Connected Care Home platforms: Promoting self-management by empowering patients

Abstract

Remote patient monitoring systems are increasingly gaining attention among researchers and healthcare providers who have also started adopting innovative solutions. It is easy to understand why remote monitoring platforms would enhance treatment efficiency and access to healthcare solutions for patients who face difficulties travelling to hospitals, especially older persons and chronic patients who require frequent monitoring of their vital signs and other health indicators, rehabilitation or other social and healthcare support. Therefore, these platforms are, in turn, sources of information for patients about their disease. The fact that they have access to information gives them more knowledge and makes them more in touch with and responsible for it. It empowers them. Besides, from a clinician's point of view, these platforms are a storage system for providing valuable and varied patient information, thus allowing them to have a holistic view of their patients and empowering them. In short, access to and availability of information empowers the patient-clinical staff team.Once these data have been collected, a thorough analysis and interpretation is necessary. This interpretation requires the interdisciplinary collaboration of the technical-clinical and scientific community to develop relevant and exciting functionalities for the improvement of health.This study presents a collection of case studies that collect some insight into the design based on human factors and user experience applied to three monitoring technologies and artificial intelligence algorithms to improve the prevention and management of different conditions.The usability and acceptance measures are generally well received and successful and are particularly effective when conducted during the preparation of the experiment. In other words, if the experiment includes the end-user (patient and clinical staff) as part of the design.

Keywords: Remote Monitoring, Home Healthcare, Empowerment, Chronic Patients, Older Persons, Human Factors, User Experience, Internet Of Things, User-Centred

DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1005066