The Project Next Generation of Body Monitoring (NexGen), targeted to develop key micro-electronic technologies and components for future mobile/wearable health care systems. The feasibility should be demonstrated along 2 interconnected ubiquitous body monitoring systems of high social and economic importance, an implanted glucose monitor and a non-invasive on-body multi-parameter monitor. It was pinpointed that these body monitoring systems facilitate new business cases in the mobile health care system.

This european Research and Development Project was realised in the Charité in cooperation with Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (Director: Prof. Dr. med. J. Spranger)

Coordinator: Infineon Technologies AG, Munich/Germany

Funding Volume Charité: ca. 710,000 EUR

The project is sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research over a period of ten years (2009-2018).

The aim of the project is the improvement of the health care for cardiovascular diseases in structurally underdeveloped rural areas by using broad application of modern IT-systems (Telemedicine or Remote Patient Monitoring) and biomarker guided diagnostics and therapy management across different health care sectors.
Product innovations like homecare platform and self-adaptive prioritising middleware supports this new health care model.

Since 2009 the industrial and scientific partners Deutsche Telekom GmbH, getemed AG, Brahms GmbH – Part of Thermo Fisher Scientific and Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering are developing in cooperation with the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin these product innovations.

These product innovations will be evaluated in a clinical trial with heart failure patients since 2013: TIM-HF II

Funding Volume Charité: ca. 9 Mio. EUR

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The health economic center BerlinHECOR (Centre for Health Economics Research) aims at a lasting, internationally perceived health economic research structure along with the development, organization and implementation of a broad performance test and analysis of the German health care system. The overall direction of the BerlinHECOR lies within the Department of Health Care Management, TU Berlin.

Based on an analysis of the TIM-HF study, the sub-project EvaluateTelemedicine will develop a health economic evaluation method for Remote Patient Management with regard to different telemedical systems and also with regard to different entities.

A particular challenge is the consideration of the different perspectives: (1) patients, (2) social / economic perspective (requirement for international comparisons), and (3) perspectives of a German health insurance. The project implementation is realized with the help of secondary data of the 69 health insurances, which participated in the TIM-HF I study.

Questions concern a) cost-effectiveness ratio (QALY-analysis), b) sensitivity analysis (costs of telemedical intervention) and c) cost appraisal of the spent resources and of the efficacy.

Duration: September 2012 until August 2013
Funding volume: ca. 64.000€

Sponsor: Federal Ministry of Education and Research

The Thematic Network is funded by the European Commission within the programme CIP-ICT-PSP.2012.3.4 during 2013 and 2016. The main goal of E-NO FALLS thematic network is to integrate and bring together knowledge, experiences and best practices acquired at European and international level in the area of fall prevention, intervention and safety.

The main goal of E-NO FALLS thematic network is to integrate and bring together knowledge, experiences and best practices acquired at European and international level in the area of fall prevention, intervention and safety, with the aim of coordinating ongoing activities and creating the necessary conditions and consensus on action plans, standards and specifications in view to ensure the widest future replication and co-deployment of innovative solutions (with special emphasis on ICT-based ones). In this way, the E-NO FALLS thematic network will be a forum for all stakeholders within the value chain (such as industry, users organizations, informal and formal care providers, public authorities, investors, housing and insurance companies and service providers across Europe) to share knowledge, expertise, resources, best practice experiences and to build consensus to highlight the remaining obstacles to be overcome and to eventually provide guidance for ICT-enabled solutions and their roll-out. Therefore, E-NO FALLS is envisaged to act as a HUB in the sense that it will become a single point concentrating conclusions, references and links to all what is being/has been done in all issues (research results, policy recommendations, market uptake...) related to fall prevention, detection, intervention and safety. E-NO FALLS portal will provide links to other networks, projects and initiatives addressing Falls which will make easier to all stakeholders to have a view and gather information about trends and future initiatives and the opportunity to be involved in all the activities of the network. Furthermore E-NO-FALLS will commit to the EIP AHA A2 action on fall prevention and will actively support the implementation of the action plan. In the same sense E-NO-FALLS will collaborate with the other thematic network, PROFOUND, to ensure synergies and mutual collaboration. The output expectation of the network is to maximize the social and economic potential of ICT-based solutions, while promoting and accelerating wider deployments for improving quality of life and sustainability of care for the ageing population.

Coordinator of the network:

Technical Research Centre for Dependency Care and Autonomous Living
Knowledge Engineering Research Group
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Neapolis Building, Rambla de l'Exposició, 59-69
08800 Vilanova i la Geltrú. Barcelona. Spain

Total Project Volume: 1 Mio. Euro

Project Volume Part Charité: approx. 35,000 EUR

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MAS is funded by the Joint Ventures ENIAC JU and of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Research and development project MAS focus on the development of an integrated approach for the areas of health monitoring and therapy support at home, and mobile health, wellness and fitness. The Charité supports the consortium in the MAS system- and application-planning and later implementation, and performs the relevant clinical tests on the systems implemented in the form of clinical applications, with focus on cardiac patients.

Project volume:ca. 28 Mio. Euro
Project Volume, part of Charité: ca. 0,5 Mio. Euro

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PfH was a research and development project which was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Ecomonics and Technology between 2005 and 2011.

Aim of the project was the development of a telemedical platform and the evaulation in a clinical trial. Ziel war die Entwicklung einer telemedizinischen Geräteplattform sowie der Evaluierung in einer klinischen Studie.

project volume: ca. 12 Mio. Euro
funded volume: ca. 3,8 Mio. Euro

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