Abstract
The paper presents e-Health solutions for monitoring patients affected by Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Assistive technologies have a direct and positive impact on both the quality of life of patients and the overall management of the service. In the context of a wide project, we introduce an Ambient Assisted Living framework to investigate the adoption of telehealth and telemedicine applications in the healthcare process. First, we model the process of the hospital service where technological innovations have been applied. Second, we investigate the impact of a chatbot to improve the communications between operators and families. The chatbot obtained high adherence, compliance, and engagement of users. We provide evidence of how robust technological and organizational modelling can be successfully applied to support the staff of nutritionists staffs in ALS healthcare process. Furthermore, the solution discussed in this work provided a great impact during the COVID-19 emergency.
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See website of the project: http://casanelparco-project.it/.
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See website of the hospital service: https://www.maggioreosp.novara.it/attivita-assistenziale/servizi-sanitari/centro-sla/.
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This research is part of the project “CANP - CAsa Nel Parco” of Regione Piemonte funded by POR FESR PIEMONTE 2014–2020.
This project is supported also by the AGING Project for Department of Excellence at the Department of Translational Medicine (DIMET), Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy.
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Amantea, I.A. et al. (2022). Adopting Assistive Technologies in Healthcare Processes: A Chatbot for Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. In: Bettelli, A., Monteriù, A., Gamberini, L. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. ForItAAL 2020. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 884. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08838-4_12
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