Projects
Our journey through innovative research
Enhancing the digital capabilities of cancer centres in Europe to improve prevention and care
Duration: 2025-2029
Funder: European Union - EU4Health Programme (EU4H)
eCAN+ builds upon the results of the eCAN Joint Action, further advancing the use of telemedicine and remote monitoring in cancer care across Europe. The project focuses on the development, deployment, and evaluation of digital tools that support patient follow-up, communication with healthcare professionals, and data-driven decision-making. Through pilot implementations and collaboration across countries, eCAN+ aims to strengthen the integration of digital health solutions into routine cancer care and improve patient outcomes.
Synthetic data generation framework for integrated validation of use cases and AI healthcare applications
Duration: 2024-2029
Funder: Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) – Public-Private Partnership between the European Union and the European life science industry
SYNTHIA is an IHI-funded project that aims to enable the integration and secondary use of multi-modal health data, including clinical, genomic, imaging, and real-world data. The project focuses on developing interoperable infrastructures, data harmonization approaches, and advanced analytics methods to support biomedical research and data-driven healthcare. By bringing together academic, clinical, and industry partners, SYNTHIA contributes to unlocking the value of health data for improved disease understanding, innovation, and patient outcomes
European Digital Innovation Hub for Smart Health: Precision Medicine and Innovative E-health Services
Duration: 2023-2025
Funder: European Union - Digital Europe Programme (DEP) & National Co-funding
SmartHealth is a European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH) that supports the digital transformation of the healthcare sector. The project provides services such as access to technical expertise, testing and validation of digital solutions, training, and support for innovation in areas including artificial intelligence, data analytics, and interoperability. By connecting healthcare providers, industry, and research organizations, SmartHealth aims to accelerate the adoption of advanced digital technologies and improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare services.
HMV – Home Mechanical Ventilation Registry Hellas
Duration: 2017+
HMV is a national registry focused on patients receiving home mechanical ventilation in Greece. The project aims to systematically collect and manage clinical and demographic data to support patient monitoring, improve quality of care, and facilitate clinical research. By enabling structured data collection and analysis, HMV contributes to a better understanding of patient needs, treatment outcomes, and healthcare service planning in the field of respiratory care.
Peer 2 peer support for adverse drug reaction management in patients with CLL
Duration: 2023+
Funder: ERICLL
The PEDRO platform, funded by ERICLL (2023+), enables peer-to-peer communication for managing Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) patients. Designed for healthcare professionals, PEDRO offers a secure, user-friendly environment where the ERIC CLL experts board provides case-by-case guidance and support through online interactions, ensuring effective and streamlined ADR management.
EU Joint Action on strengthening eHealth including telemedicine and remote monitoring for health care systems for cancer prevention and care
Duration: 2022-2024
Funder: European Union - EU4Health Programme (EU4H)
eCAN is a Joint Action funded under the EU4Health programme that explores the use of telemedicine and remote monitoring to support cancer care across Europe. The project investigates how digital tools can facilitate communication between patients and healthcare professionals, improve access to care, and reduce inequalities in cancer services. Through pilot implementations and cross-country collaboration, eCAN contributes to developing recommendations for the integration of telemedicine into European healthcare systems.
Fostering Palliative Care of Adults and Children with Cancer through Advanced Patient Reported Outcome Systems)
Duration: 2019-2022
Funder: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
MyPal is a 42-month European project (2019-2022) that is aiming to foster palliative care for people with cancer by leveraging patient reported outcome (PRO) systems through their adaptation to the personal needs of the person with cancer and his/her caregiver(s).
A clinical decision support platform for more efficient, safer, standardized and cost-effective online prescribing
Duration: 2020-2023
Funder: Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, under the call «RESEARCH – CREATE - INNOVATE»
PrescIT is a 30-month national project (2020 – 2023) The purpose of PrescIT is to implement, evaluate and disseminate a comprehensive clinical decision support platform. The platform is aimed at all health care providers, from primary care to tertiary hospitals. PrescIT’s broader goal is to improve the quality of health services, increase productivity and safety.
Smart Platform for Self-management and Support of Patients with Chronic Respiratory Diseases
Duration: 2018-2022
Funder: Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, under the call «RESEARCH – CREATE – INNOVATE»
The Take-A-Breath system is based on the adoption of innovative software technologies (virtual and augmented reality, clinical decision making) and hardware (wireless personal bio-monitoring system) to implement a range of advanced sophisticated self-management services for patients with chronic respiratory diseases able to radically change the way they treat themselves and adhere with the doctors’ prescriptions. With the Take-A-Breath system, “regular monitoring” is transformed into “personalized monitoring” in real time, the proper use of the inhaler device is controlled in an innovative way, while the system offers to the patient a series of instructions in order to avoid asthma exacerbations and emergency situations.
Active Pharmacovigilance in Clinical environment
Duration: 2018-2021
Funder: Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, under the call «RESEARCH – CREATE - INNOVATE»
PVClinical is a 36-month national project (2018-2021) that developed an advanced computational platform to facilitate and automate the implementation of PV procedures, with particular emphasis on exploring potential ADR signals and focusing on integrating such processes into the clinical environment. Nevertheless, the PVClinical platform is not limited to the clinical environment, as it can be exploited by Contract Research Organizations (CRO) and the pharma industry studying drug safety issues, as well as drug monitoring organizations and regulatory authorities such as the Greek National Medicines Agency (EOF), or the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Implementing good practices for chronic diseases
Duration: 2017-2020
Funder: European Commission, in the framework of the Health Programme (2014-2020)
The CHRODIS+ Joint Action raised awareness that in a health-promoting Europe – free of preventable chronic diseases, premature deaths and avoidable disabilities – initiatives in regards to chronic diseases should build on four cornerstones:
- health promotion and primary prevention as a way to reduce the burden of chronic diseases patient empowerment
- tackling functional decline and quality of life as the main consequences of chronic diseases
- making health systems sustainable and responsive to the ageing of our populations associated with the epidemiological transition
Joint Action on integrating prevention, testing and linkage to care strategies across HIV, viral hepatitis, TB and STIs in Europe
Duration: 2017-2021
Funder: 3rd EU Health Programme
The main objective of INTEGRATE was to integrate early diagnosis and linkage to prevention and care of HIV, viral hepatitis, TB and STIs in EU member states. INTEGRATE focused on how effective tools for diagnosis and linkage to care in one disease area can be used in others. This was done through the review of existing tools followed by adaption and piloting of the tools in other disease areas. Further, INTEGRATE focused on capacity building and knowledge sharing among the partners the identification of best practices in testing and linkage to care and efforts to improve sustainability at the national level through policy development.
Type II Diabetes Mellitus Self-Management Platform for all - ProEmpower PCP
Duration: 2017-2020
Funder: European Commission Horizon 2020
DM4all digital platform is a novel mHealth system dedicated to the effective management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). The platform includes web and mobile interfaces along with intelligent medical devices, able to support all the diverse needs of the T2DM care pathway. DM4all is developed based on the Shared Care Plan, a shared “document” that includes information about lifestyle, treatment plan activities, and disease-related markers. Furthermore, collects information and feedback from the patients through validated questionnaires aiming to increase impact and personalization. The overall objective of the platform is to encourage:
- patients and involved actors to adopt best practices in disease management,
- patients to increase the adherence in the treatment plan,
- and all actors to improve their quality of life.
Secure and Trusted Paradigm for Interoperable eHealth Services
Duration: 2017-2020
Funder: European Commission Horizon 2020
The main objective of INTEGRATE was to integrate early diagnosis and linkage to prevention and care of HIV, viral hepatitis, TB and STIs in EU member states. INTEGRATE focused on how effective tools for diagnosis and linkage to care in one disease area can be used in others. This was done through the review of existing tools followed by adaption and piloting of the tools in other disease areas. Further, INTEGRATE focused on capacity building and knowledge sharing among the partners the identification of best practices in testing and linkage to care and efforts to improve sustainability at the national level through policy development.
