| “Regional ICT based Clusters for Healthcare Applications and R&D Integration” | |
|---|---|
| Programme: | FP7 Capacities – Region of Knowledge – FP7-REGIONS-2010-1 |
| Project Coordinator: | Regione Toscana (Italy) |
| Scientific Coordinator: | Signo Motus |
| Consortium: | 15 partners (IT, SE, UK, PL) |
| Costs: | € 3.381.262 |
The RICHARD project arises from the need to make healthcare systems more efficient. The project intends to define and implement innovative models for the management of Chronic conditions based on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in four different European Regions, setting up a shared trans-regional collaboration framework among all the health and e-health stakeholders to implement innovative Chronic Care territorial pathways integrating research topics and research results.
RICHARD’s rationale is to enable the shift from “disease focused” ICT applications to “sustainable and territorial chronic care models”, where innovation is driven by the system needs. Despite the long-term vision concerns an integrated Chronic Care Model, a gradual “disease driven” approach is taken, to deal effectively with the complexity of the envisaged change in the short-medium term perspective.
The project plans to carry out on three types of pathologies: Stroke (Italy), Dementia (Sweden) and Diabetes (United Kingdom).
The involved regions (Tuscany - IT, Västerbotten - SE, Yorkshire - UK, Lodz - PL) will contribute with their leading experience in terms of technologies, research results and organizational models related to the chosen clinical application and will benefit from their complementarities. Signo Motus is involved as project scientific coordinator.
