CLEAR The Clinical Leading Environment for the Assessment of Rehabilitation protocols in home care (CLEAR) for ageing well.

The CLEAR  Project proposes the implementation of a Telerehabilitation service in four Member States of the European Union (Italy, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands). The ambition is to convert the project, after its completion, to a European platform for Telerehabilitation, and to contribute to the harmonization of e-health services in the EU. CLEAR is a fundamental step in helping doctors treating patients who seek health treatment in a comfortable environment, including home, under supervision of a specialized team.

It intends to set up an innovative e-Health service based on the development of protocols for rehabilitation and chronic disease management therapies, which can be implemented at home following well defined procedures under the control of the medical staff. Such a service has huge potential to:
a) improve the quality of life of patients (reduced need to go to healthcare centres);
b) improve the effectiveness and use of resources of healthcare centres (increasing the ability to treat more patients at the same time).
This service will lead the healthcare professionals to a significant reduction of time spent per patient and, as a consequence, to a potential savings in money. The project, based on technological mature applications developed mainly within the “H-CAD” (IST-5th FP) and eTen “Hellodoc” projects, will enhance the deployment of eHealth services and optimize healthcare resources through a European platform for the development of “home treatment protocols”.

The different set of rehabilitation exercises will be designed for common pathologies affecting elderly (musculo-skeletal, neurological, chronic pain and pulmonary  diseases).

RRD is involved to define the user requirements of the tele-rehabilitation services to be implemented in the four member states for the different pathologies.  Roessingh Centre for Rehabilitation is one of the institutes in which the CLEAR platform is implemented. Patients with pulmonary  and musculo-skeletal pain will use the CLEAR programme as a partly replacement or as an extension of their regular intramural rehabilitation programme in large scale trial.

Partners involved are: Italy (Signo Motus- project coordinator, ISS- Istituto Superiore di Sanità, , Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale 11 di Empoli (AUSL11)),  Spain (UPM - Grupo de Bioingeniería y Telemedicina at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, FPING- Fundacio Privada Institut de Neurorehabilitacio – Guttmann, TICSALUT- Fundació Privada Centre Tic i Salut, “Institut de l'Envelliment” (Institute on Ageing)), Poland (MUW- WARSZAWSKI UNIWERSYTET MEDYCZNY, CSIOZ - National Centre for Health Information System), Netherlands (Roessingh Research and Development, RCR- Rehabilitation Centre Het Roessingh, MENZIS)

This project is funded by:

ICT Policy Support Program – Area CIP-ITC-PSP-2007.2.2 – ICT

For more information: www.habiliseurope.eu

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