Personal Health Systems (PHS) is a new and fast growing concept over the past few years. It concerns the individualisation of prevention, treatment and well being procedures available through the healthcare system. PHS are putting the patient at the center of the health delivery process, and through remote monitoring and management applications it aims in bringing continuity of care at all levels of health care delivery, spanning from location, to ambience, to time. This continuity of care is a prerequisite for the delivery of preventive, personalised and citizen-centered health care. PHS is realised through a number of capabilities stemming from the micro and nanosciences (e.g. wearable, implantable portable systems), information and communication technologies (ICT) (e.g. contact centers, point-of-care systems, multiparametric decision support systems), as well as medical knowledge mining and management systems to name a few. In general PHS are expected to contribute to the following major needs : (a) The need for ubiquitous, unobtrusive, pervasive bio-data acquisition, processing, management and use for medical decision support, (b) The need for the combination of multilevel medical information as well as environmental information in order to promote the individualisation of healthcare, (c) The need to increase the quality of health care delivery through rigorous biofeedback mechanisms and thus improve patient safety. This Call focuses on the development, integration and useability of PHS in light of the newest developments of wearable technology, micro-bio-nano sensors, technology enabling knowledge and information mining from all biomedical sources including new databanks of multisensorial data, and the development of the ICT components found in platforms such as the GRID, the smart system integration, etc.

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