate data sources needed to retrieve patient-specific information. In the SAPHIRE project, the clinical DSS to be incorporated into the system as an agent behavior, will access patient medical history stored in medical information systems.
The SAPHIRE system will continuously monitor the patients through dedicated agents and will support the healthcare professionals through intelligent DSS that will produce and send alerts to the related people.
Creating such an information infrastructure requires safeguards to maintain security and privacy of patient data. Patient identification and medical records can not be disclosed indiscriminately and different healthcare providers have different access rights. The SAPHIRE Project proposes comprehensive security and privacy mechanisms to complement the infrastructure proposed. While providing these confidentiality and privacy mechanisms, the EU directives 95/46/EC and 2002/58/EC presenting the general principles of processing of personal data, and in particular Recommendation R(97)5 of the Council of Europe discussing protection of medical data collected and processed automatically will be taken into account.

Expected Results & Impacts

The potential impact of the SAPHIRE project lies in the following facts:
• SAPHIRE Project raises quality of healthcare by combining advances in networking, mobile communications and sensor technologies.
• SAPHIRE project allows healthcare professionals to study and monitor many pre-hospital, in hospital and ambulatory patients any time with a high accuracy with the help of the intelligent decision support system.
• SAPHIRE provides patients a better treatment and the possibility to be hospitalized at home. The project enhances the quality of life for elders, including the ability to “age in place”, that is, to stay home rather than move to institutions; improve healthcare through prevention and early detection of disease; lower soaring healthcare costs; and unburden family members and other care givers.
• SAPHIRE project offloads the healthcare professionals by taking advantage of intelligent clinical decision support systems.
• SAPHIRE Project addresses the issue of bringing the new member states up to speed so that the discrepancy in terms of life expectancy and co-morbidity do not increase further by monitoring of cardiovascular disease in enlarged EU through one of its pilot applications.
• The SAPHIRE project is basing its infrastructure on semantically enriched Web services and hence delivering an open interoperability platform.

Coordinator

• Middle East Technical University ­ Software R&D Center

Contacts

• Asuman Dogac[PPL-200701-034]
  
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General information

Timetable

From 01/2006 to 12/2008

Instrument

Specific Targeted Research Projects (STREP)

Website

[www.srdc.metu.edu.tr]

Partners

• Kuratorium Offis E.V. (OFFIS)
• Altec Information and Communications Systems S.A. (ALTEC)
• Tepe Teknolojik Servisler AS, (Tepe Technology)
• oftware R&D Center, Middle East Technical University (METUSRDC) (tr)
• Cyberfab (fr)
• Institute for Automation Bucharest (IPA) (ro)
• The Internal Medicine and Cardiology Department of the Emergency Hospital of Bucharest (SCUB) (RO)
• chüchterman-Klinik, (SSK) (de)

Budget

Total cost

€ 2,917,016.00

Grants

€ 2,040,775.00 [EC]

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