Metabolink: m-Health Solution Enabling Patient-Centered Care and Empowerment for Well-Being and Active Ageing

Metabolink is a smartphone-based telemedicine solution that allows the proactive participation of elderly people or patients with chronic diseases to the monitoring of their own lifestyles. The patient uses a smartphone to collect and to send to doctors or caregivers information about his/her lifestyle or about physiological parameters measured using integrated medical devices. The doctors use a tablet or a computer to communicate with their patients, to check real-time their health, to receive alerts about unsafe health conditions and to update the treatment. The data collected by the patients populates the personal health records and can be used afterwards to find correlations between lifestyles and the onset or progression of chronic diseases. This solution empowers the patients for active ageing and enables them to easily cooperate with the doctors in the management of their wellness or chronic diseases.