The SYMPHONY project involves the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data into healthcare assistance, with a focus on disease management. It aims to make the care process more efficient for healthcare professionals through the integration and interoperability of all relevant applications throughout the care process. SYMPHONY’s goal is to create an open and orchestrated IT ecosystem that enables comprehensive solutions for supporting disease-specific clinical decision-making, providing healthcare professionals with the necessary information to make clinical decisions.

Among the challenges faced by the project are the creation of ecosystems, data access, interoperability, and the management of security and privacy. The main innovation of the project lies in its ability to compose disease-focused workflows by integrating and ensuring the interoperability of all relevant applications along the care process. This represents a revolution, as healthcare professionals will be able to use a single, user-friendly IT system to perform their tasks.

The most notable advances include semantic interoperability, AI-assisted clinical decision support, automation of medical guidelines, meaningful clinical representation, and, as previously mentioned, the creation of an open healthcare IT ecosystem.

SYMPHONY is a consortium led by Philips, consisting of 24 partners from 6 countries: Canada, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, and Turkey. The project is expected to last for 36 months, with completion scheduled for September 2025.

For AICRUM, SYMPHONY represents an opportunity to generate new developments and apply its knowledge and AI techniques, such as developing the recommendation system and optimizing resources across the entire value chain.

SYMPHONY is an ITEA project funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the Center for Technological Development and Innovation (CDTI).