Virtual round table knights for the treatment of chronic diseases

The PERCIVAL project aims at developing an integrated, sharable, and real-time model of knowledge and information involved in the treatment of chronic diseases. The PERCIVAL platform integrates the contributions of software modules, healthcare professionals, and caregivers. Its Evaluation and Guidance modules feed the information gathered by wearable devices into knowledge-based systems and adapt themselves to the needs and characteristics of the patient, both from the physical and psychological standpoint. The modules may help the patient in the self-management of therapies and provide information shareable with healthcare professional. This approach results in an effective decision support model, aimed at achieving both a high degree of effectiveness in the patient’s treatment and a good level of cost-effectiveness. The case study of a module devoted to the promotion of physical activity for sedentary patients is presented, and its mathematical decision model is described in some detail