Health @ Home: A telecare system for patients with chronic heart failure

Sanchez-Tato, Isabel; Senciales, Jose Carlos; Salinas, José; Fanucci, Luca; Pardini, Giuseppe; Costalli, Filippo; Dalmiani, S.; Higuera, J.M. De La; Vukovic, Zlatko; Cicigoj, Zlatko

doi:10.1109/ib2com.2010.5723634

Cited by 13 publications

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“…It is used to monitor patients with chronic heart failure. 12 Its hardware is based on wearable ECG, SpO2, weight, blood pressure, chest impedance, respiration and posture sensors. The sensors communicate via Bluetooth with the home gateway which then forwards the aggregated biosignals to a remote server.…”

Section: Cardiovascular Domainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Medical Virtual Instrumentation for Ambient Assisted Living: Part 2 Practice and Case Studies

Adeluyi

Lee

2015

Measurement and Control

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In this article, we discuss how medical virtual instruments are used for ambient assisted living technologies. Ambient assisted living technologies enable seniors to age well in the comfort of their homes. Case studies are used to describe some ways that medical virtual instruments are being used to support ambient assisted living in the key disease domains of cardiovascular, neurologic, hormonal and musculoskeletal health. The article also discusses the open research issues and future perspectives relating to the use of medical virtual instruments in these domains.

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Section: Cardiovascular Domainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Medical Virtual Instrumentation for Ambient Assisted Living: Part 2 Practice and Case Studies

Adeluyi

Lee

2015

Measurement and Control

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“…In our particular domain, Bravo et al [2] propose a model to collect monitoring data by using mobile devices. On the one hand, the Health Buddy System project [3] connects patients at their homes with physicians to avoid the hospitalization; and the Health@Home project [4] presents a monitoring system for people affected by chronic heart failure. This system connects a home care system with the Hospital Information System and the patient is monitored through wireless sensors.…”

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Mobile Monitoring and Reasoning Methods to Prevent Cardiovascular Diseases

Hervás

Fontecha

Ausín

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Sensors

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With the recent technological advances, it is possible to monitor vital signs using Bluetooth-enabled biometric mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets or electric wristbands. In this manuscript, we present a system to estimate the risk of cardiovascular diseases in Ambient Assisted Living environments. Cardiovascular disease risk is obtained from the monitoring of the blood pressure by means of mobile devices in combination with other clinical factors, and applying reasoning techniques based on the Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation Project charts. We have developed an end-to-end software application for patients and physicians and a rule-based reasoning engine. We have also proposed a conceptual module to integrate recommendations to patients in their daily activities based on information proactively inferred through reasoning techniques and context-awareness. To evaluate the platform, we carried out usability experiments and performance benchmarks.

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“…Figure 7(c) shows the envelope signal of the peaks. The analysis of the intervals between consecutive R peaks, using a 30 seconds window shifted along the time axis by 5 seconds length steps [39], allows to calculate the heart rate.…”

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Operating Protocol and Networking Issues of a Telemedicine Platform Integrating from Wireless Home Sensors to the Hospital Information System

Donati

Bacchillone

Fanucci

et al. 2013

Journal of Computer Networks and Communications

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Chronic heart failure (CHF) is among the major causes of hospitalization for elderly citizens. Its considerable impact on patient quality of life, the resources congestion, and the related costs can be efficiently mitigated using remote wireless biosensors networks placed at patient home, able to communicate in secure way over the public Internet with the cardiology departmental Hospital Information System (HIS). In this way, physicians can monitor the situation of several patients at distance and quickly realize and act alterations in vital parameters. In this scenario, the Health@Home (H@H) platform is conceived. The pool of Bluetooth sensors enables patients to daily collect vital signs at home in noninvasive fashion. A home gateway receives and processes all signals before sending them to a server node in charge of interfacing with the usual HIS. The novel concept of operating protocol (OP) represents a list of actions, remotely configurable, that the domestic network has to follow (required measurements, transmissions, comparisons with personalized thresholds, etc.). The first medical tests on 30 patients (1 month) allowed to verify the model, both from the patient and the medical perspective. The main evaluation metrics were usability, flexibility, and reliability of the communication from sensors to HIS.

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Health @ Home: A telecare system for patients with chronic heart failure

Cited by 13 publications

References 4 publications

Medical Virtual Instrumentation for Ambient Assisted Living: Part 2 Practice and Case Studies

Medical Virtual Instrumentation for Ambient Assisted Living: Part 2 Practice and Case Studies

Mobile Monitoring and Reasoning Methods to Prevent Cardiovascular Diseases

Operating Protocol and Networking Issues of a Telemedicine Platform Integrating from Wireless Home Sensors to the Hospital Information System

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