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HeartHealth: A cardiovascular disease home-based rehabilitation system

Chatzitofis, Anargyros, Monaghan, David orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-5169-9902, Mitchell, Edmond, Honohan, Freddie, Zarpalas, Dimitrios orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-9649-9306, O'Connor, Noel E. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-4033-9135 and Daras, Petros orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-3814-6710 (2015) HeartHealth: A cardiovascular disease home-based rehabilitation system. In: The 5th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH), 27-30 Sept 2015, Berlin, Germany.

Abstract
The increasing pressure on medical institutions around the world requires health care professionals to be prescribing homebased exercise rehabilitation treatments to empower patients to self-monitor their rehabilitation journey. Home-based exercise rehabilitation has shown to be highly effective in treating conditions such as Cardiovascular Disease (CVD). However, adherence to home-based exercise rehabilitation remains low. Possible causes for this are that patients are not monitored, they cannot be confident that they are performing the exercise correctly or accurately and they receive no feedback. This paper proposes HeartHealth, a novel patient-centric gamified exercise rehabilitation platform that can help address the issue of adherence to these programmes. The key functionality is the ability to record the patient movements and compare them against the exercises that have been prescribed in order to return feedback to the patient and to the health care professional, as well. In order to synthesize a compact fully operational system able to work in real life scenarios, tools and services from FI-PPP projects, FIWARE1 and FI-STAR2, were exploited and a new FI-STAR component, Motion Evaluation Specific Enabler (SE), was designed and developed. The HeartHealth system brings together real-time cloud-based motion evaluation coupled with accurate low-cost motion capture, a personalised exercise rehabilitation programme and an intuitive and fun serious game interface, designed specifically with a Cardiac Rehabilitation population in mind.
Metadata
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Computer Science > Interactive computer systems
Computer Science > Visualization
Medical Sciences > Health
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Electronic Engineering
Research Institutes and Centres > INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics
Published in: Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH). Procedia Computer Science 63. Elsevier.
Publisher:Elsevier
Official URL:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S...
Copyright Information:© 2015 Elsevier
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:20846
Deposited On:03 Nov 2015 11:22 by David Monaghan . Last Modified 03 Feb 2023 14:52
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