Mobile phone-based teledermatologic compliance management - preliminary results of the TELECOMP study.
A mobile phone-based telemonitoring system for long-term psoriasis therapy is described, intended to increase patients' compliance by optimizing the patient-physician communication. Patients themselves can acquire health parameters and take photos of their psoriasis lesions. The data are sent to a monitoring centre, where they are provided to the patients' physician who returns a feed-back message. The system is currently tested in a study with 20 patients. Preliminary results prove the feasibility and usabililty of such a system and indicate that it is useful for optimizing psoriasis-therapy.
Hayn
Dieter
D
Department Safety and Security, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Graz, Austria. dieter.hayn@ait.ac.at
Koller
Silvia
S
Hofmann-Wellenhof
Rainer
R
Salmhofer
Wolfgang
W
Kastner
Peter
P
Schreier
Günter
G
D000328:Adult; D040421:Cell Phone; D003880:Dermatology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010349:Patient Compliance; D017216:Telemedicine