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Project

A digital reserach platform to support mHealth research activities (R-6348)

Despite large technological advancements in developing novel sensory systems and state of the art devices, limited investments are made on an infrastructural level to connect and handle the amount of information these devices generate. Especially towards clinical applications, limited tools are available to handle this health information. In this project, the Mobile Health Unit, a research group supported by Hasselt University, Hospital East-Limburg and Jessa Hospital will support the development of a generic and open digital research platform for telemonitoring activities needed to perform academic and clinic research on the topic of mHealth. This remote monitoring platform will collect various physiological, contextual and environmental data from different sensory systems and databases and enhances the development of data mining and machine learning techniques essential for personalized medicine. All data will be aggregated in an operational database in the back-end which is fully compliant with the eHealth safety regulations. Front-end applications are developed for different user-profiles: healthcare professionals, patients and researchers. The digital research platform makes it possible to validate remote monitoring strategies in the clinical practice and will be used in proof-of-concept experiments to explore the efficacy, efficiency and applicability of remote monitoring. Successful proof-of-concept experiments are a first step to new spinoff activities of the MHU.
Date:7 Jul 2015 →  6 Jul 2020
Keywords:mobile health
Disciplines:Laboratory medicine, Palliative care and end-of-life care, Regenerative medicine, Nursing