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Tariq Osman Andersen is a computer scientist, but he has worked for a couple of years with cardiologists and their patients. He continues to do this in parallel to his employment at the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Copenhagen on the ‘SCAUT’ project<\/p>\n
Its purpose is to make it easier for doctors and patients to talk about the best treatment for diseases of the heart.<\/p>\n
Many of them feel more secure knowing what’s going on, and most people want to know as much as possible. This is what our project helps them with<\/p>\n
Tariq Osman Andersen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
It is based on a relatively new technology that can help in the treatment of a particular type of heart disease. A heart can suddenly begin to beat quickly due to\u00a0cardiac rhythm disorders.<\/secret> The heart could be hammering away like a machine gun<\/secret> at 300 heart beats a minute. A cardiac arrest could be just around the corner. What is the patient or doctor supposed to do?<\/p>\n
One solution may be to have a kind of advanced pacemaker, known as the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), operated in under the skin in the area between a patient’s shoulder and chest.<\/p>\n
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TARIQ OSMAN ANDERSEN<\/p>\n
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37 years, computer scientist, PhD in 2012 from the University of Copenhagen and employed by DIKU (Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen) the same year. Likes to do interdisciplinary work and see different subjects create something new together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
An ICD can both monitor a patient’s heart and send the data wirelessly to the phone network via a monitor box at home \u2013 and from there to the heart center. Here doctors and nurses are ready to counsel and treat patients. In addition, an ICD can give the patient’s heart a shock so that the fast and dangerous heartbeats return to normal.<\/p>\n
So far so good. But over time, there have been communication challenges, as cardiologists and heart patients need to talk regularly. The problem arises when a heart patient has to have something explained to them concerning the unpleasant things he or she has experienced with their heart condition, but they are not ready at their phone. Cardiologists waste a lot of time making repeated calls to the patients.<\/p>\n
Increases patient satisfaction<\/h2>\n
The solution to the \u2018phone challenge’ has been to make an app for the patients’ mobile phones and an IT platform for the cardiologists who can see the patients\u2019 messages along with all the data flowing from the patient’s ICD.<\/p>\n
Automatic alarms have also been added to the cardiology unit\u2019s system if a patient’s heart begins to behave abnormally.<\/p>\n
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ABOUT SCAUT<\/p>\n
SCAUT is supported by the Innovation Fund Denmark, supplemented by two public institutions and two private companies. The public institutions are DIKU (Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen) and the Danish hospital Rigshospitalet. The companies are Rehfeldt Medical, a Copenhagen-based health-care company, and the US company Medtronic, the world’s largest manufacturer of medical equipment. SCAUT is an acronym for: Self-, Collaborative and AUTo-detection of Signs and Symptoms of deterioration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
In this way, the doctor can write to the patient’s mobile phone and the patient can read the doctor’s message at their own convenience. And the other way round. And according to Tariq Osman Andersen, the 55 cardiovascular patients who have been involved in the development of SCAUT have given a positive response to the solution:<\/p>\n
“Many of them feel more secure knowing what’s going on and most people want to know as much as possible. This is what our project helps them with,” he says.<\/p>\n
It may, however, take some time before more patients will be able to use the system. The health sector is known to be reluctant to introduce changes in IT. So now it is up to Tariq Osman Andersen and the other project staff in SCAUT to demonstrate to the heart centres that the app, and its associated IT systems, both provide greater patient satisfaction and make the heart centres more effective.<\/p>\n
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He continues to do this in parallel to his employment at the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Copenhagen on the ‘SCAUT’ project<\/p>\n<p>Its purpose is to make it easier for doctors and patients to talk about the best treatment for diseases of the heart.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many of them feel more secure knowing what’s going on, and most people want to know as much as possible. This is what our project helps them with<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Tariq Osman Andersen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is based on a relatively new technology that can help in the treatment of a particular type of heart disease. A heart can suddenly begin to beat quickly due to\u00a0<secret text=\"Also called arrhythmias or palpitations, due to a disorder in the heart's electrical system\">cardiac rhythm disorders.<\/secret> The heart <secret text=\"or the patient may experience discomfort like dizziness, fatigue, shortness of breath and even fainting.\">could be hammering away like a machine gun<\/secret> at 300 heart beats a minute. A cardiac arrest could be just around the corner. What is the patient or doctor supposed to do?<\/p>\n<p>One solution may be to have a kind of advanced pacemaker, known as the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), operated in under the skin in the area between a patient’s shoulder and chest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">TARIQ OSMAN ANDERSEN<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"615\" class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-47080\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tariqosmanandersenportreat_fotored-700x615.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tariqosmanandersenportreat_fotored-700x615.jpg 700w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tariqosmanandersenportreat_fotored-480x422.jpg 480w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tariqosmanandersenportreat_fotored-768x675.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tariqosmanandersenportreat_fotored-1280x1125.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tariqosmanandersenportreat_fotored-290x255.jpg 290w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tariqosmanandersenportreat_fotored-990x870.jpg 990w, https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/tariqosmanandersenportreat_fotored.jpg 1970w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>37 years, computer scientist, PhD in 2012 from the University of Copenhagen and employed by DIKU (Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen) the same year. Likes to do interdisciplinary work and see different subjects create something new together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>An ICD can both monitor a patient’s heart and send the data wirelessly to the phone network via a monitor box at home \u2013 and from there to the heart center. Here doctors and nurses are ready to counsel and treat patients. In addition, an ICD can give the patient’s heart a shock so that the fast and dangerous heartbeats return to normal.<\/p>\n<p>So far so good. But over time, there have been communication challenges, as cardiologists and heart patients need to talk regularly. The problem arises when a heart patient has to have something explained to them concerning the unpleasant things he or she has experienced with their heart condition, but they are not ready at their phone. Cardiologists waste a lot of time making repeated calls to the patients.<\/p>\n<h2>Increases patient satisfaction<\/h2>\n<p>The solution to the \u2018phone challenge’ has been to make an app for the patients’ mobile phones and an IT platform for the cardiologists who can see the patients\u2019 messages along with all the data flowing from the patient’s ICD.<\/p>\n<p>Automatic alarms have also been added to the cardiology unit\u2019s system if a patient’s heart begins to behave abnormally.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">ABOUT SCAUT<\/p>\n<p>SCAUT is supported by the Innovation Fund Denmark, supplemented by two public institutions and two private companies. The public institutions are DIKU (Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen) and the Danish hospital Rigshospitalet. The companies are Rehfeldt Medical, a Copenhagen-based health-care company, and the US company Medtronic, the world’s largest manufacturer of medical equipment. SCAUT is an acronym for: Self-, Collaborative and AUTo-detection of Signs and Symptoms of deterioration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In this way, the doctor can write to the patient’s mobile phone and the patient can read the doctor’s message at their own convenience. And the other way round. And according to Tariq Osman Andersen, the 55 cardiovascular patients who have been involved in the development of SCAUT have given a positive response to the solution:<\/p>\n<p>“Many of them feel more secure knowing what’s going on and most people want to know as much as possible. This is what our project helps them with,” he says.<\/p>\n<p>It may, however, take some time before more patients will be able to use the system. The health sector is known to be reluctant to introduce changes in IT. 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