title: A system for intelligent home care ECG upload and priorisation.
abstract: In this contribution, a system for internet based, automated home care ECG upload and priorisation is presented for the first time. It unifies the advantages of existing telemonitoring ECG systems adding functionalities such as automated priorisation and usability for home care. Chronic cardiac diseases are a big group in the geriatric field. Most of them can be easily diagnosed with help of an electrocardiogram. A frequent or long-term ECG analysis allows early diagnosis of e.g. a cardiac infarction. Nevertheless, patients often aren't willing to visit a doctor for prophylactic purposes. Possible solutions of this problem are home care devices, which are used to investigate patients at home without the presence of a doctor on site. As the diffusion of such systems leads to a huge amount of data which has to be managed and evaluated, the presented approach focuses on an easy to use software for ECG upload from home, a web based management application and an algorithm for ECG preanalysis and priorisation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Micro Technology and Medical Device Technology, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Boltzmannstr. 15, D-85748 Garching Germany. lorenzo.dangelo@tum.de
authors.forename: Lorenzo T
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: D'Angelo
authors.forename: Eugeniu
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tarita
authors.forename: Tosja K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Zywietz
authors.forename: Tim C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Lueth
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001331:Automation; D002309:Cardiology / Q000379:methods; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003201:Computers; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000379:methods; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*