Description
The RECORD project is a PROFIT programme financed by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, through the National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation (R&D&i).
The aim of this project is to design, implement and validate a wideband communications platform that will allow intelligent management of interactive contents with therapeutic utility in the ambit of severe cerebral illnesses.
Specifically, the intention is to research new lines of therapy using representation technologies, which will be accessible and manageable online safely and effectively.
Project objectives:
- The new technologies will make possible the development of new types of therapies with support from the latest techniques in communication and interaction. This will make medical attention more effective and more efficient.
- The ubiquity of communications means that therapies can be carried out in the patient’s own home.
- New technologies mean that patients receives continuous attention outside the hospital environment, giving them greater independence.
- This project is designed not only to improve patients’ quality of life through new ICT therapies but also to make this improvement continuous through treating patients in their own home and keeping their families fully up-to-date with the latest information.
- Finally, the project envisages that this platform will promote preventive therapy by means of interactivity. This is a vital aspect in mitigating and/or retarding the evolution of this type of pathologies.
To carry out this project, a consortium of organisations has been created that includes: Cerebral Damage Service of HOSPITALES NISA and the Hospital Psiquiátrico de Zamudio, Nextel S.A., Asociación Innovalia, ONO and ITACA-TSB.
Leadership of the clinical content aspect of the project is in the hands of the Cerebral Damage Service of HOSPITALES NISA and the Rehabilitation Unit of the Zamudio Psychiatric Clinic. These hospitals will develop the therapeutic contents and clinical validation of the system. Patients will include schizophrenics and those with acquired cerebral damage.
NEXTEL, Ingeniería Telemática, S.A.is the project and consortium leader. ONO, the TV, telephone and broadband operator, will develop the contents distribution systems related to health aspects through OJO, its interactive service channels. Innovalia, the Association of Technological Enterprises is a Research Association created with the mission of promoting technological innovation in business firms. It has wide experience in inter-company R&D projects and in this project will act as the interface between the technological and medical members.
ITACA, as a recognised leader in R&D, will collaborate in the creation of new health support and knowledge environments, with the objective of helping individuals to improve health habits, based on the convergence of content distribution. With these two final users and with the cooperation of all members, the necessary medical content will be provided to guarantee the system’s technical and operational success.