Electronic Headache Diary

描述(由申请者提供)：至少有4500万美国人患有 每年严重头痛，严重影响他们的工作和日常生活。 头痛日记是头痛管理不可或缺的一部分，帮助 为患者和护理提供者提供诊断、触发因素识别和 治疗方案的评估。目前的纸质日记是非标准化的， 繁琐，难以分析和解释。 此第二阶段提案的目的是开发和评估用于 标准化、可定制的电子头痛日记，每天收集 临床和研究中有关头痛发作和相关事件的信息 人口。 在第一阶段，开发了原型软件，以捕获有关 每天头痛，并在头痛诊所的患者身上进行测试。在第二阶段 软件将进行扩展，以包括有关可能触发因素的信息等 详细的用药数据。将对潜在的最终用户执行测试： 头痛患者和医疗保健提供者。功能将包括数据输入 通过点击屏幕、提醒输入和传输数据、日常健康提示、 加密无线数据传输，在线临床数据汇总。 这款名为AheadPC的软件将为以下移动计算设备设计 方便易用，并通过创新的互联网服务器技术， 将为头痛患者提供交互式在线临床数据摘要 和护理提供者。 建议的商业应用： 每年用于偏头痛护理的直接医疗费用估计为每年10亿美元。 美国(胡等人，1999年)。关于头痛的前瞻性收集的数据是 对诊断和管理病人至关重要。AheadPC的目标是提供一个标准， 临床有效的在手持计算机上收集头痛数据的方法 患者和临床医生都可以通过万维网按ID查看结果。 据估计，每年有4500万美国人经历严重的头痛， Ahead PC的市场在各个领域都非常强劲，包括由 个人、从业者和研究人员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): At least 45 million Americans suffer from severe headaches annually that seriously impact their work and daily life. Headache diaries are an integral part of headache management, assisting patients and care providers with diagnosis, identification of triggers, and assessment of therapeutic regimens. Current paper diaries are non-standardized, cumbersome, and difficult to analyze and interpret. The purpose of this Phase II proposal is to develop and evaluate software for a standardized, customizable electronic headache diary to collect daily information about headache attacks and related events in clinical and research populations. In Phase I, prototype software was developed to capture detailed information on daily headaches and tested on headache clinic patients. In Phase II the software will be expanded to include information on possible triggers and more detailed medication data. Testing will be performed on potential end users: headache sufferers and health care providers. Features will include data entry by screen tap, reminders to enter and transmit data, daily health tips, encrypted wireless data transmission, and on-line clinical data summaries. The software, AheadPC, will be designed for mobile computing devices that are convenient and easy to use, and through innovative Internet server technology, will provide interactive on-line clinical data summaries to headache patients and care providers. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: Annual direct medical costs for migraine care are estimated at $1 billion per year in the Unites States (Hu et al., 1999). Data collected prospectively about headaches is critical to diagnosing and managing patients. AheadPC aims to provide a standard, clinically valid, method of collecting headache data on a handheld computer with results viewable by ID to both patients and clinicians via the World Wide Web. With an estimated 45 million Americans experiencing severe headaches per year, the market for AheadPC is very strong in a variety of areas, including use by individuals, practitioners, and researchers.