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Video explaining the aims of the CREDO project and demonstrating how we envisage the technology will be used in the care of cancer patients. The video is available in two different versions, aimed at cancer professionals and clinical researchers, and patients respectively, and in different formats. User login
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Welcome to COSSACInterdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Cognitive Science & Systems Engineering
COSSAC is a collaboration between three groups at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh and UCL. COSSAC's agenda is to research the nature of high level cognition and apply this understanding to building and deploying medical applications. We also plan to demonstrate the power of our approach to cognitive systems in non-medical domains, and to develop a sound engineering framework for exploiting cognitive science and systems more widely. About COSSAC"Cognitive systems are natural or artificial information processing systems, including those responsible for perception, learning, reasoning, decision-making, communication and action." [foresight.gov.uk] SupportThe COSSAC IRC has been supported by Cancer Research UK through a programme grant for "Scientific and Mathematical Foundations for Cancer Informatics: an Interdisciplinary Approach". Support for certain research and development activities has also been provided by the EU framework programmes, UK research council grants and the Royal Free NHS Trust Charity.
NewsCOSSAC's flagship CREDO and OpenClinical projects have been showcased in a recent major report called Big Ideas for the Future published by Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Universities UK (UUK). You can find more about the projects on the CREDO and OpenClinical.net web sites. Diverse results from the CREDO projects have shown that COSSAC technologies can make a major contribution to improving quality and safety of patient care. With support from Cancer Research UK and the Royal Free NHS Trust, we have most recently shown significant benefits for busy clinical teams (see MATE project web site). COSSAC contributes to the success of NHS Direct Research by the COSSAC team provided the foundation for the development of web-based patient advice services or NHS Direct by InferMed Ltd. NHS Direct have recently reported that over the last year these services have saved the NHS £57M by ensuring that patients are directed to appropriate clinical services. Digital Economy Grand Challenge video With funding from Digital Economy, COSSAC partners (Oxford, UCL and Edinburgh University) have collaborated with the Royal Free NHS Trust and St. Mary's Hospital to develop an advanced platform for supporting complex business processes such as multidisciplinary clinical pathways. A key deliverable of the project is a video which demonstrates our vision of patient care in the future. GroupsCOSSAC consists of three groups from three universities:
AffiliatesCOSSAC members work closely with several affiliated groups.
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