The project aims to create citizen assistance based on a network of integrated health and social services and interoperable devices/systems, with the general objective of improving the “quality of life” of individuals and families—both those facing difficulties and those without specific issues—through solutions that ensure the greatest possible autonomy within their own environment. The information system will be developed according to cloud computing paradigms, aimed at connecting the companies and entities offering the services with the end users.
Health at Home
Within the project, the activities in which the IRPPS research group will participate include:
definition of the conceptual model combining the main concepts of the three contexts studied in the project (healthcare, social, and home automation);
identifying and defining the types and scopes of services to be offered through the H@H information system;
description of business processes based on specific user types (young people, athletes, the elderly, the temporarily frail, patients with chronic diseases, etc.);
definition of the extension model for the Electronic Health Record (EHR) with information provided by devices in the user’s home and integrated into the H@H system;
analysis of the ethical and legal aspects related to new forms of regulation regarding health data management.
The project, funded by MIUR under the Smart Cities and Communities call of the PON Research and Competitiveness 2007-2013, began in January 2014 and is currently in full implementation. Coordinated by the Sapienza University of Rome, the project involves numerous partners including the Marche Polytechnic University, the University of Genoa, Telecom Italia Spa, and HomeLab. The research group’s closest collaborations within the project have been with Dedalus Spa and the Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation. In addition to IRPPS, the CNR research group is also represented by the “Antonio Ruberti” Institute for Systems Analysis and Computer Science in Rome.
Pecoraro, Fabrizio, Daniela Luzi, Eleheh Pourabbas, Fabrizio L. Ricci. A methodology to identify health and social care web services on the basis of case stories. E-Health and Bioengineering Conference (EHB), 2017. IEEE, 2017.
Fabrizio Pecoraro, Daniela Luzi, Eleheh Pourabbas, Fabrizio L. Ricci. A conceptual model for integrating social and health care services at home: the H@H project. Proceedings of the 18th International conference on E-Health, Networking, Application and Services, 2016.