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Improved Surveillance of Haemophilia Home Treatment Using Mobile Phones

Authors:
David Schmoldt
Andreas Rösch
Ulrich Hasenkamp
Wolfgang Mondorf
Hartmut Pollmann

Keywords: Telemedicine; mobile phones; mobile application development; home treatment; chronic disease; Haemohilia.

Abstract:
Haemophilia is an inherited blood coagulation disorder which results in permanent disability due to repeated bleeding and early death. The availability of plasma derived or recombinant coagulation concentrates reduces the symptoms of this disease and allows the patient to live an almost normal life. The missing coagulation factor is administered intravenously on demand in case of bleeding symptoms or as prophylactic regimen mostly three times per week. The German law and also the law of many other countries require thorough documentation of inhospital and patient home treatment. The common way of documentation is by paper diary. Professional control of home treatment is delayed until presentation at the haemophilia center and does not allow immediate monitoring of bleeding and treatment measures. Only the use of telemetric systems may provide possibilities for online documentation and therefore early recognition of critical bleeding episodes or concentrate use. In collaboration with medical experts on haemophilia treatment and on the basis of experiences with the electronic diary system “HaemoassistTM” as well as the use of the modern smartphones technology, a new telemetric system was developed at the Philipps-University in Marburg (Germany). This paper provides an overview of the new concept named “smart medication”.

Pages: 143 to 146

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: January 30, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-179-3

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from January 30, 2012 to February 4, 2012