A system for hypertension management assistance based on the technologies of the smart spaces

Abstract

Affecting up to 40% of the world’s population, arterial hypertension results in high economic and social burden. Long-term treatment period along with the necessity of personal lifestyle changes lead to the low adherence to the treatment among the patients. As a consequence, the hypertension-related complications can be gradually developed between visits to the doctor, among them are heart attack, heart failures, strokes and even sudden cardiac death. In the proposed integrated approach, the mobile personal monitoring system, constructed on the principles of smart spaces, is used to address the problem of low adherence. Both continuous monitoring of the vital signs and the questionnaire-based regular health status audit are used for the assessment of the complication risk. Health parameters and evaluated risk markers are published in the semantic-driven information storage, and the personalized recommendation service, aimed at the increasing the adherence to the treatment among hypertensive patients, is constructed based on cooperation of distributed software agents.