MultiMed Engineers

The IDEA4RC project has released a series of short, accessible videos showcasing its latest research advancements in the field of rare cancers. Each video explains, in simple terms, how the project is shaping the future of data-driven healthcare for rare cancer research.

Key topics include:

• A common data model for rare cancers, enabling interoperability and collaboration across research institutions.

• A secure data ecosystem built around this model, designed to promote data sharing and analysis for rare cancer research.

• Advanced data governance techniques that ensure privacy and data protection.

• Innovative methods to extract and integrate data from natural language sources, such as clinical notes and imaging reports.

• Ethics and responsibility in research, ensuring that all technological developments align with the highest standards of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI).

These videos make the complex work of IDEA4RC easy to understand and demonstrate how the project is contributing to more connected, ethical, and impactful research in rare cancers.

Watch the videos and learn more about IDEA4RC’s mission.

MultiMed Engineers participated in the IDE 2025 Conference, held in Monopoli on September 3–5, 2025, presenting how the outcomes of the BD4QoL project can be further enhanced and translated into practical solutions. The presentation explored how Large Language Models (LLMs) — now transforming many of the technical foundations behind BD4QoL — can drive the next evolution of digital health and patient empowerment.

In line with the IDE 2025 “flipped logic” format, where industry takes the stage and academia engages from the audience, MultiMed Engineers showcased real-world applications and ongoing research stemming from BD4QoL.

This unique exchange fostered valuable discussion on how our work in digital self-empowerment and self-management for patient prevention — including the tertiary prevention approaches pioneered in BD4QoL — can be scaled and accelerated through modern AI, paving the way toward market-ready, patient-centered solutions.

In this newsletter, we interview Roberta Gazzarata, biomedical engineer at HL7 Europe, R&D Director and Co-founder at Healthropy srl, and member of the IDEA4RC consortium, about the the project’s efforts to develop a European common data model for cancer. Gazzarata shares insights on how this initiative emerged from the IDEA4RC data model and outlines the next steps in advancing cancer data standardization. …

Source: Newsletter – Home

This is the first issue of the PROTECT-CHILD project newsletter. PROTECT-CHILD is an EU-funded research project that aims to improve pediatric transplant outcomes with genomic data integration leveraging cutting-edge technology, data integration, and secure healthcare solutions to improve outcomes for children needing life-saving transplants across Europe.

Source: Newsletter #1 – Protect Child

MultiMed Engineers presented the BD4QoL project at the Omceo Conference in Parma, titled ‘Health and AI: Ethics, Profession, Law, and Security. A comparison between Bioethics and Biolaw’.

In particular, BD4QoL was the focus of a dedicated session featuring four speakers from respective partner organizations of the BD4QoL consortium.

Franco Mercalli, managing director of MultiMed Engineers, provided an overview of the project’s objectives and approach, highlighting the challenges involved in sharing the invaluable dataset collected during the project with the research community, while simultaneously safeguarding the privacy of the patients enrolled in the study.

Prof. Chiara Copelli, from the Università di Bari, shared her experience as the lead of one of the project’s recruiting centers and discussed the benefits that the project’s apps offer to head and neck cancer survivors.

Prof. Giuseppe Fico, from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, outlined the future challenges posed by the rapid adoption of digital technologies and artificial intelligence approaches—such as those explored in the BD4QoL project—within the healthcare sector.

Dr. Francesco Giuliani, from Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, presented new social robotics technologies designed to support patient follow-up and medical assistance, that can be potentially integrated within initiatives like BD4QoL to enhance long-term care for cancer survivors.

Source (in Italian): Grande partecipazione e ampie analisi di tematiche cruciali nel Convegno dell’Omceo di Parma – Ordine dei Medici Chirurghi e degli Odontoiatri della Provincia di Parma