The tremendous prevalence and mortality of heart failure (HF), along with the social and economic impact of its consequences, make an appropriate disease management utmost important. In this context, telemedicine offers promising possibilities. Current clinical guidelines and technological solutions do not address the problem of monitoring at-risk patients and patients affected by mild HF for prevention purposes. The goal of this work is to design a service based on a telemedicine framework for the management of heart failure patients. The proposed service grounds the monitoring of the patient on a custom multi-sensor array that we designed and developed for the purpose. The description of the processes involved in the service was carried out by means of Process Modelling tools, and in particular through Swim Lane Activity Diagrams. The results look promising for the implementation of the service in a real-life scenario. The main strength of the service resides in a) the use of noninvasive monitoring technologies to include patients with a mild HF or at-risk patients; and b) the integration of hospital and territory services to grant continuity and coherence in the treatment.

Design of a Service for the Management of Heart Failure Patients Using Telemedicine / Giordano, Noemi; Rosati, Samanta; Macario, Elisa; Luigia Spaccapietra, Maria; Balestra, Gabriella (STUDIES IN HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATICS). - In: Telehealth Ecosystems in PracticeSTAMPA. - [s.l] : IOS Press, 2023. - ISBN 978-1-64368-450-5. - pp. 160-164 [10.3233/SHTI230766]

Design of a Service for the Management of Heart Failure Patients Using Telemedicine

Noemi Giordano;Samanta Rosati;Gabriella Balestra
2023

Abstract

The tremendous prevalence and mortality of heart failure (HF), along with the social and economic impact of its consequences, make an appropriate disease management utmost important. In this context, telemedicine offers promising possibilities. Current clinical guidelines and technological solutions do not address the problem of monitoring at-risk patients and patients affected by mild HF for prevention purposes. The goal of this work is to design a service based on a telemedicine framework for the management of heart failure patients. The proposed service grounds the monitoring of the patient on a custom multi-sensor array that we designed and developed for the purpose. The description of the processes involved in the service was carried out by means of Process Modelling tools, and in particular through Swim Lane Activity Diagrams. The results look promising for the implementation of the service in a real-life scenario. The main strength of the service resides in a) the use of noninvasive monitoring technologies to include patients with a mild HF or at-risk patients; and b) the integration of hospital and territory services to grant continuity and coherence in the treatment.
2023
978-1-64368-450-5
Telehealth Ecosystems in Practice
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