D4.7 – iHelp DSS suite with visual analytics II

This deliverable reports the work done in the context of T4.3 – “Clinical DSS Suite with Visual Analytic Tools”. The main objective of this task is to design and implement the decision support visualization component of the iHelp platform. On top of this, the goal of the DSS is to allow different stakeholders to run analytical functions and visualize analytic results in order to support decision and policy making.

This task started in the fourth month (M4) of the project thus this deliverable presents the results achieved during these first eighteen months of this task. In this context, a prototype of the DSS component has been designed and implemented. The DSS prototype allows the definition of dashboards to visualize results of analytics, the definition of analytics workflows and visualization of stored data while defining queries with low code.

The first prototype of the DSS was presented in D4.6 – “iHelp DSS suite with visual analytics I”, in M12. The first version was based only on Node-RED, a browser-based editor for defining data flows by connecting predefined nodes. The first nodes implemented exclusively for iHelp were presented, which allowed the integration of the DSS with the Big Data Platform and the Analytic Workbench components. In addition, the DSS allowed the creation of Custom Dashboards that allowed to show the results of the queries performed on the data stored in the Big Data Platform and on the results obtained by the AI models provided by the Analytic Workbench. These Custom Dashboards could be visualised by the different types of users who have access to the DSS, the Model builder, the Health Care Professionals (HCPs), and the Policy makers.

The actual DSS implementation is based on Angular1 and Node-RED, hence it follows the same principles. During the last ten months since the first version of this series of deliverables, a web interface based on Angular has been developed implementing part of the interfaces required by the iHelp project pilots. The integration with most of the iHelp components that interact with the DSS has also started. These are also detailed in the context of this deliverable. In the coming months, the implementation of the interfaces required by the pilots will be completed, the integration with all the components that interact with the DSS will be finalised and the interfaces will be presented to the Pilots so that they can start working with the DSS. The feedback from the pilots will be used to adjust the interfaces to their requirements. To this end, the third and final prototype of the DSS will be reported in deliverable D4.8 – “iHelp DSS suite with visual analytics III”, due in month Μ32.