Abstract
Hypertension affects one in five adults worldwide. Healthcare processes require interdisciplinary cooperation and coordination between medical teams, clinical processes, and patients. The lack of patients’ empowerment and adherence to treatment makes necessary to integrate patients, data collecting devices and clinical processes. For this reason, in this paper we propose a model based on Business Process Management paradigm, together with a group of technologies, techniques and IT principles which increase the benefits of the paradigm. To achieve the proposed model, the clinical process of the hypertension is analyzed with the objective of detecting weaknesses and improving the process. Once the process is analyzed, an architecture that joins health devices and environmental sensors, together with an information system, has been developed. To test the architecture, a web system connected with health monitors and environment sensors, and with a mobile app have been implemented.
Highlights
High blood pressure is considered a risk for cardiovascular disease and has a high prevalence in the population [1]
We propose to face these problems associated to the clinical process of high blood pressure treatment contributing to the improvement of the patient’s empowerment capacity
The proposal and novelty of this paper focuses on a new model whose goal is to help in the improvement of the patient’s empowerment; to achieve this goal we have followed a top-down approach using Business Process Management (BPM) as backbone to take advantage of its benefits
Summary
High blood pressure (hypertension) is considered a risk for cardiovascular disease and has a high prevalence in the population [1]. Known as the “silent killer”, can present no symptoms and it contributes to damage the heart and blood vessels in organs such as brain and kidneys. World Health Organization, one in five adults worldwide have high blood pressure and this condition is directly related with half of all deaths from stroke and heart disease [2]. High blood pressure is preventable and the treatment includes both drugs and recommendations for a healthier lifestyle: healthy diet, physical activity and stress management [2]. Despite the importance of following the treatment and these recommendations, many patients forget them mainly because they feel healthy and they don’t realize the benefits for treating high blood pressure (HBP)
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