Which indicators for measuring the daily physical activity? An overview on the challenges and technology limits for Telehealth applications.

Background: Obesity is one of the biggest drivers of preventable chronic diseases and healthcare costs in Worldwide. Different prevention activities are suggested. By monitoring daily energy expenditure (EE) could be possible make personalized diets and programming physical activity.

Telemonitoring in Cystic Fibrosis: A 4-year Assessment and Simulation for the Next 6 Years.

Background: Innovative technologies and informatics offer a wide range of services to health districts, doctors, nurses, and patients, and is changing the traditional concept of health care. In the last few years, the availability of portable devices, their easiness to transport and use, and the capability to collect and transmit various clinical data have resulted in the fast development of telemedicine. However, despite its potential impact in improving patient conditions, and its cost effectiveness reported in literature, telemedicine is not in daily practice.

Telemedicine Home Program in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis: Results after 10 Years.

Objectives: We studied the effect of Telehomecare (THC) in a group of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients.

Materials And Methods: Forced Expiratory Volume in the first second (FEV1) was monitored at home, with the aim of an early recognition of the relapses of pulmonary infections. FEV1 was monitored for 4.

Impact of long-term use of eHealth systems in adolescents with type 1 diabetes treated with sensor-augmented pump therapy.

Telemedicine in diabetes includes telemonitoring and transmission of important data (self monitoring of blood glucose data, insulin therapy, pump setting, etc.) from the patient s home to the diabetic unit, with a real-time health feedback. Moreover, an eHealth approach is thought to facilitate diabetes management and to improve compliance to CSII/SAP treatment in adolescents, but to date, limited literature related to this topic is available and long-term studies are still lacking.

The application of telemedicine in the follow-up of lung transplantation in a patient with cystic fibrosis.

The Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Unit of Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù in Rome (Italy) has more than 25 years of experience in diagnosis and treatment of Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) related diseases. The CF Unit actively collaborates with the Transplantation Division for the follow-up of patients with CF who undergo lung transplantation, performed in our Unit since 1991. We present the case of a 19 year-old girl with CF, with severe respiratory failure for which it was subjected to two lung transplant.