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Endothelial dysfunction is a well-known indication of the early stages of cardio vascular diseases. Non-invasive methods have grown with popularity in determining the endothelial health as it can be safely applied on people to obtain repeated measurements of vascular function overtime. This study presents a combined non-invasive endothelial function assessment method which acquires a Peripheral Arterial...
Monitoring gait patterns seamlessly and continuously over time provides valuable information that could help physicians diagnose diseases in the early stages. Currently, traditional gait measurement approaches do not support continuous monitoring of gait and focus on collecting limited data points in controlled lab environments. However, with advancements in wireless technology, movement patterns...
Remote patient monitoring systems (RMS) have gained increasing popularity in recent years. RMS have great potential to improve medical services by providing more affordable, timely, and accessible care. This paper describes an effective low-cost RMS that is readily deployable. The system targets chronic disease patients and attempts to reduce patient visits to the hospital and healthcare costs. The...
Background: BCR-ABL1 fusion gene is the molecular hallmark of most cases of chronic myeloid leukaemia and some cases of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. All CML cases that have Philadelphia chromosome, t (9; 22) (q34; q11) translocation express BCR-ABL1. For both diagnosis and minimal residual disease monitoring, Real Time PCR is used to quantify BCR-ABL1 in peripheral blood. However, messenger RNA...
Every year, the province of South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is burdened by recurrent outbreaks of Cholera especially in the Fizi and Uvira regions. Although the root causes of the epidemic are the scarcity of clean water and quality hygienic latrines, human-induced malpractices are also contributing factors. Hence, providing clean water and hygienic latrines must be accompanied...
The number of diabetes patients is increasing dramatically. Diabetes has many reasons and can lead to severe complications. It has been proven that early diagnosis and effective monitoring and assistance can decrease the effect of this disease. Thus, this paper presents general diabetes system for patient's pre-diagnosis, monitoring and assistance. Client java graphical interfaces, in addition to...
Clinical research registries need to be driven by data quality to improve the outcome of clinical trials and to provide the possibility to facilitate new research initiatives. The International Niemann-Pick Disease Registry (INPDR) is one such example of a clinical research registry. Unlike other registries where data quality is largely based around best effort manual data entry, the INPDR registry...
The population growth and the parallel increase in health spending, inadequate number of physicians and the growing interest of people to access health services in the comfort of their own homes necessitated a serious transformation in health systems. This has prompted health professionals to conduct research to develop solutions that enable them to monitor and assess patients' health remotely. In...
Biomarkers are objective indications of a medical state that can be measured accurately and reproducibly. Traditional biomarkers enable diagnosis of disease through detection of disease-specific molecular signatures or distinct physiological or anatomical signatures. This work provides a framework for selecting biomarkers that are most likely to provide useful information about a patient's disease...
This paper researches and analyzes the current situation of the application of mobile medical services in chronic disease monitoring and management. With chronic diseases and mobile medical development trend in China, we propose a monitoring and management system for the physical sign of elderly patients with chronic diseases. By using the system, patient can monitor and upload the physical sign data,...
Physical activity represents a key element for elderly people to maintain a healthy life. This paper presents a game for supporting and stimulating elderly people in performing physical activity. The game is composed of different type of exercises that are selected based on the user's profile and health status. The results are presented to the user in multiple ways that are correlated with his/her...
Stemming from a holistic view of interrelated frailties, cognitive decline, physical frailty, depression and anxiety, social isolation and poor sleep quality, My-AHA proposes an ICT platform for early detection of pre-frailty and intervention to sustain active and healthy ageing and slowing or reversing further decline. The main aim of My-AHA is to reduce frailty risk by improving physical activity...
The ubiquitous growth of Internet of Things (IoT) and its medical applications has improved the effectiveness in remote health monitoring systems of elderly people or patients who need long-term personal care. Nowadays, chronic illnesses, such as, stroke, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases are major causes of death, in many parts of the world. In this paper, we propose a...
The ICT4Life Open Source framework contains libraries for acquiring and processing data from different sensors, machine learning algorithms for activity recognition, as well as fusion methods of multiple modalities either at an early or at a late stage. The main purpose of the introduced system is to enable an easy customization of patients' monitoring using different types of sensors. Furthermore,...
Long term self monitoring with connected personal health devices offers tremendous opportunities for wellbeing, health, and prevention. However, to date it is not fully understood how users perceive monitoring in the long term and how they implement it in their daily lives. We observed 7 participants that used a comprehensive set of connected personal health devices for 9 months and inquired their...
Nutraceutical products are functional foods consumed by many for its proclaimed benefits to health. Most nutraceutical products are not pharmaceutical drugs, hence has been treated as food. This made nutraceutical regulation more difficult since they do not fall under the jurisdiction of pharmaceutical regulatory authorities. Accordingly, Control of Drugs and Cosmetics Regulation 1984 and related...
Nowadays heart disease is a bell on every possible door. A medical electronics unit has been developed citing the problems of general mass of people. Round the clock this multifunction electronic device monitors, records and indicates alarming heart situation of the user. It also prescribes emergency as well as regular medicines based on the recorded heart data. This data puts light on a thought where...
The Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the most serious diseases in the world. To monitor cardiac condition and diagnose cardiovascular disease conveniently, a mobile intelligent Electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring system is developed. The system is consisted of signal acquisition module, Bluetooth transmission module, signal processing module and intelligent diagnosis module. The ECG signals collected...
Mobile apps have been developed for monitoring health and wellness for various reasons such as self-management of chronic diseases, weight loss and maintain healthy life style. As consumers, patients are flooded with new mobile apps and are unaware if they are suitable for desired health and wellness outcomes. As much as a clinician would like to support a patient centered approach and promote mobile...
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