MIELO: patient-to-doctor communication for SCI patients

A person with mielolesion (PLM) needs healthcare support also after discharge from the rehabilitation hospital. Not all clinical problems are manageable by the General Practitioner (GP), and often PLM has difficulties in accessing specialistic services. Information and Communication Technologies became thus a tool for simplifying PLM follow-up.
Aim of the MIELO project is to develop an Healthcare Portal for PLM, aimed at providing PLMs with a connection to both his/her GP and a specialist.

MIELO is a joint project between the Spinal Unit of the Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine of Udine, Italy and MITEL.

The Portal has been developed and tested, and has been now embedded into the functionalities of the Citizen Portal of the Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

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PaTOS: the Active Patient in Oncology

In cancer treatment trials, physicians traditionally report patient toxicity symptoms, but with the availability of easily accessible informatics technologies, patients can provide this information directly through a web application Patos.

PaTOS is a web-application based on Java 2 Enterprise Edition on the Tomcat application container and interfaced with a database schema designed and implemented with MySQL.
A simplified, patient-adapted definition of type and NCI-CTCAE grade of the 15 commonest toxicities has been inserted into the database for reporting. Moreover the patient can use a textbox to send a short message to the physicians.
Through home Web access, each patient can compile a daily report of the affecting toxicities by choosing and grading any of them from the user interface, while on the other side physicians can perform managing operations on patients’ data, as inserting or updating database information and visualize the patient toxicity by means of a graph.

Potential utilities of the system are being tested to demonstrate:
1.Accuracy, allowing patients to easily report types and grades of the experienced toxicities.
2.Flexibility, consenting patient-reporting on demand.
3.Capability to integrate and assemble with an electronic patient record and a computerized physician order-entry.

 PaTOS is a joint project between the Department of Oncology, University Hospital, Udine, Italy and MITEL.

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Other projects

CURRENT PROJECTS

Past projects

  • WEBHIS-IPCARDIO: an open source cardiology EHR, in collaboration with Associazione per la Ricerca in Cardiologia, Pordenone
  • VIRTELEPATH/eSlides, with initial funding from Olympus Europe Foundation
  • WISE:MAN Project: Wireless Integrated System for Emergency: Maps And Networking (regional funding, cooperation with SISSA-ISAS, Trieste)
  • Project “Applicazioni di Teledidattica e Telemedicina per le scuole di specializzazione in Oncologia e Anatomia Patologica tra Aviano ed Udine” (Telemedicine and e-Learning for the specialisation schools in Oncology and Pathology)
  • TeleOPer: Sperimentazione e valutazione di strumenti di telepatologia per la diagnosi intraoperatoria in ospedali periferici (Test and evaluation of telepathology equipment for surgical pathology in small hospitals) (funding: Ministero della Sanità)
  • “Rete Italiana di Telemedicina per la Ricerca, la Didattica ed il Controllo di Qualità in Anatomia Patologica” (Italian Telemedicine Network for Research, Education and Quality COntrol in Pathology), funded by the University Ministry (RITAP)
  • EU Leonardo project “CATAI Telemedicine Courses” (CATAI-CTC)
  • MULTIPATH: Distributed Multimedia Services for Telepathology
  • U Leonardo project CATAI/Telemed Consortium
  • “Merging of Communication and Computer Technologies” (EC, programma TEMPUS, S_JEP-11118-96), telepathology subproject
  • Project MANTHA (Multimedia Agent Network for Telepathology and Hypermedia Authoring)
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