A Personalised Self-Management System for Chronic Heart Failure

Author

Burns, W.P. ; Davies, R.J. ; Nugent, C.D. ; McCullagh, P.J. ; Zheng, H. ; Black, N D ; Mountain, G.A.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Ulster, Belfast, UK

fYear

2010

fDate

26-29 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1075

Lastpage

1078

Abstract

Within our current work we are developing a home based Personalised Self-Management System (PSMS) for persons suffering from Chronic Heart Failure (CHF). Users of the PSMS have the ability to record and monitor their health information such as blood pressure, heart rate and weight in addition to gross levels of activity on a daily basis. Through the use of a touchscreen computer and a smartphone in addition to a suite of telehealth devices it is possible for the PSMS to record health information whist providing summative feedback on gross activity. In this paper we present the technical details of the PSMS along with the initial feedback following evaluation conducted within a focus group setting.

Keywords

blood pressure measurement; cardiovascular system; diseases; medical information systems; telemedicine; blood pressure; chronic heart failure; health information; personalised self-management system; smartphone; telehealth devices; touchscreen computer; Biomedical monitoring; Diseases; Education; Heart; Monitoring; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing in Cardiology, 2010

Conference_Location

Belfast

ISSN

0276-6547

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7318-2

Type

conf

Filename

5738163