The eCREAM project

enabling Clinical Research in Emergency and Acute care Medicine​

Is a 5-year Horizon Europe project led by the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research (IRFMN, Italy).
The eCREAM consortium includes 11 partners from 8 European countries (France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, UK).

The central aim of the project is to enable clinical and quality of care assessment research using data extracted directly from the Electronic Health Records (EHR) of Emergency Departments (ED).

To reach this goal eCREAM has three main objectives:

1

To develop new technical solutions

to extract reliable clinical information from structured and unstructured data contained in different electronic patient files

2

To pilot the exploitation of the established databases

in two relevant use cases: i) assessment of ED propensity to hospitalise a patient, and ii) development of a dashboard to be used by citizens and policymakers to improve the quality of care in ED

3

To FAIRify

(i.e., make data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable) the established databases for clinicians, researchers, health policymakers, and citizens while respecting European and national legislations

Deliverable 1.1 – Context analysis and task definition
This deliverable aims to analyze the requirements for applying NLP techniques to the unstructured portion of EHRs in EDs and the definition of the NLP tasks useful for emergency physicians and nurses.

Deliverable 2.1 – Analysis of Operative and Technological Context
This deliverable outlines the necessary elements to set up the data extraction module.

Deliverable 2.2 – Testing of the eCREAM Interface Modules
This deliverable outlines the necessary elements to set up the data extraction module.

Deliverable 3.1 – First Release of the ED-EHR Contents
This deliverable describes the first year of activities related to the design and development of the emergency department electronic healthcare record (ED-EHR). This deliverable is not public.

Deliverable 3.2 – Architectural design of the ED-EHR
This deliverable describes the second year of activities carried out in the design and development of the emergency department electronic health record (ED-EHR).

Deliverable 4.1 – Propensity to Hospitalize Patients from the ED in European Centers – An observational retrospective quality-of-care study
This deliverable is the protocol for the Use Case 1 study.

Deliverable 4.2 – Development of a multipurpose dashboard to monitor the situation of emergency departments
This deliverable is the protocol for the Use Case 2 study.

Deliverable 5.1 – eCREAM Draft Data Management Plan
This deliverable is a first version of the consortium’s data sharing and management plan (DMP), and covers ethical and legal issues.

Deliverable 6.1 – Translation Manager – Functional Specifications
This deliverable describes the requirements of the Translation Manager software, in terms of interface, functionalities and workflow. This deliverable is not public.

Deliverable 6.2 – Report on the Platform Functional Requirements
This deliverable outlines the functional requirements identified for eCREAM’s integrated platform, which will integrate various eCREAM modules (hospital interfaces, natural language processing, semantic transformation, translations, and data analysis).

Deliverable 7.1 – Consortium Agreement

Deliverable 7.2 – Risk & Management & Quality Assurance Plan
This deliverable aims to outline the quality assurance and risk management plan and the relevant procedures to be adopted by the consortium to maintain a high level of quality in the eCREAM implementation and its outcomes.

Deliverable 8.1 – eCREAM website​