HeartCycle: Compliance and effectiveness in HF and CHD closed-loop management

Technologies

Sensors

New sensors: Cuff-less blood pressure, wearable SpO2, inductive impedance, electronic acupuncture system, Further sensor development: Contact-less ECG, Arrays of electret foils, Motion-compensation in ECG, Cardiac performance monitor (bio-imped.)

Decision Support System

• Patient and professional DSS
• Dynamic learning capabilities
• Personalised DSS
• Traceability
• Upgradeability (for incorporating new guidelines)
• Models for predicting the short-term and longterm effects of lifestyle and medication
• Models for obtaining an objective indicator of patient compliance

Patient platform

• Dynamic context awareness in a User Interaction Workflow
• Sensor network middleware for sensors abstraction
• Medication compliance coaching

Professional platform

• Management of chronic care plans (MyHeart: Warning system)
• Light workflow engine available for light devices with very high expressivity and easy to modify on execution

• Press
• Site Map
• Accessibility
• Designed by LST-UPM
• Supported by Lab of Medical Informatics A.U.Th.

The work leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement n° FP7-216695