title: Connected-Health Algorithm: Development and Evaluation.
abstract: Nowadays, there is a growing interest towards the adoption of novel ICT technologies in the field of medical monitoring and personal health care systems. This paper proposes design of a connected health algorithm inspired from social computing paradigm. The purpose of the algorithm is to give a recommendation for performing a specific activity that will improve user's health, based on his health condition and set of knowledge derived from the history of the user and users with similar attitudes to him. The algorithm could help users to have bigger confidence in choosing their physical activities that will improve their health. The proposed algorithm has been experimentally validated using real data collected from a community of 1000 active users. The results showed that the recommended physical activity, contributed towards weight loss of at least 0.5 kg, is found in the first half of the ordered list of recommendations, generated by the algorithm, with the probability > 0.6 with 1 % level of significance.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bitola, Republic of Macedonia. elena.vlahu@fikt.edu.mk.
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vlahu-Gjorgievska
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Computer Science, University "Goce Delcev", Stip, Republic of Macedonia. saso.koceski@ugd.edu.mk.
authors.forename: Saso
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Koceski
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University "Ss Cyril and Methodious", Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. igor.kulev@finki.ukim.mk.
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kulev
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University "Ss Cyril and Methodious", Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. trvlado@finki.ukim.mk.
authors.forename: Vladimir
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Trajkovik
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D015444:Exercise; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D060756:Social Networking
keywords: Collaborative algorithms; Connected health; Healthcare information system; Recommendations; e-Health