CONHEALTH

Cognitive-Networks-Enabled Transnational Proactive Healthcare (CoNHealth)

 Coordinatore UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE 

 Organization address address: Kensington Terrace 6
city: NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
postcode: NE1 7RU

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Nicola
Cognome: Dolman
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 191 222 7338
Fax: +44 191 222 5920

 Nazionalità Coordinatore United Kingdom [UK]
 Totale costo 453˙600 €
 EC contributo 420˙000 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES
 Funding Scheme MC-IRSES
 Anno di inizio 2012
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2012-04-01   -   2016-03-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

 Organization address address: Kensington Terrace 6
city: NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
postcode: NE1 7RU

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Nicola
Cognome: Dolman
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 191 222 7338
Fax: +44 191 222 5920

UK (NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE) coordinator 189˙000.00
2    OULUN YLIOPISTO

 Organization address address: Pentti Kaiteran Katu 1
city: OULU
postcode: 90014

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Arto
Cognome: Eljander
Email: send email
Telefono: +358 8 5534133
Fax: +358 8 553 4170

FI (OULU) participant 117˙600.00
3    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE

 Organization address address: Piazza San Marco 4
city: Florence
postcode: 50121

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Piero
Cognome: Tortoli
Email: send email
Telefono: +39 055 4796375
Fax: +39 055 494 569

IT (Florence) participant 113˙400.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'CoNHealth will bring together leading researchers with wide-ranging research experience in the context of a collaborative scheme of research exchanges and networking to advance current knowledge in the area of intelligent wireless networks for medical ICT applications. The project is endorsed by 8 institutions including 3 partners from EU countries (UK, Italy, and Finland), 2 partners from industrialized third countries (US and Japan), and 3 partners from an International Cooperation Partner (ICP) country (China). The members of the consortium will provide complementary knowledge and strength in the areas of cognitive radio, cognitive radar, cognitive sensor, privacy and security in healthcare, medical sensors and instrumentation, disease management and diagnosis, biomedical signal processing, and medical ICT. These capabilities have been drawn out in accordance with the joint research vision of providing transnational proactive healthcare (TPH), commonly shared by the partners at the moment of writing the proposal. By developing an integrated cognitive network platform, it is our conviction that reliable, comprehensive, and efficient data acquisition from various medical sensors and devices, and their harmonious transmission and delivery to remote caregivers can be achieved. The project will consist of targeted research activities undertaken by key individual researchers, supported by PhD students, early-career academics, and professors. The exchanges will enable the reciprocal transfer of knowledge between the members of the consortium and will be deployed by a set of designated activities open also to external stakeholders. As the consortium comprises members from both industrialized and ICP countries across 3 different continents, the research outputs would benefit the wider population in a worldwide perspective, which can hardly be achieved if each individual partner works alone on this topic.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

An EU-funded project is building an international consortium to design medical uses for wireless networks and information and communication technologies (ICT).

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Wireless networks and ICT have already changed the field of technology, and there is potential to integrate them into cognitive science as well. The EU-funded project 'Cognitive-networks-enabled transnational proactive healthcare (Conhealth)' (http://www.conhealth.eu/ (CONHEALTH)) has started building a consortium of researchers, students, academics and industry members to exchange knowledge about different aspects the field.

Due to the nature of the project, clinical trials will not be included. The research is simulation- and lab-based, and will provide insight into the design and planning of future trials. Research topics to be covered include cognitive radio and radar networks for optimising health care delivery; cognitive sensors for optimising health care delivery; and privacy and security solutions for cognitive networks in health care.

The project is divided into six phases. The first phase focuses on discussions about the framework of the project, with a review of potential scenarios, definitions and requirements. The second will investigate cognitive radio and radar networks for optimising health. During the third phase, researchers will lay out fundamental information of cognitive networks for optimising health care delivery. The fourth phase will study privacy and threats of security to cognitive networks.

During the fifth phase, researchers will design and develop a proof-of-concept cognitive network platform integrating information from the earlier phases. At the end of the project, findings will be consolidated and results disseminated.

Simulations and lab-based experimentation have begun. In addition, two workshops have been organised and more than 50 peer-reviewed papers have been published. Other accomplishments include identifying challenges and scenarios regarding networks and health monitoring systems, identifying an energy harvesting scheme, identifying a relaying scheme, optimising transmission strategies to improve privacy in wire channels, and analysing realistic channel models of receivers.

Project results have the potential to influence actual clinical trials on cognitive networks down the road. Progress in this area will ultimately enhance the relationship between technology and cognitive science.

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