Healthcare services towards individualised wellness (i-wellness)

Information technology applications in medicine are rapidly expanding, and new methods and solutions are evolving since they are considered pivotal in the success of preventive medicine. In this paper two different concepts will be presented, the PANACEIA-iTV and the e-Vital concept. PANACEIA-iTV is a home care service provision system based on interactive TV technology and supported by the IST programme of the European Commission. The e-Vital service, supported by the eTEN programme of the European Commission, regards an integrated homecare and telemonitoring service chain aimed at large sensitive parts of the European population, the "at-risk" citizens. Both concepts developed a generic, flexible and adaptable framework for the combination of heterogeneous information sources and the creation of the individualised wellness (i-wellness) profile for prognostic purposes and early intervention