| A European Project. | | | | original areas: cardiology, oncology and |
| The work, which lasted about 2 years, is | | | | rheumatology), and make this platform a valuable |
| developed with the collaboration of the Pediatric | | | | tool to help diagnosis, built on knowledge gained in |
| Hospital Giannina Gaslini of Genoa, the London | | | | clinical centers of excellence. |
| Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and the | | | | In this way is reduced the risk of diagnostic |
| Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris. Since | | | | errors and improved the recovery of information |
| January 2006 Health-e-Child was financed by | | | | and surgical equipment skills. |
| several partners for a total budget of almost 17 | | | | The wind tunnel of medicine. |
| million, most of them from the European Union. | | | | How explains in fact one of the responsible of the |
| Current limits. | | | | project: |
| Many diseases that affect childhood are | | | | "If Ferrari has to test a shock absorber for the |
| particularly complex both for diagnosis and for | | | | Canadian Grand Prix obviously does not bring the |
| treatment: a difficult situation made worse from | | | | car and shock on the racing track of the North |
| the rarity of certain diseases. The search for a | | | | American country, but tries to rebuilt in its |
| appropriate cure can become a real ordeal for | | | | laboratories all conditions that can be created. With |
| young patients. | | | | Health-e-Child is the same. Instead of studying |
| Health-e-Child aims to facilitate the overcoming of | | | | what can happen to various parameters of the |
| these obstacles, helping to optimize the existing | | | | heart, such as its ability to contract or the activity |
| procedures, many times unsatisfactory. | | | | of a valve, the professional works virtually on his |
| Share excellence. | | | | computer perfectly recreating the event to be |
| Health-e-Child is an integrated research project, | | | | verified." |
| funded under the Sixth Framework Program of | | | | Practically, referring to documentation recorded in |
| the European Union, in order to develop a | | | | the database, you can formerly establish what will |
| computerized system supporting clinical diagnosis | | | | be the actual response of the most important |
| and research in pediatrics, based on the vertical | | | | organ of body. |
| integration of medical statistical data and | | | | Not only. Using simulation to see a specific detail, |
| biomedical knowledge: from anamnesis to | | | | for example the contraction of the left ventricle, |
| diagnostic imaging, from genetics to epidemiology; | | | | which must pump blood into aorta, you can |
| simplifying the clinical practice through modeling of | | | | virtually see what is happening on the patient, |
| disease and activation of knowledge discovery | | | | acting consequently. |
| automatic systems. | | | | Quality, efficiency and universality. |
| Objectives. | | | | The impact of a so important technology on |
| Based on the concept of knowledge sharing to | | | | diagnostic quality and efficiency is established. We |
| enhance the intellectual capital, the system allows | | | | can only hope for a rapid and widespread |
| to bring together all the clinical data of young | | | | dissemination of "model" on international scale to |
| patients, read and interpret them thanks to an | | | | enable the creation of the largest universal |
| innovative model of distributed computing, linking | | | | platform for biomedical knowledge and the |
| the major European pediatric hospitals and | | | | development of new methods that can positively |
| gradually enlarge the network and the entire | | | | influence medical procedures, thus saving many |
| system everywhere, increasing the number of | | | | lives. |
| diseases treated and the action fields (beyond the | | | | |