Lombardy Region and ARIA S.p.A. believe that innovation has a pivotal role in improving the lives of cancer patients. Such improvement should be fostered by developing new technologies allowing for remote monitoring, support, and personalized care pathways.
This objective is pursued in BD4QoL by advancing the adoption of Artificial Intelligence-assisted mobile applications specifically focused on Head and Neck Cancer. However, Lombardy Region and ARIA S.p.A. nurture innovation in the broad European ecosystem by participating in other projects and initiatives to collect and develop innovative ideas to aid the life of cancer patients.
During last month, in the context of the European-funded project X-eHealth – Exchanging Electronic Health Records in a common framework, ARIA and Lombardy Region organized a X-eHealth hackathon for Rare Diseases and Cancers. The hackathon took place on the 3-4th of October with the goal of showcasing the state-of-the-art applications in the Rare Diseases and Cancers management domain, particularly focusing on the efficient exchange of electronic health records by reusing the specifications developed by X-eHealth.
The projects presented by the participant teams intend to ease the care management as well as more efficiently handle clinical documents produced in the treatment. For example, one of the teams presented the Survivorship Passport (SurPass), an electronic and paper-based document that collects the entire clinical history of children going into remission following pediatric cancer. The tool will contain detailed information regarding diagnosis, follow up and an individualized care plan inclusive of screening recommendations to enable a person-centred and long-term care for survivors of childhood cancer. All team ideas and the content of all the events can be found on the project website page.
