| Autor: |
Pinsker, Matthias, Schindler, Karin, Morak, Jürgen, Hayn, Dieter, Kastner, Peter, Riedl, Michaela, Ludvik, Bernhard, Schreier, Günter |
| Zdroj: |
Computers Helping People with Special Needs (9783540705390); 2008, p1305-1312, 8p |
| Abstrakt: |
Optimizing the treatment of chronic diseases requires continuous monitoring of the health status. With standard information and communication technology this challenge can be solved, with respect to special needs of patients, stated as marginal effort and simple handling. We present a therapy-management-system where patients acquired their health data using a Java-application running on mobile phones. The data were transferred to the health centre, which provided data visualization, individual feedback, reminders and surveillance of critical events. The system was evaluated in the course of two clinical trials with patients suffering from diabetes mellitus. Seven out of ten patients of the first trial returned questionnaires and reported feasibility of the concept for regular daily use. Patients of the second trial reported problems to a telephone-hotline, most were related to faulty data insertion. Based on their high user acceptance and ubiquitous availability mobile phones show the potential to be the patient-terminal of choice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: |
Complementary Index |
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