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. 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.