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Main axes of research

Advanced ICT applied to healthcare:

• Hospital and medical information systems: specialised medical or hospital applications, electronic hospital / patient record
• Mobile and wireless computing
• Medical databases
• Software development, quality and testing

eHealth:

• Patient related records and applications
• Electronic prescription
• Clinical decision support and expert systems
• Technical interoperability
• Patient identification
• etc.

ICT supported managed care:

• Telemedicine and home monitoring
• Disease management
• Managed care

Medical engineering:

• Medical devices and hospital equipment
• Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
• Intelligent sensors

Processes, semantical and technical interoperability in Healthcare:

• Processes in healthcare
• Processes and interconnections of the “care chain”
• Clinical pathways
• Clinical intelligence and performance
• Standardisation in healthcare
• Terminologies, classification and codification systems
• etc.

Public health:

• Health economical evaluations
• Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
• Evaluation of the impact of new methods, systems and/or solutions on quality of life and costs
• Analysis of use and efficiency of new methods, systems and/or solutions
• etc.

Image processing:

• General image processing
• Medical imaging: RIS-PACS, imaging modalities, DICOM standard and DICOM tools, image quality, image visualisation and interpretation
• Bio-medical imaging
• Medical radiation and dose issues

Security and protection of personal data

Application domains

Sectors of health care, social security and family.

Areas of competence

Life Sciences, health and biotechnology

Technology keywords

Advanced Systems Architecture - Applications for Health - Assessment of Risk - Bioinformatics - Biostatistics, Epidemiology - Care and Health Services - Clinical Research, Trials - Communications Protocols, Interoperability - Data Processing/Data Interchange, Middleware - Data Protection, Storage Technology, Cryptography, Data Security - Electromedical and Medical Equipment - Electronic Signature - Environmental Medicine, Social Medicine, Sports Medicine - Heart and blood circulation illnesses - Imaging, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition - Information Technology/Informatics - Knowledge Management, Process Management - Radiation Protection - Tracability of food