MoSHCA - my mobile and smart health care assistant

Author

Hommersom, Arjen ; Lucas, Peter J. F. ; Velikova, Marina ; Dal, Giso ; Bastos, Joao ; Rodriguez, Jose ; Germs, Marleen ; Schwietert, Henk

Author_Institution

Inst. for Comput. & Inf. Sci., Radboud Univ., Nijmegen, Netherlands

fYear

2013

fDate

9-12 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

188

Lastpage

192

Abstract

MoSHCA is a mHealth project designed to improve patient-doctor interaction and to promote the self-management of chronic diseases by the patients themselves. The number of people with a chronic disease is dramatically increasing worldwide. This is becoming a major obstacle for economic stability and growth and the sustainability of national health care systems. The introduction of self-management by patients with a chronic disease seems inevitable as a countermeasure against these developments. MoSHCA provides intelligent, user-friendly and secure, medical and well-being decision support through embedded software in mobile devices by utilizing specific sensors and data from customized information systems.

Keywords

decision support systems; diseases; embedded systems; health care; human computer interaction; medical information systems; mobile computing; smart phones; MoSHCA; chronic diseases; economic stability; embedded software; information systems; mHealth project; mobile and smart health care assistant; mobile devices; national health care systems; patient-doctor interaction; self-management; sustainability; Bayes methods; Diseases; Intelligent sensors; Mobile communication; Monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Health Networking, Applications & Services (Healthcom), 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5800-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HealthCom.2013.6720664

Filename

6720664