MyHealthAvatar lifestyle management support for cancer patients

Abstract

MyHealthAvatar (MHA) is built on the latest information and communications technology with the aim of collecting lifestyle and health data to promote citizen’s wellbeing. According to the collected data, MHA offers visual analytics of lifestyle data, contributes to individualised disease prediction and prevention, and supports healthy lifestyles and independent living. The iManageCancer project aims to empower patients and strengthen self-management in cancer diseases. Therefore, MHA has contributed to the iManageCancer scenario and provides functionality to the iManageCancer platform in terms of its support of lifestyle management of cancer patients by providing them with services to help their cancer management. This paper presents two different MHA-based Android applications for breast and prostate cancer patients. The components in these apps facilitate health and lifestyle data presentation and analysis, including weight control, activity, mood and sleep data collection, promotion of physical exercise after surgery, questionnaires and helpful information. These components can be used cooperatively to achieve flexible visual analysis of spatiotemporal lifestyle and health data and can also help patients discover information about their disease and its management.

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“…Of these, one paper was excluded as it was not relevant and a further five papers were removed as they were based on unpublished or unreleased apps (not available in online stores). This left 13 papers for inclusion in our final review [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] (Fig. 1).…”

P5 eHealth: An Agenda for the Health Technologies of the Future

“…Apart from the Personal Health Record that is the core component of the iMan-ageCancer (Kondylakis et al 2017a), the platform provides tools to assess adherence to therapy, physiological and psychological status and recommendations to the patient according to his or her disease type and psycho-emotional status in order to promote a positive and healthier psycho-emotional state (Faccio et al 2018) (Kazantzaki et al 2016). The platform is further complemented by an expert system with formal self-management models oriented to decision support (Schera et al 2018), serious games for children (Hoffmann and Wilson 2018) and adults (Zhang et al 2018), e-Consent tool (Kondylakis et al 2015c(Kondylakis et al , 2017b and anonymized data analysis (Koumakis et al 2016b).…”

Participatory Aspects of ICT Infrastructures for Cancer Management

“…Apart from the Personal Health Record that is the core component of the iMan-ageCancer (Kondylakis et al 2017a), the platform provides tools to assess adherence to therapy, physiological and psychological status and recommendations to the patient (Iatraki et al 2018) according to his or her disease type and psycho-emotional status in order to promote a positive and healthier psycho-emotional state (Faccio et al 2018) (Kazantzaki et al 2016). The platform is further complemented by an expert system with formal self-management models oriented to decision support (Schera et al 2018), serious games for children (Hoffmann and Wilson 2018) and adults (Zhang et al 2018), e-Consent tool (Kondylakis et al 2015c(Kondylakis et al , 2017b and anonymized data analysis (Koumakis et al 2016b).…”

“…Finally, it supports self-management of general health and well-being, and a range of chronic diseases via tailored intelligent tools (hypertension management, cardiovascular risk, diabetes, etc.). A specific branch of the platform (Zhang et al 2018) is targeting lifestyle management support for cancer patients with all available tools.…”