HeartCycle

The newly created HeartCycle consortium, comprising 18 research, academic, industrial and medical organizations from 9 different European countries and China, will work to improve the quality of life for coronary heart disease and heart failure patients by monitoring their condition and involving them in the daily management of their disease. The consortium will also develop mechanisms to automatically report relevant monitoring data back to clinicians so that they can prescribe personalized therapies and lifestyle recommendations.

The HeartCycle project, for which Philips Research is acting as project coordinator, is one of the largest biomedical and healthcare research projects within the European Union (EU). It will run for four years and has a budget of around 20.7 million Euro, of which 14.1 million Euro will be funded by the European Union as part of the EU 7th Framework Program.