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In this study, we provided a comprehensive methodology for designing and integrating miniature system in the biosensor application. In general, the network analyzer is commonly used for acoustic wave sensor measurement. However, it is remarkably inconvenient for portable use. Therefore, we presented a readout concept, which was focused on the miniaturization of the flexural plate wave (FPW) sensor...
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...
As a patient and recipient of a blood transfusion, it is important for him or her to receive the safest blood possible. Information about the donated blood should be under the track to guarantee the quality of the blood source. In this paper, we present a RFID-based blood information management system that aims at ensuring the quality of the blood and increasing the efficiency of operation management...
The idea behind hospital information systems is to make all of a patient's medical reports, lab results, and images electronically available to clinicians, instantaneously, wherever they are. But the higgledy-piggledy evolution of most hospital computer systems makes it hard to integrate all these clinical records. Although several integration standards had been proposed to meet this challenger, none...
The extensible markup language (XML) is gaining attention in medicine because of its flexibility. Since most XML documents convey information only on content, it has been difficult for medical applications to present and edit them in the precise format, as required in many clinical circumstances. This article offers a design of formatted report (FR) language to meet almost all medical-oriented requirements...
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...
As an official rule for healthcare privacy and security, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires security services supporting implementation features: access control; audit controls; authorization control; data authentication; and entity authentication. Audit controls proposed by HIPPA Security Standards are audit trails, which audit activities, to assess compliance with...
The clinostat was originally used to find out why plant roots appear to grow predominantly toward the center of the Earth. Over the last 2-3 decades, slow- and fast-rotating 2D and 3D clinostats have been used to assess cellular adaptation to this environment. A cell culture is placed in a spin module of the clinostat platform and its rotation is set empirically (2-3 rpm). The machine is then allowed...
Bone mass loss caused by microgravity is considered as one of the worst influences to human body during long-term spaceflight. As one of the countermeasures to retain bone mass, muscle electrical stimulation is just started in spaceflight application and needs further research. This work is aimed to investigate the effects of muscle electrical stimulation based on the tail-suspended rat experiment...
Previous studies have shown that combined stresses in space flight can affect astronauts' health. On-line monitoring biochemical markers in body fluids which are highly related to some kinds of diseases is a practical method used as the health early alarm and medical care system for astronauts. In this study, a portable on-line biomolecules analyzer (POBA) was developed and utilized for the assay...
Current health scenarios have witnessed increased attention for home care as a way to enhance the quality of service provision and reduce costs. In recent times, clinical information systems (CISs) have undergone significant development and they now include useful applications for doctors, nurses and other health professionals. The present work investigates the possible integration of a home-based...
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...
Owing to the increasing number of disabled individuals, technical aids are acting more aggressively in the era of modern medicine. The M3S (multiple master multiple slave) system developed for the physically challenged, utilizes intelligent transmission and integration mechanisms to arrange all hooked-up devices with proper control. To overcome certain limitations of the system (e.g. distance), an...
Stroke can cause a variety of cognitive disturbances depending on the location of the injury. It is proved by clinic that some specific cognitive training is a safe and effective method for stroke patients who are suffering from cognitive disturbances. In this paper, we designed and implemented a tele-therapy system that based on Internet, so that the patients with cognitive impairment can take the...
The quality of our life is tied to the quality of our sleep. People with sleep deficits may experience impaired performance, irritability, lack of concentration, and daytime drowsiness. Increased mobility in bed can be a sign of disrupted sleep. Therefore, body movements in bed represent an important behavioral aspect of sleep. In this paper, we propose a method for detection and classification of...
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...
The objectives of this study is to assess the effect of prolonged loading on the skin blood flowmotion in rats as measured by laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) using wavelets transform and power spectral in the rat skin microcirculation. External pressure of 13.3kPa (100 mmHg) was applied to the trochanter area and the distal lateral tibia of Sprague-Dawley rats via two specifically designed pneumatic...
Wave propagation through the arterial system changes with age and disease state, and mutant mice are often used to study these conditions. We have developed several noninvasive ultrasonic techniques to measure blood velocity and vessel wall motion from which we can calculate aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV), local compliance, impedance spectra, characteristic impedance (Zc), augmentation index (AI),...
Dwarf mouse (deficient in growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-1) lives about 30% longer than wild type mice. However, very little is known about their cardiovascular physiology. We examined the aortic input impedance in dwarf mice and their wild-type littermates to evaluate any differences. Aortic impedance was determined using pressure and velocity signals which are independent of body...
Hemodynamic stresses are known to degenerate the arterial wall and be involved in the pathogenesis of intracranial aneurysm formation and development. The present study simulates the formation and growth of aneurysms by focusing on the interplay between the wall shear stress, degeneration of the mechanical wall properties, and the wall deformation. We construct numerical aneurysm models arisen from...
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