Figure 3
From: Synergy-COPD: a systems approach for understanding and managing chronic diseases
Patient information collected through the Personal Health Folder (PHF, Informal Care) and through the Electronic Health Record (EHR, formal healthcare) will be used to feed the biomedical research platform wherein subject-specific predictive modeling will be generated using the knowledge-base and tools for data analysis. Predictive modeling will generate rules to feed Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) embedded into clinical processes to support health professionals. Moreover, it will also help to generate Patient Decision Support Systems (PDSS) embedded into the PHF aiming at patient empowerment for self-management of his/her condition. Interoperability of the three steps indicated in the figure constitutes the Digital Health Framework (DHF) extensively described in Chapter 10 [37].