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Dr. ir. Tom Broens
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What is MobiHealth?
• Originated from the MobiHealth research project
• Spin-off University Twente in 2007
• Employees:
–CEO: Peter Lems
–CTO: Richard Bults
–2 Developers
–1 Research coordinator
• Different supporting companies (design, accountancy, juridical
advice, etc.)
• Different daughter firms to exploit commercial products
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What do we do?
• MobiHealth: “putting care in motion”
– monitor patients health conditions from a
distance, in their own environment/home
– provide novel ways of visualizing health data
and providing feedback to patient and care
professional
– support clinical process
– create solutions that fit the healthcare domain,
organizationally, financially and legally
• Hence, provide innovative turn-key
telemedicine services!
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How do we do it?
• MobiHealth services platform (MHSP)
– ICT infrastructure for medical data storage and
transport over the internet
– Time synchronized, secure and reliable data
transfer
– Targets large scale deployments
– Capable of supporting wide range of applications
– Support for mobile (GPRS/UMTS) or stationary
internet connections
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MobiHealth Services Platform
(MHSP)
Wired/Wireless Internet
Applications

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MHSP
• Two types of applications:
– Real-time applications
• ‘24/7’ live measurements
• Body Area Network
• Real-time upload
– Periodic applications
• Periodic measurements
• Periodic upload
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MobiHealth Services Platform
(MHSP)
Wired/Wireless Internet
Real-time mobile
apps
Periodic apps
What types of apps do we support?

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Examples:
– Real-time applications
• Mobile Drug Research
• COPD training
•Stress/Emotion detection
• Chronic shoulder/back pain
– Periodic application
• BP@Home (High blood pressure)
• Thrombosis
• Obesitas
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MobiHealth Services Platform
(MHSP)
Wired/Wireless Internet
Periodic apps
What do we work on?
Real-time mobile
apps
Periodic apps
MDR
COPD
Shoulder-back
pain
Stress / emotion
BP@Home
Thrombosis
Obesitas

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What is BP@Home?
• +- 1 mln. patients of hypertension in NL
• “White coat & masked” hypertension vs. home
measurements
• BP@Home enables home measurements following
ESH protocol
• Small & Large scale trails (i.e. 150 pat, 7 hospitals)
• Commercial product in june 2010
– chronic hypertension
– high-risk pregnancy
• Approx. 200 regular patients and growing...
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What is BP@Home?
• Technology
– Superb sensors (clinically validated, CE certified)
– Superb data transport system (robust, scalable, secure)
– Conformance to medical guidelines
– Usability extremely important for acceptance of (elderly) patients
– Validate the total service with trails
• Business case
– Clear profit for the care professional (income, time saving,
improved quality of care)
– Tailored to the current financing structures (pricing, functions)
– Aggressive pricing such that patients might also pay themselves
• Legal aspects
– Conformance to privacy laws (CBP)
– Conformance to european laws (CE -> patient safety)
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Why can this be a success?

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What is BP@Home?
• Usability
– Powerful but simple design of the web portals
– Patient/Professional centered design (requirement elicitation)
• Marketing
– Convince the people on the working floor
– (High profile) champion which is convinced in the solution
– Offer ‘free’ trails --> ‘proefplaatsingen’
– Validate the total service with trails
• Quality of Care, Therapy compliance, Patient motivation
– No manual input of medical data (error probability and
observational bias)
– Enabling of self management
– Notifications of measurement start/stop & upload
– ‘Informal’ communication channel between care professional and
patient (quality of care)
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Why can this be a success?

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Our way of working
• Listen to the healthcare market! - MobiHealth method
• MobiHealth Lab
– Students do bachelor/master assignments
– Create demo’s at Twents Lab voor Telegeneeskunde
– Create new potential concepts to try out...
• Participate in (research) projects to:
– Provide a robust basic communication platform
– Try out innovative concepts
– Improve our platform and develop new applications
– Perform (large-scale) trails
• Evolve and commercialize research results
– Create partnerships
– Organize the whole process on the highest level
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Thank you for your attention!
Questions?
Tom Broens
tom.broens@mobihealth.com
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putting care in motion