Klaus Tschira Institute for Integrative Computational Cardiology, Germany.
Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2021 Sep 21;283:146-155. doi: 10.3233/SHTI210553.
Wearables are commercially available devices allowing continuous monitoring of users' health parameters. Their easy availability, increasing accuracy and functionality render them relevant for medical practice, specifically for longitudinal monitoring. There are clear benefits for the health care system, such as the opportunity of timely interventions by monitoring a patient during his daily life, resulting in a cost reduction in medical care and improved patient well-being. However, some tools are essential to enable the application of wearables in medical daily practice. For example, there is a need for software solutions that allow clinicians to quickly and easily analyze data from devices of their patients. The goal of this study was to develop a dashboard for physicians, which allows rapid data interpretation of longitudinal data from the Apple Watch. The prototype dashboard is an interactive web-based visualization platform utilizing Plotly. The dashboard displays the most important parameters like heart rate, steps per day, activity, exercise collected by the Apple Watch in a user-friendly and accessible way. Clear visualization makes it easy to identify trends or deviations in the data and see how these changes in daily behaviour affect patients' health. Our software is a key component to monitor patients with heart failure who participate in the HiGHmed use case cardiology project.
可穿戴设备是商业上可用的设备，允许连续监测用户的健康参数。它们易于获取、准确性和功能不断提高，这使得它们与医疗实践相关，特别是用于纵向监测。它们对医疗保健系统有明显的好处，例如有机会通过在患者日常生活中进行监测来及时进行干预，从而降低医疗保健成本并提高患者的幸福感。但是，一些工具对于使可穿戴设备在医疗日常实践中得到应用是必不可少的。例如，需要软件解决方案，以便临床医生能够快速轻松地分析来自患者设备的数据。本研究的目的是为医生开发一个仪表板，允许快速解释来自 Apple Watch 的纵向数据。原型仪表板是一个利用 Plotly 的交互式基于 Web 的可视化平台。该仪表板以用户友好且易于访问的方式显示来自 Apple Watch 的最重要参数，如心率、每天的步数、活动、运动。清晰的可视化使识别数据中的趋势或偏差变得容易，并了解日常生活行为的这些变化如何影响患者的健康。我们的软件是监测参与 HiGHmed 心脏病学案例研究的心力衰竭患者的关键组成部分。
