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Engineering Design Symposium, University of Virginia,
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
IV. CONCLUSION The author would like to thank Dr. Stephen D. Patek,
Monitoring chronic illness presents a huge challenge for Systems & Information Engineering Associate Professor at
health care workers since the effects of chronic illness have University of Virginia and Mr. Douglas E. Barton, Vice
been identified as the most important health care problem of President and Chief Solutions Architect at SAIC. The author
the 21st century. Previously, focus has been placed on takes full responsibility for the ideas, concepts, and opinions
monitoring individual episodes of an ailment that includes presented here, which do not necessarily reflect those held
phone calls to the patient, paper surveys of health status and by Dr. Patek and Mr. Douglas.
on-site examinations instead of constant monitoring chronic
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