Digital lifelong prevention

Principal Investigator: Stefania Boccia, Roberta Pastorino

Short title: DARE

Announcement: PNC_PNRR 2022

Project Code: RX430008R4121C

Start date: 01/11/2022

End date: 01/11/2026

Coordinator: Fondazione DARE

Funding body: Ministero della Salute

Link: https://www.fondazionedare.it/it/progetto-obiettivi-struttura/

Abstract: The DARE project is funded by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR) as part of the National Plan for Complementary Investments to the PNRR, with the goal of maximizing the potential of data to enhance health promotion and enable lifelong prevention.

DARE focuses on improving health trajectories by leveraging data.

Other objectives include:
Establishing the DARE Foundation as the national reference center for digital prevention technologies.
Creating a community focused on digital prevention through research, innovation, and engagement of all stakeholders.
Promoting a cultural shift towards trust and adoption of digital prevention.
Fostering collaboration between healthcare, academia, industry, and policymakers
Promoting a cultural shift towards trust and adoption of digital prevention.

The DARE project adopts a hub-and-spoke organizational model with a central hub and three interconnected spokes. Spoke 1 focuses on enablers and technologies for digital prevention, Spoke 2 on community-based primary prevention, and Spoke 3 on digitally enabled secondary and tertiary prevention.

Spoke 1 provides technological and infrastructural support to the other spokes. Spoke 2 develops a surveillance system for primary prevention, targeting healthy citizens. Spoke 3 implements digital solutions for secondary and tertiary prevention—aimed at individuals at risk of developing a disease or those already affected—using artificial intelligence and digital biomarkers to monitor and manage health.