RETRANSPLANT

Funding Agency: EC DG XIII
Programme: HEALTHCARE (HC 4028)
Programme Nature: Κοινοτικό ανταγωνιστικό-Ερευνητική Δραστηριότητα
Coordinator: Universite Joseph Fourier (FR)
Start Date: 01.10.1998
Expiration Date: 31.03.2001
Duration: 30 months
Total Budget: 2095000,00€
FORTH ICS Budget: 142800,00€
Related URL: http://retransplant.vitamib.com
Partners: Institute Bergonie (FR), VARIMED LLC. (HU), EUROTRANSPLANT (NL), EUROPDONOR (NL), Bratislava Placental Stem Cell Registry Eurocord Slovakia (SK), Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (CZ), Vilnius University Heart Surgery Clinic (LI), Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology, Polish Academy of Science (PL), TELES AG (DE), TRITECH GmbH (DE), Foundation for Nation-Wide Transplantology (HU), Semmelweis University of Medicine (HU), Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Medical University (HU), MEDANINFO Bt. (HU), National Institute of Hematology and Immunology (HU), PRAXIS Medical System (HU), University Medical Center Ljubljana (SL), Infonet d.d.o (SL), Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (GR), BULL S.A (FR), BULL HUNGARY Ltd (HU), Kancellaria Gmk (HU), North Eastern Health Board (IR), VITAMIB (FR), European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (BE), European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (BE), SAMBA Technologies (FR), Het Nederland Kanker Instituut (NL), Universite Joseph Fourier (FR)
Costs and quality of healthcare are lively issues in Europe, with mainly state-funded medicine. Most health care systems are oriented towards the treatment of acute complications. The overall quality of care of chronic diseases, however, is considered not to be sufficient. Less costly and more effective healthcare systems for Europe’s citizens’ is the major objective of "Healthcare Networks", the application 7 of the Bangemann action-plan, also application 24 and 25 of "Towards the Information Society in the Central and Eastern European Countries". To meet this objective a network of organ transplant centers should be created, based on common standards linking tissue typing laboratories, donor hospitals and different diagnostic centers on the European scale. RETRANSPLANT will implement such a regional network to link different national organ transplant systems, to give on-line access to European transplant coordinators, donor centers, diagnostic specialists, to increase Europe-wide the effectiveness of organ transplant services. RETRANSPLANT is stimulating partnerships between those who are involved in research, development and implementation of information technologies, and user organisations of the different tools of the Health Telematics. RETRANSPLANT consortium believes, that the health care of tomorrow needs to go to patients where they live, instead of patients going to the health care systems. Such a system will save money and lives.