A Decision Support Resource as a Kernel of a Semantic Web Based Platform Oriented to Heart Failure

Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) is a complex cardiovascular syndrome whose management requires a complex clinical program involving, at different levels, several care stakeholders and the integration and interpretation of a number of diagnostic data and information. Within the EU FP6 project HEARTFAID (www.heartfaid.org), an integrated platform of services is being developed to assist CHF stakeholders in their routine workflow and to provide an optimal management of CHF patients, by exploiting the most advanced technologies, compliant to medical standards, advanced instruments for diagnostic data processing, and significant and up-to-date knowledge, suitably formalized.