PROMPT-Protocols for Medical Procedures and Therapies

The main goal of the PROMPT project has been to develop telematics technologies to provide high quality patient services, particularly in the management of clinical knowledge and its integration with patient data to offer relevant and timely support for clinical decision making at the point of care. To achieve this goal, the project has built the components of an integrated care station centred on a multimedia electronic patient record, decision and protocol support software, and telematics communications technologies. The care station offers a wide range of services based on support for the provision of protocol and guideline-based healthcare. Both the PROMPT electronic patient record, designed to be at the centre of a cancer shared care network built in South West France, and PROMPT protocol and decision support technology (PROforma) have been shown to offer state-of-the-art functionality in the field of healthcare telematics products. Validation activities undertaken by the project have confirmed their high potential for impact on the practice and quality of healthcare, and both are currently being successfully commercialised. This paper describes the development, evaluation, dissemination and exploitation of advanced information technologies for healthcare built by the PROMPT project.