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16 October 1998

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Synapses is a three year, 5 million ECU project within the fourth Health Telematics R&TD framework of the European Commission.

It aims to support the improvement of patient care by enabling healthcare professionals to access electronic healthcare record data from a diversity of legacy feeder systems.

The project methodology draws together and builds on the extensive work and results in the field of Telematics, IT and Telecommunications, and CEN TC/251.

Synapses project objectives

  • To specify a generic and open means for combining healthcare records or dossiers consistently, simply, comprehensibly and securely, to enable the sharing of data between different information systems in different places.
  • To demonstrate the benefits of the Synapses products and services in a range of healthcare test sites across Europe.
  • To produce aids and guidelines that can be used in the migration from legacy healthcare systems, as an evolution strategy for a region or Member State, or as an exploitation plan for a healthcare site or commercial company.

Synapses will develop middleware products and software services to enable client applications to access electronic healthcare record data from a diversity of legacy feeder systems. Synapses Servers will be designed and prototyped at each of the main project validation sites.