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PatchAi: An e-Health Application Powered by an AI Virtual Assistant to Support Patients in Their Clinical Trials

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In the last decade, there has been a rapid widespread of applications that support different types of patients in self-managing some aspects concerning their health (e.g., drugs assumption) and reporting specific relevant events (e.g., symptoms) daily. Furthermore, these apps turn out to be very important for patients in social isolation and lockdown due to pandemics in which direct contact with their physicians may be hampered and not frequent. Despite the importance of such applications, patients often cease to use them for several reasons increasing the drop-out rate of clinical research. The current paper describes PatchAi, an end-to-end patient engagement solution. The mobile health solution of PatchAi has been designed and developed following a user-centric perspective, intended to support patients and doctors, reduce drop-out rates, while improving patient adherence to protocols and care schedules in clinical trials.

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    Luciano Gamberini, Patrik Pluchino, Luigi Porto & Filippo Zordan

  2. PatchAi S.r.L, Padua, PD, Italy

    Alessandro Monterosso, Kumara Palanivel & Adriano Fontanari

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Gamberini, L. et al. (2021). PatchAi: An e-Health Application Powered by an AI Virtual Assistant to Support Patients in Their Clinical Trials. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. (eds) HCI International 2021 - Posters. HCII 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1421. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78645-8_39

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