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Cardiovascular diseases such as; heart attack (coronary thrombosis, myocardial infarction), hypertension, stroke, coronary artery disease (CAD), congestive heart failure, peripheral artery disease (PAD) and diabetes create a new concern worldwide due to its harmness. In Bangladesh where majority live in rural areas that lack specialist care, we envision the need for much larger Internet-based telemedicine...
The author outlines experience of work within e-health. Particularly important is the need to test the efficacy of technology, both with patients and clinical practitioners prior to roll-out within the British National Health Service (NHS) is emphasised. Two projects are discussed focusing on user-centered engagement, within mobile technology evaluation involving clinicians (as users) and a Patient...
Information technology has the paradigm to generate benefits to organizations such as costs reduction, processes improvement, time and errors reduction, but it also has its weaknesses and even negatives aspects. The benefits have to be for everyone involved otherwise resistance to change and transfer of costs increase can occur. For the analysis of the implantation of the digitization system of medical...
Delivering clinical services to people in their homes by means of technology may improve access for patients, but may compromise personal and social interactions with health professionals. Rehabilitation programs improve wellbeing and quality of life in a number of conditions, such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Ischemic Heart Disease and Stroke. Programs are conventionally delivered...
Providing effective and appropriate healthcare is one of the most important objectives of information and communication technologies (ICT). Internet of things (IoT) is one of the last advances in ICT, providing a global connectivity and management of sensors, devices, users and information. Our contribution is a solution to examine drug related problems based on IoT technologies, i.e. smart phones...
The use of mobile and ubiquitous computing devices is advantageous for collecting and sharing patient data at the bedside or in hospital waiting areas. iPhone web applications - or web apps - combine the power of Internet based solutions with the simplicity of multi-touch and gesture technology, all one portable device. Since many data collection platforms have moved to an online paradigm (or are...
The study of the current Malaysian emergency, healthcare and medical information systems shows that they have several drawbacks such as lack of sharing between hospitals, no integration between emergency, healthcare and medical information systems, lack of utilizing real-time and mobility technologies, and stand alone systems. Thus, this paper is to develop a system that integrates medical emergency,...
Over the past few years, telemedicine has made considerable progress. Its benefits range from the ability to monitor patient's progress remotely to providing high quality of care to a larger geographic segment of patients. Many of the current Malaysian medical information, healthcare, and emergency systems suffers from locality, stand alone, and lack of fully utilize the great facilities of Internet,...
The progress in solving grand challenges in eHealth is not as dynamic as the development of advanced Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Despite many accomplished achievements in research, systems and solutions available on the market are not comprehensive. There are two main reasons for this: the progress in overcoming existing barriers is insufficient and we will face a social revolution...
Objective Interactive Health Communication Applications (IHCAs) can make a valuable contribution to rheumatological care. The development of online health applications is moving quickly, and positive results have been shown. Yet solid research on use and acceptance of different information, communication and participation tools by patients is still lacking. In this qualitative study, we examined the...
Most organizations exchange, collect, store and process data over the Internet. Many hospital networks deploy Web services to send and receive patient information. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is the most usable communication protocol for Web services. XML is the standard encoding language of SOAP messages. However, the major drawback of XML messages is the high network traffic caused by large...
In the present study, “Electronic Doctor's Bag” which is a tele-healthcare tool for home-visit medical service using the mobile communications environment has been proposed and evaluated by preliminary experiments. It was shown that its basic function was sufficiently evaluated by a few doctors and nurses but further improvement in portability and operability is required on the basis of much more...
Modern methods of information and communication that use web technologies provide an opportunity to facilitate closer communication between patients and healthcare providers, allowing a joint management of chronic diseases. This paper describes a web-based technological solution to support the management of inherited bleeding disorders integrating, diffusing and archiving large sets of data relating...
Recently the problem of providing effective and appropriate healthcare to elderly and disable people is an important field in relative to the aging of population problems. The objective of information and communication technologies (ICT) is to focus on the new technologies the medical environments, so that it can provide management to accelerate and improve the clinical process. Our contribution is...
Complicated Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems have created the problems in system easy implementation and interoperability for a Web-enabled Healthcare Solution, which is normally provided by an independent healthcare giver with limited IT knowledge and interests. An EMR system with well-designed and user-friendly interface, such as Microsoft HealthVault System, as the back end platform of...
There are a lot of people who need health care at home but can't or needn't go to hospital. This paper introduces a solution of home health care telemedicine service system that is composed of remote client system and service center system. The remote client system gathers the vital signs information and transfers it to the service center through 3G/CDMA communication network or Internet. The multi-parameter...
In modern health care, use of Web based EHR (electronic health record) system has increased remarkably because of its world-wide accessibility and the facility of the collaborative work among multiple users. Major drawbacks of such centralized Web based system are link failure and low or no fault tolerance. In an unreliable network, it is very commonplace that service is unavailable due to connection...
Development in information and communication technology (ICT) has the potential to provide affordable and accessible Tele-healthcare services in developing countries. In rural and remote areas of Pakistan, lady health workers (LHWs) are the main source of healthcare provision. This paper presents a model for providing tele-healthcare services using web and mobile phone based technologies to rural...
Network-based data sharing is a current trend in medicine and healthcare. The search and retrieval architecture (SRA) we previously proposed for web-based sharing of electrocardiogram (ECG) facilitates the search and retrieval of ECG across hospitals via the Internet. The SRA has a triangle-like configuration including an ECG metadata registry, an ECG provider and an ECG querist. In this paper, we...
This paper presents MEDNET's EC FP7 project telemedicine network solution and its validation performed during the integration and validation phase. This network solution runs over AmerHis broadband satellite multimedia commercial system, embarked over AMAZONAS1 satellite and owned by HISPASAT. During the integration and validation phase of the telemedicine network solution, different medical applications...
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