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Heartways had a significant presence in the 6^th EuropeanConference of the International Federation for Medical and BiologicalEngineering: “MBEC-2014. Towards new horizons in biomedical engineering”, heldin Dubrovnik (Croatia) from the 7^th to the 11^th ofSeptember, 2014.

Heartways organized a special session on “Advancedsolutions for supporting cardiac patients in rehabilitation” chaired by JuanPablo Lazaro-Ramos (TSB, Spain) and Paulo de Carvalho (Univerity of Coimbra,Portugal). The session consisted in different presentations of the relevant resultsof Heartways project:

“Opportunities for products of exercise-based cardiacrehabilitation at home”, by Juan-PabloLazaro-Ramos (TSB, Spain).

“Short-Term Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment:comparison of two combination approaches”. Diana Mendes, Simao Paredes,Teresa Rocha, Paulo Carvalho, Tania Marques, Jorge Henriques and Joao Morais(University of Coimbra, Portugal).

“Modelling system interactions for the integration ofmulti-source exercise data monitorings”. Alvaro Martinez Romero(Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain), Riccardo Serafin and Juan-PabloLazaro-Ramos (TSB, Spain).

“Middleware solution for direct database access frommicrocontrollers in wireless body area sensor networks”, Luka Celić, IgorLacković and Ratko Magjarević (University of Zagreb, FER, Croatia).

“System for assisted exercising and qualitativeexercise assessment”, Dominik Džaja, Matija Varga, Goran Šeketa, SaraŽulj, Luka Celić, Igor Lacković and Ratko Magjarević (University of Zagreb,FER, Croatia).

“ Including Assisted Exercising into NursingActivities”, Siniša Drobnjak, Tomo Stjepović, Domagoj Materni, Luka Celić,Dominik Džaja and Ratko Magjarević (SD Informatika and University of Zagreb,FER, Croatia).

Access to: Program and abstractS document.

Last June 2014, “research*EU magazine” issue number 33was a special issue focused on cardiovascular related research in Europe: “TheHeartbeat of Science”. The Project Coordinator, Juan-Pablo Lazaro-Ramos,reports about the main challenges ahead in the field of exercise-based cardiacrehabilitation at home, and how Heartways proposes to solve them andcontributing to reduce in 25% the mortality from cardiovascular disease overthree years after an acute heart event.

The introduction indicates: “Patients who are found to suffer from cardiovascular diseases often havelong years of treatment ahead of them and are urged to drastically change theirlifestyle. But what is probably the most difficult part of the process is thereturn home where old habits die hard. A new technology relying on remotesensors could soon make post-CVD-event life a whole lot easier.”

Access the issue at http://cordis.europa.eu/research-eu/magazine_es.html. (Issue 33, June 2014).

In April and May 2014, the activities related to thevalidation of Heartways components have started in different locations. Differentaspects of the system are being tested as well as integrated instances.

In Spain, in Valencia, the validation is going tofocus in testing with cardiologists of Arnau de Vilanova Hospital, the overallendurance exercise subsystem focusing on the suitability of the clinicalinformation displayed by the web tool and validating the capacity of the systemto impact at patient daily lives.  TSBand UPVLC are working in order to implement a clinical trial to be extendedbeyond the boundaries of the project, in order to make possible that the finalresult is able to be exploited for medical purposes as originally planned,given that this part is considered more mature.

In Portugal, the focus is on validating the algorithmsimplemented for the assessment of the cardiovascular risk using databased fromreal patients at Leiria Pombal Hospital Centre.

In Croatia, the tests are done with the purpose ofvalidating the strength exercise system at technical level to check that isdetecting the activity correctly. In comparison to the endurance exercise thesystem is less mature and requires specific testing and calibration of thewearable sensors with accelerometers. Tests are conducted with students of theUniversity of Zagreb at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing(FER), who are considered sane enough to perform basic routines of exercises.

In Italy, FORUS performed market tests to verify theadequacy of the Heartways context in home environment putting special emphasison the involvement of both ECG and pulsioximetry (using innovative Glove) inthe overall rehabilitation process at home. Market tests will be done withdoctors of hospitals in Rome, Palermo and Naples among other cities.

Two project meetings were held in Croatia at theFaculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, on February thisyear:

-     - Technicalmeeting (1^st week of February): RTD performers and technical SMEsmet in order to finish the details of the integration of the differentsubsystems developed during the project execution. The integration focused onthe messaging system implemented in the middleware mechanisms for the exchangeof services between subsystems: Nomhad, eNursing, GOW, Patient Portal and community, Accelerometers, ECG, Pulsioximeter Glove, etc.  

      - Plenary meeting(2^nd week of February): partners of the project met in order to preparethe last phase of the project, focusing the discussions on validationactivities to be held in Spain, Croatia, Portugal and Italy, and on preparingthe strategy for exploitation.

The presence ofHeartways at IFMBE International Conference in Health Informatics (ICHI-2013)consisted in a special session on Cardiac Rehabilitation with the followingarticles and presentations:

“HeartWays solution for exercise based cardiac rehabilitation”. Juan Pablo Lazaro, TSB Tecnologias para la Salud y el Bienestar

“Cardiovascular risk prediction during cardiac rehabilitation”, Paulo de Carvalho, University of Coimbra.

“Wearable sensor for real-time monitoring of exercise routines”, Antonio Zanesco, Tracs.

“Rehabilitation monitoring and education in cardiovascular patients”, Luka Celić, University of Zagreb (Croatia).

“Health care management tools for medical professionals for prescriptions and follow-up of cardiac rehabilitation based in exercise therapies”, Alvaro Martinez, UPVLC Universitat Politecnica de Valencia.

It is possible to access to the proceedings of the conference in the following link at Springer: http://www.springer.com/engineering/biomedical engineering/book/978-3-319-03004-3