THE COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM: A PLATFORM FOR PRIVACY-AWARE AND SOCIAL HEALTH MONITORING

Rapid ageing of world population makes the traditional hospitalization therapy more and more expensive, new forms of medical care are hence required. At the same time, the medical community perceives the availability of vital data as an essential prerequisite to acquire objective information about patients. Finally, the patients themselves show willingness to provide such data, in order for their health conditions to be regularly monitored. This paper presents the last developments of the Comprehensive Health Information System (CHISel'd), a platform for continuous health monitoring whose main goal is to show how information technologies can be exploited to provide a feasible alternative to the traditional hospitalization therapy. Remarkable features of CHISel'd are its capability to process patient data according to a dynamically evolving set of data mining techniques and to share them among stakeholders (doctors, researchers, friends.) according to patient-defined access policies and in the frame of e-communities. These features enable CHISel'd to address the needs perceived by patients and the medical community.