CARRE Preliminary Evaluation Results

A randomized control trial is under way in two pilot sites, DUTH (Greece) and VULSK (Lithuania). The early findings revealed that during the CARRE service positively influenced participants in the interventional arm, when applied for about two months, increasing health literacy and empowerment. CARRE service was assessed for the impact on quality of life, health…

CARRE in eHealth Forum 2016

CARRE project was demonstrated in the eHealth Forum 2016: “eHealth: Catalyst for reform – Enabler for growth”, Megaron, Athens, 25-26 October 2016. The eHealth Forum connects European stakeholders with those from the Balkans, South East Mediterranean and the Middle East and provide the grounds to reach and network with key leaders and policy makers. http://www.ehealthforum.org.…

CARRE Press Conference in Vilnius

During the period of 12-16th of September 2016 VULSK team and the consortium carried out a number of dissemination activities to widely spread the results of CARRE project. A press release on Baltic News Service was issued inviting journalists and representatives of major national TVs, radios and journals to press conference which was organized on…

CARRE Service Goes On-Line for Two Pilot Sites

CARRE service has been successfully deployed for pilot demonstration and evaluation in two different healthcare settings and nationalities, i.e. in the University Hospitals of VULSK (Lithuania) and DUTH (Greece). To account for legal, privacy and administration issues we deployed the CARRE service into two different exact copies, each copy installed in the facilities of each…

Visualizing HealthLines in CARRE

CARRE provides web-based components for interactive health data visualization and risk analysis, including dashboard for health information summary, Healthlines for fitness and biomarker data, and interactive risk evaluation diagram for risk monitoring and analysis. Fitness and medical measurement data are inherently time dependent. To visualise time-varying data, a linear form timeline is a natural choice…

CARRE Clinical Investigational Protocol

CARRE aims at researching and innovating towards a service environment for providing personalized empowerment and shared decision support services for cardiorenal disease comorbidities. CARRE evaluation during the final months of the project aims to assess the CARRE service along four different axes: the efficacy of CARRE service in increasing health literacy; the ability of the…

Risk Factor Repository and Management System

The core of CARRE functionality revolves around the concept of comorbidity, and in particular comorbidities in the case of cardiorenal syndrome. To enable the open and seamless use and reuse of these described medical risk factors, we have developed an on-line web based system for their description. Also, the resulting risk factor descriptions are available…

CARRE impact as an FP7 Project

Studies in the mid-1990s based upon firm-level data from thousands of companies suggest that there is a significant payoff from IT investments [1]. These results suggest that investing in IT is on average a positive return on investement (ROI) activity, but the benefits of IT investments are difficult to measure and risk factors can significantly…