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Health issues are rising progressively due to the ignorance of health monitoring on regular basis which can now be looked after by the fast growing communication technologies and smart devices. In this paper, a robust healthcare model is proposed for continuous monitoring of the patient even when the patient is traveling. Sensitive data is collected from the Internet of Things (IoT) sensors connected...
During the last decade the integration of smart devices into humans' lives has witnessed an exponential increase. This has led to a new paradigm namely Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS) which consists of cyber components (computer systems) physical components (controlled objects) and social components (humans and their interactions). Although social components are playing a main role in CPSS their...
Traditionally, distributed computing concentrates on computation understood at the level of information exchange and sets aside human and organizational concerns as largely to be handled in an ad hoc manner. Increasingly, however, distributed applications involve multiple loci of autonomy. Research in multiagent systems (MAS) addresses autonomy by drawing on concepts and techniques from artificial...
The paradigm of health care delivery is slowly aligning with the needs and habits of modern patients. Mobile computing may be a solution to respond to the growing trend and need for health care sharing and collaboration, enabling the redesign of processes giving rise to new models of health care delivery. Seeking to determine the situation in Portugal regarding mobile computing initiatives in this...
Paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity (PSH) is an important clinical problem of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) which incurs approximately 90% of all TBI-related costs. However, current detection approach is hampered by no consensus clinical diagnostic criteria, paroxysmal episode feature with complex manifestations, and already overloaded clinical activities. These limitations cause delayed recognitions...
The paper present aspects regarding importance of using cloud computing technology for big data processing from biosensors. The wireless sensors for personal area network have applications have been used in healthcare monitoring application. There are some limitations of wireless sensors in terms of memory, energy, computation, communication, scalability and efficient management of the big data collected...
Modern Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) are often affected by the "window plague", an overly crowded workspace with many open windows and tabs. The main cause is the lack of navigation support in IDEs, also due to the many -- and not always obvious -- complex relationships that exist between program entities. Researchers have shown that it is possible to mitigate the window plague...
Mobile Health care system with efficient Quality of Service (QoS) in cloud environment has been proposed in this paper. This health care application determines the probability of various cardio vascular diseases like heart attack, stroke etc. It obtains requested value of the attributes like weight, height, gender, age, blood pressure, lipid profile, sugar etc from the mobile user and transfers the...
Clinical protocols are a popular instrument to document how clinicians are expected to behave under specific conditions. Protocols are typically based on internationally peer reviewed clinical guidelines as well as on hospital-local agreements. Existing techniques for monitoring protocol adherence only support protocol descriptions involving simple sequences and local decision rules. As care and cure...
Conceptual modeling (CM) for simulation has traditionally been described as a highly qualitative process which is difficult to define. Previous articles have investigated the use of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), a problem structuring method, in healthcare simulation studies in order to define general system understanding, study objectives, and model content. However, no article has proposed the...
The lifestyle of the Dutch workforce is degrading. Unhealthy habits cause both physical and psychological problems, putting a strain on the individual's well-being. In order to conquer both of these, a system will be created that will coach its user to improve their lifestyle through a better diet and promoting physical activity in order to improve their feeling of well-being. However, requirements...
Ubiquitous medicine aims to provide healthcare services at any time, without restriction of location, enhancing the mobility of health professionals. Considering this premise, in this paper we propose a software architecture model that integrates sensors and computing devices (mobile or fixed) in a ubiquitous environment, providing context-awareness service. This model, called uMED1 , uses semantic...
The industrial and demographic expansion and associated increased exposure to pollutants continue to be critical factors contributing to the development of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Specifically, this paper builds on previously developed quantitative models for assessment of respiratory disorders utilizing acoustical characterization, as auscultation is a primary method used in initial...
A personal health and lifestyle platform helps individuals maintain a personal health and lifestyle record and obtain personalized, lifestyle-related advice to improve their health by changing their daily habits. The platform leverages the data stored in a typical personal health record, augmenting it with environmental and sensor data and enabling the monitoring and analysis of an individual's habits...
The importance as well as the availability of sensor-based technology and environments is constantly increasing. This is not only based on the latest advances in sensor technology but also due to the incorporation of more powerful communication and processing mechanisms into the sensor nodes which may, eventually, allow for the emergence of cognitive intelligence from within such networks themselves...
In order to realize the sharing of medical information, coordination of medical, as well as the efficient and cost-effective health information system through the construction of a distributed and high-integrated platform, the medical and health information system infrastructure based on the cloud computing is proposed. And three kinds of application mode, SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, are applied in this...
Contrast media is widely used in hospital for a better imaging of CT angiography. However, emergencies (such as needle eruption and capillary hemorrhage) may exist due to the extreme high speed of injection. A video-object-tracking system is implemented in this paper which can keep track of the patient's progress and sound an alarm in the event of danger. The MeanShift algorithm for real-time object...
This paper introduces an operational wellness model that forms the basis of a wellness visualization system. The operational wellness model is needed to determine a common reference enabling the evaluation of the visualization system. Existing definitions of wellness and wellness evaluation models have limitations and cannot be realized in software. The proposed model comprises the operational definition...
The presented policy-based management system supports autonomous control and adaptation of a distributed system according to changing conditions and requirements by means of event-condition-action (ECA) rules. Furthermore, it supports policy-aware application programming. Application components can request evaluations of policy expressions and decisions in order to govern their behavior depending...
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