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Cloud-Based Smart Health Monitoring System for Automatic Cardiovascular and Fall Risk Assessment in Hypertensive Patients

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The aim of this paper is to describe the design and the preliminary validation of a platform developed to collect and automatically analyze biomedical signals for risk assessment of vascular events and falls in hypertensive patients. This m-health platform, based on cloud computing, was designed to be flexible, extensible, and transparent, and to provide proactive remote monitoring via data-mining functionalities. A retrospective study was conducted to train and test the platform. The developed system was able to predict a future vascular event within the next 12 months with an accuracy rate of 84 % and to identify fallers with an accuracy rate of 72 %. In an ongoing prospective trial, almost all the recruited patients accepted favorably the system with a limited rate of inadherences causing data losses (<20 %). The developed platform supported clinical decision by processing tele-monitored data and providing quick and accurate risk assessment of vascular events and falls.

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Acknowledgments

The current study was partially supported by “the 2007–2013 NOP for Research and Competitiveness for the Convergence Regions (Calabria, Campania, Puglia and Sicilia)” with code PON04a3_00139 - Project Smart Health and Artificial intelligence for Risk Estimation.

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  1. Multidisciplinary Department of Medical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, Second University of Naples, Via Pansini, 5, Naples, 80138, Italy

    P. Melillo & A. Orrico

  2. SHARE Project - Italian Ministry of Education, Research and University, Via Pansini, 5, Naples, 80138, Italy

    A. Orrico & P. Scala

  3. Business Engineering, Via Annarumma, 22, Avellino, 83100, Italy

    F. Crispino

  4. School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

    L. Pecchia

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Melillo, P., Orrico, A., Scala, P. et al. Cloud-Based Smart Health Monitoring System for Automatic Cardiovascular and Fall Risk Assessment in Hypertensive Patients. J Med Syst 39, 109 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-015-0294-3

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