2. ISTANBUL RDC
• Population ~14Million
• 6% elderly
• 3% growth rate
• ~15% live alone
• Avg.Life expectancy 69 Men, 71Women
• Home Care Sector ~20 Million Euros
• 12 Firms in Marmara
3. ISTANBUL RDC
• Watch TV ~4 hours
• 68% use mobile phone
• ~14% use PC
• Health Care Capital ( over 100 hospitals)
• Capital of IT Sector in Turkey
• Many in e-Health and Telemedicine
• Turkish National Health Information System
will be version 3 of the HL7-health level 7
4. ISTANBUL RDC
RESEARCH
• Biological Sciences
• Computer Science
• Mechatronics
• Electronics
• Material Science
• Manufacturing Eng.
5. ISTANBUL RDC
RESEARCH
• Medical and Biological Data Analysis
• Data Mining
• Semantic Web Applications
• Vision and pattern recognition
• Mobile applications and location Base
Services(LBS)
• Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks
• Telemedicine
• Biosensors
6. ISTANBUL RDC
RESEARCH
• In FP7 SU is a leader with 34 projects amounting to
a budget of 6 Million Euro
• Sabancı University is the founder for the local
(Marmara Region of Turkey) European Enterprise
Network aiming at the promotion of technology
advancement and development within local small
business
• Sabancı University led the formation of the
Industrial Competitiveness Forum aiming to
establish well planned competion and innovation
strategies in Turkey.
7. ISTANBUL RDC
RESEARCH
• Biomarker detection for Neurological Diseases
• Biosensors ( CVD, Colon Cancer and
Alzheimer)
• Wearable Sensors for Elderly Care
• Predicitive Mining system for early diagnosis
of Alzheimer
• SUNAC
8. ISTANBUL RDC
RESEARCH
The Information Technologies Institute (BTE) was established as a
department of TUBITAK BILGEM (Center of Research For Advanced
Technologies Of Informatics And Information Security) in 2010. Until
2010, ITI was serving as a department under TUBİTAK Marmara Research
Center for the purposes of research on topics relevant to software and
hardware engineering. BTE has taken parts both in national and
international noteworthy projects, many in co-ordination with public and
private sector, universities and other research institutes, and
consequently accumulated a significant body of expertise.
9. ISTANBUL RDC
RESEARCH
QUALITY CERTIFICATES
CMMI Maturity Level 3
Capability Maturity Model Integration
December 2008
NATO AQAP-160
Allied Quality Assurance Publications
NATO integrated quality requirements
for software throughout the life cycle
May 2003, August 2008 (renewal)
10. ISTANBUL RDC
RESEARCH
Sensor and InformationTechnologies
Sensor Systems
Micro Sensor Systems
Embedded Systems
Computational Intelligence
Decision Support Systems
Software Engineering Process and Product Management
Information Networks and Protocol Technologies
Platform Mission Control and
Simulation Technologies
Land, Naval and Air Platform Mission Control Technologies
Unmanned Vehicle Guidance and Control
Distributed Architecture Simulation
Virtual Environment and Embedded Simulation
Systems Engineering Simulation
Operational Modelling
11. ISTANBUL RDC
IMM-REGIONAL AUTHORITY
• Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality provides
Health Services to approximately 1500 elderly
patients at their Care Facilities;
• They also provide Care at home services and
health services at their clinics
12. Therapeutic Health Services
• CARE AT HOME SERVICES
• 85,636 people have been served by this service
Home Health Care Services Project are provided examination, treatment, drug
supply and physiotherapy services in the home environment to who have no
social security, poor, support needy patients, elderly and disabled citizens.
13. ISTANBUL RDC
REGIONAL AUTHORITY
• DARULACEZE established in 1895
• Giving living care and health care service to
1500 elderly in several locations in ISTANBUL
• IMM is dedicated to use the e-health
applications that will be developed within this
project.
14. ISTANBUL RDC
SMEs HomeCare
• Eczacibasi Health Services
• Our Core businesses are Homecare Services,
(Doctor, Nurse, Physical Therapist, Health Aid
Organization), Disease Management,
Newborn and Mother Care, Nursing Home,
office care and executive care
15. ISTANBUL RDC
SMEs HomeCare
• 260 employees
• ~14 Million Euro Turnover on last two years
• Interested in Telemedicine and Telecare applications
• Eczacıbası Health Services opened the first special care
center in Turkey providing skilled nursing care for the
elderly and patients ready to be discharged from
hospitals but still needing further medical care.
• Located in Istanbul, Evital’s first center was designed by
health professionals to respond to every need and
ensure that guests have a healthy, high-quality and
friendly living environment.
16. ISTANBUL RDC
SMEs HomeCare
• AILEDEN BIRI ( One of the Family)
HomeCare Center
• Offers medical and non medical services at
home
• Interested in Telemedicine and Telecare
applications
17. ISTANBUL RDC
SMEs HomeCare
Visits and 12 or 24 hour shifts of skilled nurses and homecare
aides
• Visits of general practioners and specialist doctors
• Elder companionship at Home
• Newborn baby care and mother education
• Rehabilitation at Home (Physiotherapist, Psychotherapist,
Dietician)
• Diagnosis at Home (All Laboratory Services, X-ray,
Ultrasonography, EKG)
• Selling and renting all necessary medical equipment and
supplies
• Homecare education for the caregiver
18. ISTANBUL RDC
SMEs
• BILMED founded in 1989 as a medical
software company
• e-health applications in over 40 Hospitals
• serving on more than 8,000 online client
terminals with nearly 25,000 Active users
• 21 Employees
• 5 Million Euro turnover in last 2 years
19. ISTANBUL RDC
SMEs
• Integrated Hospital Information Management
System solutions.
• Browser-based interface which permits
instant accessibility for all authorized users via
the intranet or internet
• Bilmed s WEB BASED HIMS R&D project has
been funded by TUBITAK/Teydeb.
20. ISTANBUL RDC
SMEs
• BIRIM is an e-health company which aims to
develop quality software products specializing in
Health Care Management serving over 100
Hospitals.
• +1250 employees
• 44 Million Euro turn over in last two years
• National Health Information System Project of
Turkey as a consortium partner in 2007
implementing HL7 version 3 which will be the first
country to use this version
21. ISTANBUL RDC
SMEs
• Birim’s Service Fields can be classified as Healthcare
Informatics Applications;
• Hospital Information Management System;
• Primary Healthcare Center Information System;
• Family Physician Information System;
• County Health Information System;
• It is investing in new Technologies such as Patient TV;
Mobile Applications;
• Voice Recognition System;
• PACS(Picture Archiving and Communication System);
• TelemedicineApplications as well.
22. ISTANBUL RDC
SMEs
• VisioThink was founded in 2006 for research
and software development on spatial analysis
and location based services
• 7 employees
• 200K Euro turnover in last 2 years
• VisioThink has established business
partnerships with ESRI, Oracle, Turkcell, Intel
and Navteq, all global players in ICT.
23. ISTANBUL RDC
SMEs
• VisioThink won a project worth 260.000 USD from
TUBITAK, for developing a geographical analysis suite
application that performs not only location analysis, but
also allows users to perform geocoding,routing, map
visualization and GPS or GSM network-based tracking
• In a JADE related project VisioThink will provide location
information of elderly patients using GPS and GSM
based location techniques. The Geolink platform will be
utilized to handle this task.
• VisioThink will also design and develop mobile software
to transfer data from mobile sensors carried by the
patients to the datacenter for monitoring purposes.
24. ISTANBUL RDC
SMEs
• VISTEK Isra is a software company specialized in computer vision and
pattern recognition
• to improve patients’ safety by means of automated visual
monitoring.VISTEK is specialized in developing the following solutions for
application areas like hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living for the
elderly:
• -Monitoring patients in the anesthetic recovery room:automatically
detecting wake-up and possible self-threatening behavior
• - Monitoring patients beds: falling out of bed, unusual movements, sleep
anomalies (e.g.apnea, unusual motion)
• - Activity monitoring for assisted living: measure daily activity and
interactions of residents in assisted living homes. Alert in case of
substantial activity reduction e.g. due to dementia. Provide data for
protocols to be analyzed by human experts.
25. ISTANBUL RDC
SMEs
• FP7 ITEA2 VICOMO: Visual context analysis project
concerns the extraction of the visual context in which
an environment is or objects are being observed by
multiple video sensors. The system is based on
advanced video interpretation algorithms and data are
typically acquired with multiple cameras
• FP7 VIPSAFE has the goal to develop novel techniques
for automated visual monitoring of patients and elder
people living in nursing homes or in their (assisted)
home environments
26. ISTANBUL RDC
SMEs
• Gordion is founded in 1995 with a mission is
to design and implement high technology
software solutions. Expertise areas are mainly
in four categories: Network Technologies,
Future and Emerging Technologies, Web
Based Business Applications, Mobile
Applications.
• 15 employees
• 2.7M Euro turnover in last two years
27. ISTANBUL RDC
SMEs
Gordion accomplished more than 140 software projects in business
applications over mobile and networked systems. Most of them
were mobile handheld devices, GSM devices, RS232 C based
computer controlled devices (automated warehouse
management, anaestesy device management, laboratory analysis
device communication, intensive care monitor connection, etc)
and web based business applications.
EDAFMIS. Embedded Decision and Data. Fusion for Medical.
Intervention Support (ITEA2 Project.To start in 2010. About to
participate as a new partner)
SALLY. Safe Ambient Assisted Living for Later Years (FP6. Coordinator:
iPIC Iberian Productivity &Innovation Centre)
Road SensiNet. Wireless Sensor Network based road control systems
(FP7. Coordinator: ATOS Origin)
Smart Road. WSN based rural area road advanced warning system
(FP7. Coordinator: ATOS Origin)
