Towards a Personal Health Records system for patients with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) show symptoms that in general fall into three areas: 1) social impairment; 2) communication difficulties; and, 3) repetitive and stereotyped behaviors. The growing of people affected by such as diseases increases the need of technologies able to help better clinicians in the medical treatment. In this paper we present the designing and the developing of a Personal Health Records (PHR) system to assist clinicians and caregivers in the analyzing of clinical data and monitoring of anomalous gestures of patients with autism diseases. The detecting of anomalous gesture is made by using both Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques and a framework based on formal methods. The research activity has been conducted in cooperation with clinicians of the Department of Child Psychiatry at Children's Hospital Santobono-Pausilipon in Naples.

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