Improving Healthcare Access through a Personal Health Monitoring System

Acronym	eHealth Μonitoring
Project Number – MIS	5021558
Priority axis	4 - A Socially Inclusive Cross-Border Area
Investment priorities	9a - Investing in health and social infrastructure which contributes to national, regional and local development, reducing inequalities in terms of health status, promoting social inclusion through improved access to social, cultural and recreational
Intervention fields	053. Health infrastructure 081. ICT solutions addressing the healthy active ageing challenge and e-Health services and applications (including e-Care and ambient assisted living)
Call	2nd Call for proposals under priority axes 2 & 4
Lead Beneficiary	Centre of Caring and Solidarity of Komotini Municipality
Beneficiaries	Central Union of Municipalities in Greece Municipality of Kirkovo Democritus University of Thrace - Department of Economics Association „EURORADAR”
Start Date	Oct 31, 2017
End Date	Dec 31, 2020
Budget	599.177,24 €
ERDF Contribution	509.300,65 €
National Contribution	89.876,59 €
Website	http://www.ehealthmonitoring.eu/en/

The project aims to develop and validate an efficient and advanced ICT based integrated health information system that not only provides a mean for monitoring health parameters outside of the traditional hospital environment but also is able to create a permanent link between patients and healthcare personnel thus providing a direct improvement of the concept of equal access, equal quality and efficiency of health monitoring for the societal and economical development of enlarged Europe. The strategic goal is the improvement of public health and quality of life, adapting to changing needs and utilizing existing and new technological capabilities, while at the same time increasing the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of these services.

The main target of the project is to study, design and implement a novel, user friendly, flexible, highly efficient, interactive mobile application for health monitoring.The project contributes to E2020 strategy regarding “smart growth”, “sustainable growth” and “inclusive growth” objective by promoting “access for all” to health care using telemedicine and telecare infrastructure and other technology-oriented health care provision methods and will try to improve access to primary and emergency health care (at isolated and deprived communities) in the cross border area by providing a personal mobile healthcare system on the base of the mobile video supporting device allowing ambulant patients:

(1) Remote monitoring of the patient's state;
(2) Patient's continuous self control;
(3) Live contact from any place -any time with professional medical staff through modern communication network.

The system with micro-electrodes integrated directly into cellular device/PDA is intended for healthy population interested in health status self-control and can be adopted also for chronically ill population.