Metabo Project
Main Challenges
METABO faces therefore the following challenges:
- Scientific challenge to find solutions to integrate continuous glucose monitoring into disease management for a larger group of patients that what considered today, to identify and implement a pragmatic but reliable personal modellization approach for metabolic control, to achieve an optimal individual patient’s care and prevent unpredicted risks and dangerous situations related to unexpected hypoglycaemic events in the vision of empowering the patients as primary actors in their personal care and to provide doctors, researchers and health-care managers with new instruments to increase patient’s data acquisition and interpretation.
- Technology challenge to develop technical solutions i.e. an integrated technological platform enabling the integration and interoperability of different monitoring devices acceptable by patients and effective for health professionals for the implementation of the continuous monitoring and modelling concept and the natural access and usage of technologies and devices for a safer and less restricted life.
- Social and psychological challenge to create non-invasive and easy-to-use integrated solutions motivating patients to use them to improve their quality of life.
- Economical challenge to demonstrate that the solution is affordable for citizens, convenient for the healthcare and welfare system and that the technical research leads to the widening of market opportunities for business actors.