A supportive environment for the long term management of knee osteoarthritis condition

Evangelia Maniadi; Emmanouil G. Spanakis; Apostolos Karantanas; Konstantinos Marias

5th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies"

Research Article

A supportive environment for the long term management of knee osteoarthritis condition

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.22-12-2015.151108,
    author={Evangelia Maniadi and Emmanouil G. Spanakis and Apostolos Karantanas and Konstantinos Marias},
    title={A supportive environment for the long term management of knee osteoarthritis condition},
    proceedings={5th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies"},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={MOBIHEALTH},
    year={2015},
    month={12},
    keywords={Digital patient osteoarthritis application self-management patient/citizen engagement personalized healthcare oaCARE},
    doi={10.4108/eai.22-12-2015.151108}
}

Evangelia Maniadi
Emmanouil G. Spanakis
Apostolos Karantanas
Konstantinos Marias
Year: 2015
A supportive environment for the long term management of knee osteoarthritis condition
MOBIHEALTH
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/eai.22-12-2015.151108

Evangelia Maniadi¹^,*, Emmanouil G. Spanakis²^,*, Apostolos Karantanas³^,*, Konstantinos Marias⁴^,*

1: Software Engineer, ICS, FORTH, N. Plastira 100, Heraklion, Greece
2: Collaborating Researcher, ICS, FORTH, N. Plastira 100, Heraklion, Greece
3: Professor of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Crete Voutes, Heraklion, Greece
4: Head of Computational BioMedicine Laboratory, ICS, FORTH, N. Plastira 100, Heraklion, Greece

*Contact email: maniadi@ics.forth.gr, spanakis@ics.forth.gr, karantanas@med.uoc.gr, kmarias@ics.forth.gr

Abstract

This paper describes the efforts for building a supportive and integrated environment for the long term management of knee osteoarthritis (OA) and is intended to be used by both patients and medical professionals. More specifically, medical professionals will be provided by a useful input regarding the health status of the patients as the related medical data will be properly visualized and presented. This will give a better insight of the condition and its progress, in order clinicians to carry out personalized medicine and better follow-up. On the other hand, patients will be provided by an environment that will monitor their lifestyle data (daily dietary and physical activity, pain level etc) and will warn them, if they do not manage to be compliant with the special medical guidelines. The monitoring will rely on techniques of self-life logging, enhancing patient engagement. Moreover, the platform will function as a supportive system to the patients by offering advice and assistance, allowing users to play a key role in monitoring and managing their own health. In this way, the oaCARE app was build and is described in detail in this work.

Keywords: Digital patient osteoarthritis application self-management patient/citizen engagement personalized healthcare oaCARE

Published: 2015-12-22
Publisher: ACM

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.22-12-2015.151108