Figure 2

The concept of Digital Health Framework covers the different areas wherein information can be obtained and actions are taken: i) informal care, ii) formal care, and, iii) biomedical research. In this scenario, a personal health folder incorporating patient decision support systems (PDSS) might facilitate the incorporation of data coming from informal care into formal healthcare. In addition, biomedical research, referring to all research levels from clinical to basic research, should be shaped to provide user-profiled functionalities such that research professionals with different profiles can make use of clinical and biomedical knowledge from formal healthcare and heterogeneous biomedical research data sources, ultimately leading to the generation of novel rules that should feed in-place clinical decision support systems (CDSS).