ESICT

The project is closed.

The ESICT-consortium (Experience-oriented Sharing of health knowledge via Information and Communication Technology) received a grant of 10.7 mill. D.kr. from the Strategic Research Council. The grant is for research in methods and development of technologies providing citizens with an innovative information system on health and disease based on information technology, language technology and formalized medical knowledge. The ESICT system allows users to ask questions in natural language which will be answered the same way.

In our society we need healthcare IT systems that integrate patients, relatives and health professionals as equitable partners. Such systems should grant users access to information whenever they are confronted with diagnoses, procedures, etc. or when they feel a need of discussing a health or disease related issue. Free and equal access to knowledge regardless of social background, age or knowledge level is being perceived more and more as an essential prerequisite to the vision of health for all. In response to this, the ESICT project has an experience-oriented approach, as it focuses on the creation of a customized dialogue adapted to the needs of a diverse user population. The language used is Danish, but the methods are generic and adaptable to other languages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Partners

University of Copenhagen

Name Title Phone E-mail
Lars Kayser Professor +4535327291 E-mail

Technical University of Denmark

Søren Brunak, Center for Biologisk Sekvensanalyse

Sorano limited

Ulrich Andersen, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis

Medical University Center Freiburg

Csaba Huszka,  Institute of Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics

Medical University of Graz

Stefan Schulz, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics und Documentation


Contact

Bente Maegaard
Centre for Language Technology
University of Copenhagen