The Board of Directors of the Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI) under the Ministry of Science and Innovation, has approved the consortium formed by the companies everis, Bienetec, NISA NeuroRHB, Previ, Inscanner and LabHuman, working on the Tereha project. This comprehensive project is a “integrated platform covering motor, cognitive and psychological rehabilitation for patients with brain damage through the use of ICT Technologies and Natural Interfaces.
Tereha was born as a innovative R&D initiative allowing treatment of brain-damaged patients through use of friendly entertainment applications. Thanks to new technologies, the patient can now continue their rehabilitation process in the privacy and comfort of their own homes.
The platform consists of three modules: physical, cognitive and psychological rehabilitation. The first two use virtual rehabilitation systems (augmented reality), based on simple games that will help improve the patients´ skills and abilities.
Support for families
The psychological element of the platform has been designed with the patient and family members in mind and acts in the following areas: family support through forums, psychological intervention for patients and family members and treatment guidelines as indicated by the medical practitioner via the platform. Thus, the system allows for the treatment of individuals with acquired brain injury as a whole, considering both the individual and their environment.
Tereha has two clear two objectives: To improve individualized clinical follow-up for each patient, where the results are monitored and analyzed by specialists and, additionally, to facilitate the patient's adaptation to their specific environment. The latter is now possible as the system can be followed from home while maintaining professional standards of care.
Thanks to invaluable experience gained by everis while developing the Electronic Health Record solutions, for both the Valencian Regional Government (the Orion-Clinic Project) and other regional authorities such as the Diraya-AE in Andalusia, Tereha is now able to integrate the information gathered during the rehabilitation of patients with the clinical-care systems of public hospital networks. This means the patient's medical history can be accessed from any point in the care process.
This element of intergration is of particular importance, in the case of patients who move from one region to another as access to medical records will now be much easier. The electronic health record systems and regional centralized repositories (such as the Electronic Health Record Valencia - HSE Shared Medical Record or Catalan-HC3, with whom everis is also working), are integrated with the national Medical Records of the National Health System (HCD-SNS) launched by the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality.
Tereha is able to adapt to the specific demands of each patient in each stage of rehabilitation. In addition, the information stored by Tereha will be scientifically validated through the use of objective parameters.