Enriching Remote Monitoring and Care Platforms with Personalized Recommendations to Enhance Gamification and Coaching

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 May 18:302:332-336. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230129.

Abstract

Patients' remote monitoring platforms can be enhanced with intelligent recommendations and gamification functionalities to support their adherence to care plans. The current paper aims to present a methodology for creating personalized recommendations, which can be used to improve patient remote monitoring and care platforms. The current pilot system design is aimed to support patients by providing recommendations for Sleep, Physical Activity, BMI, Blood sugar, Mental Health, Heart Health, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease aspects. The users, through the application, can select the types of recommendations they are interested in. Thus, personalized recommendations based on data obtained by the patients' records anticipated to be a valuable and a safe approach for patient coaching. The paper discusses the main technical details and provides some initial results.

Keywords: Gamification; IT systems; Rule-based Expert System; coaching; eHealth; pHealth; patient telemonitoring; recommendations.

MeSH terms

  • Gamification
  • Humans
  • Mental Health
  • Mentoring*
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / methods
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive* / therapy