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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title Closing the Loop for Patients with Chronic Diseases - from Problems to a Solution Architecture
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Andri Färber
  • Alexandre de Spindler
  • Andrina Moser
  • Gerhard Schwabe
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed No
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Page Range 1 - 11
Event Title The 11th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics
Event Type conference
Event Location Houston, Texas
Event Start Date June 26 - 2023
Event End Date June 29 - 2023
Abstract Text There is growing evidence that mobile health (mHealth) applications can assist patients with chronic conditions. However, most mHealth apps are isolated from healthcare professional (HCP) workflows and IT infrastructure. The resulting fragmentation of digital support in healthcare calls for integrating architectures. They would benefit patients, HCPs, product managers, and software developers. Our analysis of existing architectures has revealed valuable architectural elements, but none of the analyzed architectures provided sufficient integration for the chronically ill. Therefore, we propose an architecture for integrated mHealth solutions. We followed a design science research approach and performed all activities of the DSRM Process Model. By forming a closed control loop and engaging HCPs, the architecture is designed to improve patient adherence to treatment, health literacy, and recall of recommendations and information. The resulting Closing-the-Loop Architecture (LoopArt) deploys three software agents: a Health Literacy Agent, an Adherence Agent, and a Conversational Agent. For demonstration purposes, the Health Literacy Agent was implemented for obese patients as an integrated system consisting of a mHealth app and a collaboration tool as part of the electronic medical record (EMR).
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