FOLLOW patients with BPCO (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) from a distance, with a telemedicine system that allows you to monitor the disease and correct therapy remotely. But that’s not all: the platform also allows you to identify dangerous situations – such as exacerbations, hypoxia, tachycardia – and, in case of danger, automatically sends alerts to the attending physician. This is the project launched by the Italian Association of Hospital Pulmonologists – Italian Thoracic Society (AIPO-ITS) together with COPDmedia, a spin-off of the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome: the platform is based on an artificial intelligence algorithm, certified and validated, able to predict exacerbations through a series of signals.
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How the platform works
The pandemic has upset everything and everyone, first and foremost the health systems and the lives of patients. So that, alongside the invitation to stay away from hospitals, except in strictly necessary cases, the birth of numerous telemedicine projects has been observed. Like this. The reto monitoring kit consists of an activation card, a pulse oximeter connected to the smartphone and an app, and is a practical example of the application of artificial intelligence in medicine, which can be customized based on the characteristics of the patient and the his illness. Through an interface, doctors can monitor patient measurements. Three measurements a day are enough and, the creators assure, the system works, with a sensitivity level of 92.9%, a specificity of 99.3% (i.e. the ability to avoid false alarms) and an accuracy of 98. 4% (according to the declared values).
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What is BPCO
BPCO is a respiratory disease characterized by cough, shortness of breath, chest tightness, phlegm, fatigue and breathing difficulties, causing more than three million deaths each year worldwide. The disease is chronic and tends to progress over time. The most feared events are symptom flare-ups, which can require assistance and even put the patient’s life at risk, as the World Health Organization recalls. Predicting them and intervening in time, avoiding the worsening of symptoms, would therefore help both the patient and the health system. And it is with this intention that the collaboration of AIPO-ITS with COPDmedia was born.
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