TY - GEN
T1 - MHealth in chronic pain assessment
T2 - 14th International Conference on Informatics, Management, and Technology in Healthcare, ICIMTH 2016
AU - Pliakos, Ioannis
AU - Kefaliakos, Antonios
AU - Diomidous, Marianna
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Chronic Pain (CP) is a condition which is difficult to assess. Existing methods are based on self-management treatments and leaving the big part of the assessment on the patient. According on this method, mHealth applications offer tools to CP patients to self-manage their condition and improve it. All the applications are limited by the type of data they collect and the data based on selfreporting. In the future the applications for CP management will not be based only on this type of data. Multiple types of data will be gathered and analyzed, as well as the specialists will be able to have a better prospective for the patients' pain levels.
AB - Chronic Pain (CP) is a condition which is difficult to assess. Existing methods are based on self-management treatments and leaving the big part of the assessment on the patient. According on this method, mHealth applications offer tools to CP patients to self-manage their condition and improve it. All the applications are limited by the type of data they collect and the data based on selfreporting. In the future the applications for CP management will not be based only on this type of data. Multiple types of data will be gathered and analyzed, as well as the specialists will be able to have a better prospective for the patients' pain levels.
KW - Assessment tools
KW - Chronic pain
KW - M-health
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84978776458&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-664-4-260
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-664-4-260
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84978776458
VL - 226
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 260
EP - 263
BT - Unifying the Applications and Foundations of Biomedical and Health Informatics
PB - IOS Press
Y2 - 1 July 2016 through 3 July 2016
ER -