Objectives
HeartCycle aims to improve the quality of life for patients with coronary heart disease or heart failure by monitoring their condition and involving them in the daily management of their disease as well as by developing mechanisms to automatically report relevant monitoring data back to clinicians so that they can prescribe personalized therapies and lifestyle recommendations.
To this end, HeartCycle will develop:
- An integrated care system for cardiovascular disease management linking health status monitoring, motivation and treatment assistance at home with the professional care platform.
- A closed-loop treatment system, empowering the patient, and giving motivating feedback to show the importance of working with the treatment program.
- A tool for Health status Assessment for Patients at Home by integrating easy to use sensors for vital body sign measurement and feature extraction algorithms.
- Methods that provide accurate daily measurements related to medication and lifestyle effectiveness. This information will be integrated into the decision support system to warn the professional of unfavourable trends, and possible problems, enabling appropriate updating of the patient care plan. The system will also give feedback to the patient to inform him of his health progression, and enable a more optimal lifestyle management.
- A personalised complete care system, integrating care at home with professional care in the hospital. The HeartCycle system consists of two loops. An inner home-based loop directly interacts with the patient in his daily life, giving feedback, motivation and help, and an outer loop involves medical professionals, maintaining a personalised care plan for optimal therapy.
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The work leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement n° FP7-216695 |