Real-Time Tele-Monitoring of Patients with Chronic Heart-Failure Using a Smartphone: Lessons Learned
| Autor: | David Liebovitz, Posu Yan, Gregorij Kurillo, Daniel Aranki, Ruzena Bajcsy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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business.industry
Continuous monitoring Vital signs Usability 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology medicine.disease Human-Computer Interaction 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Heart failure Intervention (counseling) Server medicine Global Positioning System 030212 general & internal medicine Medical emergency business mHealth Software Simulation |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. 7:206-219 |
| ISSN: | 1949-3045 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/taffc.2016.2554118 |
| Popis: | We present a smartphone-based system for real-time tele-monitoring of physical activity in patients with chronic heart-failure (CHF). We recently completed a pilot study with 15 subjects to evaluate the feasibility of the proposed monitoring in the real world and examine its requirements, privacy implications, usability, and other challenges encountered by the participants and healthcare providers. Our tele-monitoring system was designed to assess patient activity via minute-by-minute energy expenditure (EE) estimated from accelerometry. In addition, we tracked relative user location via global positioning system (GPS) to track outdoors activity and measure walking distance. The system also administered daily surveys to inquire about vital signs and general cardiovascular symptoms. The collected data were securely transmitted to a central server where they were analyzed in real time and were accessible to the study medical staff to monitor patient health status and provide medical intervention if needed. Although the system was designed for tele-monitoring individuals with CHF, the challenges, privacy considerations, and lessons learned from this pilot study apply to other chronic health conditions, such as diabetes and hypertension, that would benefit from continuous monitoring through mobile-health (mHealth) technologies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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