PEPPER is a personalised decision support system for chronic disease management that will make predictions based on real-time data in order to empower individuals to participate in the self-management of their disease.

The design will involve users at every stage to ensure that the system meets patient needs and raises clinical outcomes by preventing adverse episodes and improving lifestyle, monitoring and quality of life. Research will be conducted into the development of an innovative adaptive decision support system based on case-based reasoning combined with predictive computer modelling. The tool will offer bespoke advice for self- management by integrating personal health systems with broad and various sources of physiological, lifestyle, environmental and social data. The research will also examine the extent to which human behavioural factors and usability issues have previously hindered the wider adoption of personal guidance systems for chronic disease self-management. It will be developed and validated initially for people with diabetes on basal-bolus insulin therapy, but the underlying approach can be adapted to other chronic diseases.

There will be a strong emphasis on safety, with glucose predictions, dose advice, alarms, limits and uncertainties communicated clearly to raise individual awareness of the risk of adverse events such as hypoglycaemia or hyperglycaemia. The outputs of this research will be validated in an ambulatory setting and a key aspect will be innovation management. All components will adhere to medical device standards in order to meet regulatory requirements and ensure interoperability, both with existing personal health systems and commercial products. The resulting architecture will improve interactions with healthcare professionals and provide a generic framework for providing adaptive mobile decision support, with innovation capacity to be thereby increasing the impact of the project.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 689810. The project seeks to develop a personalised decision support system for chronic disease management. The system, which combines case-based reasoning with predictive computer modelling, will empower patients to self-manage their diseases such as diabetes. The 3-year project is going since February 1st, 2016. PEPPER is coordinated by Oxford Brookes University. The other members in the consortium are Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Universitat de Girona, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Girona, Romsoft SRL and Cellnovo Limited. For more information, please contact the Main Researcher (see below).

Este proyecto está subvencionado por el Programa de Investigación e Innovación Horizonte 2020 de la Unión Europea (Grant Agreement Nº 689810). El proyecto contempla el desarrollo de un sistema de soporte a la decisón personalizado para la gestión de enferemedades crónicas. el sistema, basado enrazonamiento basado en casos y modelos predictivos, permitirá a los pacientes a gestionar por si mismos sus enfermedades, como es el caso de la diabetes. La duración del proyecto, que comenzó en febrero de 2016, es de 3 años. PEPPER está coordinado por la Universidad de Oxford Brookes. Imperial College, Universidad de Girona, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Girona, Romsoft SRL y Cellnovo Limited conforman el resto de consorcio europeo. Para más información , por favor, contacte con el Investigador Principal (véase abajo).

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 689810.