Title :
Wearable and Mobile System to Manage Remotely Heart Failure
Author :
Villalba, E. ; Salvi, D. ; Ottaviano, M. ; Peinado, I. ; Arredondo, M.T. ; Akay, A.
Author_Institution :
Fotonics Dept., Tech. Univ. of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Abstract :
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) account for 45% of all deaths in the western world according to the 2004 World Health Organization statistics report. Heart failure (HF), CVD´s primary paradigm, mainly affects people older than 65. The European MyHeart Project´s mission is to empower citizens to fight CVD by leading a preventative lifestyle and allowing early diagnosis. This paper presents the iterative design and development of the HF management system, part of MyHeart Project. The system daily measures vital body signals to assess HF. The methodology applied herein has involved stakeholders in an iterative process: concept validation, feasibility, efficiency, patients´ experience, and patients´ acceptance. The final solution allows patient self-management of their chronic condition.
Keywords :
ad hoc networks; biomedical telemetry; body area networks; cardiovascular system; diseases; health care; medical computing; medical disorders; medical signal detection; mobile radio; patient monitoring; MyHeart Project; World Health Organization; ad hoc monitoring sensor; body signal measurement; cardiovascular disease; heart failure; iterative software design process; mobile system; patient self-management; wearable sensors; wearable system; Goal-oriented design; heart failure (HF) patients; mobile systems; personalized applications; personalized health systems; wearable systems; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Clothing; Equipment Design; Heart Failure; Humans; Medical Informatics; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Telemetry; User-Computer Interface;
Journal_Title :
Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TITB.2009.2026572
