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Empowerment of Patients with Hypertension through BPM, IoT and Remote Sensing

Hypertension affects one in five adults worldwide. Healthcare processes require interdisciplinary cooperation and coordination between medical teams, clinical processes, and patients. The lack of patients’ empowerment and adherence to treatment makes necessary to integrate patients, data collecting...

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Autores principales: Ruiz-Fernández, Daniel, Marcos-Jorquera, Diego, Gilart-Iglesias, Virgilio, Vives-Boix, Víctor, Ramírez-Navarro, Javier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5677452/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28976940
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17102273
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author Ruiz-Fernández, Daniel
Marcos-Jorquera, Diego
Gilart-Iglesias, Virgilio
Vives-Boix, Víctor
Ramírez-Navarro, Javier
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description Hypertension affects one in five adults worldwide. Healthcare processes require interdisciplinary cooperation and coordination between medical teams, clinical processes, and patients. The lack of patients’ empowerment and adherence to treatment makes necessary to integrate patients, data collecting devices and clinical processes. For this reason, in this paper we propose a model based on Business Process Management paradigm, together with a group of technologies, techniques and IT principles which increase the benefits of the paradigm. To achieve the proposed model, the clinical process of the hypertension is analyzed with the objective of detecting weaknesses and improving the process. Once the process is analyzed, an architecture that joins health devices and environmental sensors, together with an information system, has been developed. To test the architecture, a web system connected with health monitors and environment sensors, and with a mobile app have been implemented.
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spelling pubmed-56774522017-11-17 Empowerment of Patients with Hypertension through BPM, IoT and Remote Sensing Ruiz-Fernández, Daniel Marcos-Jorquera, Diego Gilart-Iglesias, Virgilio Vives-Boix, Víctor Ramírez-Navarro, Javier Sensors (Basel) Article Hypertension affects one in five adults worldwide. Healthcare processes require interdisciplinary cooperation and coordination between medical teams, clinical processes, and patients. The lack of patients’ empowerment and adherence to treatment makes necessary to integrate patients, data collecting devices and clinical processes. For this reason, in this paper we propose a model based on Business Process Management paradigm, together with a group of technologies, techniques and IT principles which increase the benefits of the paradigm. To achieve the proposed model, the clinical process of the hypertension is analyzed with the objective of detecting weaknesses and improving the process. Once the process is analyzed, an architecture that joins health devices and environmental sensors, together with an information system, has been developed. To test the architecture, a web system connected with health monitors and environment sensors, and with a mobile app have been implemented. MDPI 2017-10-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5677452/ /pubmed/28976940 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s17102273 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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