Applying evidence-based medicine in telehealth: an interactive pattern recognition approximation.

Born in the early nineteen nineties, evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a paradigm intended to promote the integration of biomedical evidence into the physicians daily practice. This paradigm requires the continuous study of diseases to provide the best scientific knowledge for supporting physicians in their diagnosis and treatments in a close way. Within this paradigm, usually, health experts create and publish clinical guidelines, which provide holistic guidance for the care for a certain disease.

An integrated advanced communication and coaching platform for enabling personalized management of chronic cardiovascular diseases.

Chronic cardiovascular diseases directly account for millions of deaths, billions of Euros and a big number of disabilities affecting the world's population. Even though primary and secondary prevention factors are well known, the awareness and the concern of citizens and patients is not big enough to cause a significant change in lifestyle that modifies the increasing trends. Patients and families, professionals and healthcare systems are not prepared to fight against this burden in an effective and aligned way.

Activity-based process mining for clinical pathways computer aided design.

Current trends in health management improvement demand the standardization of care protocols to achieve better quality and efficiency. The use of Clinical Pathways is an emerging solution for that problem. However, current Clinical Pathways are big manuals written in natural language and highly affected by human subjectivity.

New technologies for promoting a healthy diet and active living.

Information and communication technologies (ICT) offer innovative formats for promoting healthy lifestyles and reinforcing public health initiatives. They can be applied to large population segments without losing the functionality of being tailored to individual fluctuating needs. Advantages of ICT include real-time provision and adaptation of nutrition and health recommendations based on an individual's particular situation, the potential to combine assessment procedures with healthy lifestyle support and the ability to unify psychosocial and cultural dimensions to enhance adherence.

Medical guidelines for the patient: introducing the life assistance protocols.

This paper introduces our preliminary results in the modeling of Life Assistance Protocols, a new vision of medical guidelines and protocols through the lenses of p-Health. In this context the patient's role in the process is emphasized, the actions to be performed less defined and not only clinical situations considered, but also healthier lifestyle promotion processes accounted for, where the person's preferences and motivations play a key role. We propose a complete framework, balancing on classical clinical guideline models and covering both the theoretical and the practical aspects of the problem, describing it from conceptualization to the execution environment.