Novel approach for ensuring increased validity in home blood pressure monitoring

Stefan Wagner; Thomas Skjodeberg Toftegaard; Olav W. Bertelsen

4th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Research Article

Novel approach for ensuring increased validity in home blood pressure monitoring

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8899,
    author={Stefan Wagner and Thomas Skjodeberg Toftegaard and Olav W. Bertelsen},
    title={Novel approach for ensuring increased validity in home blood pressure monitoring},
    proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
    proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
    year={2010},
    month={6},
    keywords={pervasive health care; telemedicine; hypertension; home blood pressure; recommendations; white coat effect.},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8899}
}

Stefan Wagner
Thomas Skjodeberg Toftegaard
Olav W. Bertelsen
Year: 2010
Novel approach for ensuring increased validity in home blood pressure monitoring
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8899

Stefan Wagner¹^,*, Thomas Skjodeberg Toftegaard²^,*, Olav W. Bertelsen³^,*

1: Aarhus School of Engineering, Aarhus University, Dalgas A venue 2, Aarhus, Denmark
2: Aarhus School of Engineering, Aarhus University, Aabogade 34, Aarhus, Denmark
3: Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Aabogade 34, Aarhus, Denmark

*Contact email: sw@iha.dk, tst@cs.au.dk, olavb@cs.au.dk

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel technique to increase the validity of home blood pressure monitoring by using various sensor technologies as part of an intelligent environment platform in the home of the user. A range of recommendations exists on how to obtain a valid blood pressure but with the devices currently available it cannot be verified whether a user is actually following the recommendations or not. An initial prototype is presented implementing part of the proposed solution including a limited pilot study as a status on the work in progress. Results indicate that the solution is technical feasible.

Keywords: pervasive health care; telemedicine; hypertension; home blood pressure; recommendations; white coat effect.

Published: 2010-06-07

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8899