Feasibility of a wearable self-management application for patients with COPD at home: a pilot study.

Background: Among people with COPD, smartphone and wearable technology may provide an effective method to improve care at home by supporting, encouraging, and sustaining self-management. The current study was conducted to determine if patients with COPD will use a dedicated smartphone and smartwatch app to help manage their COPD and to determine the effects on their self-management.

Methods: We developed a COPD self-management application for smartphones and smartwatches.

Remote COPD Severity and Exacerbation Detection Using Heart Rate and Activity Data Measured from a Wearable Device.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the leading causes of human mortality worldwide. Traditionally, estimating COPD severity has been done in controlled clinical conditions using cough sounds, respiration, and heart rate variability, with the latter reporting insights on the autonomic dysfunction caused by the disease. Advancements in remote monitoring and wearable device technologies, in turn, have allowed for remote COPD monitoring in daily life conditions.

Sharing is Caring: Exploring machine learning-enabled methods for regional medical imaging exchange using procedure metadata.

Seamless sharing between imaging facilities of medical images obtained on the same patient is crucial in providing accurate and efficient care to patients. However, the terminology used to describe semantically similar examinations can vary widely between facilities. Current practice is manual table-based mapping to a standard terminology, which has substantial potential for mislabelled and missing examinations.