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Injuries and sudden illnesses are leading causes of mortality and disability worldwide. Pre-hospital Emergency Medical Service is the Medical service which focuses on helping the emergency patients from traumatic condition, preventing from disabilities and deaths, and associating the patients from severe condition to get the proper treatment on time. This could increase the survival rate dramatically...
In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a location-aware mobile-based emergency service for Bangladesh, a developing country, which lacks any central 911-like emergency service. Our goal was to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of such services that do not require building any new infrastructure or changing the existing infrastructure available in Bangladesh. To achieve...
An important function of smart environments is the ubiquitous access of computing devices. In public areas such as hospitals, libraries, and airports, people may want to interact with nearby computing systems to get information, such as directions to a hospital room, locations of books, and flight departure/arrival information. Touch screen based displays and kiosks, which are commonly used today,...
Scripture under sight is defining the robustness and functionalities of ventilator which is not only easily transferable as well as it is very low cost and economics friendly. It is designed under the basic idea of being incorporated in huge human catastrophes in poorly resources enriched environments. Ventilator under the proposed design was being developed with wooden pieces with a weight of 6 kg...
Several thousands of people die day to day due to the time lag taken by the Ambulance service to reach the accident spot. This happens due to traffic jam, congestion in the city. A prototype of an emergency flying air ambulance or an ambulance drone which can reach the fatal cases faster than a normal ambulance which saves time is designed and it also measures the different health parameters using...
The pressure ulcer is a common but preventable condition sometimes seen in persons who have mobility impairments. Patients requiring long term treatment and who are admitted at an in-patient department (IPD) are at risk of pressure ulcers. Pressure ulcers can interfere with patient health recovery, resulting in increased cost of treatment and prolongation of hospital stay. Three factors contributing...
This work presents an on-line system developed for medical information extraction. The goal is to provide a web-based service addressed to the medical community for the efficient processing of electronic health records in Spanish and support the clinical decision making process. This tool assists in the identification of medical entities as well as cause-effect reactions in order to help professionals...
Current patient monitoring solutions struggle with high rates of false alarms, which potentially lead to dismissal of clinically relevant alarms. This risk is in particular present in emergency departments and acute bed wards where highly heterogeneous patients are treated in rapid succession. In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a Patient Deterioration Warning System...
Indoor environments like hospitals are typically very complex and hard to navigate even for healthy individuals. Factors like bad health status, higher stress level, and possible impairments can make the orientation in hospitals even more challenging. We describe the evolution of context-sensitive navigation system that provides adaptive indoor navigation without forcing users to use sophisticated...
A context aware nursing support system to push right information to the right person at the right moment is the key to increase clinical safety under a computerized hospital. We prototyped a system which obtains context from positions of nurses and list of expected clinical procedures. A WoZ test showed that the proposed approach has potential to decrease incidents caused by information delivery error.
Agile software development methods have rapidly spread after their formal introduction in the agile manifesto at the dawn of the millennium. They rapidly gained support in the software industry and can be considered a standard today. Agile methods seem to improve software project success rates and offer developers the needed flexibility to adapt to changing user requirements. However, the use of agile...
Change in urine color is due to several diseases or metabolic activity. Detection of the urine color change and diagnosis of the color change related diseases are performed at the hospitals after several comprehensive tests. In this study, a urine color detecting device, which can be used at home healthcare, has been developed. The device is equipped with a homogeneous light source and a power supply...
In this paper, the electronic health information standard is a standard prototype which can be used for patient information transfer among hospitals in Thailand, based on Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) in the xml format. The prototype is developed for Java Health Center Information System (JHCIS), which is a healthcare information system developed by the Ministry of Public Health and widely...
The rapid development of medical informatization has ignited the explosive growth trend of medical service data, which is challenging data managers on the aspects of data amount, complex and multi-dimensional data relation and high interactive response demand. Traditional technology such as Data Warehouse (DW) and Business Intelligence (BI) could not meet the real-time demand of processing and analyzing...
Development in technology enabled us to use virtual money for online transaction. It is proven through a developed technology, when transaction can be done not only using real money but also virtual money. This technology is also supported by NFC. This paper gives an overview of NFC technology for generating tickets using intelligent NFC based android phone. We will see how through machine learning...
The lists of diagnostic codes which are usually recorded in the hospitals for health management and/or costs reimbursement purposes can represent a useful source of information in the analysis of the (dis)similarity between different patients, as long as appropriate measures exist to estimate this (dis)similarity. The aim of this paper is to analyze various measures obtained by using different ways...
Health is one of the issues that present more challenges in Angola. These challenges come not only from the constraints of the area itself, but result also from external circumstances that influence people's health condition and access to medical services. In the context of healthcare, hospital emergency service is one of the most problematic areas given its complex and multidisciplinary nature.
For all healthcare institutions and organizations, patient safety is of the utmost importance. A factor that influences patient safety is the existence (or not) of observed adverse events associated with medical devices. Upon the detection of adverse events, all healthcare providers that own the affected medical devices should be promptly notified. In this paper we present the core of a prototype...
The exchange of health information between patients and multiple stakeholders empowers digital home based self-care, which can deal with the challenge of increasing chronic disease prevalence. Cloud computing has the potential to provide a more imaginative long-term solution. However, concerns over pattern of data sharing, confidentiality of sensitive health data, and service integration need to be...
User Satisfaction is one of the most important factors studied by many researchers to develop effective application. This paper presents the user satisfaction evaluation of social networks named as Jordanian Medical Social Network (JMSN) which was designed for staff at Jordanian hospitals. This prototype was used and designed based on the enhanced TPB model of knowledge sharing behavior. A survey...
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