London, UK, Washington DC, 9 November 2010 - LTC is proud to be participating in the prestigious collaborative European project “ MORMED” (Multilingual Organic Information Management in the Medical Domain).

“LTC is a leader in developing innovative solutions to improve communication and collaboration to a breadth of industries,” explains Dr. Adriane Rinsche, managing director of LTC. “MORMED was inspired by our research and development into improving information sharing and collaboration, and our work with companies and experts in the field of life science. This new collaborative research project was started to improve cooperation and access to information for medical experts around the globe.”

The broad adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in the e-health domain has led to the emergence of the term "Medicine 2.0" for relevant applications, services and tools. Web 2.0 applications have contributed towards bringing geographically dispersed groups of people with common interests together. Nevertheless, language remains an essential barrier. Experts with a wealth of knowledge to share, and willingness to participate, cannot become members of an online community unless they master the official language of the community and of the software platform that supports it. This is a great impediment to the effective dissemination of valuable knowledge among dispersed medical communities, particularly those interested in topics where information is very scarce, such as rare diseases.

The MORMED project attempts to address this challenge by developing a multilingual networking and content management platform. The platform will combine a semantically-enhanced social networking and content management platform with technologies enabling machine translation and post-editing by human experts to make content available in multiple languages. MORMED will be piloted in a community interested in Lupus or Antiphospholipid Syndrome, involving researchers, medical doctors, general practitioners, patients and support groups.

The project is part of the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) under the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP). This programme aims at stimulating innovation and competitiveness through the wider uptake and best use of ICT by citizens, governments and businesses, particularly Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. The approach is based on leveraging innovation in response to growing societal demands.

The consortium of partners collaborating on this high-profile project includes – besides LTC –four medical institutions and one research institute from across Europe.

For further information:
On the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) Programme at: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/ict_psp/index_en.htm