K4CARE

In modern societies, the care of chronic disabled patients at home involves life long treatment under continuous expert supervision that saturates European national health services and increase related costs.

K4CARE's main goal has been to design, implement and validate a new ICT knowledge-based Homecare Model by integrating skills, procedures and experiences of several eastern and western European countries as a contribution to the new EU society to manage and respond to the needs of the increasing number of senior population requiring a customised health-care at home.

Other more specific objectives:

• Generate a new ICT Homecare Model (HCM).
• Provide an Electronic Health Care Record (EHCR) to organise the information in the HCM.
• Use the EHR to integrate information coming from different EU countries.
• Provide an Actor Profile Ontology (APO) representing the profiles of the subjects involved in the HCM.
• Provide a patient-Case Profile Ontology (CPO) representing related symptoms, diseases, syndromes, and case mix.
• Define Formal Intervention Plans (FIPs) for a number of disease and syndrome treatments.

For further information, please visit:
http://www.k4care.net

Project co-ordinator:
Universitat Rovira i Virgili (ES)

Partners:

• Universitat Rovira i Virgili (ES);
• Centro Assistenza Domiciliare (IT);
• Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ);
• Universita degli Studi di Perugia (IT);
• Telecom Italia Spa (IT);
• European Reseach and Project Office (GE);
• Ana Aslan International Foundation (RO);
• Instituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico Santa Lucia (IT);
• Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Szamitastechnikai es Automatizalasi Kutato Intezet (HU);
• The Research Institute for the Care of the Elderly (UK);
• Comune di Pollenza Macerata (IT);
• General University Hospital in Prague (CZ);
• Szent Janos Hospital of the Budapest Municipal Government (HU)

Timetable: from 03/06 – to 02/09

Total cost: € 3.727.430,00

EC funding: € 3.133.785,00

Instrument: STREP

Project Identifier: IST-2004-026968

Source: FP6 eHealth Portfolio of Projects