About the Project
At present, the medical doctor typically has less information on his patient than the average car mechanic on the car he is repairing, extracted automatically from the on-board computer.
The medicine of the future will increasingly rely on tera- and petabytes of information on each patient generated by high resolution molecular and imaging techniques. In order to make this information accessible to the consenting patient and his doctor, ITFoM will establish the ICT workflows and structures to integrate the analytical and clinical data of the patient into an individualized model of the patient.
To develop this ICT driven medicine of the future, ITFoM will join three broad technological areas:
- the clinical research from specimen analysis and diagnosis provision to clinical practice and patient consent,
- the analytical techniques, covering functional genomics and imaging technology analyses on a routine basis, and
- the information technology developments required to tackle the immense computational challenges.
At the center, the gathered clinical and analytical data will be integrated into computational models representing the patient and his health status.
View our prezi "How to build a virtual patient", shown at the FET Flagship Midterm Conference (Warsaw, 24+25 November 2011)
For further information, please have a look at some of our presentations held at the "fet11 - The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition":