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IKTPLUSS-IKT og digital innovasjon

Digital heartbeat: A novel ICT paradigm for patient-tailored cardiology

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Cardiac disease represents one of the major health challenges in society. It is a significant contributor to death and decreased quality of life, while incurring massive health care costs throughout Norway and the Western World. The management of cardiac disease progression is a major part of this challenge, involving a wealth of data produced during patient follow-up, but currently not fully exploited to tailor individual risk stratification and treatment triage. The DigiBeat project is an ICT approach to data management and analysis in the long term care of cardiac disease. We intend to create a patient-specific database structure, coupled with state-of-the-art biophysical models and intelligent data analysis tools for improved patient care. Specifically, we will integrate parameterized models of heart anatomy and function with other clinical data streams and modern analysis techniques to develop an advanced decision support system. We believe that this can result in a step change for individualized patient management of cardiac disease progression, improving outcome at lower cost. In particular, the developed solution will be deployed across central research hospitals, regional hospital as well as used to engage primary care regional physicians in advanced diagnosis and treatment planning. The pre-project proposal is intended to secure a strong technical, scientific, and strategic foundation for the final project proposal. This time will be used to create a consortium with representation along the entire value chain of patient care, from basic research to frontline regional hospitals. In addition, we will bring in other important players in ethics, security, and privacy to help us create a usable system that can address societal challenges in a modern ICT landscape. We intend to create and test a pilot of the system, applying to existing patient data streams to demonstrate utility and better develop the concept and proposed implementation of the project.

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IKTPLUSS-IKT og digital innovasjon