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AMICA is a research project aimed at helping medical practitioners
to avoid making errors. It is part of the European Union's information
society technologies (IST) section of the Sixth Framework Programme
(FP6). The project Web site is at http://www.amica-eu.org/.
The AMICA project aims at 'assembling data and knowledge at the
point of care to improve medical decision making and prevent error'.
The project is supported by 2.65 million euro of EU funding.
'About a quarter of all decisions reached in hospitals are proven,
in retrospect, to be wrong,' according to the project coordinator,
Professor Leonard Leibovici from the Rabin Medical Centre in Israel.
'Around four per cent of all hospitalised patients are harmed by
adverse drug events, half of which are preventable.'
One of the main reasons for poor medical decision making, particularly
where complex procedures involving numerous human interfaces are
concerned, is a lack of relevant information concerning the patient
and their condition. However, the key problem is not that this information
doesn't exist, but that it is not always made available to doctors
when they have to recommend a course of action. The AMICA project
seeks to resolve the situation by gathering together all of the
available electronic information on patients and their conditions,
and making it available to medical experts in a specially developed
and standardised decision support module.
In total AMICA involves nine partners from Israel, Denmark, Greece,
Germany, Switzerland, Italy and the UK. These are:
- Clalit Health
Services, Rabin Medical Center, Israel
- Aalborg University,
Denmark
- 2nd Regional Health
and Welfare System of Attica/Sotiria Hospital, Greece
- Universitaetsklinikum
Freiburg, Germany
- Judex A/S, Denmark
- Institute
of Communication & Computer Systems, Greece
- Ness ISI Ltd.,
Israel
- Università
Cattolica S. Cuore, Italy, and
- Update
Software Ltd., UK
The AMICA project is a key component of the eHealth objective of
the IST programme, and as such, will also contribute to the achievement
of the EU's eEurope 2005 objectives. For further information on
eHealth activities within the IST programme, visit: http://www.cordis.lu/ist/directorate_c/ehealth/index.html
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