The Implications of Cardiovascular Home Monitoring Rehabilitation - Mobile Applications as Optimum Solutions for the Future

Abstract

This paper examines the home monitoring systemused in our Department of Cardiology in the Future InternetSocial Technological Alignment in Healthcare (FISTAR)project - a project focused on secondary preventionin cardiology (www.fi-star.eu). The system used is composedof bluetooth capable medical devices that collect vital parametersthough CardioStar application (an applicationthat was developed in collaboration with computer engineers.The collected data are transmitted in real time to acentral server in our hospital, where there is a continuoussupervision of the parameters. We evaluated this system inorder to prove its use in reducing the cardiovascular riskand increasing the adherence to the life-style changes.This paper presents the analysis of the MAST (Model forAssessment of Telemedicine) evaluation - which is the bestway of evaluation for the telemedicine solutions - from theprofessional point of view. The questionnaires of evaluationwere performed anonymous on a online platform. The applicationpassed successfully the MAST evaluation, demonstratingthat the developed telemedicine system designed forour cardiac patients fulfills its purpose in the secondaryprevention.