Prisoners are members of the general population: they come from and usually return to the community (Health Prison Project – Worl Health Organisation, WHO). The development of new information and communication technologies is meaning a real cultural and technological revolution of the modern society. In this context several telemedicine projects have been born, which allow distant health organisations to link up and communicate with each other. Lately, different reports and media-events in many EU Countries have drawn the attention of citizens, politicians and decision makers to the difficulty of dealing with de delivery of health care to inmates. HUMAN addresses the needs of caring of EU inmates by applying new technologies to the area of delivery of health care in the prison environment, in order to increase the heath care quality and efficiency, and improve the working conditions of the medical and paramedical staff. However, as described in details in the following sections of this proposal, the particularities of the sector do not exclude the transfer and generalisation of the solutions which will be developed and implemented in this project to other health care sectors. OBJECTIVES: The FP of HUMAN Project enrols following four parallel paths, focused on the development of four different telemedicine and domotic services. The outcome of the project is represented by: (1) a DID for accessing to and exchanging medical information and data among health professionals and an ubiquitous access to the DID, using palm-size PC and UMTS; (2) a core set of costumised set-ups for smart environments (prison cells), tailored on the health requirements of inmates (including disabled and elderly persons). (3) A web based plattform for supporting the provision of remote consulting from specialists, as well as second opinions from clinicians operating outside de prison. (4) a Web based plattform for supporting eLearning of in-house clinicians. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The HUMAN lifecycle enrols in two different phases, namely the Feasibility Phase (FP) and the Deployment Phase (DP). The 14 months of the FP will be focused on the development of a first generation of telematic services for inmmates. This generation will include: (i) a Digital Patient Record, namely Digital Inmate Diary (DID), including the possibility to access to a subset of the information of the DID by utilising GPRS/PalmPC technologies; (ii) a teleconsulting platform of services; (iii) a Smart environment fonr inmates with special needs, including the following feature: (a) Microsystem of glucose blood monitoring; (b) Microsystem for hearth arrhythmia monitoring; (c) assistive domotic devices; (v) eLearning platform of services. A go-nono go decision milestone will be established at the end of the FP in order to identify the actions to be carried out in order to achieve a preliminary set of marketable servicies. A second contract will then cover the validation of those services identified as suitable to be marketed durin the FP, as well as a refinement (re-engineering) of the already implemented features. Moreover, the development and validation of a second generation of telematic services will be carried out. This generation will include: (i) a Decision support system service, including an incremental knowledge base of facts; (ii) a Smart environment for inmates with special needs, including a domotic system for drug testing. MILESTONES AND EXPECTED RESULTS: During the 14 months project, many different artefacts (telemedicine and domotic services, technical reports, dissemination material, bussiness cases for the developed services) will be released, including a first generation of preliminary services at month M14. A go-non go decision milestone will be stablished at the end of month M14, following the in-depth review planned at the end of month M11, in order to indentify the actions to be carried otu during the DP covered by a second contract with the Commission