Paper Info
Title
Experiences Using Mobile Phones as Patient-Terminal for Telemedical Home Care and Therapy Monitoring of Patients Suffering from Chronic Diseases
Abstract
Optimizing the treatment of chronic diseases requires continuous monitoring of the health status. With standard information and communication technology this challenge can be solved, with respect to special needs of patients, stated as marginal effort and simple handling. We present a therapy-management-system where patients acquired their health data using a Java-application running on mobile phones. The data were transferred to the health centre, which provided data visualization, individual feedback, reminders and surveillance of critical events. The system was evaluated in the course of two clinical trials with patients suffering from diabetes mellitus. Seven out of ten patients of the first trial returned questionnaires and reported feasibility of the concept for regular daily use. Patients of the second trial reported problems to a telephone-hotline, most were related to faulty data insertion. Based on their high user acceptance and ubiquitous availability mobile phones show the potential to be the patient-terminal of choice.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-70540-6_195
ICCHP
Keywords
Field
DocType
data visualization,health status,continuous monitoring,communication technology,telemedical home care,chronic disease,faulty data insertion,chronic diseases,mobile phones,therapy monitoring,mobile phone,health centre,clinical trial,health data,information and communication technology,diabetes mellitus,management system
Telemedicine,Data visualization,Special needs,Clinical trial,eHealth,Continuous monitoring,Information and Communications Technology,Medical emergency,Mobile phone,Medicine
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5105
0302-9743
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.96
3
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthias Pinsker141.96
Karin Schindler241.96
Jürgen Morak3296.17
Dieter Hayn4289.62
Peter Kastner541.96
Michaela Riedl641.96
Bernhard Ludvik741.96
Günter Schreier85623.73