Managing COPD exacerbations with telemedicine

Maarten Van Der Heijden*, Bas Lijnse, Peter J.F. Lucas, Yvonne F. Heijdra, Tjard R.J. Schermer

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Abstract

Managing chronic disease through automated systems has the potential to both benefit the patient and reduce health-care costs. We are developing and evaluating a monitoring system for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease which aims to detect exacerbations and thus help patients manage their disease and prevent hospitalisation. We have carefully drafted a system design consisting of an intelligent device that is able to alert the patient, collect case-specific, subjective and objective, physiological data, offer a patient-specific interpretation of the collected data by means of probabilistic reasoning, and send data to a central server for inspection by health-care professionals. A first pilot with actual COPD patients suggests that an intervention based on this system could be successful.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial Intelligence in Medicine - 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2011, Proceedings
Pages169-178
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2011 - Bled, Slovenia
Duration: 2 Jul 20116 Jul 2011
Conference number: 13

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6747 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2011
Abbreviated titleAIME
Country/TerritorySlovenia
CityBled
Period2/07/116/07/11

Keywords

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