COMPASS: COntinuous Multi-variate monitoring for Patients Affected by chronic obstructive pulmonary diSeaSe

Abstract

Demographic development in the past years has shown that populations are growing older. This leads to more patients with chronic diseases. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is one such chronic disease and is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide [1]. To mitigate the effects of COPD, fast detection of exacerbation episodes is essential. This project will combine the expertise of Biovotion in multi-sensor development for healthcare applications with those of HES-SO in the integration and evaluation of multi-variate data. The results of this collaboration will be a Swiss telemedicine eHealth environment to monitor patients affected with COPD and be able to recognise or even predict episodes of exacerbation.