The GAZETTE
 
 Issue nr. 5
 
 SAPHIRE NEWSLETTER
 
Date: March 2007  
     


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The Saphire Gazette is a quarterly publication of the Saphire project for dissemination purposes. Saphire is a Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) co-financed by the European Commission and the Sixth Framework Programme, under Priority 2.4.13 for “Strengthening the Integration of the ICT research effort in an Enlarged Europe” Focus: eHealth. Project full title is: Intelligent Healthcare Monitoring based on a Semantic Interoperability Platform. Contract no.: IST-27074. Project start: January 2006. Project duration: 30 months. Project web site: http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/projects/saphire
Editorial
 

The SAPHIRE Project has reached the point where the first prototype is almost ready to be tested on virtual patient data.

It is now SCUB, the Emergency Hospital of Bucharest, that edits the new issue of the SAPHIRE Gazette.

SCUB is one of the end-users in the SAPHIRE Project and will develop the Hospital Pilot Application together with the other Romanian partner IPA.

The medical involvement in the Project has been crucial in adjusting the requirements to the medical needs, in guidelines models design and the design of the practical application.

Together with SSK, the other medical partner in the Consortium, we have provided medical validation of all SAPHIRE components and coo peration with the technical partners has been excellent and we have found common grounds to understand each other needs in very different domains.

We, doctors, are very excited about using the SAPHIRE system on our patients and we believe this project is going to have a major impact on in-hospital healthcare and also on guidelines implementation and adjustment to European medical standards.

Here you will find some interesting information about SCUB, about our involvement in the SAPHIRE Project, about Bucharest and Romania.

 

Enjoy the reading!

The SCUB SAPHIRE team
   
The Emergency Hospital of Bucharest
(Spitual Clinic De Urgenta Bucuresti – SCUB)
 

Emergency Hospital of Bucharest (Spitalul Clinic de Urgenta, SCUB) is considered today as the most important emergency hospital in Bucharest.

The hospital facilities cover most of the medical and surgical specialties. The medical imaging and laboratory departments have all the modern equipment for x-ray, CT, MRI, fibroscopy and angiography investigations, to cover all needs of an emergency hospital. Read More

   
   

Gazette: What is new about the SAPHIRE Project compared to your previous experience with medical research studies and how do you see your team’s involvement in the development of the Hospital Pilot Application?

Prof. M.D.: Most of our research is strictly medical, clinical studies and also some fundamental research in genetics, molecular medicine and stem-cell therapies.

We have done some work in e-health together with the Polytechnic University in Bucharest, in ECG monitoring from the distance, but our ex perience with ICT when we started in the SAPHIRE Project was quite limited. Read More

Who is Prof. Maria Dorobanţu?

   

Gazette: In the Saphire project your hospital is one of the two User partners, the other being a hospital from Germany.

Do you identify many differences in the practices that are followed in the two organizations? Especially when we have in mind the aims for unifying e-health services in Europe? Listen here Ana's answer

Click here to Listen all the interview with Ana

Who is Ana-Gabriela Fruntelată?

   
State of the art
 

Since the beginning of modern anaesthesia, in 1846 (the first public demonstration of modern anaesthesia in Boston in 1846), there has been a tremendous increase in monitoring devices, especially in the past 30 years.

Modern technology has provided a large number of sophisticated monitors and therapeutic instruments, particularly in the past decade. The most important aspect in monitoring the critically ill patient is the detection of life-threatening derangements of vital functions. Read More

   
Cultural links - Bucharest and Romania
 

BUCHAREST , “the little Paris” of South-Eastern Europe...

ROMANIA see history, geography and geopolitics, cultural and daily life

TOURISM IN ROMANIA

 

MOST BEAUTIFUL ROMANIAN SIGHTS:

Monasteries of Bucovina

Danube Delta

Romanian Folklore and Customs presented by foreign friends

   

Impressum

The Saphire Gazette is a quarterly publication of the Saphire project for dissemination purposes. Saphire is a Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) co-financed by the European Commission and the Sixth Framework Programme, under Priority 2.4.13 for “Strengthening the Integration of the ICT research effort in an Enlarged Europe” Focus: eHealth. Project full title is: Intelligent Healthcare Monitoring based on a Semantic Interoperability Platform. Contract no.: IST-27074. Project start: January 2006. Project duration: 30 months. Project web site: http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/projects/saphire