Aging and sedentarism are two main challenges for social and health systems in modern societies. To face these challenges a new generation of ICT based solutions is being developed to promote active aging, prevent sedentarism and find new tools to support the large populations of patients that suffer chronic conditions as result of aging. Such solutions have the potential to transform healthcare by optimizing r...
Medical Informatics may sets itself as a new area of re- search open to share its practices, but with a predispo- sition to consider different but complementary compu- tational paradigms and new methodologies for problem solving. Indeed, healthcare providers, namely the insti- tutions on the public sector, with its physicians, nurses, administrative staff and patients present the right uni- verse to consider an...