LifeChamps: A Collective Intelligent Platform To Support Cancer Champions

LifeChamps delivers a novel, context-aware and large-scale analytics framework capable of delivering multi-dimensional Quality of Life (QoL) support to all the different cancer life champions during and after their treatments. LifeChamps provides a prediction engine capable of providing comprehensive insights at the point of care in order to predict and prevent disorders, morbidities or cancer relapse associated with cancer treatment at an early stage; based on a Big Data-enabled HPC infrastructure with a broad knowledge base, where heterogeneous data from multiple sources is mapped, in a reachable and manageable way to create valuable insights. This facilitates the provision of a smart care model to timely address, in a continuous monitoring approach, symptoms responsible for affecting QoL, in particular, frailty. The solution provides a collaborative structure to all target users: (i) older cancer patients – counselling in day-to-day activities with recommendations and advice on transversal lifestyle domains (e.g., nutrition, physical activity, social inclusion), (ii) physicians – supporting the clinical work by providing actionable insights on individual patient health and QOL trajectory, as well as visualization of aggregated data and their causalities and (iii) healthcare providers and healthcare systems – business intelligence dashboard to provide quality of service estimation. Overall, LifeChamps contributes decisively towards (a) increasing treatment safety, (b) improving the efficiency of resource utilization, and (c) minimizing the conduct of unnecessary clinical procedures. The solution was designed and delivered by the LifeChamps consortium – the project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 875329 (November 2019 – November 2023).