Title :
Yet another hypertension telehealth solution? The rules will tell you
Author :
Lehocki, Fedor ; Kossaczky, Igor ; Homola, Martin ; Skalicky, Daniel ; Mydliar, Marek ; Thurzo, Andrej
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Electr. Eng. & Inf. Technol., Slovak Univ. of Technol. in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
Abstract :
Presented telehealth system employs `complete loop´ approach in management of hypertension patients with comorbidities consisting of remote patient´s data acquisition, data collection, expert review and feedback. Expert review employs ontology and editable rule module for generating alerts based on the values of blood pressure and contextual information related to patient´s health status (discomfort, headache, etc.). Feedback is carried out by healthcare provider contacting patients by phone call to manage their medication and lifestyle habits. Based on usability evaluation patients are willing to use telehealth system in long term (for several years) in management of their hypertension condition.
Keywords :
data acquisition; diseases; feedback; health care; ontologies (artificial intelligence); patient care; telemedicine; blood pressure; complete loop approach; contextual information; data acquisition; data collection; expert review; feedback; healthcare provider; hypertension condition; hypertension patient management; hypertension telehealth solution; ontology; patient health status; rule module; telehealth system; usability evaluation; Biomedical measurement; Blood pressure; Hypertension; Knowledge based systems; Ontologies; Pressure measurement; hypertension; mHealth; management; ontology; rule based system; telehealth;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (IECBES), 2014 IEEE Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/IECBES.2014.7047554
