The Polish-Norwegian Research Programme
is one of the largest bilateral research programme in rheumatology in this region. We are proud of this partnership.
Zofia Guła
Jagiellonian University Medical College Department of Rheumatology and Immunology
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PolNorRHEUMA
PolNorRHEUMA aims to improve patient care, health outcomes and rheumatology research in Poland by establishing a partnership between medical research institutions (Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland, and Sorlandet Hospital, Kristiansand, Norway) and enterprises (KAMBU, Kraków, Poland and DiaGraphIT®, Kristiansand, Norway).
The partners will design, deliver and implement a structured medical record system for both daily clinical care and collection of high-quality registry data in a single workflow.
Such an advanced platform allows doctors to continuously monitor important disease parameters in juvenile and adult rheumatic patients, revealing the true picture of epidemiology, disease status, treatment, and health services. The result is improvement of patient health of all ages throughout the entire life course.
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Initiators
Prof. Mariusz Korkosz
head of the Rheumatology and Immunology Department at Jagiellonian University Medical College in Kraków and a head of Division of Rheumatology and Immunology at University Hospital in Kraków.
POLAND
He received his medical degree from the Medical Academy in Kraków in 1991. He is a specialist in internal medicine and rheumatology. He obtained his PhD at the Jagiellonian University Medical College in 2001 for the thesis “Diagnosing osteoporosis in ankylosing spondylitis”. In 2014 he received associated professor assignment at Jagiellonian University Medical College after publishing a series of peer-reviewed articles focusing on the theme “Bone remodeling in ankylosing spondylitis and the impact of drug therapy on this process”. His main interests in research are osteogenesis in spondyloarthritis and endothelium dysfunction in inflammatory rheumatic diseases. He has authored or co-authored 40 PubMed cited scientific articles. He has been the initiator and is currently a chairperson of the Polish Spondyloarthrtis Initiative.
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Jagiellonian University Medical College Department of Rheumatology and Immunology
POLAND
The Rheumatology and Immunology Clinic of the Jagiellonian University Medical College operating at the department conducts academic activity and research, especially in the field of inflammatory spondyloarthropathies and rheumatoid arthritis. One of the scientific initiatives carried out in recent years was the creation of the Polish Spondyloarthritis Initiative (PolSPI) consortium.
Piotr Kuszmiersz
Jagiellonian University Medical College Department of Rheumatology and Immunology
Sørlandet Sykehus Hospital Norway
NORWAY
Department of Medicine at Sorlandet Hospital is located in Kristiansand. The clinical activities includes:
1. a large outpatient clinic focusing on all inflammatory rheumatic disorders, inflammatory joint disorders, Connective tissue disorders and vasculitis
2. an infusion unit
3. a nurse organized gout clinic
4. a nurse organized Osteoporosis DXA centre
5. a small inpatient unit located together with the division of infection at the Dept. of Medicine
6. a dermatologist is employed for rheuma-derma collaboration
The division aims to integrate research into ordinary clinic and is using the computer tool GoTreatIT Rheuma to monitor their outpatient clinic patients. This allows to do clinical work and data register collection in one workflow.
Serina Kleiven Bradland
Rheumatology unit, Dept. of Internal Medicine at Sørlandet Hospital
Alen Brkic
Research Dept. at Sørlandet Hospital
cooperation
Parties Involved In The Project
Innovation is born from creativity and what better enabler for creativity than the collaboration between people of different backgrounds?
The initiators of the PolNorRHEUMA project are prof. Mariusz Korkosz (Jagiellonian University Medical College in Krakow) and prof. Glenn Haugeberg (Kristiansand Sorlanded Hospital and Trondheim University of Technology *). The leading center of the project is the Jagiellonian University Medical College, responsible for coordinating and reporting the grant, and the project principal investigator is prof. Mariusz Korkosz. The project is entirely financed by the National Center for Research and Development via norwegian financial mechanism (NCBiR; POLNOR 2019 edition) and its implementation is supported by two IT companies - Norwegian DiaGraphIt and Polish KAMBU.
*Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Jagiellonian University Medical College Poland
JUMC’s Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, located at the University Hospital in Kraków, provides out-patient and in-patient care to approx. 4 mil. inhabitants. Approximately 500 patients with rheumatic diseases are hospitalised and 7200 check-up appointments are made for out-patients on an annual basis. The research activity is focused on basic and clinical research in spondyloarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. The Department has been assigned as a leader in the Polish Spondyloarthritis Initiative (PolSPI)’s scientific consortium and also established a scientific platform for research in endothelium pathophysiology in inflammatory chronic rheumatic diseases. en.uj.edu.pl/en
Sorlandet Sykehus Hospital Norway
The Medical Department at Sørlandet Sykehus HF (SSHF) investigates and treats patients in internal medicine specialties. The POLNOR RHEUMA project is strongly anchored in and supported by the management at the Medical Department and the research unit at the hospital. The project is consistent with the hospital’s strategy. The hospital covers approx. 300,000 inhabitants. Approximately 1200 RA patients, 450 PsA and 500 ax-SpA patients are currently visiting the out-patient clinic on an annual basis and being monitored and treated using the ‘treat to target’ method. Over the years a total of 2,255 RA patients, 920 axial SpA patients and 853 PsA patients have been monitored; 146 JIA patients have been registered in the database. SSHF is an approved research institution as per the guidelines of the Norwegian Research Council. sshf.no
DiaGraphIT® AS Norway
DiaGraphIT® takes pride in simplifying and improving patient care. The software collects specific and relevant clinical information for patients and healthcare professionals. Information related to disease activity, health status, quality of life and medical intervention provides a common platform for patients and doctors to communicate, thus securing the best possible treatment. Data recorded in the software is reused for medical records, for systematic quality work in the clinic, for the national quality registers and for research. diagraphit.no
Kambu Limited Company Poland
Kambu was founded in 2010 in Krakow and is a leading ICT company in this area, specialising in creating value for customers. Kambu streamlines business processes with automation and algorithms that accelerate the implementation of goals based on data. In order to bring innovation to the field of data processing, Kambu builds proprietary R&D in which the latest Big Data and AI technologies is being tested. Software created by Kambu has supported medical and analytical companies for many years. kambu.pl
forum
Platform for the exchange of scientific ideas
The PolNorRHEUMA forum is a platform designed for specialists to discuss and advance Rheumatology.
Registered doctors and researchers of different backgrounds can meet, interact, and offer their unique insight to the table while discussing all aspects of Rheumatology.
The active cooperation bridges the gap between countries and languages in service of the medical field and all patients.
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GoTreatIT®
Our product GoTreatIT® simplifies and improves the treatment. The software collects and displays specific and relevant clinical information to patients and healthcare professionals. Data related to disease activity, health status, quality of life and medical intervention provide a solid basis for their joint efforts in the treatment of the disease.
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POLish NORwegian
The project POLish NORwegian research collaboration to increase quality of health care and improve health outcomes of children and adult patients with RHEUMAtological diseases – the POLNOR RHEUMA, obtained funding of PLN 6,267,204.92 received from the Norwegian Financial Mechanism through the National Center for Research and Development as part of the POLNOR 2019 Polish-Norwegian research project financed under Norway Grants. The Polnor Rheuma project was also co-financed by the Polish state budget. We work together for a green, competitive and inclusive Europe.
