Sleep complaints are a major burden for aged, disabled, children and working adults. Their negative impact upon mental, psychological and body functions and their repercussions upon the quality of individual daily life justify the efforts in sleep medicine, education and training.
ENN-ICS- European Neurologic Network - Interactive Communication System, is an e-health project integrating advanced e-learning and e-publishing technologies with the goal to offer a new multilingual, regional and multinational service in the field of Sleep disorders.
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To create an EU wide training network
of doctors, nurses and students dealing with neurological topics
-in particular in the field of Sleep Disorders- through:
- Practical IST and communication solutions based on the optimisation of scientific contents and data (content and knowledge management), while offering e-learning services.
- An international doctor-to-doctor net, providing direct individual training and advice to GPs and other professionals;
- e-Learning dedicated services.
- To provide practical support to one third of European citizens via direct, on line and on demand personalized information and orientation.
- To decrease the high medical and societal costs improving sleep in the European population, with visible repercussions on health care budget and society well being.
- To support less privileged populations through patient associations and NGOs, therefore enhancing social cohesion.
The ENN-ICS Centre, based on an internet communication system, includes integrated content management, e-publishing and e-learning facilities, distributed qualification processes in virtual classrooms, interactive websites and a sales distribution centre for DVDs/CDs and printed material. With these facilities the ENN-ICS centre will be able to provide on-line support, regional recommendations and directives, data collection for economic and epidemiological surveys, decision support, clinical and scientific information, multiple media publishing, e-learning and e-training for different target groups, quality assurance and network promotion.
Project duration: 24 months; Budget: € 1.993.000; EU contribution: € 1.000.000.
Created: ENN-ICS consortium
Date: 2006-05-07
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