PROPRACTITION
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONCERNING GENERAL PRACTITIONERS PROPRACTITION
European Commission, Education and Culture DG
Implementation of the Leonardo da Vinci Programme
HU/99/1/083138/PI/III.3.a/CONT
Take Up (TUP) Meeting N°:2
September 29, 2000 from 10.00 a.m. till 5.00 p.m
VENUE of the Meeting:
Athens University of Economics & Business,
Parallel Algorithms & Architectures Research Group,Antoniadou wing
(AntoniadouStreet, 5th Floor)
PROPRACTITION TUP
Subject:TAKE UP MEETING
Project:CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
CONCERNING GENERAL PRACTITIONERS
PROPRACTITION
Contract N°:European Commission, Education and Culture DG
Implementation of the Leonardo da Vinci Programme
HU/99/1/083138/PI/III.3.a/CONT
Meeting N°:2
Date:September 29, 2000 from 10.00 a.m. till 17.00 p.m.
Venue of the Meeting:
Athens University of Economics & Business,
Parallel Algorithms & Architectures Research Group,
Antoniadou wing
(AntoniadouStreet, 5th Floor)
Hotel Accommodation:PARK HOTEL
Contact person: Mr. Baroutis
Tel: +30-1-8832711
FAX: +30-1-8238420
E-mail:
REFERENCE:PROPRACTITION
Room rates in GRD:
Prices including breakfast:Single room 28.000 Greek drachmas
Double room 36.000 Greek drachmas
PROPRACTITION PartnersName / Organisation / Country / Attend
Dr. Sandor G. Vari / VARIMED / Hungary / YES
Mr. Laszlo Szerenyi / MediNET / Hungary / YES
Mr. Gyula Markovics
/ MediNET / Hungary / YESAss. Prof. Bela Szekacs / MED-SB / Hungary / YES
Dr. Anastasia N. Kastania / Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) / Greece / YES
Ass. Prof. M.P. Bekakos
/ Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) / Greece / YESMr. Morten-Bruun Rasmussen / Danish Centre for Health Telematics / Denmark / NO
Ing. Bostjan Bercic / INFONET / Slovenia / YES
Dr. Pal Kikeli / Medical University Targu Mures / Romania / NO
Dr. Ioana Moisil / Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu
Department of Computer Science and Automatic Control / Romania / YES
Prof. Constantin Oprean - Vice Rector, /
Luciana Blaga University Sibiu
/ Romania / YESAssoc. Prof . Ioan Z. Mihu Head of Computer Science Department / Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu
Department of Computer Science and Automatic Control / Romania / YES
Dr. Constantinos Pattichis / University Cyprus, Department of Computer Sciences / Cyprus / YES
Rep.
10:00Welcome Message
Professor Andreas Kindis,
Rector of the Athens University of Economics and Business
10:10Role Call
Dr. Sandor G. Vari
Executive Committee (ECT)
Variable Medicine Limited Liability Company. VARIMED LLC (Hungary)
The Danish Centre for Health Telematics
Athens University of Economics and Business, Parallel Algorithms and architectures Research Group (Greece)
University of Cyprus, Department of Computer Science
INFONET (Slovenia)
Lucian Blaga University Sibiu, Department of Computer Science and Automatic Control (Romania),
Management Team (MGT)
Variable Medicine Limited Liability Company. VARIMED LLC (Hungary)
The Danish Centre for Health Telematics
Athens University of Economics and Business, Parallel Algorithms and architectures Research Group (Greece)
INFONET (Slovenia)
Implementation Team (IPT),
Author & Editor Group (AEG):
M e d i NET Regional Medical Telematics Network (Hungary)
The MED-SB Limited Partnership (Hungary)
The Danish Centre for Health Telematics
Medical University Targu Mures (Romania)
Document Processor Group (DPG)
Athens University of Economics and Business, Parallel Algorithms and architectures Research Group (Greece)
University of Cyprus, Department of Computer Science
INFONET (Slovenia)
Lucian Blaga University Sibiu, Department of Computer Science and Automatic Control (Romania),
The Validation Team (VLT),
Athens University of Economics and Business, Parallel Algorithms and architectures Research Group (Greece)
M e d i NET Regional Medical Telematics Network (Hungary)
The MED-SB Limited Partnership (Hungary)
The Danish Centre for Health Telematics
University of Cyprus, Department of Computer Science
Medical University Targu Mures (Romania)
10:30PPROPRACTITION contribution/effort/investments
10:30Dr. Sandor G. Vari Overview of the TASKS
10:45Dr, Bela Szekacs TASK 1
Development of a database, similar to electronic encyclopeadias.
11:10Mr. Gyula MarkovicsTASK 1
Demonstration of a Web site (developed with Cold Fusion) for shared patient record,. Recommendation to use the same tools and tailors it for shared continuos self-education
11:00Dr. Anastasia N. Kastania TASK 2:
WEB based intra-regional continuous medical education.
11:00 Dr. Sandor G. Vari TASK 3-TASK 4 - TASK 5:
Inter-regional training using Internet broadcasting, amongst other means (regular educational service of a given hospital-based consultant team for general practitioners).
Applying web site and point-to-point video-consultation to support actual patient care (regular professional service of a given hospital-based consultant team for general practitioners). Closed system.
Applying inter-regional TCP-IP video-consultation to support patient care (a special professional service from a hospital-based consultant team in one region for another region). Closed system.
12:30Lunch
13:30 Reschedule of the phases
13:30
Task 1.1Composition of the plain text Document (figures, pictures).
Dr. Bela Szekacs, Dr. Pal Kikeli
13:45
Task 1.2Upload onto the web site.
Dr. Anastasia N. Kastania, Ass. Prof. M.P. Bekakos, Gyula Markovics,
Bostjan Bercic
14:00
Task 1.3Validation of the content.
Dr. Attila Simay, Dr. Pal Kikeli
14:15
Task 1.4Integration of a web site system (integrating-searching-personalising).
Remote system administration.
Intra-regional point to point Connection.
Dr. Anastasia N. Kastania, Ass. Prof. M.P. Bekakos, Dr. Ioana Moisil,
Gyula Markovics, Bostjan Bercic, Dr Constatinos Pattichis
14:45
Task 2.1Intra-regional TCP-IPconnection
Task 3.1Inter-regional point to point connection.
Task 3.2Inter-regional TCP-IPconnection
Dr. Anastasia N. Kastania, Ass. Prof. M.P. Bekakos, Dr. Ioana Moisil,
Gyula Markovics, Bostjan Bercic, Dr Constatinos Pattichis
15:15
Task 4.0Intra-regional support the actual patient care (www & point to point)
Mr. Morten-Bruun Rasmussen ????(Denmark)
Dr. Bela Szekacs, Dr. Attila Simay, Gyula Markovics (Hungary)
Dr. Ioana Moisil, Dr. Pal Kikeli (Romania)
Bostjan Bercic (Slovenia)
Dr Constatinos Pattichis (Cyprus)
15:45
Task 5.0Inter-regional support the actual patient care (www &TCP-IP)
Dr. Anastasia N. Kastania, Dr. Ioana Moisil Gyula Markovics,
Bostjan Bercic, Dr Constatinos Pattichis
Task Description / 8 / 10 / 12 / 14 / 16 / 181.1 Composition of the plain text Document (figures, pictures). /
1.2 Upload onto the web site. /
1.3 Validation of the content. /
1.4 Integration of a web site system (integrating- searching-personalising). /
Remote system administration. /
Intra-regional point to point Connection. /
2.1 Intra-regional TCP-IPconnection /
3.1 Inter-regional point to point connection. /
3.2 Inter-regional TCP-IPconnection /
4.0 Intra-regional support the actual patient care (www & point to point) /
5.0 Inter-regional support the actual patient care
(www &TCP-IP) /
16:00Project Management
Dr. Sandor G. Vari
Financial Management
Reporting
Consortium Agreement
16:30Closing Remarks
Ass. Prof. M.P. Bekakos
September 30, 2000 (Saturday)
Social Event
An all day excursion by coach for all the partners to some Greek ancient relics in the South Eastern of Attica (Sounion) on Saturday, 30th September, 2000.
II. REVISION OF ACTIVITIES/RESULTSContract N° : HU/99/1/083138/PI/III.3.a/CONT
Please indicate below in a precise and concrete way the impact that the reduction of the Leonardo da Vinci financial allocation (compared to the requested amount) may possibly have on the activities and/or results of your project.
The revised goal of the project to implement a remote computer-supported in-depth knowledge of cardiovascular diseases to provide operational telepresence services, protocol-based decision support and co-operative trans-national discussion and education. During the project partners will focus on the continuing education using special WEB site will be developed for that purpose. The other important issue will be the INTERNET based teleconsultation on case reports between the specialist and the primary care physician. The simultaneous multilateral access to the text and image database, and furthermore the possibility for a teleconference should be accomplished to achieve this aim.PROPRACTITION initiatives include connection of health care institutions to the Internet; enhanced access to broad knowledge of the cardiovascular diseases only. Since the project will receive only 81% of the original budget partners has to eliminate the WEB education program in areas like pulmonology, gastroenterology, nephrology, oncology, rheumatology. For the selected cardiovascular area the following structure will be developed and implemented: epidemiology, risk factors, symptoms, complications, examination, treatment, monitoring, prevention, and shared care.
The PROPRACTITION Toolkit will range from browsing models to display of the specifications in accessible ways to the end-user. These browsing models present the specifications in contexts that are familiar to the everyday experience of healthcare employees and hence are easy to access and understand. PROPRACTITION additionally presents the design and development of a video conferencing system for remote computer-supported co-operative medical education.
The educational programme will be accessible on fixed network facilities, i.e. inter-institutional connections between network servers hosting distributed web enabled applications. The multimedia web server is being connected in the local and wide area secured private networks, using ISDN and Internet technological platform. The fixed network will host servers containing the education programme, and around it an application layer will be build to handle co-operation and system intelligence. In this education network whereby any primary care physician can test knowledge using the cardio-vascular diseases related shared databases, and consult with clinical colleagues on these topics without having to develop enhanced informatics skills.
The primary care health will benefit from the development of Continuing Professional Development Concerning General Practitioners, especially in countries like Hungary where cardio-vascular diseases are responsible for over half of total mortality. The user groups who will benefit from PROPRACTITION products are from CEEC (Cyprus, Hungary, Rumania, Slovenia) and other countries associated with the Leonardo da Vinci programme like the EU Member States (Denmark, Greece).
If your proposal envisages training sessions, please specify how they will be used for testing/validating purposes and identify the target beneficiaries. If within the framework of these training sessions, the physical mobility of people is planned, please specify how this mobility is justified (for both trainers as well as trainees) and state what percentage of the budget costs are linked to this mobility activity.
European collaboration between primary care physicians usin indformation technologies stimulates the sharing of expertise, the transfer of technology and skills and gives an added value to local developments. This means those medical education standards will be validated at a national level and experiences from projects at a European level will feed into the PROPRACTITION project. Thus, the co-operation with VARIMED, Athens University of Economics and Business, the Danish Centre for Health Telematics, Lucian Blage University Sibiu, INFONET, University of Cyprus will allow the primary care physicians in Hungary, Miskolc, in Slovenia, Kranjska Gora, in Romania Targu Mures, in Cyprus Nicosia GPs to facilitate access to continuing medical education.Those General Practitioners (GP) will be involved to foster the development of methods of self training and of open and distance learning and training. During the project partners are implementing information and communication technologies in order to assist the process of giving access to lifelong learning for primary care physicians. The electronic education will help to meet new demands for qualifications and skills in connection with change in the health care system and the emergence of the Information Society. This should be achieved using the following paths:
- helping to develop vocational qualification structures for the creators/designers of educational software;
- identifying innovative methods for using information and communication technologies in vocational training, particularly as regards the needs of the primary health care and the acquisition of new skills;
- spreading good practices in terms of using and disseminating evidence based medicine in primary care and cardio-vascular disease oriented educational software;
In the PROPRACTITION project we will use:
Internet and WWW
Services based on these possibilities (new groups, mailing lists, online library catalogues) are popular due to their low costs, easy access and relatively high speed. The production of these pages are very similar to the production of classical newspapers except for the final form which is an electronic document.Multimedia
It supports audio-visual conferencing and application sharing in point-to-point as well as true multipoint configurations. The necessary hard- and software modules, which transform an ordinary workstation into a video conference terminal, come as true add-on modules from SAMBA Technologies Inc., France. It allows for co-operative working within a conference by means of using any existing application system, i.e. to allow the conference participants the shared use of any stand-alone application, which is available on their workstation. It allows for conferencing across heterogeneous networks and, in doing so, making use of the strengths of the individual network types involved. This implies any form of LAN/WAN inter working.ROPRACTITION system will be applied to build a co-operative medical education application, in which two doctors, located in different hospitals, need to achieve a co-operative diagnosis on cardio-vascular diseases.
Contract N°:European Commission, Education and Culture DG Implementation of the Leonardo da Vinci Programme HU/99/1/083138/PI/III.3.a/CONT
Share of costs between the partner organisations for the total duration of the project (EUR 18)
Project funds (EUR 18)Name of the organisation / Country code / Own funds / LEONARDO / Other sources* / Total
(KEURO) / %
Danish Centre for Health
Telematics
Athens University of
Economics and Business, PAaRG / DK
EL / 5
5 / 20
20 / PICNIC IST-1999
10345
10
- / 35
25 / 20
14.3
Total / 10 / 40 / 10 / 60 / 34.3
* Please specify which other sources, where applicable:
- Other Community programmes (give name of programme and project number)
- National support
- Regional support
- Other sources (specify)
(attach additional sheet in annex, if necessary)
Share of costs between the partner organizations for the total duration of the project (associated countries)
Project funding (associated countries)Name of the organisation / Country code / LEONARDO / Other sources* / Total
(KEURO) / %
University of Cyprus, Dep. Of
Computer Sciences
VARIMED LLC
MediNET
MED-SB
Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu
Medical University Tirgu Mures
INFONET / CY
HU
HU
HU
RO
RO
SI / 10
10
11
7
28
13
12
25
19 / Own Fund
4
RETRANSPLANT
HC 4028
9
Own funds
3
National
5
-
RETRANSPLANT
HC 4028 +Own funds
9+3 / 14
19
14
7
18
12
31 / 8
10.9
8.0
4.0
13.1
4.0
17.7
Total / 82 / 33 / 115 / 65.7
* Please specify which other sources, where applicable:
- Other Community programmes (give name of programme and project number)
- National support
- Regional support
- Other sources (specify)
V. REVISED BUDGET (in EURO) 10/08/00
Contract N°:HU/99/1/083138/PI/III.3.a/CONT
Global budget (KEURO) / Associated countriesEUR 18 / CY / HU / RO / 2 / SI / Total (KEURO))
(1a) Personnel costs / 40.00 / 8.00 / 17.00 / 10.00 / 20.00 / 95.00
(1b) Overheads / 4.00 / 0.50 / 4.00 / 2.00 / 3.00 / 13.500
(1c) Travel, accommodation, subsistence costs / 6.00 / 2.00 / 6.00 / 6.00 / 4.00 / 24.00
(1d) Sub-contracting costs / 6.25 / - / 7.00 / 2.00 / - / 15.25
(1e) Information processing and audio-visual costs / 3.75 / 2.50 / 6.00 / 10.00 / 4.00 / 26.25
(1f) Other costs / - / 1.00 / - / - / - / 1.00
Total cost of project
= total of headings (1a) to (1f)
= total of headings (2a) to (2f) / 60.00
60.00 / 14.00
14.00 / 40.00
40.00 / 30.00
30.00 / 31.00
31.00 / 175.00
175.00
(2a) Amount requested from LEONARDO DA VINCI
EUR 18/associated countries / 40.00 / 10.00 / 28.00 / 25.00 / 19.00 / 122.00
(2b) Other Community programmes[1]
(specify the name of the programme and the project number) / 10.0
PICNIC
IST-1999
10345 / - / 9.00
RETRANSPLANT
HC 4028
DGXIII
/ - / 9.00RETRANSPLANT
HC 4028
DGXIII / 28.00
(2c) National support / - / - / - / 5.00 / - / 5.00
(2d) Regional support / - / - / - / - / - / -
(2e) Other sources (please specify) / - / - / - / - / - / -
(2f) Own funds of the partnership / 10.00 / 4.00 / 3.00 / - / 3.00 / 20.00
Details of the partners - excluding the contractor and co-ordinator - in alphabetical order of country code
Please do not forget to include signed letters of Partnership Agreements (see “How to Apply”).
N° / Contact person / GenderM/F / Organisation / Organisation
Type code / Regional
code / Sectoral
code / Size
code / Street & N° / Town / City / Post
Code / Country / Telephone
Fax
1 / Mr. Bostjan
Bercic / M / INFONET
d.d.o Kranj / PME / SI / 85 / S3 / Planina 3 / Kranj / 4000 / SI / +386-64 380 090
+386-64 331-131
2 / Dr. Anastasia
N. Kastania
Prof. M. P. Bekakos / F / PaaRG, Beat ACM& PE
AUEB / U / GR3 / 80 / S6 / Patission 76 / Athens / 10434 / EL / +30-94 546 208, +30-9-325-75751
+30 1 820 3551
,
3 / Dr. Pal Kikeli / M / Med.Univ.
Targu Mures / U / RO / 80 / S6 / Mihai Eminescu 3 / Targu
Mures / 4300 / RO / +40-65 219-589,
40-92-283-313
+40-65 211-682
4 / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ioana
Moisil / F / Lucian Blaga
Univ. Sibiu
DCSAC / U / RO / 80 / S6 / Emil Cioran 4 / Sibiu / 2400 / RO / +40-69 216-062
+40-69 217-258
+40-69 217-887
5 / Dr. Constantinos
Pattichis / M / Univ. Cyprus
Dep. Comp.
Sciences / U / CY / 80 / S6 / Kallipoleos 75 / Nicosia / 1678 / CY / +357-2 892-230
+357-2 339-062
6 / Mr. Morten Bruun-
Rasmussen / M / Danish Ctr.
For Health
Telematics / OST / DK
008 / 85 / S3 / Heden 18 / Odense / 5000 / DK / +45-66 133-066
+45-66 135-066
7 / Dr. Attila
Simay / M / MediNET / OST / HU / 85 / S4 / Koztarsasag 23/a / Miskolc / 3534 / HU / F/Ph +36-46 320-335
8 / Dr. Bela
Szekacs / M / MED-SB / OF / HU / 85 / S2 / Kiss Janos alt.
54 / Budapest / 1124 / HU / +36-30 900 4703
+36-1-317-4969
[1] As regards headings (2b) to (2f), please indicate very precisely the kind of co-funding involved (attach extra sheet in annex, if necessary).
2 For the other associated countries, enter their country codes in the empty column headings (LT, LV, PL, RO, SK) and the countries awaiting association, (BG and SI).