Use Case Repository
Telemonitoring of patients with chronic heart failure
Scenario context:
The patient has internet access, and can be expected to enter the measured data
Actors:
Monitoring Service - data collecting and monitoring software
Medical Triage Service - healthcare professional(s)
Healthcare Centre
Transactions:
Send Measurements
Send Alert
Technical Process Flow:
- (no software action)
- Patient enters weight and blood pressure in a smartphone/tablet/pc application. The information is sent to and saved in the Monitoring Service software
- Information is monitored and checked against the min-max values that have been set for this patient, and against sudden changes compared to previous measurements
- Sudden rises or drops in the measured values trigger an alert message to the Medical Triage Centre
- The Medical Triage Centre contacts the patient (by phone, out of scope for this Use Case)
- The patient’s medication dosage is changed (out of scope for this Use Case)
- The Medical Triage Centre sends an alert to the Healthcare Centre
- The Healthcare Centre makes an appointment with the patient (out of scope for this Use Case)
Associated profiles and standards:
PAN LAN/WAN
Content profiles:
Possible issues:
XDR enables sending a “push” alert to another party. This may be realised with XDR (which is a web service-based solution), or, within an XDS affinity domain, with either DSUB or NAV.
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