An integrated and interoperable platform of services for the management of heart failure

This paper describes the implementation of a web-based platform of services, designed and developed in the context of the HEARTFAID project with the goal to improve and to make more effective the processes of diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and personalization of heart failure care in elderly patients. The platform is based on a multi-functional middleware that adopts the most common standards for data encoding and communication, as well as the standard solutions actually available to support the interoperability among heterogeneous systems, such as IHE profiles, HL7 messaging, Service Oriented Architectures and Enterprise Service Bus. The main focus of this paper is on the description of the challenges and the solutions adopted for the implementation of a suitable Middleware; however, for a better comprehension the implemented solutions are selected and shown in the context of the overall platform of services for the management of heart failure.