PICNIC

Professionals and citizens network for intergrated care.
Category: European
Funding Agency: EC/DG XIII-Information Society
Programme: IST-1999-10345
Programme Nature: 5th Framework Programme R&D project-1998-2002
Coordinator: Danish Cent.of Health Telem., GNR Medical Services
Start Date: 01.01.2000
Expiration Date: 28.02.2003
Duration: 38 months
Total Budget: 6.832.048 Euro
FORTH ICS Budget: 1.131.313 Euro
Related URL: http://www.medcom.dk/picnic/
Partners: General Medical Services (Payments) Board, Ireland Tele Danmark Consult A/S, Denmark Satakunta Macro Pilot, Finland VTT Information Technology, Finland North Western Health Board, Ireland Servicio Analuz de Salud, Spain ECOMIT, Spaain South & East Belfast Health & Social Services Trust, UK Systems Team plc/In4tek, UK Erasmus University, Netherlands FORTH, Greece University of Ioannina, Greece MN-Medizinische Netzwerke, Germany University Hospital of Iceland, Iceland Minoru/OpenHealth, France Danish Centre for Health Telematics of County of Funen, Denmark
Objectives:

The vision of the next generation, comprehensive, user-friendly, secure health care network for patient centered care is the scope of PICNIC. The PICNIC project is directed towards the urgently needed research and development of the integration components and tools, and in defining the architectural specifications for developing the Regional Healthcare Infrastructure needed to realize the vision.