FIgure 1
ICT4Life platform testing scenarios
Home scenario Rehabilitation scenario Day-care centre scenario
Patient & Caregiver support
• Information
• Training
• Communication Calendar
• Medication
• Social Support
Sensor deployment
• Security
• Abnormal behaviour
• Symptoms
• 3D Cams
• Binary sensors
• Wearables
Shared Information
• Health & Social Professionals
• Knowledge acquired from sensors
Patient & Caregiver support
• Information
• Training
• Communication Calendar
• Medication
• Social Support
Sensor deployment
• Rehabilitation exercise evolution
• 3D Cameras
• Wearables
Shared Information
• Health & Social Professionals
• Patient therapy evolution
Care Professionals Patient specific data and reminders Patient symptom information
Sensor deployment Security Symptom data Socialization 3D Cameras Wearables
Shared Information Health & Social Professionals functionalities. Implementing improvements takes into consideration the required adjustments due to cultural or regional contexts.
The scenarios A summary of the scenarios are shown in Figure 1: patients’ homes, day care centres and rehabilitation rooms.
In the home scenario, personalised training, reminder, communication and rehabilitation services support patients’ empowerment and independent living. The patient is monitored through several sensors that gather real-time data simultaneously and to detect abnormal behaviours. Thus, the patient and his / her health status are constantly monitored while ensuring independent living. When a risky situation is detected, the platform connects the patient with his / her family, care-givers and professionals through friendly tools. This approach contributes to increasing not only the quality of life of the patients but also of care-givers, who are often patients themselves. The platform finally aims to support the decision-making process of the health professionals who use ICT4Life services to monitor the evolution of the patient’ s symptoms and medication intake.
The rehabilitation scenario supports the analysis of the patients’ evolution during therapies and while performing exercises. The continuous monitoring helps professionals from the health and social sectors to assess the effectiveness of the recommended therapies and, eventually, to improve the integrated approach to care for people affected by these neurological diseases.
The day-care centre is the scenario in which several patients will be monitored simultaneously over the pilot phase. The system will support care-givers to obtain specific information on the patients’ status. The project technologies will allow collection of patients’ specific data related to their specific symptoms and to establish an exchange of information with professionals, in turn connected to the platform with specific tools.
A continuous process of iterative testing has been designed and the platform functionalities experienced by end-users( patients, care-givers and professionals), combining several social research techniques( including formal testing protocols). The goal, as in previous phases of the co-design process, has been to identify usability improvements and adapting the technology to the users’ needs. The co-creation process has involved most of the ICT4Life multi-disciplinary team, including both users and developers. This process is taking place simultaneously in three countries( France, Hungary and Spain), in order to address cultural differences through country comparison, and also allowing comparison of patients suffering different disease needs and demands( Parkinson’ s disease at different stages and Alzheimer’ s disease patients).
The research will also contribute to the analysis of scenarios supported through a method developed by another EU-funded project( SCIROCCO) 2 aimed at determinating the strengths and weaknesses of a given geographical region in terms of integration of care. The objective is to ensure the successful and effective scaling-up of the developed platform.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’ s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement n ° 690090.
This article expresses the authors’ view and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
References 1 Simon Stevens – Chief Executive of NHS England. www. kingsfund. org. uk / audiovideo / simon-stevens-nhs-fiveyear-forward-view( accessed April 2018) 2 www. scirocco-project. eu /( accessed April 2018)