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Workflow management systems (WfMS) can be used to manage complex processes, such as those described by Clinical Practise Guidelines (CPG). Such processes involve a variety of stakeholders, however, frequently their interfaces are not suited to the needs of the stakeholders involved. Here we propose that WfMSs be integrated with tools to build a variety of interfaces to meet the needs of different...
An important aspect of clinical work, especially in the intensive care unit (ICU) is the vigilant observation of patients' vital data on a various number of monitors and displays to allow for rapid decision-making which is often required in critical conditions. Most often, the presented data cannot be collected and used as a whole to aid the decision making by availability and comparison of all relevant...
The increasing number and complexity of e-health services provided to citizens push healthcare organizations to adopt powerful computing systems to deal with the resulting workload. The adoption of the Cloud to host such services is a promising solution to address the increasing demand for computational power and also to deal with expected or unexpected computational peaks. This paper proposes a framework...
A novel technology for non - invasive cerebrovascular auto regulation (CA) status monitoring is presented. This fully non-invasive CA monitor is based on ultrasonic time-of-flight (TOF) measurement of cerebral blood volume pulsations within the brain parenchyma, processing of volumetric waves, and calculation of CA estimation indexes without using any additional arterial blood pressure (ABP) measurements...
Researchers need to evaluate newly thought clinical protocols for validity and performance. A main challenge for such evaluations is the lack of real-world data sets due to the private nature of patient information. Researchers resort to synthetic data in order to simulate the real-world counterpart. We present a tool for researchers to increase their confidence in the evaluations they perform by...
A compact measuring - information multi-channel spectroellipsometric system for monitoring the quality of aquatic environment, that is based on the combined use of spectroellipsometry and training, classification, and identification algorithms is described. This system is differed from modern analogues by the use of a new and very promising method of ellipsometric measurements, an original element...
This paper provides an approach to evaluating Quality of Context (QoC) parameters in a ubiquitous Ambient Assisted Living (ALL) environment. The study presents the proposed context management architecture, which is then verified with the Siafu simulator in an ALL scenario where the user's health is monitored with information about blood pressure, heart rate and body temperature. Considering some parameters,...
Amplitude-integrated electroencephalography (aEEG), a time compression technique, compresses the time scale of the conventional electroencephalogram (EEG) which is advantageous for presenting long EEG recordings. Cerebral function monitors use a reduced number of electrodes from the standard 10-20 montage and displays both an EEG and aEEG trace from one or two channels. Sleep-wake cycling is defined...
This paper introduces a novel human activity monitoring system combining Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) and Mechanomyographic (MMG) muscle sensing technology. While other work has recognised and implemented systems for combined muscle activity and motion recording, they have focused on muscle activity through EMG sensors, which have limited use outside controlled environments. MMG is a low frequency...
This paper presents a method for improvement in SNR and resolution of photo acoustic (PA) signal using Golay coded excitation for a non-invasive and continuous glucose monitoring. The simulation results with a Golay code of length 4 has been shown, which gives a coding gain of 9.03 dB in comparison to regular pulse triggering. Furthermore, Golay coded excitation results in better resolution of PA...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a slowly progressive disease characterized by airway obstruction. Patients suffering from COPD could report exacerbations, which are deteriorations in respiratory health that worsen the course of the disease. The prompt recognition of an exacerbation from daily variations and its early treatment reduces the healing time and the risk of hospitalization...
Adverse drug events (ADEs) are common, costly and a public health issue. Today, their detection relies on medical chart review and spontaneous reports, but this is known to be rather ineffective. Along with the increasing availability of clinical patient data in electronic health records (EHRs), a computer-based ADE detection has a tremendous potential to contribute to patient safety. Current ADE...
Modern mobile and wearable devices are enabling the realization of so-called ubiquitous computing. This provides citizens the technological means to contribute to urban management by becoming sensors within a smart city. Notwithstanding, the health sector is a very crucial factor for city management, imposing restrictions to the decisions directly or indirectly. The question that arises is given the...
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