Accepted for/Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research
Date Submitted: Jul 1, 2020
Date Accepted: Oct 26, 2020
Technological and Data-Driven Innovations in Cancer Care: status and recommendations resulting from international workshop series Tech4Cancer
ABSTRACT
Background:
This article discusses the status, the challenges, the opportunities and the recommendations aimed at accelerating the rate of progress in the data driven management of cancer care. Two international workshops in June 2019, in Cordoba, Spain and then in October 2019, in Athens, Greece were organized by four HORIZON2020 EU funded projects: BOUNCE, CATCH ITN, DESIREE and MyPal. The issues covered include patient engagement, knowledge and data-driven decision support systems, patient journey, rehabilitation, personalized diagnosis, trust, assessment of guidelines, interoperability of ICT platformsand others. A series of recommendations is provided as the complex landscape of data-driven technical innovation in cancer care is being portrayed.
Objective:
Provide information on the current state of the art of technology and data-driven innovation for management of cancer care through the work of four EU H2020 funded projects.
Methods:
Reporting of the results of two international workshops on ICT in management of cancer care.
Results:
Technical and data-driven innovation provide promising tools for the management of cancer care. However, several challenges need to be successfully addressed, such as patient engagement, interoperability of ICT-based systems, knowledge management, trust and others. The paper analyses these challenges, which are seen as opportunities for further research and practical implementation and provides practical recommendations for future work.
Conclusions:
Technology and data-driven innovations are becoming an integral part of cancer care management. In the process specific challenges need to be addressed, such as increasing trust and engaging the whole stakeholder ecosystem to fully benefit from what these innovations have to offer.
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