CHRONIC PROJECT (IST-1999-12158) 2000-2002

CHRONIC goal was to develop an information environment for the care of chronic patients as an efficient alternative to conventional institutional care, that will improve their quality of life while reducing the huge healthcare costs in the European Union and getting an optimum benefit of information systems technology and culture.
The information environment consisted on:

1. Personal, safe, friendly and reliable home-based health monitoring systems, providing unrestrained non-intrusive connectivity to the patient.
2. Information systems in open communication platforms, adapted to the wide heterogeneity of user needs and profiles, oriented to case management, teleconsultation, advising, rehabilitation and patient training.
3. Support systems for diagnostic/therapeutic decision making; for clinical guidelines and protocol and for services quality assessment.

The application to other scenarios (acute, terminal patients, elderly, healthy) was emphasised. The chronic care platform proposed will facilitate the outsourcing of services, and thus the growth, of new health-related industries.

Partners:

• ASIENDO OSPEDALIERA ISTITUTI CLINICI DI PERFEZIONAMENTO (Italy)
• CENTRO ESPAÑOL DE SERVICIOS TELEMÁTICOS (Spain)
• CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS (Spain)
• EDELWEB (France)
• GRUPO ALAMO SISTEMAS DE INFORMACION (Spain)
• KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (Belgium)
• MEDICASA.(Italy)
• SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS - HEALTH SERVICES ITALIA (Italy)
• TELECOM ITALIA LAB (Italy)
• UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID (Spain)
• UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA (Spain)

Publications:

• Konstantas, D., Jones, V. M., & Herzog, R. (2002). Mobihealth-innovative 2.5/3G mobile services and applications for health care.
  
• Hernandez, C., Casas, A., Escarrabill, J., Alonso, J., Puig-Junoy, J., Farrero, E., ... & Roca, J. (2003). Home hospitalisation of exacerbated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients. European Respiratory Journal, 21(1), 58-67.
• Miñano, L. (2003). Proyecto CHRONIC, entrevista al Dr. Roca. Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Infonomia.
  
• Casas, A., Hernández, C., Escarrabill, J., Alonso, J., Font-Planells, J., Puig-Juno, J., Farrero, E., Vilagut, G., Collvinent, B., Rodriguez-Roisin, R., Roca, J. (2003). Análisis de los Factores Predictores de Reingreso Hospitalario: En el Marco de un Programa de Hospitalización Domiciliaria en la EPOC. Revista Colombiana de Neumología, 15 (3).
  
• Ram, F. S., Wedzicha, J. A., Wright, J., & Greenstone, M. (2004). Hospital at home for patients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: systematic review of evidence. bmj, 329(7461), 315.
• Hernández, C.(2004). Prevención ingresos domiciliarios en la EPOC. Atención integrada y multidisciplinaria / Hospitalización domiciliaria en la EPOC. ¿Para todos?. Revista inspiración (Num. 8), 11-21. Revista del Área de Enfermería y Fisioterapia Respiratoria de SEPAR.
• Bos, L. (2004). Medical and care compunetics 1 (Vol. 103). IOS Press.
• Casas, A., Troosters, T., Garcia-Aymerich, J., Roca, J., Hernández, C., Alonso, A., ... & Decramer, M. (2006). Integrated care prevents hospitalisations for exacerbations in COPD patients. European Respiratory Journal, 28(1), 123-130.
• Istepanian, R., Laxminarayan, S., & Pattichis, C. S. (2006). M-health. Springer Science+ Business Media, Incorporated.
• Garcia-Aymerich, J., Hernandez, C., Alonso, A., Casas, A., Rodriguez-Roisin, R., Anto, J. M., & Roca, J. (2007). Effects of an integrated care intervention on risk factors of COPD readmission. Respiratory medicine, 101(7), 1462-1469.
• Roca, J., Alonso, A., & Hernandez, C. (2008). Integrated care for COPD patients: time for extensive deployment. Breathe, 5 (1), 26-35.
• Casas-Herrera, A.(2009), Atención integrada en la enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica. Tesis Doctoral. Universitat de Barcelona Departament de Medicina Programa de Biopatología en Medicina.

Links:

• An Information Capture and Processing Environment for Chronic Patients in the Information Society. CORDIS (Community Research and Development information Service). European Comission.
• An Information Capture and Processing Environment for Chronic Patients in the Information Society. Open Education Europe.
• Active and Assisted Living Program. Partners search facility. Biomedical Engineering and Telemedicine Centre, Polytechnic University of Madrid.
• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Grupo de Ingeniería y Telemedicina. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid