Introduction to EU Funding Instruments for Research

and Development in E-Health

Dr. Agnes SzmolenszkyHungarian Science and Technology

Foundation (TETALAP)

FP7 at a Glance

• 2007-2013

• Total budget of over € 50 Billion

• Supports research in selected priority areas

Objectives– to strengthen the scientific and technological base

of European industry– to encourage international competitiveness, while

promoting research that supports EU policies.

Budget Evolution of FPs

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€ Billion FP1: 1984–1987 FP2: 1987–1991 FP3: 1991–1994 FP4: 1994–1998 FP5: 1998–2002 FP6: 2002–2006FP7: 2007–2013

Structure of FP7

Cooperation – Collaborative researchCooperation – Collaborative research

Ideas – Frontier ResearchIdeas – Frontier Research

People – Human PotentialPeople – Human Potential

Capacities – Research CapacityCapacities – Research Capacity

+Joint Research Centre (non-nuclear)Joint Research Centre (non-nuclear)

Joint Research Centre (nuclear)Joint Research Centre (nuclear)

EuratomEuratom

• Core of FP7

• Promotes collaborative research in Europe and beyond

• Aims to gain leadership in key scientific and technological areas

• Supports cooperation between universities, industry, research centres and public authorities

• 10 thematic priorities

Cooperation – Collaborative researchCooperation – Collaborative research

FP7 Cooperation – 10 Themes

• Health

• Food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology

• Information & communication technologies

• Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new production technologies

• Energy

• Environment (including climate change)

• Transport (including aeronautics)

• Socio-economic sciences and humanities

• Space

• Security

FP7 Cooperation – Health

pillar 1:Biotechnology, generic tools

& technologies for health

pillar 2:Translating research for human health

pillar 3:Optimising the delivery

of health care

Activity (pillar) 4: Other actions across the theme

cross-cutting issues: child health, the health of ageing population gender-related health issues

FP7 Cooperation – ICTeHealth research is being tackled under

“Challenge 5 – Sustainable and Personalised Healthcare”

Aim: creation of an “intelligent environment” in which:

• the health status of any given individual can be monitored and managed continuously

• health professionals are assisted in addressing major health problems

FP7 Cooperation – ICTWork in Challenge 5 focuses on 3 main areas:

1. Personal Health Systems (PHS): key technologies, such as biosensors and secure communications, helping monitoring and management of health status

EU research funding targets:

• research into monitoring systems for patients with chronic diseases

• systems and tools which can be used for diagnostic purposes

FP7 ICT Projects I.Some examples:

• CD-Medics "Coeliac disease - management, monitoring and diagnosis using biosensors and an integrated chip system"

• Chronious "An open, ubiquitous and adaptive chronic disease management platform for COPD and renal insufficiency"

• DIAdvisor "Personal Glucose Predictive Diabetes Advisor"

• Metabo "Controlling Chronic Diseases related to Metabolic Disorders„

More to be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/health/research/fp7phs/index_en.htm

FP7 Cooperation – ICT2.Patient Safety (PS): software tools to help decision

making with a potential effect on patient safety

FP7supports projects which seek to develop advanced ICT applications to improve risk assessment and patient safety.

Specific intervention areas may inlcude:

• safety of surgical interventions

• improving the interaction between clinical care and clinical research

• improvement of global health security

FP7 ICT Projects II.Some examples:

• Avert-It "Advanced Arterial Hypotension Adverse Event prediction through a Novel Bayesian Neural Network" -

• Comoestas "Electronic Interactive Patient Record"

• DebugIt "Detecting and Eliminating Bacteria UsinG Information Technology"

• EU-ADR (former Alert) "Early detection of adverse drug events by integrative mining of clinical records and biomedical knowledge"

• Gap "Guard, Anticipation and Prediction. A new approach to Health Risk Prediction"

More to be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/health/research/fp7ps/index_en.htm

FP7 Cooperation – ICT3. Virtual Physiological Human (VPH): networking

multidisciplinary researchers in the fields of bio-informatics, genomics, and neuro-informatics to help create a new generation of eHealth systems to assist the ‘individualisation’ of disease prevention, diagnoses and treatment.

EU research funding targets:

• Development of tools to model and predict the effects of different treatment options in individual

patients.

FP7 Cooperation – ICTSpecific intervention areas may inlcude:

• simulation for surgical training, planning and intervention

• prediction or early diagnosis of disease by integrating patient history with biomedical imaging (from X-rays, scans and internal camera examination of the patient as well as microscopic examination of cells removed from the body)

• simulation environments for assessing the efficacy and safety of specific drugs.

FP7 ICT Projects III.Some examples:

• Action-Grid - International cooperative action on grid computing and biomedical informatics between the European Union, Latin America, the Western Balkans and North Africa

• ARTreat - Multi-level patient-specific artery and atherogenesis model for outcome prediction, decision support treatment, and virtual hand-on training

• ContraCancrum - Clinically Oriented Translational Cancer Multilevel Modelling

• euHeart - Personalised and intergrated cardiac care: Patient-specific Cardiovascular Modelling and Simulation for In Silico Disease Understanding and Management and for Medical Device Evaluation and Optimization

More to be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/health/research/fp7vph/index_en.htm

FP7 - Ideas

Cooperation – Collaborative researchCooperation – Collaborative research

Ideas – Frontier ResearchIdeas – Frontier Research

People – Human PotentialPeople – Human Potential

Capacities – Research CapacityCapacities – Research Capacity

FP7 - Ideas

• Supports “frontier research”

• All areas of science and technology – “bottom-up” approach

• Selection based on scientific excellence only

• Individual research teams (or collaboration)

• Implemented via the European Research Council (ERC)

FP7 - People

Cooperation – Collaborative researchCooperation – Collaborative research

Ideas – Frontier ResearchIdeas – Frontier Research

People – Human PotentialPeople – Human Potential

Capacities – Research CapacityCapacities – Research Capacity

FP7 - People

• Provides support for researcher mobility and career development

• For both researchers inside and outside the EU

• Objective – to make Europe more attractive to the best researchers

• Implemented via a set of Actions

FP7 - Capacities

Cooperation – Collaborative researchCooperation – Collaborative research

Ideas – Frontier ResearchIdeas – Frontier Research

People – Human PotentialPeople – Human Potential

Capacities – Research CapacityCapacities – Research Capacity

FP7- Capacities

Aims to strengthen Europe’s research capacities through:

• Research Infrastructures

• Research for the benefit of SMEs

• Regions of Knowledge

• Research Potential

• Science in Society

• Specific Activities for International Cooperation

Competitivesness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP)Aims:

• Foster the competitiveness of enterprises (especially SMEs)

• Promote innovation, including eco-innovation

• Accelerate the development of a competitive Information Society

• Promote energy efficiency and new/renewable energy sources (including transport)

Programmes:

• Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme

• ICT Policy Support Programme

• Intelligent Energy Europe Programme

CIP ICT Policy Support Programme Aim:

supporting member states and stakeholders to ensure EU-wide interoperable health services.

Specific objectives for e-health:

• Enlargement of the pilot "epSOS" on eHealth Interoperability for patient's summaries

• ePrescription" and "Scaling up of eHealth services and supporting the EU eHealth governance initiative

CIP ICT Policy Support Programme

Some examples:

European Patients Smart Open Services project (epSOS): a European large scale pilot aiming at developing, testing and validating specifications for interoperability of patients summaries and ePrescriptions. It involves 27 beneficiaries out of twelve EU-member states, including ministries of

health, national competence centres and industry.

ICT PSP open until 1 June 2010.

Further information

– www.cordis.europa.eu– http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/

activities/health/research/fp7projects/index_en.htm

• National Contact Points– The network of NCPs is the main structure to

provide guidance and practical information – Personalised support during the project

Thank you for your attention!

Agnes.szmolenszky@tetalap.hu+36-1-214-7714

1027 Budapest, Bem József u.  2. HUNGARY