The EU has allocated €3.9 million in funding under the Horizon2020 People Programme to create Europe’s first networked Connected Health PhD training programme.
CHESS (Connected Health Early Stage Researcher Support System) aims to develop health scientists with the ability to work across the education, industry, health and policy sectors.
According to Prof Brian Caulfield, director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at UCD, the benefits of Connected Health are not being felt at patient level.
“Despite a clear need articulated repeatedly at national and international levels, and the evident promise of Connected Health, the implementation of Connected Health solutions in everyday management of health is not widespread across Europe,” Prof Caulfield said.
“This [award] is essentially a redesign of researcher education in Connected Health.”
The training programme also boasts 18 partner organisations from eight European countries including universities, companies and healthcare providers.
“CHESS will work to better understand and address some of these challenges through 15 networked research projects,” Prof Caulfield said.
The field of Connected Health centres on the collection and analysis of patient data, detecting changes before a patient experiences symptoms. It connects GPs, hospitals, carers and patients creating an environment where patients are treated in the best location by the best practitioner using the most relevant and efficient methods.
One of the aims of Connected Health is to keep people out of hospital unless they absolutely have to be there, saving money and lives while ensuring a better quality of life during and post-treatment.
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