Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for guiding a clinician in assessing or forecasting the state of a patient's vascular access, comprising a programmable computer; an input device; an output device, the input device being configured for receiving or collecting input data related to the patient's vascular access; the computer being configured to assess, in an assessment step, the state of the patient's vascular access and/or to provide a prognosis with respect to the patient's vascular access based on the input data; the computer further being configured for outputting the result of said assessment step via the output device.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for automatically determining at least one quantifiable score comprises the steps of a) acquiring therapy data concerning a medical therapy, namely a dialysis treatment or a kidney replacement treatment, that is performed by a medical device on a patient, b) acquiring sound, image and/or video data of the patient or his environment, and c) determining at least one quantifiable score based on the therapy data and at least one of the sound, image and video data of the patient or his environment.