Villalba E, Salvi D, Ottaviano M, Peinado I, Arredondo M T, Akay A
Fotonics Department, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid 28040, Spain.
IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed. 2009 Nov;13(6):990-6. doi: 10.1109/TITB.2009.2026572. Epub 2009 Jul 28.
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) account for 45% of all deaths in the western world according to the 2004 World Health Organization statistics report. Heart failure (HF), CVD's primary paradigm, mainly affects people older than 65. The European MyHeart Project's mission is to empower citizens to fight CVD by leading a preventative lifestyle and allowing early diagnosis. This paper presents the iterative design and development of the HF management system, part of MyHeart Project. The system daily measures vital body signals to assess HF. The methodology applied herein has involved stakeholders in an iterative process: concept validation, feasibility, efficiency, patients' experience, and patients' acceptance. The final solution allows patient self-management of their chronic condition.
根据世界卫生组织2004年的统计报告，心血管疾病（CVDs）占西方世界所有死亡人数的45%。心力衰竭（HF）作为心血管疾病的主要范例，主要影响65岁以上的人群。欧洲MyHeart项目的使命是通过倡导预防性生活方式并实现早期诊断，使公民有能力对抗心血管疾病。本文介绍了作为MyHeart项目一部分的心力衰竭管理系统的迭代设计与开发。该系统每天测量重要的身体信号以评估心力衰竭。本文所应用的方法在一个迭代过程中让利益相关者参与进来：概念验证、可行性、效率、患者体验以及患者接受度。最终解决方案使患者能够自我管理其慢性病。
