Advanced multi-sensor platform for chronic disease home monitoring

Nowadays chronic diseases affect an ever-growing segment of population in developed countries; and the management of such kind of diseases requires a huge amount of resources. Chronic Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, etc. are the main causes of hospitalization for elderly people, and considering the general aging of population this may lead sustainability problems in the near future. In the last years, clinicians and administrators have identified the telemedicine as strategy to improve the patient management, ensuring both a decreasing of hospital admissions and improving the patient's quality of life. This paper presents a complete system for the management of the healthcare information related to the chronic patient treatment, integrating three main points: a configurable multi-sensor platform for the acquisition and transmission of vital signs, a dedicated server for the provisioning of centralized telemedicine services and the possibility of synchronizing with the electronic health record.

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