Automated spoken dialogue system for hypertensive patient home management.
Recent advances in automatic speech recognition and related technologies allow computers to carry on conversations by telephone. We developed an intelligent dialogue system that interacts with hypertensive patients to collect data about their health status. Patients thus avoid the inconvenience of traveling for frequent face to face visits to monitor the clinical variables they can easily measure at home; the physician is facilitated in acquiring patient information and cardiovascular risk, which is evaluated from the data according to noted guidelines. Controlled trials to assess the clinical efficacy are under way.
Giorgino
Toni
T
Laboratory for Medical Informatics, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, I-27100 Pavia, Italy. toni.giorgino@unipv.it
Azzini
Ivano
I
Rognoni
Carla
C
Quaglini
Silvana
S
Stefanelli
Mario
M
Gretter
Roberto
R
Falavigna
Daniele
D
D001331:Automation; D003625:Data Collection; D006304:Health Status; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D007558:Italy; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic