CHRONIOUS: A wearable system for the management of chronic disease patients

CHRONIOUS project contributions supports the design and the development of an open architecture monitoring platform aiming on the detailed description of patient's health status focusing on people with chronic diseases. Essential modules of the CHRONIOUS system are the wearable platform responsible for the collection of several vital body signs, environmental, context and patient's activity signals. These data together with the description of patients' drug intake and dietary habits are analyzed by the CHRONIOUS intelligent module. The patient's history and his demographic data are processed along with the rest of the signals, concluding in the description of his recent health condition and the estimation of his severity status. As pilot studies for the development and the evaluation of the CHRONIOUS system, two of the most frequent chronic diseases have been selected: the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). The architecture of the CHRONIOUS platform as well as some of the initial results are presented in this paper.