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Remote patient monitoring (RPM) of vital signs offers the potential to provide high quality care to elderly and chronically ill people in their home environment, while making effective use of healthcare resources. However, among other factors, the lack of technical, clinical and organisational interoperability of RPM systems has hindered integration into mainstream healthcare. This research offers...
Automatic ECG QRS complex detection has been widely studied and used over the past decade. Although QRS complex is the most prominent feature in ECG and can provide useful information about the heart status, other parts of the ECG (P-wave, T-wave, etc) are also significant in determining the health status. Recently, researches for P-wave and T-wave detection algorithms started to appear but a parameter...
Appropriate deployment of technological innovation contributes to improvement in the quality of healthcare delivered, the containment of cost, and access to the healthcare system. Hospitals have been allocating a significant portion of their resources to procuring and managing capital assets; they are continuously faced with demands for new medical equipment and are asked to manage existing inventory...
We built a pulmonary and cardiovascular integrated model which is driven by O2 consumption. The integrated model consists of a pulmonary model, a cardiovascular model, a gas exchange model, a respiratory control system model and a cardiovascular control model. To verify the integrated model, we calculated ventilations and cardiac outputs in different O2 consumptions and compared the results with literature...
Recent rapid growth in mobile computing technologies enables telemedicine applications to operate on mobile devices. Our focus is on the design of an integrated electrocardiogram (ECG) beat detector on a personal digital assistant (PDA) platform for the health screening process. The ECG beat detector module will be supported by the PDA version of personal health information management system (PHIMS)...
Most current Holter devices monitor the ECG for 24 to 72 hours. However, for the accurate diagnosis of many cardiac diseases, especially for the wide variety of asymptomatic cases, continuous ECG monitoring for weeks or even months may be required. In this paper, we focus on the issue of ECG compression during long-term monitoring of the patient. The patient may be at home, at work, or even on a trip...
Barcode technology has been widely employed in medicine and healthcare industry. In this paper, it firstly introduces the application of barcode technology in information automation system oriented to blood banks and other transfusion facilities. In the following, the label paradigm of Codabar in Macao Blood Transfusion Center (CTS-Macau) is examined through the comparison with ISBT 128, an international...
Designing and developing computer-based self-care tools faces challenges for modeling self-care decision making processes and monitoring self-care activities. In this paper, a simplified conceptual model for self-care decision making is presented and a workflow based self-care management system is proposed to implement the process-oriented monitoring. Self-care knowledge of specific conditions is...
With the increase of aging people, the task to maintain the health care level becomes heavier. To compensate for shortages of nurses and reduce the stress of nursing work, we have attempted to create an Internet based mobile robot system for hospitals or home healthcare. In this paper, we described a feasibility study and a basic platform design of a teleoperated healthcare service system via the...
Advances and wide acceptance of information and communication technology (ICT) have made development and implementation of Web-based electronic personal health records (PHRs) more feasible than ever before, and previous studies have demonstrated some of its potential and promises. However, this type of ICT-dependent approach inherits its own vulnerabilities of exposing the society to "digital...
Electrodermal activity is extensively used for measuring human emotions. Validity and reliability have been questioned by some researchers. This paper reports on highly controlled experiments to determine the validity of electrodermal activity for measuring human emotions. The authors were unable to determine the validity of electrodermal activity for measuring human emotions. Inter and intra subject...
An embedded remote health care system based on wireless sensor network technology was established. Firstly, a new system architecture was proposed which introduced a scalable wireless personal medical sensor network around human's body. Then the designs of several sensor node and the care base-station were presented. The wireless communication between the sensor nodes and the care base-station used...
Information technology applications in medicine are rapidly expanding, and new methods and solutions are evolving since they are considered pivotal in the success of preventive medicine. In this paper two different concepts will be presented, the PANACEIA-iTV and the e-Vital concept. PANACEIA-iTV is a home care service provision system based on interactive TV technology and supported by the IST programme...
In the nearest future a lot of post-operative treatment and health monitoring is going to be performed in people's homes instead of in hospital. The increasing number of elderly people in the developed countries and the need for more advanced medical treatment and equipment in conjunction with economical demands will force the development of more cost-effective solutions. The equipment used must be...
The evolution of telecommunications technologies in connection with the robustness and the fidelity these new systems provide, have opened up many new horizons as regards the provision of healthcare and the quality of service from the side of the experts to that of the patients. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the third generation telecommunications systems that are only recently being deployed...
This paper proposes a wireless patient monitoring system which integrates Bluetooth and WiFi wireless technologies. A wireless portable multi-parameter device was designated to acquire physiological signals and transmit them to a local server via Bluetooth wireless technology. Four kinds of monitor units were designed to communicate via the WiFi wireless technology, including a local monitor unit,...
Type 1 diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease characterized by blood glucose levels out of normal range due to inability of insulin production. This dysfunction leads to many short- and long-term complications. In this paper, a system for tele-monitoring and tele-management of type 1 diabetes patients is proposed, aiming at reducing the risk of diabetes complications and improving quality of life...
Protecting the privacy of patients' electronic health records (EHR) while providing timely health care is an important issue in e-medicine. In this paper, we introduce an emerging problem of secure access to EHR added by the patient directly or by a physician who is not primary. We identify the design requirements, propose our solutions, and demonstrate that our solutions satisfy the design requirements
Automatic system for ranking of educational health care related Web resources based on quality criteria was developed. Automatic retrieval of new Web resources from well-known directories followed by their automatic evaluation is a keystone of the system. The system provides this information: a) location of the resource and its author, b) number of back links to the resource, c) checks presence of...
The rapid progress in health informatics is motivating technical innovations globally in many fields like diagnostics, radiological information systems etc. In the middle of all these galloping advances, the need for integration of associated technologies is significant. In addition, fully concerted functioning of the associated healthcare professionals, with attention to certain sections of society...
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