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Patient-Buddy-Build: Customized Mobile Monitoring for Patients with Chronic Diseases

Authors:
Vitor Pinheiro
Markus Endler
Edward Hermann

Keywords: mobile health; patient monitoring; ontologies; expert system; context-aware application

Abstract:
This work consists of developing a tool for generating mobile apps containing a questionnaire tailored to the distance monitoring of patients with chronic diseases. The customization is based on parameters and formal descriptions such as patient preferences, type of chronic disease, monitoring process required by the doctor, prescribed medication and information about the context (i.e. environment) of the patient, that are to be obtained from sensors. The questionnaire generated from this data should be completed by the patient with his/her condition and possible symptoms. These pieces of informations will be sent by the mobile app together with the data from the sensors to the responsible physician. The medical treatment and the kind of chronic disease will define the set of information to be collected. It should be stressed that the goal is not to support automatic diagnosis, but only to provide means for physicians to obtain updated information about their patients, so as to allow remote monitoring of patients.

Pages: 121 to 124

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: February 24, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-252-3

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013