DAPHNE platform

The DAPHNE platform, or DAta-as-a-service Platform for Healthy lifestyle and preventive mediciNE, is an ITC ecosystem that uses software platforms, such as HealthTracker, to track individual health data on users or patients so that health service providers can provide personalised guidance remotely to the users or patients in terms of health, lifestyle, exercise and nutrition. It is led by Treelogic SL and partially funded by the European Union 7th Framework Programme for information and communication technology research. The project is listed in the European Commission CORDIS project listings. Description DAPHNE is an acronym for ‘DAta-as-a-service Platform for Healthy lifestyle and preventive mediciNE’ with the objective to develop and test methods for utilising personal activity and fitness information. According to a 2016 article in Procedia Computer Science, the DAPHNE platform and project was developed in response to "growing concerns about obesity". DAPHNE purpose was to develop a digital ecosystem using information and communications technology (ITC) through software such as HealthTracker, to connect patients and their physicians remotely. provide a means for remote per