Future Patient Opening Seminar

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The purpose of this research program is to develop and test new welfare technology solutions and programs based on new self-tracking technologies. The goal is to reduce the number of readmissions, ensure individual treatment and enhance quality of life for patients. The target groups of the project are patients with heart failure and patients who have undergone knee surgery. Heart failure is a common disorder that affects 26 million people and results in over one million hospitalizations per year in Europe and the United States. The disease is chronic and restricts patients in their daily functions and reduces their quality of life when the heart cannot pump enough blood to the body. Furthermore, the admissions related to heart failure take up a large part of the health budget. The costs of rehabilitation of patients undergoing knee surgery are also expensive for the healthcare system. Worldwide 149 out of every 100,000 persons undergo knee surgery each year. However, telehealth and telerehabilitation projects have not always proven as economically advantageous as the technology needed by the patients is too expensive, and often the training programs are not tailored to the individual patient.

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