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HEARTFAID is a research and development project aimed at devising, developing and validating an innovative knowledge based platform of services, able to improve early diagnosis and to make more effective the medical-clinical management of heart diseases within elderly population. Chronic Heart Failure is one of the most remarkable health problems for prevalence and morbidity, especially in the developed western countries, with a strong impact in terms of social and economic effects. All these aspects are typically emphasized within the elderly population, with very frequent hospital admissions and a significant increase of medical costs. Recent studies and experiences have demonstrated that accurate heart failure management programs, based on a suitable integration of inpatient and outpatient clinical procedures, might prevent and reduce hospital admissions, improving clinical status and reducing costs. HEARTFAID aims at defining efficient and effective health care delivery organization and management models for the "optimal" management of the care in the field of cardiovascular diseases. The HEARTFAID innovative computerized system will improve the processes of diagnosis, prognosis and therapy provision, providing the following services: * electronic health record for easy and ubiquitous access to heterogeneous patients data;* integrated services for healthcare professionals, including patient telemonitoring, signal and image processing, alert and alarm system;* clinical decision support in the heart failure domain, based on pattern recognition in historical data, knowledge discovery analysis and inferences on patients' clinical data.The formalization of the pre-existing clinical knowledge and the discovery of new elicited knowledge represent the core of the HEARTFAID platform.

Chronic heart failure, one of the most remarkable health problems due to its prevalence and morbidity especially in the western world, is characterised by a strong socioeconomic impact. Recent studies demonstrate that accurate heart failure (HF) management programs, based on coordinated inpatient and outpatient clinical procedures, might prevent and reduce hospital admissions, improving clinical outcome and reducing costs.

Chronic heart failure is a major health problem in many developed countries with strong social and economic effects due to its prevalence and morbidity. These effects occur particularly in the elderly who have frequent hospital admissions and utilise significant medical resources. Studies and data have demonstrated that evidence-based heart failure management programs utilising appropriate integration of inpatient and outpatient clinical services, have the potential to prevent and reduce hospital admissions, improve clinical status and reduce healthcare costs. HEARTFAID is a research and development project aimed at creating and validating an innovative knowledge-based platform to improve the early diagnosis and effective management of heart failure. The core of the platform is formalisation of pre-existing clinical knowledge and the discovery of new elicited knowledge. HEARTFAID has been designed to improve the processes of diagnosis, prognosis and therapy by providing the following services: • Electronic health records for easy and ubiquitous access to heterogeneous patient data • Integrated services for healthcare professionals, including patient telemonitoring, signal and image processing, alert and alarm systems • Clinical decision support, based on pattern recognition in historical data, knowledge discovery analysis and inference from patients’ clinical data.