The basic idea of the OLIMPIA Project is to develop a novel patient-centred healthcare model aiming to properly manage Parkinson’s disease patients defining new assistance paths through the use of Day Service, which can help to access diagnostic and therapeutic path and to promote the continuity of care.
The OLIMPIA Project is built as follow-up of previous DAPHNE project (Regione Toscana FAS SALUTE 2014, CUP J52I16000170002), where bracelet and ring shaped wearable sensor systems were developed for objective diagnosis and monitoring of Parkinson’s Disease patients and experimented on more than 300 subjects in collaboration with an Italian network of neurology created within the project.

The OLIMPIA Project aims to estimate the relative health and economic outcomes of the technological innovations, such as the use of novel ICT, Cloud, mobile and Artificial Intelligence technologies, in the health and care sector relative to hospital and domiciliary Parkinson’s Disease services.
In parallel, the OLIMPIA Project will address specific scientific clinical challenges to improve diagnosis, monitoring and therapy of Parkinson’s Disease across its progress.
Through the collaboration with General Practitioners, OLIMPIA model will also combine an olfactory screening with wearable sensors to find patients in preclinical phase.

The ambition of the OLIMPIA Project is to develop and integrate a comprehensive technological platform that will facilitate the collaboration between all the stakeholders involved in the project (patients, specialists, General Practitioners, caregivers, volunteers, researchers, bioengineers, healthcare managers, governmental entities and policy makers) facilitating the possibility to study and define innovative service models, overcome barriers for exploitation and improve quality of service and life of patients.

For real deployment within the Tuscany healthcare services the OLIMPIA will join the Rete Telematica Regionale Toscana (RTRT) and will build a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution fully interoperable with the Tuscany Internet Exchange (TIX) datacenter.