Key result
An architecture combining health devices, environmental sensors, and an information system was developed and implemented as a web and mobile app to empower patients with hypertension.
The proposed BPM and IoT-based architecture aims to improve patient empowerment and adherence in hypertension management.
Feasibility of sensor-based hypertension app shown; leaves open whether it improves adherence or outcomes in practice.
Hypertension affects one in five adults worldwide. Healthcare processes require interdisciplinary cooperation and coordination between medical teams, clinical processes, and patients. The lack of patients' empowerment and adherence to treatment makes necessary to integrate patients, data collecting devices and clinical processes. For this reason, in this paper we propose a model based on Business Process Management paradigm, together with a group of technologies, techniques and IT principles which increase the benefits of the paradigm. To achieve the proposed model, the clinical process of the hypertension is analyzed with the objective of detecting weaknesses and improving the process. Once the process is analyzed, an architecture that joins health devices and environmental sensors, together with an information system, has been developed. To test the architecture, a web system connected with health monitors and environment sensors, and with a mobile app have been implemented.
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Fernández et al. (2017) studied Hypertension. Business Process Management model with IoT and remote sensing was evaluated. An architecture combining health devices, environmental sensors, and an information system was developed and implemented as a web and mobile app to empower patients with hypertension.
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