E-Care Project: A Promising E-Platform for Optimizing Management of Chronic Heart Failure and Other Chronic Diseases

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Citation ABSTRACTMonitoring patients with heart failure by using telemedicine systems is a potential means for optimizing the management of these patients. The E-care project is developing an "intelligent" communicative platform enabling the home monitoring of patients with New York Heart Association (NYHA) Stage III heart failure using non-invasive sensors. As a result, this platform will assist health care professionals by providing an automated processing of these sensors' transmitted data in order to detect and report signs of cardiac decompensation early.

Telemedicine for Chronic Heart Failure: An Update

“…It is worth bearing in mind that these projects, particularly the earlier ones, more closely resembled a telephone follow-up with care providers (such as a nurse) traveling to the patient's home ("structured telephone monitoring" (Table 2)), rather than telemedicine as we consider it nowadays, with nonintrusive, automated, smart telemonitoring using remote sensors and modern communication technology or even artificial intelligence (AI) ("telemedicine 2.0") ( Table 2) [4,20]. Hence, in our opinion, these studies represent the first generation of telemedicine projects [4,14].…”

“…Particular applications of AI include expert systems, speech recognition, and machine vision. I) and small-sized patient samples (between 50 and 1000 patients), with very short follow-up periods (between 3 months and 1 year) [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. Moreover, most of these studies were based only on weight variations, without including other warning or monitoring parameters (see Table 2).…”

“…Aside from these medical considerations, it is worth noting that all the studies seem to agree that using telemedicine solutions in CHF management proved at least economically beneficial (Table 1) [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. Depending on the study, the savings were estimated at between $5000 and >$50,000/year/patient according to the CHF stage and study setting.…”

“…Over the last 4 to 5 years, a second generation of projects has emerged in the CHF area, particularly in France [20,[27][28][29][30][31][32]. These projects are known as "telemedicine 2.0", because they utilize the new information and communication technology (ICT) and the Internet.…”

Research on the Modern Intelligent Healthcare Platform from the Perspectives of Grid based Cloud Computing and Information Management System Assisted Internet of Things Technology

“…Mobile computing technology refers to the mobile terminal through wireless communications and other mobile terminal information interaction or fixed computing devices have a purpose. Mobile computing to the far of moving objects detection and early warning and support the rapid transmission of data, for the medical staff of first aid to win time [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. (4) The Internet of things technology.…”