Strengthening Digital Trust with Identity and Access Management in COMFORTage
As digital ecosystems grow in scale and complexity, ensuring strong security measures becomes increasingly important. Within the COMFORTage project, an EU-funded initiative designed to support active and healthy ageing through digital innovation, we are placing a strategic emphasis on Identity and Access Management (IAM) as a critical component of our security architecture. IAM is not […]
ITML Under the Spotlight in COMFORTage project
Founded in 2011, Information Technology for Market Leadership (ITML) is a fast-growing User Experience & Software Agency headquartered in Athens, Greece, with additional departments in Limassol, Cyprus, and Norwich, UK. From leading enterprises to promising startups, ITML helps organisations create and deploy some of the world’s most valued digital solutions. Dedicated to leveraging state-of-the-art technologies […]
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for Responsible Care of Dementia and Frailty
The complexity of machine learning and artificial intelligence-driven models in medical expert systems raises concerns about their interpretability. Physicians and patients may be hesitant to trust recommendations from a “black box” model without clear explanations of the decision-making process. Ensuring transparency and explainability is crucial for fostering trust and clinical acceptance. To address this challenge, […]
Defining a Reference Model for AI-Enabled Dementia and Frailty Care
Purpose of the Reference Model The Digital Healthcare Reference Model (DHRM) defines how healthcare processes, data entities, and decision-support components are organized within the COMFORTage platform. It provides the conceptual foundation for integrating AI-enabled interventions, supporting data-driven clinical workflows, and ensuring alignment across clinical, technical, and organizational actors. The model specifies the structural relationships between […]
ASL Roma 1: Leading Healthcare Innovation
ASL Roma 1, A Key Partner in Promoting Health and Innovation through COMFORTage The Local Health Authority (LHA) Roma 1 (ASL Roma 1) stands as one of Italy’s largest healthcare organizations, serving over 1 million residents and an additional estimated average of 500,000 daily visitors across Rome’s central area. With its mission to promote health, […]
Three Days of Innovation: Barcelona hosts COMFORTage’s General Assembly and Joint Event on Healthy Ageing!
From 6 to 8 May 2025, Barcelona became a hub for forward-thinking discussion and innovation in the field of healthy ageing. COMFORTage brought its partners together for its third General Assembly and a collaborative joint event with the STAGE Project. GENERAL ASSEMBLY The Assembly, hosted by Ace Alzheimer Center and TIC Salut Social Foundation, served […]
Compliance and Alignment with the GAIA-X framework
The COMFORTage project employs an innovative, data-driven approach integrating various cloud-based components, repositories, databases, and dedicated digital tools designed to support active and healthy ageing. Central to the project is the Virtual AI-based Healthcare Platform (VHP), incorporating robust data harmonization and ingestion tools, AI-driven patient monitoring and management tools, and secure authentication mechanisms. As the […]
Boosting User Acceptance: How Ageing Deal Technologies Transform Dementia and Frailty Care
Ensuring Effective Adoption of COMFORTage Technologies: Evaluating User Acceptance for Dementia and Frailty Care COMFORTage aims to develop a comprehensive and integrated healthcare model that supports personalised prevention and intervention of dementia and frailty, ultimately improving individuals’ physical and mental well-being. The project leverages consortium partners’ clinical and technical expertise to design tailored preventive and […]
FTSS as a facilitator of digital transformation in Catalonia
Fundació TIC Salut Socials a public body of the Catalonia Government that works to facilitate digital transformation projects in the field of health care and social welfare. Its vision is to promote the efficiency and sustainability of health and social services through innovative technology, promoting equity, innovation, collaboration, transparency, and knowledge transfer. For a long time, […]
Social robots: From LIFEBOTS to COMFORTage
Social robots have been long under development. What about implementation? LIFEBOTS Exchange suggests future actions. COMFORTage will pilot the use of social robots. What did LIFEBOTS Exchange do? LIFEBOTS Exchange is a 5-year project that ends by February 2025. It has focused on the uses that can be made of social robots and developed various […]