Project overview

Since there is a lack of adequately equipped hospitals and medical professionals in rural regions in Tunisia, the proposed project is aimed at investigating, developing, deploying and evaluating an e-health software system for treating patients with chronic diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular disease and asthma. The software system:

1. Collects data of a patient via a set of wearable sensors.
2. Analyzes incoming sensor data together with data extracted from additional sources in the World Wide Web.
3. Automatically proposes an individual treatment plan.

A medical expert validates the treatment plan and executes it on the patient living in a rural region. The research project is based on the use of:

1. Wearable devices for sensing data;
2. Cloud computing for storing and processing data;
3. Data mining in the WWW to automatically extract useful health-related information;
4. Semantic complex event processing for semantically modeling, analyzing and correlating data;
5. Mobile devices (e.g., tablets, smartphones) to execute and validate the treatment plan.