Dr. Rosalie Zobel

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Welcome
Workshop on Biomedical Informatics Brussels
18 March 2004

• Dr. Rosalie Zobel
• Director
• Components and subsystems. Applications
• Directorate General Information Society

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Policy Context - eHealth
ERA EuropeanResearch Area
Enlargement
Candidate countriesare full partners in FP5 and
FP6
FP6, Eureka, COST, National RTD Programmes
towards a Single Market for Research
Other policies
Broadband access, e-business, e-government,
security, skills, e-health, ...
Single Market, Single Currency, Security of
Europeans, Sustainable Development, ...
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The European Research Area (ERA)

• Major political decisions affecting EU Research
• We need to have a common EU research effort
• FP6 as a way to implement the ERA with three
  objectives
• 1. Focusing and Integrating Research
• 2. Structuring the European Research Area
• 3. Strengthening the European Research Area

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More nations participating

• Participation in FP6 is open to almost any
  country
• One major change is the enlargement of the EU
• Opening the thematic priorities to participation
  by and funding for institutions from third
  countries
• International Cooperation (INCO) activity,
  specifically aimed at cooperation with certain
  groups of third countries

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eHealth Activities the big picture
eEUROPE 2005

• Electronic health cards
• building on Barcelona Health card Insurance
• benchmarking, best practice, common research
  policies
• Health information networks
• secure networks of public health data
• Online health services
• advice, teleconsultation, ePrescription
• Dissemination of best practices
• ehealth Conferences (2003, 2004)

RD INNOVATION
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
15 years of RD eHealth systems and tools
developed for - Health Professionals -
Patients - Citizens
Telecoms (spectrum, 3G) Contribution to -
Standardization CEN TC 251 - Data protection
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15 years of RD activities
FP2 ESPRIT
FP3 RACE/AIM
FP4 TELEMATICS
FP5 IST/Health Applications
FP6 eHealth
Medical Informatics
Health Telematics
eHealth
Personalised eHealth
1991
2002

• 20M
• 30 Projects
• Feasibility Study

• 100M
• 63 Projects
• AIM Community

• 140M
• 158 Projects
• 1st wave of products

• 180 M
• 125Projects
• EU Telematics Industry

180 M 20 projects
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Individualised Healthcare and Well-Being Need for
synergy -gt Biomedical Informatics
2. Bio Informatics
1.Medical Informatics

• Functional Genomics
• Proteomics
• Techniques
• Computational Biology

• Electronic Health Records
• Medical Imaging
• Clinical Decision Support
• Telemedicine

• Neuro Algorithms
• Human Computer Interfaces
• Machine Learning
• Knowledge Discovery

3. Neuro Informatics
"Health KnowledgeScience"
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Conclusions

• Following the successful RD on ICT technologies
  during the last 20 years and the genomics and
  post genomics program during the last 10 years
• the future is bright for interdisciplinary
  research and synthesis of knowledge for health
  combining medical informatics, bioinformatics,
  neuroinformatics (biomedical informatics)
• Expectation from the new projects in the area of
  biomedical informatics to demonstrate the
  potential of the area

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Have a nice and productive meeting
Workshop on Biomedical Informatics Brussels
18 March 2004

• Dr. Rosalie Zobel, Director
• Components and subsystems. Applications
• Directorate General Information Society