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SAPHIRE patient-monitoring system enters testing phase
29. November 2007
An EU-funded project developing an intelligent healthcare monitoring and decision-support system is about to start testing two applications. Now that the technical implementation has been completed, the SAPHIRE project's pilot studies will involve monitoring cardiovascular patients in a hospital in Romania and in homecare in Germany.
The system that SAPHIRE is creating could ultimately help to transfer patients from critical care units to regular wards more quickly and to train young doctors, reducing the potential for errors in treatment. SAPHIRE tries to integrate wireless medical sensor data with hospital information on a single platform, building on the results of another EU-funded project called ARTEMIS.
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