Paper Info
Title
Real-Time Tele-Monitoring of Patients with Chronic Heart-Failure Using a Smartphone: Lessons Learned.
Abstract
We present a smartphone-based system for real-time tele-monitoring of physical activity in patients with chronic heart-failure (CHF). We recently completed a pilot study with 15 subjects to evaluate the feasibility of the proposed monitoring in the real world and examine its requirements, privacy implications, usability, and other challenges encountered by the participants and healthcare providers. Our tele-monitoring system was designed to assess patient activity via minute-by-minute energy expenditure (EE) estimated from accelerometry. In addition, we tracked relative user location via global positioning system (GPS) to track outdoors activity and measure walking distance. The system also administered daily surveys to inquire about vital signs and general cardiovascular symptoms. The collected data were securely transmitted to a central server where they were analyzed in real time and were accessible to the study medical staff to monitor patient health status and provide medical intervention if needed. Although the system was designed for tele-monitoring individuals with CHF, the challenges, privacy considerations, and lessons learned from this pilot study apply to other chronic health conditions, such as diabetes and hypertension, that would benefit from continuous monitoring through mobile-health (mHealth) technologies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/TAFFC.2016.2554118
IEEE Trans. Affective Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Monitoring,Medical services,Biomedical monitoring,Real-time systems,Global Positioning System,Servers,Heart
Server,Vital signs,mHealth,Artificial intelligence,Global Positioning System,Medical emergency,Health care,Heart failure,Simulation,Usability,Psychology,Continuous monitoring,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
3
1949-3045
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.55
8
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Aranki1132.10
Gregorij Kurillo249434.71
Posu Yan319012.09
David M. Liebovitz4539.26
Ruzena Bajcsy53621869.56