5th RTD Framework Programme

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IST (Information Society Technologies)

Project details

Project reference:	IST-2000-25252
Acronym:	BEPRO
Title:	Enabling Best Practices For Oncology
Subject Index:	Information Processing, Information Systems; Medicine, Health
Objectives:	Objective: The BEPRO project aims to provide five influential centres of cancer specialists, each at the heart of a Regional, National or European network, with resources to extend their current pilot use of results from previous European projects in Information Technologies for Health. They will deploy additional applications, integrate them within their centre's current environment, and receive training. The resulting best practice will then be demonstrated in use. Results will be disseminated to the relevant European medical community and, when applicable, submitted to standardization bodies. Objectives: The BEPRO project will demonstrate best practice in action enabled by the use of innovative telematics applications in Oncology. Five influential centres, each at the heart of a Regional, National or European network of cancer specialists, will experiment these telematics applications for sake of integration in the centres' working environment. Co-operative services will allow sharing experiences between experiments in order to reach consensus at inter-application and trans-national levels. Results will be disseminated to the relevant medical community and will be submitted, whenever applicable, to standardization bodies. Since the project will deal with data exchange procedures based on XML and DTD kept at the most generic and re-usability levels, the project may act as a co-ordinator of other projects dealing with state-of-the-art data exchange technologies independently of the medical application. Work description: The BEPRO project will follow 3 successive phases to reach its main objectives. The SETUP PHASE is aiming to secure the medical evaluation in order to limit the possible negative impact of performing evaluation from technically non-optimal implementations. During this phase the environment of the regional networks will be reviewed by the technical partners, and the required adjustments will be made in agreement with industrial requirements. During this phase also, the scenarios and the metrics will be refined and will be broken down into indicators meant to describe and measure the impact of ICT on medical activities. Co-operative tools will be made available and validated in the frame of targeted activities. A quality manual will provide all partners with the necessary reference framework for their subsequent activities and corresponding protocols. The MEDICAL EVALUATION PHASE is the period of actual use of the various applications concerned by the regional networks. A monitoring of regional network activities will be performed by the reference centres in close collaboration with the industrial partners. The objective is to provide a support facilitating the use of ICT by the regional networks thus allowing them to concentrate on the medical and organisational impact of the telematics applications concerned. Technical issues will be reported and managed in the most efficient way to limit negative effects. Collecting performance indicators will be done on a regular basis to allow progress assessment from both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective. The CONSOLIDATION PHASE will assess the extent to which the use of telematics applications does impact medical practices. Benefits and limitations will be identified and detailed. Reference centres will report the outcomes of activities from corresponding regional networks. Selected participants will be interviewed to provide the point of view of end users. A final workshop will provide the opportunity to communicate conclusions to a wider community. Transversal activities will run all along the project life to accompany the project, provide support and resources for daily management, co-operative tools, and dissemination activities. Milestones: Significant milestones will be - Month 6: Experiment Evaluation detailed design - Inter-application DTDs (initial). - Month 15: Results of 5 parallel but complementary experiments on sites. - Month 18: Report on Best practices - Formalized DTDs candidate to standardization. Any system (laptop, PDA, UMTS mobile Phone) connected to a medical server through Internet will have, soon or later, to find compatibility with XML/DTD formats which standardisation is not yet completed. Concentration in this domain may save redundancy and efforts among very different projects.
Start date:	2001.01.01
End date:	2002.06.30
Duration:	18 months
Project status:	Completed
Project cost:	1.47 million euro
Project funding:	865000.00 euro
Programme type:	5th FWP (Fifth Framework Programme)
Subprogramme area:	Health - Best Practice and Demonstration actions in Regional Healthcare Network
Contract type:	ACM (Preparatory, accompanying and support measures)
Project URL:	http://bepro.vitamib.com
Prime contractor:	Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, TIMC/ RFMQ - UMR CNRS/ ULF 5525
Organisation type:	Education
Country:	FRANCE
Region:	CENTRE-EST, RHÔNE-ALPES, Isčre
City:	Grenoble
Post Code:	38041
Address:	621 Avenue Centrale - Domaine Universitaire, BP 53
Contact person:	BRUGAL, Gerard (Professor)
Telephone:	+33-47-6549400
Fax:	+33-47-6549549
E-mail:	gerard.brugal@imag.fr
Contractor:	Variable Medicine Limited Liability Company
Organisation type:	Other
Country:	HUNGARY
Region:	Region Desc. N/A(HUNGARY)
City:	Budapest
Post Code:	1124
Address:	Szalanci U 5
Contact person:	VARI, Sandor (MD)
Telephone:	+36-14-870430
Fax:	+36-14-870430
E-mail:	varimed@matavnet.hu
Contractor:	Institut Gustave Roussy, Direction of the Information Systems
Organisation type:	Other
Country:	FRANCE
Region:	ÎLE DE FRANCE, Val-de-Marne
City:	Villejuif
Post Code:	94805
Address:	39 Rue Camille Desmoulins
Contact person:	GAVOILLE, Andre
Telephone:	+33-1-42114254
Fax:	+33-1-42115224
E-mail:	gavoille@igr.fr
Contractor:	Vitamib Sarl
Organisation type:	Other
Country:	FRANCE
Region:	CENTRE-EST, Isčre
City:	La Tronche
Post Code:	38700
Address:	Le Grand Sablon - Chemin du Grand Sablon
Contact person:	FABRE, Xavier
Telephone:	+33-4-76549599
Fax:	+33-4-76037521
E-mail:	xfabre@vitamib.com
Contractor:	Infermed Limited
Organisation type:	Other
Country:	UNITED KINGDOM
Region:	SOUTH EAST (UK), GREATER LONDON
City:	London
Post Code:	WC1B 3HH
Address:	Bloomsbury House, 23 Bedford Square
Contact person:	MONTGOMERY, Alan
Telephone:	+44-1252-617112
Fax:	+44-207-2693176
E-mail:	alan.montgomery@infermed.com
Contractor:	Medizinische Einrichtungen der Universitaet Essen, Strahlenklinik
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	GERMANY
Region:	NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN, DÜSSELDORF, Essen, Kreisfreie Stadt
City:	Essen
Post Code:	45122
Address:	Hufelandstrasse 55
Contact person:	SAUERWEIN, Wolfgang (PRIV.DOZ.DR.MED.)
Telephone:	+49-201-7232052
Fax:	+49-201-7235908
E-mail:	w.sauerwein@uni-essen.de
Contractor:	Het Nederlands Kanker Instituut, NKI/ AVL Biometrics Department
Organisation type:	Other
Country:	NETHERLANDS
Region:	WEST-NEDERLAND, NOORD-HOLLAND, Groot-Amsterdam
City:	Amsterdam
Post Code:	1066 CX
Address:	Plesmanlaan 121
Contact person:	VAN DER DONK, Emile
Telephone:	+31-20-5122672
Fax:	+31-20-5122679
E-mail:	edonk@nki.nl
Contractor:	Maxim Vof
Organisation type:	Other
Country:	NETHERLANDS
Region:	WEST-NEDERLAND, UTRECHT, Region Desc. N/A(SNELREWAARD)
City:	Abcoude
Post Code:	1391 RR
Address:	Molenwetering 4
Contact person:	VAN DER DONK, Emile
Telephone:	+31-29-4287187
Fax:
E-mail:	edonk@nki.nl
Contractor:	Medical Research Council - MRC, Clinical Trials Unit
Organisation type:	Research
Country:	UNITED KINGDOM
Region:	SOUTH EAST (UK), GREATER LONDON
City:	London
Post Code:	W1B 1AL
Address:	Park Crescent 20
Contact person:	PARMAR, Max
Telephone:	+44-207-6704700
Fax:	+44-207-6704818
E-mail:	mp@ctu.mrc.ac.uk
Contractor:	Samba Technologies Sarl
Organisation type:	Other
Country:	FRANCE
Region:	CENTRE-EST, Isčre
City:	Meylan
Post Code:	38240
Address:	Chemin du Vieux Chene 53
Contact person:	ADELH, Didier
Telephone:	+33-47-6040050
Fax:	+33-47-6041598
E-mail:	dadelh@sambatechnologies.com

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