GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Applicants to this topic should address all the aims below in their proposals.

• Develop approaches to integrate patient-relevant health data, from primary care / outpatient clinic, hospital, and rehabilitation settings, as relevant, improving data retention along the care pathway. Applicants could consider starting with a focus on patients at higher risk with the possibility to expand to other patients.
• Develop a next generation of systems that promote interoperability of data from different settings (including intensive and acute care units) and support better clinical decision making. Strategic approaches for integration with the EHDS and community-based, collaborative integrated care should be considered.
• Create solutions to foster better access to data for all involved healthcare professionals (primary care, hospital care and after hospital release e.g., rehabilitation) and support exchange of knowledge and information between the different actors – including at the level of algorithms and datasets that can be exchanged under ethically and legally sound conditions.
• Develop innovative tools and approaches, for example ‘virtual human twin’ model approaches and AI/ML for enhanced computational modelling, optimised for transparency to users and non-users, federated data analytics, and visualisation for enhanced output/results view and interpretation. These tools aim at appropriate risk stratification, timely prediction of stroke and stroke recurrence, faster diagnosis, and treatment.
• Propose innovative approaches to improve and expedite diagnostic and treatment decisions for streamlining operations and guiding patients in the continuum of stroke care in a patient-centric way. This should include consideration of the complexity of the organisational dimension.
• Propose approaches to improve implementation and scale-up of treatment in Europe relying on multimodal clinical data capture and their better interpretation and use in patient management and clinical decision-making. This should include consideration of the regional differences in stroke management and access to treatment options across Europe.
• Propose approaches to enhance precision of care delivery as well as improving patient experience and quality of life using new technologies, tools, and educational means (e.g., education on identification of risk factors, signs of stroke, treatment adherence).