Project R-10094

A digital research platform to support mHealth activities (DHARMA Research) (Research)

DHARMA (digital health research platform) is a remote, generic and open digital research platform to perform academic and clinical mHealth research. This platform will collect various continuous or discrete physical, physiological, contextual and environmental data from different sensory systems and databases. This is essential for research & development in data mining and machine learning (e.g. medical decision support, personalized medicine). DHARMA can be deployed multidisciplinary and supports clinical studies through comprehensive dashboards for healthcare professionals and patients. DHARMA makes it possible to validate remote monitoring strategies in the clinical practice and will be used in proof-of-concept experiments to explore the efficacy, efficiency and applicability of remote monitoring. During this project DHARMA 2.0 will be developed. We will rebuild DHARMA 1.0 in a collection of different micro-services & libraries to maximally exploit RE-USE across different applications & projects. By handling a plug & play principle in a sandbox environment we facilitate rapid prototyping for research purposes across UHasselt, ZOL and Jessa, and in the future other universities and partner organizations. Further developing DHARMA into its generic form will enable socio-economic valorization of mature research projects to aid in healthcare pathway implementation. Also, its applicability can be expanded to commercial end-purposes (e.g. services for Pharma companies).

01 October 2019 - 30 September 2023