Wearable and mobile system to manage remotely heart failure

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), CVDs primary paradigm, mainly affects people older than 65. The European MyHeart Projects 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. © 2006 IEEE.

Año de publicación:

2009

Keywords:

• Heart failure (HF) patients
• Personalized applications
• Goal-oriented design
• Wearable systems
• Mobile systems
• Personalized health systems

Fuente:

scopus