E-Care Project: A Promising E-Platform for Optimizing Management of Chronic Heart Failure and Other Chronic Diseases

Abstract

Monitoring patients with heart failure by using telemedicine systems is a potential
means for optimizing the management of these patients. The E-care project is developing an
“intelligent” communicative platform enabling the home monitoring of patients with New York
Heart Association (NYHA) Stage III heart failure using non-invasive sensors. As a result, this
platform will assist health care professionals by providing an automated processing of these
sensors’ transmitted data in order to detect and report signs of cardiac decompensation early.