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PROPOSAL AT A GLANCE
Proposal name:
OVIDO - Online Virtual Doctor
Subject:
OVIDO is a portal for patients to carry out self-diagnosis regarding common diseases and symptoms. Healthcare professionals will be able to use an advanced interface for decision support regarding diagnosis of diseases and symptoms.
The proposed project focuses on developing such a portal covering most common diseases and symptoms experienced by EU citizens.
The project will further examine how such a portal can be best linked with other healthcare providers to obtain maximum benefit for EU as a whole.
OHPO will be integrated with portable / wearable data-collection and measurement devices that can be used by the patient in their home to measure various health-related diagnostic information on the patient. These data will be used to make the automated analysis and self-guidance more efficient and precise.
The proposed project focuses on developing such a portal covering most common diseases and symptoms experienced by EU citizens.
The project will further examine how such a portal can be best linked with other healthcare providers to obtain maximum benefit for EU as a whole.
OHPO will be integrated with portable / wearable data-collection and measurement devices that can be used by the patient in their home to measure various health-related diagnostic information on the patient. These data will be used to make the automated analysis and self-guidance more efficient and precise.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Proposal Outline:
The main objective of the project is to develop an online healthcare portal that will allow EU citizens to self-diagnose common diseases and symptoms using an Artificial Intelligence approach. The user will be faced with a virtual medical doctor that will ask questions to understand the user’s problem, and then suggest remedies, treatments, further doctor consultation, etc. – based on an automated analysis of the case.
The portal will be set up with a personal page allowing the patient to specify various portable / wearable medical devices that can provide data for the patient’s analysis. The portal will support common devices for measurement of health-related data and will accept data from these through standard computer interfaces. These data can be used to pre-answer symptom questions (and others) to make the analysis and self-guidance more efficient and precise.
The virtual doctor can be perceived as a type of “intelligent guide” that will ask questions based on the probability that these questions will provide valuable information, and always attempting to minimize the number of questions. The “intelligent guide” will be self-optimizing and will quickly adapt itself to the current situation. It will also be self-learning and will be able to improve itself over time based on users’ answers. Health professionals (private and hospital doctors, nurses, etc.) will also be able to access the portal through a more sophisticated interface giving the an overview of most likely diagnoses, symptoms and remedies/treatments, that will be continually updated as the questions are answered.
The project will consist of carrying out a thorough analysis of how such a portal is created to ensure that it will be used by users and to ensure that it will continually be updated and become an important healthcare resource in the European Community. Further, the project will consist of a thorough analysis and experimentation of existing Artificial Intelligence technologies provided by project members that can be used to provide the “virtual doctor / intelligent guide” functionality. It should be determined which special functionality is required to support healthcare diagnostics, and whether existing tools and methods should be extended and refined to support users and administrators.
The major task of the project will be to develop a knowledge base for the diagnosis of common diseases and symptoms that will cover at least 50% of issues that EU citizens visit their doctor about. This knowledge development task will have to be carried out by people with specialized knowledge about these diseases and symptoms.
Other topics to be addressed during the project include:
- issues around liability for mistreatment / misadvice
- how pharmaceuticals, hospitals, etc. are best linked in with the portal to be able to provide unbiased information
- in general how to ensure the neutrality and lack of bias that is critical for the portal
- benefits of being able to transfer medical case information directly to doctors and hospitals
- benefits from statistics generated from the logged cases
- which portable / wearable devices should be supported and how can data from these be best used in the analysis
The Artificial Intelligence used in the project is based on Bayesian Networks.
The portal will be set up with a personal page allowing the patient to specify various portable / wearable medical devices that can provide data for the patient’s analysis. The portal will support common devices for measurement of health-related data and will accept data from these through standard computer interfaces. These data can be used to pre-answer symptom questions (and others) to make the analysis and self-guidance more efficient and precise.
The virtual doctor can be perceived as a type of “intelligent guide” that will ask questions based on the probability that these questions will provide valuable information, and always attempting to minimize the number of questions. The “intelligent guide” will be self-optimizing and will quickly adapt itself to the current situation. It will also be self-learning and will be able to improve itself over time based on users’ answers. Health professionals (private and hospital doctors, nurses, etc.) will also be able to access the portal through a more sophisticated interface giving the an overview of most likely diagnoses, symptoms and remedies/treatments, that will be continually updated as the questions are answered.
The project will consist of carrying out a thorough analysis of how such a portal is created to ensure that it will be used by users and to ensure that it will continually be updated and become an important healthcare resource in the European Community. Further, the project will consist of a thorough analysis and experimentation of existing Artificial Intelligence technologies provided by project members that can be used to provide the “virtual doctor / intelligent guide” functionality. It should be determined which special functionality is required to support healthcare diagnostics, and whether existing tools and methods should be extended and refined to support users and administrators.
The major task of the project will be to develop a knowledge base for the diagnosis of common diseases and symptoms that will cover at least 50% of issues that EU citizens visit their doctor about. This knowledge development task will have to be carried out by people with specialized knowledge about these diseases and symptoms.
Other topics to be addressed during the project include:
- issues around liability for mistreatment / misadvice
- how pharmaceuticals, hospitals, etc. are best linked in with the portal to be able to provide unbiased information
- in general how to ensure the neutrality and lack of bias that is critical for the portal
- benefits of being able to transfer medical case information directly to doctors and hospitals
- benefits from statistics generated from the logged cases
- which portable / wearable devices should be supported and how can data from these be best used in the analysis
The Artificial Intelligence used in the project is based on Bayesian Networks.
Keywords:
Artificial intelligence
Healthcare
Medical diagnosis
Portable
Online portals
Healthcare
Medical diagnosis
Portable
Online portals
PARTNER PROFILE SOUGHT
Required skills and Expertise:
We are searching for partners with access to staff that can be used to provide the knowledge for diagnosing common diseases and symptoms. This could be hospitals, medical institutions, pharmaceuticals, etc.
We are also searching for partners that can help commercialize the portal, i.e., they should have extensive experience with the healthcare industry and be able to help map out the commercial strategy and links of the portal.
We are also searching for partners that can help commercialize the portal, i.e., they should have extensive experience with the healthcare industry and be able to help map out the commercial strategy and links of the portal.
Description of work to be carried out by the partner(s) sought:
• Providing specialized expertise knowledge on how to diagnose common diseases and symptoms.
• Providing commercial insight on how to develop industry partnerships for the portal.
• Providing commercial insight on how to develop industry partnerships for the portal.
Type of partner(s) sought:
1. Hospitals, medical institutions or pharmaceuticals with expertise knowledge on common diseases and symptoms.
2. Pharmaceuticals or medical commercial companies with extensive commercial experience in the healthcare industry.
2. Pharmaceuticals or medical commercial companies with extensive commercial experience in the healthcare industry.
The Proposer is looking for a Coordinator:
Yes
PROPOSER INFORMATION
Organisation:
Dezide
Department:
Mgmt
Type of Organisation:
Industry - SME
Country:
Denmark
