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Project details

Project reference:	IST-1999-10315
Acronym:	M2DM
Title:	Multi-Access Services for telematic Management of Diabetes Mellitus
Subject Index:	Information Processing, Information Systems; Medicine, Health; Telecommunications
Objectives:	Objective: This project intends to provide a sustainable service care to residential and mobile diabetic patients aiming to increase the quality of patient's care through improving communication between patients and caregivers. M2DM incorporates new telemedicine services that emphasise the provision of personal health care 24 hours a day and provides new means to information access to physicians and patients. A Multi-Access Server (MAS) is defined in the project comprising a full range of non-expensive and widely accepted information technologies offering to users a universal, easy-to-use, on-line and cost-effective access to telemedicine and information services. M2DM will provide the capability of effectively managing the knowledge necessary for the complex and distributed process of chronic disease care, providing technological instruments and infrastructures to give the right knowledge to the right people in the right form at the right time. Work description: M2DM aims at providing diabetic patients and health care providers with a Multi-Access service with the goal of increasing the quality of care through improving communication between patients and caregivers. A Multi-Access Server will be defined in the project, comprising a full range of non-expensive and widely accepted information technologies, offering to users a universal, easy-to-use, on-line and cost-effective access to telemedicine and information services. This server will be based on Computer Telephony Interfaces and Web-based technology. A distinguished feature of M2DM will be its capability of managing the knowledge necessary for Diabetes Management; its final goal will therefore be the provision of the right knowledge to the right people at the right time. Several advanced methods for data analysis, evidence and knowledge pooling and knowledge management will be investigated in the project, and finally integrated in the Multi-Access services. Moreover, the services will be customized to meet the needs of final users by exploiting the knowledge management approach studied in the project. M2DM comprises both technical and clinical partners that will participate in the design and development of the overall system. The project development will be completed through three partially overlapping phases: a design phase, an implementation phase and an evaluation phase. Design and implementation will be analysed from three different viewpoints: Knowledge Management view, Technological view and Users view. The Users view related activities and the evaluation phase will be designed and carried out in the different medical centres involved in the project. Milestones: Design documents: Models of Diabetes Care Organisation, User Needs and Functional Specifications. Method documents: Intelligent Data Analysis, Knowledge management methods Implementation. Prototypes: Sharable Database, Telemedicine Services and their Installation, Specialized Web-Services. Preliminary evaluation: Technical verification, results on acceptance and user-friendliness of the system. Exploitation documents: exploitation plan.
Start date:	2000.01.01
End date:	2002.12.31
Duration:	36 months
Project status:	Execution
Project cost:	3.61 million euro
Project funding:	2.10 million euro
Programme type:	5th FWP (Fifth Framework Programme)
Subprogramme area:	Health - New generation tele-medicine services
Contract type:	CSC (Cost-sharing contracts)
Prime contractor:	Consorzio di Bioingegneria e Informatica Medica
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	ITALY
Region:	LOMBARDIA, Pavia
City:	Pavia
Post Code:	27100
Address:	Via Strada Nuova 65
Contact person:	STEFANELLI, Mario
Telephone:	+39-038-2505354
Fax:	+39-038-2505373
E-mail:	mstefa@aim.unipv.it
Contractor:	Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Organisation type:	Education
Country:	SPAIN
Region:	COMUNIDAD DE MADRID
City:	Madrid
Post Code:	28040
Address:	Avenida Ramiro de Maeztu 7
Contact person:	HERNANDO, Elena
Telephone:	+34-91-5500435/41
Fax:	+34-91-5352756
E-mail:	jrcasar@vi.upm.es
Contractor:	Centro Espanol de Servicios Telematicos S.A
Organisation type:	Other
Country:	SPAIN
Region:	COMUNIDAD DE MADRID
City:	Arganda del Rey
Post Code:	28500
Address:	Granja 5, PO Box 236
Contact person:	VIEJO LLORENTE, Jose Maria
Telephone:	+34-91-8712095
Fax:	+34-91-8702818
E-mail:	jmviejo@cestel.es
Contractor:	City University
Organisation type:	Education
Country:	UNITED KINGDOM
Region:	SOUTH EAST (UK), GREATER LONDON
City:	London
Post Code:	EC1V 0HB
Address:	Northampton Square
Contact person:	CARSON, Ewart
Telephone:	+44-207-4778370
Fax:	+44-207-4778364
E-mail:	E.R.Carson@city.ac.uk
Contractor:	Diabetes Centre Munich Bogenhausen
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	GERMANY
Region:	BAYERN, OBERBAYERN, München, Kreisfreie Stadt
City:	Muenchen
Post Code:	81925
Address:	Englschalkinger Strasse 77
Contact person:	LIESENFELD, Bernd
Telephone:	+49-8991-975944
Fax:	+49-8992-702116
E-mail:	ug142cq@mail.lrz-muenchen.de
Contractor:	Applied Logic Laboratory
Organisation type:	Other
Country:	HUNGARY
Region:	Region not yet available (HUNGARY)
City:	Budapest
Post Code:	1022
Address:	Hankoczy J.u. 7
Contact person:	GERGELY, Tamas
Telephone:	+36-11-764916
Fax:	+36-11-764916
E-mail:
Contractor:	Universita degli Studi di Padova
Organisation type:	Education
Country:	ITALY
Region:	NORD EST, VENETO, Padova
City:	Padova (Pd)
Post Code:	35100
Address:	Via Viii Febbraio 2
Contact person:	COBELLI, Claudio
Telephone:	+39-049-8277616
Fax:	+39-049-8277699
E-mail:	cobelli@dei.unipd.it
Contractor:	Fundacion Diabetes, Endocrinologia y Metabolismo
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	SPAIN
Region:	ESTE, CATALUŃA, Barcelona
City:	Barcelona
Post Code:	08025
Address:	Cartagena 247, At. 2, 24379 08080 BCN
Contact person:	DE LEIVA, Alberto
Telephone:	+34-93-2919244
Fax:	+34-93-2919270
E-mail:	hsp.endocri@bcn.servicom.es
Contractor:	Roche Diagnostics Gmbh
Organisation type:	Other
Country:	GERMANY
Region:	BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG, KARLSRUHE, Mannheim, Stadtkreis
City:	Mannheim
Post Code:	68305
Address:	Sandhofer Strasse 116
Contact person:	PFAHLERT, Volker
Telephone:	+49-6217-591454
Fax:	+49-6217-591455
E-mail:	Volker.Pfahlert@roche.com

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