COMFORTAGE

COMFORTAGE unites medical experts, social scientists, technical experts, Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs), and Living Labs (LLs) to create a pan-European framework for community-based, integrated, and people-centric solutions for dementia and frailty. It supports care services in designing personalised, integrated care measures to improve wellbeing and quality of life. The project empowers stakeholders' health and digital literacy, aiming to reduce health inequalities and promote healthy, active aging.

COMFORTAGE will be validated in 13 pilot studies across eight EU member states, integrating:

Medical/clinical innovations (e.g., longitudinal studies, personalised prediction, AI-based medical devices), cutting-edge AI innovations (e.g., explainable AI, secure AI, Patient Digital Twins, Virtual Assistive technologies), DIHs (e.g., Smart Homes, Robotics, Ambient Sensors) and social innovations for improved social integration.

The project will harmonise diverse data sources into Holistic Health Records (HHRs) and create a Virtualized AI-Based Healthcare Platform (VHP). This platform will centralise AI resources for early diagnosis and personalised decision-making, offering tools for self-management and empowerment of older adults. It will enable collaboration among stakeholders, promoting engagement in health strategies and minimising digital literacy inequalities. The VHP will ensure the sustainability and wider use of the project's results, supported by an ecosystem of clinicians, hospitals, care providers, and social scientists.

The standardisation objectives of the COMFORTAGE project are to implement a standardised data model, known as Holistic Health Records (HHRs), to harmonise diverse healthcare data sources. Additionally, the project aims to develop an extensible semantic interoperability framework for models and ontologies. It seeks to contribute to the standardisation of healthcare data ontologies and models, enhancing the interoperability of data and electronic health records (EHRs). Profiling patient data for better integration with the European Health Data Space (EHDS) is also a key objective. Furthermore, the project supports the creation and revision of standards aligned with its objectives to improve healthcare data management and integration. These objectives are focused on ensuring seamless data exchange and integration, thereby improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare services.

Reason for applying to HSbooster.eu services

The healthcare domain is currently overwhelmed with various standards, coding systems, and ontologies for data representation. The COMFORTAGE project seeks to address this challenge by implementing the HHR standardised data model and an extensible semantic interoperability framework for models and ontologies.

Its goal is also to contribute to the standardisation of these ontologies/models. Through the consulting services on standardisation, COMFORTAGE can gain top-expert guidance to better understand standardisation processes and effectively use existing standards. This support will enable it to potentially contribute to the creation of new standards or the revision of existing ones, aligning them with the specific objectives of COMFORTAGE. This includes enhancing data interoperability, integrating current EHRs, profiling patient data, and aligning with the European Health Data Space (EHDS). The consulting services will help us advance our key exploitable results and research towards developing Holistic Health Records (HHRs) and integrating with the EHDS.