CHRONIOUS: An open, ubiquitous and adaptive chronic disease management platform for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and renal insufficiency

• Published in: 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Vol. 2010; pp. 6850 - 6853
• Main Authors: Rosso, R, Munaro, G, Salvetti, O, Colantonio, S, Ciancitto, F
• Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.01.2010
• Subjects: Biomedical monitoring; chronic disease management; Cognition; decision support system; Disease Management; Diseases; Humans; Kidney Failure, Chronic; Monitoring; ontology; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; Renal Insufficiency; sensor data analysis; Telemedicine; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; wearable
• ISBN: 1424441234; 9781424441235
• ISSN: 1094-687X; 1557-170X; 1558-4615
• DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626451

CHRONIOUS is an highly innovative Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) research Initiative that aspires to implement its vision for ubiquitous health and lifestyle monitoring. The 17 European project partners are strictly working together since February 2008 to realize and open platform to manage and monitor elderly patients with chronic diseases and many difficulties to reach hospital centers for routine controls. The testing activities will be done in Italy and Spain involving COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) and CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease) patients, these being widespread and highly expensive in terms of social and economic costs. Patients, equipped by wearable technologies and sensors and interacting with lifestyle interfaces, will be assisted by healthcare personnel able to check the health record and critical conditions through the Chronious platform data analysis and decision support system. Additionally, the new ontology based literature search engine will help the clinicians in the standardization of care delivery process. This paper is to present the main project objectives and its principal components from the intelligent system point of view.