An Open, Ubiquitous and Adaptive Chronic Disease Management Platform for Chronic Respiratory and Renal Diseases (CHRONIOUS)

CHRONIOUS is a highly innovative Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) research initiative that aspires to implement its vision for ubiquitous health and lifestyle monitoring of people with chronic diseases at a European level.CHRONIOUS is funded by the European Union under its 7th Framework Program. The project started on February 1st, 2008 and has a planned duration of three years and half. The CHRONIOUS team is a consortium of internationally renowned research labs in Europe, universities and private companies, who collaborate to define a European framework for a generic health status monitoring platform addressing people with chronic health conditions. CHRONIOUS addresses a smart wearable platform, based on multi-parametric sensors processing, for monitoring people suffering from chronic diseases. In particular CHRONIOUS will be tested with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) and renal insufficiency inpatients at their home.