Dear all, Sorry for the cross-posting and therefore the use of English in this email. Please note that a new call for proposals is open since January 27 and will end, sharp, April 25 at 5pm (proposals must be received in our building *before* the deadline). More information at http://www.cordis.lu/ist/calls/200101.htm. Slides of the presentations of the different action lines can be found at http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka1/library.htm. Please note the action lines related to health as well as a few others outside key action 1 but which could be related to the health sector as well. Of course, a priority of this work programme is to "To foster the development and use of open source software"... On another level: I am also faced with a problem about interoperability... Interoperability is a keyword which becomes more and more important as the systems become more complex: interoperability at the technological level (XML? XSLT? PDA - PC - GSM?) as well as the semantical level (ontologies?). We are currently unable to test if two systems are interoperable (HL7? DICOM? ENV13606?). Did anyone already develop test suites? I would be interested to receive some feedback. -Yves IST2001 - I.1.1 Intelligent environment for citizen centred health management Objectives: To allow all citizens, including those predisposed to diseases, to respond to risk factors (such as high blood pressure, diabetes or high cholesterol levels) whether at home, work, school or on the sports field, through new generation systems - for example information and decision support systems - which take advantage of advances in ambient intelligence. IST2001 - I.1.2 Intelligent collaborative environments supporting continuity of care Objectives: To enable patients and health professionals to collaborate and share patient and other health related data for continuity of care. This will help patients who are not confined to hospital to participate actively, in close collaboration with their health care provider, in their ongoing care. I.1.3 "Advanced interactive environment for doctors and nurses". IST2001 - I.1.3 Best practice and trials in e-Health Objectives: To promote the uptake of health telematics applications at healthcare provider and healthcare authority/administration level in order to support e-Health initiatives adopted in Member and Associated States. Such initiatives include: online medical advice and information for citizens; assessment of health telematics applications; collaborative healthcare provision environments supporting inter alia second medical opinions; applications for evidence based medicine; and systems supporting continuing education. These activities may also involve third countries if other sources of funds become available to support participation from such countries. Two domains will be covered: - Best Practice actions based on assessment of current e-Health practices showing validated use of telematic applications involving at least two key actors (eg. healthcare professionals, patients/citizens, healthcare administration, health telematics industry). The objective of the actions is to promote the adoption of interoperable e-Health solutions through assessment, demonstration, and dissemination activities. - Demonstration of large scale inter-regional or international integrated secure health information networks with clearly demonstrable European impact, supporting citizens, patients, health care administration and collaborative healthcare provision. AND ALSO (check to see which ones are open now or to be opened in June 2001): IST 2001 - V.1.1 CPA1: Home environments Objectives: The aim is to extend home systems and platforms better to support the seamless access to, and delivery of, integrated applications and services. Examples of services include multimedia and interactive home environments for learning, education and training, entertainment, home healthcare, independent living for all and especially elderly and disabled persons, home safety, e-Commerce and e-Work at home. The scope covers also test beds in the form of mid to large scale demonstrations that combine several services. By addressing cost, reliability and ease of use, demonstrators should provide models for low cost, user friendly systems and services that are configurable to users' needs. IST 2001 - V.1.4 CPA4: Towards dependable and survivable systems and infrastructures Objectives: To develop and validate new approaches and technologies aimed at enhancing the dependability and survivability of the global information infrastructure, including requirements of and applicability to application domains of general interest (e.g. environment monitoring, transport, health, etc.). IST 2001 - V.1.5 CPA5: Smart cards Objectives: To accelerate, consolidate and harmonise the usage of smart cards (in all shapes & forms, including tags) across Europe in all application areas of the information society where security, data privacy and consumer protection are of critical importance. Indeed, although the wide use of smart card in Europe is already a strength, further efforts are needed to overcome the market fragmentation between countries and sectors. The work is driven by the "Smart Card Charter" referenced in the eEurope 2002 Action Plan . IST2001 - V.1.9 CPA9: Grid test beds, deployment and technologies Objectives: To foster and encourage community-wide (research and industry) development, deployment, experimentation, and integration of the Grid in order to incorporate it as an instrument for European competitiveness in research, industry and business. The Grid aims at the effective harnessing of computing and data resources available world-wide and at making them seamlessly accessible as a single resource for any user on the web. The Grid is a platform heavily driven by compute-, and data-intensive scientific and industrial applications (meteorology and environment management, earth observation, biology and health, aeronautics, automotive etc). IST2001 - V.1.12 CPA12: Application services provision Objectives: To develop and validate open architectures, technologies and tools to allow for the provision of a variety of applications as networked services over a commonly available infrastructure; to develop methods for the management and dynamic allocation of computing, storage and communication resources and for the monitoring of usage and service quality by providers and users; to enable experimentation with new business models, taking into account requirements of low entry costs for suppliers and adequate provision for privacy.
