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.
Highlights
MyHealthAvatar (MHA) [1] is a European Commission funded research project that aims to provide a unique interface that allows data access, collection, sharing and analysis to overcome the shortcomings of existing, highly fragmented resources
In addition to data automatically collected by fitness and lifestyle sensors and apps, there are data that may need manual input such as patient’s daily weight, mood, sleep duration and quality and questionnaire
Institute of Oncology (IEO) will carry out a future study based on the apps; the apps will be improved by adding new features based on patient feedback
Summary
MyHealthAvatar (MHA) [1] is a European Commission funded research project that aims to provide a unique interface that allows data access, collection, sharing and analysis to overcome the shortcomings of existing, highly fragmented resources. It offers a range of tools for the self-management of cancer in terms of lifestyle and physical activities These tools are mainly designed to target patients with prostate and breast cancers and to help them with the following aspects of their treatment. As the self-management includes health-and-lifestyle data collection, access, analysis, health questionnaire, exercise and cancer knowledge, it is hard for the user to select, view, understand and gain knowledge from a large collection of data without proper visualisation.
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