title: Automated spoken dialog system for home care and data acquisition from chronic patients.
abstract: Recent advances in automatic speech recognition and related technologies allow computers to carry on conversations by telephone. We developed an intelligent dialog system that interacts with hypertensive patients to collect data about their health status. Patients thus avoid the inconvenience of going for frequent visits that monitor some clinical variables they can easily measure at home; the physician is facilitated in acquiring and reviewing patient information and related risk indicators, which are evaluated from the data according to noted guidelines. The system described here is a prototype of future configurable and component-based dialog systems, which may allow a new modality for users and physicians to access electronic health records.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Medical Informatics, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: Ivano
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Azzini
authors.forename: Daniele
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Falavigna
authors.forename: Toni
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Giorgino
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gretter
authors.forename: Silvana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Quaglini
authors.forename: Carla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rognoni
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stefanelli
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D019992:Databases as Topic; D018575:Home Care Services, Hospital-Based; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D017216:Telemedicine; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D014831:Voice