M-Psychiatry: Sensor Networks for Psychiatric Health Monitoring

Citation

Blum JM & Magill E (2008) M-Psychiatry: Sensor Networks for Psychiatric Health Monitoring. In: Proceedings of PGNET 2008: The 9th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on The Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting. PGNET 2008: The 9th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on The Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting, Liverpool, 23.06.2008-24.06.2008. Liverpool: PGNET. http://www.cms.livjm.ac.uk/pgnet2008/Proceeedings/

Abstract
Long-term monitoring of patients with affective disorders has been shown to reduce certain types of episodes and improve social functioning. However, most of the research to date has been based on patient-reported data, which exhibits certain deficiencies including failure to detect depressive aspects of the illness. Questions have also been raised about the accuracy and completeness of patient-reported data. Enhancing patientreported data with environmental and physiological recordings could improve the accuracy and completeness that current solutions are missing. This paper describes procedures for the fusion of patient-reported data with remotely-sensed patientcentred data collected using small wireless devices placed on patients and in their homes.