The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing provides a collaboration between the European Commission and EU Countries, along with the active participation of Regions, local communities, hospitals and PMIs in order to ensure a global and integrated approach healthcare in an ageing society.

Regarding innovation projects for an active and healthy ageing Lombardy Region is particularly keen in defining and implementing broad strategies to support frailties and chronical patients.

The award is an important opportunity to highlight projects joined by Lombardy Region targeting elders, frail and chronical patients, addressing emerging topics such as telemedicine, digital and IT tools and new ICT solutions.

Therefore the BD4QoL project stars among the many projects covering such domains, as it provides people after Head and Neck Cancer treatment and the different medical specialists involved in their care with innovative monitoring tools. They imply the use of Big Data-driven AI algorithms as well as mobile and wearable devices, to be used for real-time assessment of individual Quality of Life that will guide timely and personalized interventions.