Developing the effective self-reporting tool to maintain active engagement of cardiovascular patients in the healthcare process.
The WorldCist'23 – 11st World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies was held in Italy, Pisa from 4 to 6 April 2023. Hanna Vitaliyivna Denysyuk was granted an ITC grant in our Action, with the help of which she participated with the paper entitled “Self-reporting Tool for Cardiovascular Patients”, that was included in the Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools section among the 14 main themes proposed for the Conference.
The research's motive of this work was to develop the most effective self-reporting tool utilizing a mobile phone and smartwatch to track blood pressure thus offering opportunities to maintain active engagement of cardiovascular patients in the healthcare process by promoting the adoption of healthy behaviours and well-being outcomes.
According to the World Heart Federation, cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes more than 18.6 million deaths every year, representing 33% of all global deaths. An estimated 80% of cardiovascular disease, including heart disease and stroke, is preventable. It is important to detect CVD as early as possible so that management with counselling and medicines can begin.
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is one of the biggest causes of heart attack and stroke. It usually has no symptoms, so it’s important to get it regularly checked and, if needed, take the necessary measures to lower it, which may include dietary changes, increased physical activity, and medication.
Health mobile applications have become a part of our daily life. In healthcare, they became a solution for several problems arising in the industry.
Apps can help patients reach better clinical outcomes and make care providers’ lives easier. They drive patient engagement through personalized care and make sharing clinical data more accessible.
Our self-reporting application was developed in the Android Studio using Kotlin programming language. The application gathers data through a smartwatch via Bluetooth connection.
The collected data is kept in Cloud Storage and sent to the client’s backend, giving instant access to all health information and visually presenting it through charts.
We believe that our application will help patients keep track of their chronic conditions, letting them track their blood pressure and encouraging active engagement in the healthcare process by promoting the adoption of healthy behaviours and well-being outcomes to prevent premature deaths´.