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- Care4Value: A Clinical Instrument Data Collection Platform for Long-Term Healthcare UnitsPublication . Ferreira, Pedro H.; Maximiano, Marisa; Reis, CatarinaThe rise in healthcare costs is a major concern nowadays, especially for chronic diseases scenarios as the ones experienced in long-term healthcare units. Thus, arranging for a platform that helps these healthcare units to monitor and visualize the costs and eventual life quality gains on a per patient basis is essential. Care4Value aims to help in one of the most challenging tasks of healthcare professionals that is related to the optimization of the process of collecting and recording clinical instruments’ data. In the long run, the outcomes should allow for a predictive measurement of costs per patient, based on their clinical condition. The Care4Value ecosystem is the chief responsible for centralizing the collected data and making it available through a dashboard to the stakeholders. The data is collected by the healthcare professionals that use a mobile application and through an import module that consumes data from existing clinical systems.
- TeenPower: Measuring the effectiveness of an intervention program and engaging adolescents towards physical activities using location-aware gamificationPublication . Alves, Rodrigo; Carvalho, Marta; Reis, CatarinaAdolescents, reportedly, easily adopt a sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy behaviors easily carried into adulthood. Prevention is one of the few viable ways to contain the current epidemic percentages of overweight and obesity. The TeenPower Project has created an intervention program that relies on a mHealth platform to engage teenagers into embracing healthier lifestyle behaviors. Although the program is already fully deployed in some schools, further work is necessary to continue to encourage adolescents into long lasting behavioral changes. It is necessary to measure the effectiveness of this intervention program by analyzing the data generated by the adolescent’s usage of the platform. This analysis may also support the decision-making process of health professionals when planning the future of the intervention program. On the other hand, gamification, the use of game-like rewards and incentives, paired with desired behaviors to increase motivations, is starting to be integrated in the mobile application as a way to engage to adolescents in the platform.
- Care4Value: a clinical instrument data collection platform for long-term healthcare unitsPublication . Ferreira, Pedro H.; Maximiano, Marisa; Reis, Catarina I.The rise in healthcare costs is a major concern nowadays, especially for chronic diseases scenarios as the ones experienced in long-term healthcare units. Thus, arranging for a platform that helps these healthcare units to monitor and visualize the costs and eventual life quality gains on a per patient basis is essential. Care4Value aims to help in one of the most challenging tasks of healthcare professionals that is related to the optimization of the process of collecting and recording clinical instruments’ data. In the long run, the outcomes should allow for a predictive measurement of costs per patient, based on their clinical condition. The Care4Value ecosystem is the chief responsible for centralizing the collected data and making it available through a dashboard to the stakeholders. The data is collected by the healthcare professionals that use a mobile application and through an import module that consumes data from existing clinical systems.