Brussels, 16/06/2014 (Agence Europe) - Appropriate treatment in the first few hours after suffering a brain trauma is crucial if a patient is going to be able to live or recover sufficiently, but brian trauma can prove very difficult to diagnose due to the complexity of the brain and the individual nature of each injury. Researchers from the EU-funded (€3 million) TBICARE (@TBIcare) project are developing a tool combining various databases and system simulation. This tool will allow doctors to enter data from tests in the emergency department and will predict the most effective course of treatment for each individual patient. The project is headed by partners in Finland, France, Lithuania and the UK and is collecting data from hundreds of patients who have suffered brain trauma and using it to build software which will improve diagnosis and predict the outcome of treatments. Commissioner Neelie Kroes, responsible for the digital agenda, stated: “I am proud that EU funds help researchers develop digital tools that can save lives. This project also shows the power of data in solving real-life problems”. (IL)