Development of the scientific IT platform for the processing of screening tests results

Project’s title: Development of the scientific IT platform for the processing of sensory organs’ screening tests results based on the open standard of e-data exchange

Project’s duration: October 2009 – December 2011

Project’s budget: 7 194 501,20 PLN

Co-financing: 6 115 326,02 PLN

The project is co-financed from the resources of Innovative Economy Operational Programme – 2.3 action

Intermediary Institution: Ministry of Science and Higher Education

Project’s summary: the goal of the project was to increase the scientific potential of the Institute through the development of advanced IT technology supporting the scientific researches. The scientific IT platform developed in the project (called the Base of Knowledge) enables the processing of sensory organs’ screening tests results, integrates the elements of the Base of Knowledge and of the open standard in collecting, storing, popularizing and processing of screening tests. The open standard of e-data exchange will allow for the collection and usage of results of tests conducted also by other institutions acting in healthcare sector, but in different areas of medicine.

The following items were included in the project (among others): the increase of the compute unit capacity, the modernization of ICT network, the purchase of the specialist software supporting the research activity, the purchase of integrated telecommunication solutions.

As the result of the project, the innovative IT tool has been developed. It gave to the employees of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing the possibility to obtain information needed for screenings fast and efficiently, and also to perform reliable statistical analysis with the use of effective reporting and analytic tools.

The launching of the system aims also at lowering of the research costs and significant increase of the quality of cooperation among scientific units across the world.