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Wearable sensors enable long-term continuous physiological monitoring, which is important for the treatment and management of many chronic illnesses, neurological disorders, and mental health issues. Examples include: diabetes, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), depression, drug addition, and anxiety disorders. In this paper, we present a few mobile health technologies developed by our group and also...
Mobile and environmental sensing technology can be used to assess human behaviour and mental health trajectories outside of laboratories and in ecologically-relevant settings. To achieve maximum benefit, the set of equipment and the monitoring patterns must be personalised to respect individual needs and fit into individual lifestyles. We have developed a sensor network infrastructure for mobile phones...
In this paper, we focus on the scheme which supports mobility for 6LoWPAN sensor devices. We adopt Proxy Mobile IPv6 protocol to provide mobility for low power 6LoWPAN sensor devices. We also implement a testbed of the mobile healthcare system using our proposed mechanism.
This paper describes a novel strategy for providing ubiquitous medical and healthcare monitoring through the use of a mobile phone equipped with a low-frequency microphone sensitive to pressure waves in the frequency range of 0.1 Hz to 10 kHz. The mobile phone is placed in a sealed air cushion under the pillow or mattress of the subject's bed. The low-frequency microphone in the mobile phone picks...
The OpenCare Personal Communication Device (OCPCD) is an extension of the OpenCare Service Engine infrastructure in the shape of a mobile wrist or neck-born device for monitoring users vital signs and activity-level while not at home, and for allowing the user to remote control his home and communicate with others using the build-in cell phone module. It also provides fall detection by integrating...
The "long-distance home health care service" has become one of the key emerging businesses in Taiwan. In this paper, a mobile health management system is presented which is the first one integrating a wearable ring-type pulse monitoring sensor with a smart phone. All physiological measurements are transmitted to the smart phone through Bluetooth. The user can monitor his/her own pulse and...
Mobile healthcare (m-healthcare) systems are regarded as a solution to address skyrocketing healthcare costs without reducing the quality of patient care. It is our aim to build an m-Healthcare platform based on the service-oriented computing paradigm. We are developing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for m-healthcare services platform, called SOAMOH that shall also support interfacing with...
Recent advances in ultra lightweight communications and sensor devices have ushered in a new range of applications to incorporate location awareness into mission critical situations such as remote health monitoring of chronically ill patients or emergency response personnel. However, in an open environment where these devices could potentially operate in the future, reliable and accurate positioning...
In hospitals and other medical facilities, nursing staff are responsible for the care of critically ill patients. Many hospitals use information technology to support nursing care. However, most medical information systems use manually recorded vital sign data for patient care and control. Medical staff cannot automatically detect abnormalities and provide consistent and immediate health care services...
Wireless network based u-Health services enable people's health care anytime, anywhere. Recently technology advance in the area of sensing, networking, processing is developed rapidly. This advance of information technology is raising the change of traditional healthcare system. By using wireless and mobile networks, patients could be monitored and managed outside hospitals and also examined with...
One of significant contributions in medical information technology is the design and implementation of e-health solutions, which provide patients with mobile services to support and optimize their treatment based on the monitoring of certain physiological parameters. This category of e-health is called mobile health monitoring. Although the mobile wireless technologies are now commercially available,...
We present an application of an open source platform for wireless body sensor network called DexterNet to the problem of children's asthma. The architecture of the system consists of three layers. At the body sensor layer (BSL), the integrated monitoring of a child's activities, geographic location, and air pollution exposures occurs. At the personal network layer (PNL), a wireless mobile device worn...
With the personal request for treatment and the pressure of decreasing accident, it is necessary particularly to use a new technology in hospital. Using WiFi network, the information of patient will be send to doctor more faster than ever. This will reduce treatment time and cost largely. At the same time, the efficiency of examining ward will be improve. On the other hand, it will avoid treatment...
This paper introduces a conceptual framework and process that aims to simplify the development of applications for mobile devices. We specialize on the domain of health monitoring by providing a whole system that would allow people to model their own mobile health monitoring applications in a simplified manner without dealing with low-level coding themselves.
Given the widely acknowledged impact that social support has on health outcomes, we set out to investigate peer-involvement in cardiac rehabilitation and explore the potential for technological support thereof. We planned to deploy a purpose built technology probe into a 10-week rehabilitation program. This paper presents the findings of the probes pilot study, where rejection of technology and reluctance...
The paper describes how an eHealth platform is being optimized with several enabling technologies for content and services provisioning over new, more complex network topologies. The services that are to be offered must account for dynamic networking environments which include ad-hoc networks on the one-hand, and on the other that are to be offered for groups of users, seamlessly connected by using...
What do IT-oriented healthcare professionals believe to be the most attractive and credible wireless applications in healthcare? What do they think about the challenges? These questions were presented to 70 randomly selected participants at the HIMSS08 conference in February 2008 at Orlando, Florida, USA. The questions were formulated in a one-page query form and the data was uploaded into the ZEF-analysis...
In Brazil the use of information communication technologies increased considerably in this last few years, but there are still very incipient experiments using telemedicine for pre-hospital care. This article reports the deployment of resources of telehealth on SAMU (emergency mobile assistance service) of Belo Horizonte and the preliminary results of the project, involving European partners, the...
In this paper is described an embedded system for healthcare applications, actually a monitoring device for patients requiring continuous tele-monitoring treatments. The hardware architecture of the system, based on wireless communication, is discussed and implementation details are presented. We will also be presenting experimental results proving the usefulness of embedded homecare systems in providing...
There are numerous challenges confronting the healthcare systems of Caribbean countries. The public healthcare systems in the region currently face a crisis due to factors such as shortages of medical staff, lack of proper facilities, and insufficient funding. Therefore, new approaches to managing healthcare and promoting healthier lifestyle practices are needed to address this problem. This paper...
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