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web-based enerGy management system foR the optimization of the EnErgy coNsumption in Hospitals (GREEN@Hospital)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Hospitals are known to be large energy consumers and in most European countries the high proportion of ageing building stocks makes hospitals amongst the least energy efficient public buildings. Nowadays there is a growing urgency to achieve real energy savings from existing building stocks and to build more sustainable new hospitals.The GREEN@Hospital project aims at integrating the latest ICT so ...
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Next-Generation Electrochemical Technology for the Treatment of Hospital Wastewater: Electrogenerated Sulfate Radicals for Complete Destruction of Persistent Pollutants (ELECTRO HOSPITAL)

Start date: Nov 17, 2014, End date: Nov 16, 2016,

Hospital wastewater effluents have been identified as the primary sources of DNA-damaging compounds, and are considered as the major source of antibiotic resistance in the environment. They exhibit significantly higher pollution, up to 3,500 mg/L of chemical oxygen demand, compared to municipal sewage (i.e., 100-500 mg/L).There is no established technology for the treatment of hospital wastewater. ...
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FLANDRE MARITIME HOSPITAL COOPERATION

Start date: Nov 30, 2007, End date: Nov 29, 2012,

The cross-border region is not prepared for the challenges ahead in terms of medical facilities: ageing of the population, cancer, diseases, etc. Nevertheless, the area has excellent hospitals that can represent asupplementary high-quality medical offer and constitute a dynamic network.Through this project, the partners want to buy a PET scan for the cross-border area, and to this end, undertake t ...
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A Step towards zero eMissions goAl in Heath SectoR: BesT Practice Examples in Hospital Universitario Río Hortega (LIFE SMART Hospital)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Background Hospitals contribute to climate change because of their consumption of natural resources and the waste that they generate. For instance, the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) estimates its carbon footprint at over 18 million tonnes CO2/year, or 25% of the greenhouse gas emissions of the entire UK public sector. According to US Enviro ...
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EMAS and Information Technology in Hospitals (e-Hospital EMAS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2004, End date: Jan 30, 2007,

Background Environmental problems associated with hospitals mainly relate to waste generated as a result of hospital activities, for example infectious waste and chemicals from laboratories, chemicals from X-ray machines and others, but also to energy usage and purchasing practices. Particularly due to the complicated nature of waste management processes ...
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Hospital Equipment of Karelia

Start date: Jun 30, 2002, End date: Jun 29, 2005,

Based on preliminary studies there is a lack of all kinds of hospital equipment and instruments for the disabled in the Karelian Republic. The Finnish hospitals and institutions are continuously renewing their equipment, which could be used after repair and service. At the moment the equipment disposed of has been stored and will be scrapped. The project will establish repair workshops in two work ...
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Harmonization of the hospital systems - a clinical pattern of the cross-border home healthcare provided for the people residing in the Veneto region and in the Obalno-Kraska area in Slovenia

Start date: Sep 30, 2004, End date: Jul 30, 2006,

...tect the most suitable joint actions that can promote exchanges of medical and nursing skills, remote healthcare, the direct intervention of medical staff and the patients’ mobility between the two hospitals. The clinical pattern herein proposed is meant to integrate the work of health facilities staff with the hospital departments through the use of new technologies, so that patients can benefit ...
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Equipping the emergency room at county hospital of Bartoszyce

Short description: The project aims at replacing the old and used equipment and buying the new one, meeting the standards of the EU and the Polish legal regulations. The aim of this is to improve quality of medical service, for patients from the border area and to improve effectiveness and efficiency of the emergency department. The project partner has bought an ambulance car and medical equipment ...
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Hospital Cooperation (Creation of a Transnational Network for Hospital Co-operation between Strasbourg, Liège and Luxembourg) (Hospital Cooperation)

Start date: May 2, 2001, End date: Dec 30, 2007,

The objective of this five-year project, involving five partners, is to set up a network between the hospitals of Strasbourg, Liège and Luxembourg, to be extended to other hospitals at a later stage. The hospitals are among the largest employers in their respective regions and, in so doing, play a key role in territorial development. The hospitals seek to adopt a transnational vision to pool their ...
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Prevention of Hospital Infections by Intervention and Training (PROHIBIT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

"The aim of PROHIBIT is to understand existing guidelines and practices to prevent healthcare associated infections (HAI) in European hospitals, identify factors that enable and prevent compliance with best practices, and test the effectiveness of interventions of known efficacy. The project will employ a mixed-methods approach combining the strengths of qualitative research, survey methods, obser ...
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The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

Start date: Oct 6, 2014, End date: Oct 6, 2016,

...sion of performing arts by turning the performance into a therapeutic and restorative experience and not merely a recreational moment. Through humour, interactive play and social/educational theatre, hospital clowning greatly improves the health care environment. Clowndoctors performances provide a much needed psychosocial support their audience, they help empowering vulnerable groups and fighting ...
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Safe, Chemical-Free, Cleaning of Hospital Ward Surfaces (Cleanward)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Cleanward aims to develop a novel, safe, user-friendly anti-microbial cleaning system, using titanium dioxide coated ultra-microfibre fabric that will integrate easily into existing contract cleaning equipment: it will achieve log105 microbial removal and the coating will react with water and UV to produce a highly reactive environment: this will kill all harmful micro-organisms quickly and thorou ...
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Learning at Home and in the Hospital

Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

... achieve a good education is to boost attendance in mainstream schools, which are able to provide not only cognitive but also social and developmental advantages to all students. Nowadays students in hospital or that are ill at home face isolation and cannot access mainstream education because of their medical needs as a consequence of their illness and associated therapies. Within this framework, ...
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A disruptive method to free physicians from Hospital Information Systems by generating fault free patient diagnostic documents in real-time using natural language (REALM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

A significant bottleneck in Europe’s health care model is that physicians are spending up to 30 % of their time operating complex Hospital Information Systems (HIS). The Diktamen-method totally frees the physician from HIS and revolutionizes any voice-to-text capabilities. All diagnostic data is expressed with natural language, while the error free diagnostic document is produced in real-time. Our ...
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"Together for a better education of sick children and adolescents-Preparing Pedagogues to work in a multidisciplinary team in Hospital".

Start date: Jun 6, 2014, End date: Jun 5, 2015,

The main idea of this project are widely understood necessities of children with chronic illnesses, those treated on hospital wards and the way the teachers work on these wards. The most important objective is taking part in HOPE Congress : "Together for a better education of sick children and adolsescents. Preparing Pedagogues to work in a multidisciplinary team in Hospitals". Our main interest w ...
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Antimicrobial FLEXible POLymers for its use in hospital environments (FLEXPOL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

FLEXPOL aims to develop a pilot line for the production of a cost effective antimicrobial (AM) adhesive film for its use in hospitals. The obtained adhesive film will inhibit growth of a wide range of microbes and will be suitable for high-touch surfaces, providing a durable protection with good resistance. It will assure the highest level of hygiene and patient safety, reducing the use of disinfe ...
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"The Creative Hospital"- integrative and alternative treatments (Det Kreative Sykehus)

Start date: May 2, 2005, End date: Jun 29, 2007,

Musikterapi och kulturella aktiviteter (integrativ medicin) som komplement till annan konventionell behandling ska prövas i ett samarbetsprojekt mellan Sykehuset i Østfold och NU-sjukvården i Västra Götaland.
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Device for prophylaxis and treatment of diabetic foot ulcers for hospital and home use (PreventDFU)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

In PreventDFU, we propose to develop an advanced prototype for prophylaxis and treatment of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). This condition contributes to morbidity and loss of Quality of Life (QoL) of Diabetes Mellitus sufferers, most especially the elderly. We propose to develop a unit prototype, based on our proprietary pulsating negative pressure technology that can be used at home or nursing hom ...
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Adopting Hospital Based Health Technology Assessment in EU (AdHopHTA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

... good-value innovative HTs never reach clinical practice while, in many instances, others with no significant added value actually do. This situation can be effectively overcome by approaching HTA at hospital level, notably because hospitals are the main entry level for innovative HTs.To address these challenges, the AdHopHTA project aims at strengthening the use and impact of quality HTA results ...
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MHeL Millennium Hospital E-Learning

Future development of skills needs and supply is at the top of the EU policy agenda. Though Continuous Medical Education (CME) is a priority for innovation, inclusive growth and jobs (EU action in health 2014-2020), it is often unregulated: qualifications are mainly recognized through case-by-case assessment by national authorities. eHealth - reducing market fragmentation through benchmarking, sta ...
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"Trends in hospital admissions for lower extremity amputations in people with and without diabetes in England, 1996-2005" (ENG-LEA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2011,

...e steady increase of the diabetic population, the prevalence of diabetes-related complications will continue to rise. Foot disorders are a major source of morbidity and mortality and account for more hospital admissions than any other long-term complication of diabetes. Up to 20% of total expenditure on diabetes might be attributable to diabetic foot. The most costly and devastating end-point of d ...
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"Therapeutic Beta-Lactam Monitoring for Stratified Treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia, improved dose-dependent efficacy, decreased treatment duration, and prevention of emergence of resistance" (MON4STRAT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

...rventions meeting patient-specific efficacy (pharmacodynamics) while at the same time lowering the risk of emergence of drug resistance (EDR) and minimizing adverse effects are particularly needed in Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-Associated pneumonia [HAP/VAP] where morbidity, mortality and health care costs remain high. β-lactam antibiotics are at the cornerstone of most effective treatments o ...
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Europäische Konferenz (HOPE-Hospital Organization of Pedagogues in Europe) und internationale Kooperation

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2015,

HOPE (Hospital Organization of Pedagogues in Europe) is an international association of hospital educators in Europe with partners in Australia, New Zealand, America and Asia with scientific and educational goals - a meeting will take place every 2 years, 2014 in Bucharest. PROJECT BACKGROUND Diseases often tear people away from their usual social environment, from their life at work or school, f ...
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A Novel Filtration Technology Targeted at Enhancing the European Healthcare System´s Efforts in Restraining the Spread of the Hospital Infection (HAIFREE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

"At healthcare facilities, there is a strong demand for a new advanced air cleaning technology to prevent infectious diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI). The system would avoid the high costs related to healthcare and legal matters which increase every year and are a burden to the fixed costs of maintaining sanitary systems in Europe and ...
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Hospital cleaners Innovative Training

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

... part in the healthcare chain. In addition, because of different shifts, early working hours, heavy schedules, it is very difficult for managers to organize group training sesssions in order to train hospital cleaners and get skilled workers performing high quality cleaning in order to avoid the spreading of viruses. The implementation of blended pathways or e-learning training pathway can be a ...
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hospital sjukvård i Kvarkenområdet (Prehospital sjukvård i Kvarkenområdet)

Projektets mål är att jämföra nuvarande organisationer, erfarenheter och logistik kring närmaste sjukhus och universitetssjukhus. Genom att göra detta kan organisationerna utvecklas för att fungera optimalt och för att kunna göra en positiv förändring för användaren dvs. patienten och de prehospitala organisationerna i de båda länderna.
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Improving French teaching and learning at Manchester Hospital School and Home Teaching Service

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

...be inspired and motivated by new methodology. The course provider will issue our participants with clear expectations and the course will be certificated. There will be a contract between Manchester Hospital School and Home Teaching Service and the course provider focusing on learning arrangement, roles and responsibilities to ensure that quality learning takes place and students benefit. The pr ...
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Integrating Post-Abortion Family Planning Services into China's existing abortion service in hospital settings (INPAC)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

...urban migrant women are less likely to access professional FP services. Abortion is a commonly used way to end unwanted pregnancy, however, post-abortion family planning services are often lacking in hospital settings.The INPAC project consortium proposes to integrate post-abortion family planning services into existing abortion services in hospital settings in China and to evaluate the effectiven ...
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Performing Arts in Hospital - The Clowndoctors

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

The project focuses upon the very special interface between art and society embodied in the clowndoctors: a group of 2 actors, who visit the wards of hospitals and care homes to give 3 to 5-hour performances that are specially conceived for an audience of seriously ill children or people requiring special care. The work of these artists supports the clinical healing process, using the magic of com ...
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Warehousing images in the digital hospital (WIDTH): interpretation, infrastructure, and integration (WIDTH)

Start date: May 16, 2011, End date: Dec 15, 2014,

...hers and between different disciplines. The key output of the project is a roadmap of the development of future sustainable and flexible data management systems in the digital (paper-less) global hospital. This project is consisted of a series of programmes including staff exchange, know-how transfer, sharing and learning workshops and online participation, by including institutions of 6 European ...
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Creating proper conditions for using mutual experience gained by the employees of the Medical Care Centre in Jarosław and the District Hospital in Novoiavorivsk. The conditions are of utmost importance for immediate maintenance of cross-border traffic, for needs of people residing the districts as w (IPBU.03.01.00-18-595/11)

Start date: Mar 15, 2013, End date: Mar 14, 2015,

...oject is to improve local and regional cooperations within health service sector as well as improving quality of medical services provided in the Polish - Ukrainian cross-border area by equipping the hospitals in Jarosław and Novoiavorivsk with modern medical appliances.Partners working in medical business are involved in the process of creating a cooperation network between them that includes exc ...
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e-hospital - e-learning opportunities for adult patients during hospitalisation in health-care institutions

Start date: Oct 1, 2005,

Exploring the possibilities for lifelong learning for long-term hospital patients, the award-winning eHospital project aimed at introducing informal, e-learning activities for hospitalised adults. Partners worked together to design and pilot a series of local e-learning activities, evaluating the effects of learning activitiy on the personal and social development of patients and upon the process ...
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OPtimising thERapy to prevent Avoidable hospital admissions in the Multimorbid elderly (OPERAM)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

... patients are often excluded from clinical trials and most guidelines address diseases in isolation. Inappropriate drug prescription and poor drug compliance are common and contribute to up to 30% of hospital admissions. OPERAM investigators developed STOPP/START criteria to detect inappropriate drug use, both over- and underuse. Applying these criteria limits unnecessary polypharmacy and reduces ...
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Improving quality and safety in the hospital: The link between organisational culture, burnout, and quality of care (ORCAB)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

To date, relatively little evidence has been published as to what represents an effective and efficient way to improve quality of care and safety in hospitals. This vacuum in the research means there is a significant opportunity to design quality of care and safety interventions in collaboration with the relevant stakeholders, which address the relevant organisational and individual factors in a h ...
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Melle-Melle

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

...ternship as administrative assistant in an organization or company in Melle, France. These companies/organizations are part of the social/public sector: city hall, library, tourist office, public hospital, …. The students stay in host families. That way, the integration in French culture and immersion in the French language is complete and absolute. Additionally, they participate in a number of o ...
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Zorg verbindt

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2020,

...nt against arthritis•Remote monitoring of blood pressure self-measurement•Dental care for the elderly for care takers and caring relatives•Benchmark infection-prevention in surgery•NL/D hospital cooperation Big helps small•Remote depression-treatment •Solution doctor shortage•Care in rural border regions (Cara)•Hospitals learn from each other Moreover, matching conversations, potential field labs ...
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Improvement of public health by promotion of equitably distributed high quality primary health care systems (ImPrim )

Start date: Nov 30, 2009, End date: Dec 15, 2012,

...of the radical shift in the health budget in Latvia. The Latvian minister of health has acknowledged the importance of ImPrim in the work following the budget changes which shifted resources from hospital services to PHC and introduction of a new Quality Bonus System for PHC was introduced in Latvia in July 2011. The change is part of a long structural reform process, partly also a consequence of ...
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Universal application 2 conduct Privacy Impact Assessment analysis and reports (U2PIA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

...an international customer base of both private companies (e.g. Philips, Nike, Magneti-Marelli, Scuderia Toro-Rosso) and public entities (e.g. Università di Bologna, Rizzoli Institute, San Raffaele Hospital of Milan, or AUSL –healthcare system of Emilia Romagna Region). With the support of renowned legal experts focused on privacy and data protection (Orlandi-Leone Studio Legale), we are launching ...
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Eco-friendly disposal of hazardous medical waste in the cross border region (Medical Waste)

Start date: Jun 3, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...rmining the most appropriate cost-effective solution for each of the partners, creation and launch of two regional centers for decontamination in Slantsy and Kohtla-Jarve, which will operate at local hospitals. These centers will cater as well to the needs of all surrounding institutions which also produce medical waste: dental surgeries, private clinics, drug treatment centers, veterinary clinics ...
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Connecting neuronal network activity with regional specificity for Alzheimer pathology: a multi-modal neuroimaging approach (CONNECT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2017, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

...o that end, I aim to combine novel molecular and state-of-the-art magnetic neuroimaging techniques with higher statistical modeling techniques. The group of Prof. Johnson at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is currently the leading group pushing these techniques forward. The expertise within the lab of Prof. Johnson, his extensive network, the skills that I will acquire throughout this fellows ...
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