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High Tech for Sports Medicine; Supporting Employees Improving Their Health and Fitness

Authors:
Hilco Prins
Marike Hettinga
Wasim Alsaqaf
Sietske van Berkel

Keywords: sports medicine; guidance; employees; training; medical examination

Abstract:
This work in progress paper describes the development of a eHealth system for sports physicians who support employees in improving their health and fitness. Regular physical activity improves quality of life and has various health benefits. Companies have an interest in the health and fitness of employees. Besides, sporting together can improve interaction between employees of different departments. For employers it is important to encourage this in a safe way. To this end, the sports physicians of Isala Hospital in Zwolle, The Netherlands, offer sports medical examination and guidance programs to companies. The sports physicians want to use smartphone technology to improve and expand their services. To that end, an online data tracking system will be developed that makes it possible to: give employees access to their medical examinations results with personalized standard values; insert goals and training schedules by participant, trainer or sports physician; couple sensors and apps for data entry by participants themselves; compare one’s results with those of (company) peers; automatically provide feedback to individual participants; support contact between participants and sports physician or trainer; produce management reports and perform scientific analyses. Since details of the end product are not clear yet, the incremental and iterative development method Scrum will be used to develop the system. We will further ‘feed’ the project with an elaborated state of the art study, small pilot studies and an expanded evaluation study. A first version of the central database and app has already been developed.

Pages: 224 to 227

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: February 22, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-384-1

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from February 22, 2015 to February 27, 2015