Knowledge-Driven Personalized Contextual mHealth Service for Asthma Management in Children

Pramod Anantharam, Tanvi Banerjee, Amit Sheth, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Surendra Marupudi, Vaikunth Sridharan, Shalini G. Forbis

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Abstract

Wide adoption of smartphones and availability of low-cost sensors has resulted in seamless and continuous monitoring of physiology, environment, and public health notifications. However, personalized digital health and patient empowerment can become a reality only if the complex multisensory and multimodal data is processed within the patient context. Contextual processing of patient data along with personalized medical knowledge can lead to actionable information for better and timely decisions. We present a system called kHealth capable of aggregating multisensory and multimodal data from sensors (passive sensing) and answers to questionnaire (active sensing) from patients with asthma. We present our preliminary data analysis comprising data collected from real patients highlighting the challenges in deploying such an application. The results show strong promise to derive actionable information using a combination of physiological indicators from active and passive sensors that can help doctors determine more precisely the cause, severity, and control level of asthma. Information synthesized from kHealth can be used to alert patients and caregivers for seeking timely clinical assistance to better manage asthma and improve their quality of life.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services
EditorsJia Zhang, Onur Altintas
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages284-291
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4673-7284-8, 978-1-4673-7283-1
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 26 2015
Event3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services, MS 2015 - New York, United States
Duration: Jun 27 2015Jul 2 2015

Conference

Conference3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services, MS 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York
Period6/27/157/2/15

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Communication
  • Computer Networks and Communications

Keywords

  • Asthma Management
  • Contextualization
  • Knowledge-enabled healthcare
  • Multimodal Sensors
  • Personalization

Disciplines

  • Family Medicine

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