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An Application for Pairing with Wearable Devices to Monitor Personal Health Status
Published on: February 3, 2022
[Digital Health in Respiratory Medicine - Current Status]
Michael Dreher1, Berthold Jany2, Georg Nilius3
1Klinik für Pneumologie und Internistische Intensivmedizin; Uniklinik RWTH Aachen.
Abstract:
Everyday life is increasingly influenced by digitization. Digitization creates large, often unstructured amounts of data ("big data"), which have been used in consumer industry for years, but yet not widely in medicine. For pulmonology, digitization offers opportunities and risks in different areas like obstructive lung diseases, thoracic oncology, pulmonary rehabilitation, sleep medicine, home mechanical ventilation, and in intensive care medicine. One of the opportunities is that the use of new technologies such as telemedicine and medical apps and the analysis of this new support make it possible to better understand and manage diseases. One of the key advantages is the use of "big data" for displaying dynamic behavior ("trajectories" = movement paths), to better understand disease processes, and to optimize patient management by using analytic techniques such as machine learning. Risks to be considered are data privacy and security as well as the use of artificial intelligence. The vision is to enable precision medicine in pulmonology.
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