CHF

The goal of this project is to apply ICT in order to provide an innovative solution for truly integrated patient-centric care for CHF.

This solution will comprise several innovative components:

• Use of ontologies and automatic inference on formalized medical knowledge of the disease domain, in order to provide advanced decision support on the workstation (so-called semantic reasoning).
• Use of the latest telematics technology to send patient data directly from the home environment to the care providers (telemonitoring)
• Use of new sensing technology to measure, apart from weight and BP, also more advanced signals such as electrocardiogram (ECG), electrical impedance tomography (EIT), activity, etc.
• Multimodal communication between the actors according to the latest or upcoming standards.
• Advanced signal processing and -classification on the incoming patient data, such as the ECG.
• Proving the possibility to make a self-learning system that can derive new rules from the history of in- and outputs. This would be the true realization of "evidence based medicine", something which has been hitherto a dream far from concrete.