Combining Pervasive Technologies and Cloud Computing for COPD and Comorbidities Management

Chouvarda, Ioanna; Kilintzis, Vassilis; Haris, Kostas; Kaimakamis, Vasilios; Perantoni, Eleni; Maglaveras, Nicos; Mendes, Luís; Lucio, C.; Teixeira, César; Henriques, J.; Carvalho, Paulo; Paiva, Rui Pedro; D’Arcy, Shona; Philip, Nada; Chételat, Olivier; Wacker, Josias; Rapin, M; Meier, C.; Porchet, Jacques-André; Frerichs, Inéz; Raptopoulos, Andreas

doi:10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257485

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“…However, some studies show that effective management of COPD through integrated care systems, mHealth, and other technologies has the potential to both benefit the patient and reduce hospitalization costs in long-term management of COPD [ 9 , 10 ]. Comorbidities such as heart failure and diabetes add to the disease burden [ 11 , 12 ]. Providing the patient with the right care at the right time is crucial in order to prevent exacerbations, reduce hospitalization, and reduce mortality risks.…”

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Features of a Mobile Support App for Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Literature Review and Current Applications

Sobnath¹,

Philip²,

Kayyali³

et al. 2017

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth

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BackgroundChronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a serious long-term lung disease in which the airflow from the lungs is progressively reduced. By 2030, COPD will become the third cause of mortality and seventh cause of morbidity worldwide. With advances in technology and mobile communications, significant progress in the mobile health (mHealth) sector has been recently observed. Mobile phones with app capabilities (smartphones) are now considered as potential media for the self-management of certain types of diseases such as asthma, cancer, COPD, or cardiovascular diseases. While many mobile apps for patients with COPD are currently found on the market, there is little published material on the effectiveness of most of them, their features, and their adoption in health care settings.ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to search the literature for current systems related to COPD and identify any missing links and studies that were carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of COPD mobile apps. In addition, we reviewed existing mHealth apps from different stores in order to identify features that can be considered in the initial design of a COPD support tool to improve health care services and patient outcomes.MethodsIn total, 206 articles related to COPD management systems were identified from different databases. Irrelevant materials and duplicates were excluded. Of those, 38 articles were reviewed to extract important features. We identified 214 apps from online stores. Following exclusion of irrelevant apps, 48 were selected and 20 of them were downloaded to review some of their common features.ResultsOur review found that out of the 20 apps downloaded, 13 (65%, 13/20) had an education section, 5 (25%, 5/20) consisted of medication and guidelines, 6 (30%, 6/20) included a calendar or diary and other features such as reminders or symptom tracking. There was little published material on the effectiveness of the identified COPD apps. Features such as (1) a social networking tool; (2) personalized education; (3) feedback; (4) e-coaching; and (5) psychological motivation to enhance behavioral change were found to be missing in many of the downloaded apps.ConclusionsThis paper summarizes the features of a COPD patient-support mobile app that can be taken into consideration for the initial design of an integrated care system to encourage the self-management of their condition at home.

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Features of a Mobile Support App for Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Literature Review and Current Applications

Sobnath¹,

Philip²,

Kayyali³

et al. 2017

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth

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Clinical flows and decision support systems for co-ordinated and integrated care in COPD

Chouvarda

Kilintzis

Beredimas

et al. 2016

2016 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI)

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WELCOME project aims at the development of a technical solution that will leverage integrated care of COPD and comorbidities via wearable technologies, user applications and cloud computing. This work focuses on the latter part and proposes technological approaches that will enable standardized cloud based data management and analytics in a challenging multimorbid health scenario. WELCOME cloud approach encompasses the data model and semantics binding to HL7-FHIR, the persistent data storage for performance and scalability, and the orchestration in a loose coupling with the feature extraction services. While DSS is currently being built on existing clinical knowledge combining the calculated features, the richness of new features and their solid semantics will enable the generation of new knowledge towards a learning health system. This can leverage coordinated care for the management of COPD and comorbidities.

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Combining Pervasive Technologies and Cloud Computing for COPD and Comorbidities Management

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Features of a Mobile Support App for Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Literature Review and Current Applications

Features of a Mobile Support App for Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Literature Review and Current Applications

Clinical flows and decision support systems for co-ordinated and integrated care in COPD

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