Telemedical Applications with Rulebased Descision- and Information-Systems (TARDIS)

Industrialized countries have a growing need for telemedical structures for dealing with the growing numbers of patients caused by the development of the demographic structures. The progress of performant mobile devices and affordable medical sensors offer the possibility for building up a telemedical system using commercial “off-the-shelf” devices by using personal area communication technologies. In order to achieve a very generic and flexible system, a rule-based framework was developed. It is used to model individual behaviors of the system, depending on the patients disease, treatment and the used devices. It allows to add autonomous functions to the patients mobile device and allows data preprocessing and feedback to the user even without an active data communication to the medical center. In the Tele-Service-Center the framework can be used to filter and analyze data or adapt the treatment of each individual patient. The proposed system was implemented and tested in real life with patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with a very good feedback.