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2009
Conference Paper
Titel
CHRONIOUS: A wearable system for the management of chronic disease patients
Abstract
The European Commission throughout the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and the CHRONIOUS project contributions supports the design and the development of an open architecture monitoring platform aiming on the detailed description of patient's health status focusing on people with chronic diseases. Essential modules on CHRONIOUS system are the wearable platform responsible for the collection of several vital body signs, environmental, context and patient's activity signals. These data together with the description of patients' drug intake and dietary habits are analyzed in the CHRONIOUS intelligent module. The patient's history and his demographic data are estimated in relation with the rest of the signals, concluding in the description of his recent health condition and the estimation of his severity status. The system will be utilized by the clinicians, the patients and the healthcare providers. As pilot studies for the development and the evaluation of the CHRONIOUS system, two of the most frequent chronic diseases have been selected. These are the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). The design of the CHRONIOUS architecture as well as some of the initial prototype experiments with results are presented in the following manuscript.