Managing COPD exacerbations with telemedicine

  • Authors:
  • Maarten Van Der Heijden;Bas Lijnse;Peter J. F. Lucas;Yvonne F. Heijdra;Tjard R. J. Schermer

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands and Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherl ...;Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands;Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands;Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands;Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • AIME'11 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Artificial intelligence in medicine
  • Year:
  • 2011

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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 casespecific, 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.