Project Overview

Breath/saliva and other patient monitoring sensors

The project will develop biosensors that detect and quantify novel breath and saliva Heart Failure (HF) biomarkers that reflect the health status of the patient and identify whether the patient adheres to the administered drugs. The breath biosensor will be integrated into the smartphone while the saliva biosensor will be integrated into the patient’s cup. Additional sensors for monitoring the ECG, the blood pressure and the physical activity constitute the sensor kit of the patient. The input data are complemented with nutrition information from the patient’s smartphone, weight monitoring through wireless weight scales as well as the patient’s profile and information directly added by the caregivers and the healthcare professionals.

HEARTEN knowledge management system

These multi-parametric data are transmitted to HEARTEN cloud reference architecture, where a knowledge management system analyses them and delivers critical information at hand, provides alerts, guidelines, trends and predictive models to the patient and the ecosystem actors. HF patients are empowered in self-management, by using their smartphones and tracking their medical vital signs, while the healthcare professionals and the caregivers can issue warnings, coordinate therapies, improve adherence and intervene before frailty incidences occur.

Patient empowerment

HEARTEN targets the management of the patients suffering from HF, empowering a healthy lifestyle and the adherence to the medical prescriptions, in order to avoid critical situations, resulting both from medical guidelines non-compliance and drug prescription non-adherence. In HEARTEN, the patient has a central role in the corresponding ecosystem and is empowered through easy to use sensor kit and apps to manage his/her status. The target is secondary prevention, in order to avoid comorbidities (renal dysfunction, cerebral dysfunction, anaemia, liver dysfunction, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes and sleep apnoea) and frailty conditions. As the newly developed personalized system empowers direct and immediate indication of disease conditions such as metabolic or oxidative stress, it will not only help to avoid critical situations but also support and educate the patient to reduce conditions leading to such situations and therefore support health education and self-management in general.