The HeartMan consortium held its 6th Consortium Meeting on 13-14 June in Ljubljana. The main topic was solving the remaining issues in the HeartMan system to ensure a good experience for the patients enroled in the trial.
The HeartMan consortium held its 5th Consortium Meeting in Seville (spain) on 23-24 January 2018, focused on the final integration of the HeartMan system to be ready for the initial testers and prepare the pilots.
An interview about HeartMan with Sofia Marchã, a senior policy officer for patients and research at the European Heart Network in Brussels has been published today in Horizon, the EU Research and Innovation magazine. Click on the link below and do not miss it!
Most of the HeartMan consortium met with the EC and reviewers for the intermediate review meeting, and the reviewers were happy with our work. Afterwards, the partners involved in the development of the medical decision support system met to iron out the (almost) final details.
JSI presented a paper about providing advice on health related quality of life to patients with congestive heart failure, using predictive models built from telemonitoring data.
The HeartMan consortium held its 4th Consortium Meeting, in which all the ongoing project topics were discussed. The human-centred design is in the final steps and the mobile application is taking shape. The wristband is integrated with the mobile application. The decision support and the backend are also largely done, and the first prototype has been integrated. Preparations for the trial are in progress. The consortium also prepared for the interim review due in early July.
UGent presented a protocol paper on the trial of the HeartMan system, with a focus on the effect of sexual counselling and physical exercise on sexual activity in heart failure patients.
UGent presented a paper on predictive models for mortality and hospitalization and predictive factors for quality of life patients with congestive heart failure. This paper was based on two systematic reviews conducted for the HeartMan project.
The HeartMan project held a technical meeting in Madrid on 6th and 7th March 2017 in Atos premises. During two days the HeartMan prototyping team discussed the use cases and scenarios in order to finalize the Graphical User Interface sketches.
The HeartMan project held a consortium meeting in Ghent on 24th January 2017. During two days, several issues were discussed, related to Human Centered Design, wristbands and other devices, physical and psychological monitoring methods, medical psychological and combined Decision Support Systems and its predictive models, trial protocol and needed updates, backend platform and web interface, integration, design input document and how to proceed to satisfy regulatory requirements.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no 689660.