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Contract Number: 027074
Project Acronym: SAPHIRE
Project Name: Intelligent Healthcare Monitoring based on Semantic Interoperability Platform
Priority: 2.4.13 Strengthening the Integration of the ICT research effort in an Enlarged Europe Focus: eHealth
Total Cost (€) : 2,917,016 €
Commission Funding (€) : 2,040,775 €



List of Partners

Partner no Partner name Partner org. short name
1 (coordinator) Middle East Technical University METU, Turkey
2 Cyberfab Cyberfab, France
3 Kuratorium OFFIS e. V. OFFIS, Germany
4 ALTEC S. A. Information and Communication Systems ALTEC, Greece
5 Institute for Automation Bucharest IPA, Romania
6 The Internal Medicine and Cardiology Department of the Emergency Hospital of Bucharest SCUB, Romania
7 Schüchtermann-Klinik SSK, Germany
8 Tepe Technology TEPE, Turkey



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. In the SAPHIRE project, the patient monitoring will be achieved by using agent technology where the "agent behavior" will be supported by intelligent clinical decision support systems which will be based on computerized clinical practice guidelines, and will access the patient medical history stored in medical information systems through semantically enriched Web services to tackle the interoperability problem. In this way, not only the observations received from wireless medical sensors but also the patient medical history will be used in the reasoning process of the clinical decision support system. Furthermore, through a graphical tool to be developed, while modeling the clinical decision processes, it will be possible to exploit the available computer-interpretable guideline models.

The intelligent healthcare monitoring system will be deployed through two pilot applications, one for homecare monitoring of cardiovascular patients in Germany; the other to monitor cardiovascular patients in a hospital in Romania. To subscribe to critical data delivery, clinicians will simply use a Web-based program indicating desired alerts, thresholds, delivery methods (sms/e-mail/Web/pager) or to build a patient coverage list. Once subscribed, clinicians will immediately receive clinical notifications and reminders.


Coordinator contact details:
Prof. Dr. Asuman Dogac

Department of Computer Engineering
Director of Software Research & Development Center
Middle East Technical University
06531, Ankara, Turkey
 

email: asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr
homepage: http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/~asuman
phone: +90 - 312 - 210 5598 or +90 - 312 - 210 2076
fax: +90 - 312 - 210 5572 or +90 - 312 - 210 1259
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Saphire Project and its results have been presented on Turkish National TV Channel, TRT2, within the European Vision program on October 8, 2007.

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Saphire Project and its results have been presented on Turkish National TV Channel, TRT2, within the European Vision program on September 26, 2007.
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