The results of the project will be demonstrated next year in the Intensive Care Unit at St. James's Hospital, and at 10 other sites, representing a range of clinical domains, across Europe. SynEX is a two-year project funded under the EU Health Telematics Programme which aims to build in the results of Synapses and integrate them with the results of other significant Health Telematics projects concerned with community care, nursing and terminology. Milestone is a two-year project funded by industry, which is developing a methodology for migrating legacy information systems into modern, open computing environments. One of the target domains for this work is health. The aim of the project is to build a toolset for the development of integrated data-intensive applications in heterogeneous, distributed computing environments.
Health is one of the major application domains.
Finally, the Centre is developing and implementing a major awareness programme in the application of IT and telecommunications for the Irish health sector. The Programme, Medichi, which is funded from European Structural Funds, will take the form of a set of multimedia presentations to be delivered at several locations across the country. The emphasis will be on what is achievable with today's technology, rather than on being too futuristic. The aim is to empower users so that they are in a position to embrace IT to provide more efficient and cost-effective delivery of healthcare within the context of the Information Society. The Centre also participates in one Tempus and one Erasmus Programme in Health Informatics.