Design evaluation of a home-based telecare system for Chronic Heart Failure patients

Author

Gund, A. ; Ekman, I. ; Lindecrantz, K. ; Sjoqvist, B.A. ; Staaf, E.L. ; Thorneskold, N.

Author_Institution

Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

fYear

2008

fDate

20-25 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

5851

Lastpage

5854

Abstract

In order to improve the care of Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) patients, a system has been developed for monitoring symptoms and document subjective judgments on health conditions in a home environment. Since system usability is an important issue, a two step evaluation of the solution was conducted. First a ten-patient survey was conducted, which was aimed at spotting possible problem areas. The second step involved a small trial in a home setting with CHF patients. The results are promising, indicating that the system is user friendly and easy to use, and that it is suitable as a prototype for the intended use.

Keywords

Biomedical monitoring; Condition monitoring; Heart; IP networks; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Prototypes; Testing; USA Councils; Usability; Aged; Chronic Disease; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Heart Failure; Home Care Services; Humans; Monitoring, Physiologic; Patient Satisfaction; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1814-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4650545

Filename

4650545