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Ballistocardiogram (BCG) has been revisited in the last years as an unobtrusive method to detect heart beats. New electromechanical film (EMFi) sensors are now able to detect minimal oscillations in its surface, allowing to detect the mechanical action of the heart as it beats. This has allowed to develop unobtrusive systems for heart rate monitoring to be used as Point-of-Care devices, and to deploy...
Telemedicine systems are becoming prevalent in today's healthcare scenarios, especially in India where a large portion of the population resides in remote and rural regions where availability of specialty healthcare is scant. Many such telemedicine system implementations can be found in the existing literature. Since critical data are being transmitted over these networks, the reliability of these...
Neonatal mortality is a global challenge. One million newborns die each year within their first 24 hours as a result of complications during labour and birth asphyxia. Most of these deaths happen in low resource settings. However, basic resuscitation at birth can increase newborn survival. Identification of initial factors and simple therapeutic strategies determinant for neonatal outcome can aid...
Patient identification is crucial in providing proper care in hospitals or other care-facilities. Failure to correctly identify patients can result in a variety of problems such as medication errors, transfusion errors, testing errors, and duplication of EHR records. The current solutions for identifying patients in a hospital setting rely on confirming the patient's identity several times, the use...
The use of wearable devices is becoming more frequent, especially when it comes to monitoring heart rate in physical activity. The use of information from "wearable" devices in the area of "fitness" is a common practice, however, in the context of health and clinical decision making it is not usual to use the information obtained through by such devices. Doubts as to their reliability...
This study examined the electrocardiographic data set recorded by Boston's Beth Israel Hospital for the work of the cardiac and neurotransmitter system and for normal and various irregular heartbeat patterns of electrical activity in the heart. Seven different types of arrhythmia, available in this data set, were classified using four different, widely used, classifiers (Fuzzy C-Means, Naive Bayes,...
Generally in hospitals, intensive care units (ICUs) have high rates of false arrhythmia alarms independent of their brands and prices. These falsely issued alarms disrupt patients' rest, drain hospital resources, and desensitize the hospital staff to potential emergency situations, which is named as "false alarm fatigue". It has been estimated that 43% of life threatening electrocardiogram...
This work proposes an Android-based platform to warn the medical staff of the onset of allergy reactions during a provocation test in a hospital. The portable system carries out the analysis of the heart rate variability for the early detection of allergic reactions in patients undergoing allergy provocation tests at hospitals. The proposal is composed of an ECG (electrocardiogram) acquisition system...
Objectives: Birth asphyxia is a condition where a fetus suffers from lack of oxygen during birth. Intervention by manual ventilation should start within one minute after birth. Bag-mask resuscitators are commonly used in situations where ventilation is provided by a single health care worker. Due to a high complexity of interactions between physiological conditions of the newborns and the clinical...
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...
Clinical pathways are popular healthcare management tools to standardise care and ensure quality. Measuring pathway conformance and analysing variances gives valuable feedback in the context of care improvement trajectories. The Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) language and Task-Time matrices are popular ways to model clinical pathways. A key step in variance analysis involves the computation...
Clinical pathway is a crucial tool for care quality improvement and expense control. Compared to expertdesigned clinical pathway, the topic-based clinical pathway mined from history data is more dynamic and adaptive for real-world application. In this approach, the latent topics discovered by topic modeling are treated as the clinical goals, so that each patient trace is converted to a topic-based...
Cardiac arrhythmia is one of the most popular heart diseases that could lead to serious consequences. However, it is difficult for traditional electrocardiography (ECG) devices to capture arrhythmia symptoms during patients' hospital visits due to their intermittent occurrence nature. A few researchers recently propose continuous monitoring systems to address this problem. However, there are some...
In this paper we consider the detection of indications of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) through a smartphone only solution. AMI is a serious heart condition where a blood vessel of the heart is fully or partially blocked e.g. by a rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque, the arrival of oxygen to the heart muscle is disturbed, and part of the heart muscle tissue dies (irreversible injury) due to insufficient...
eHealth systems generate from the integration of information and communication technologies with traditional healthcare systems. They have widely replaced paper-based systems due to their prominent features of convenience and accuracy. However, eHealth systems also face many challenges, such as the privacy and security concerns over patients' identities and their personal health records (PHRs). Traditional...
Telemedicine is one of interaction model between physician and patients in the era of globalization. All of the countries in the world are now in position of aggressive establishment of telemedicine especially huge country such Indonesia. In Indonesia, there's a great disparity of healthcare coverage. According to survey in 2013, almost 94.1% of households is located more than 5 km from the nearest...
Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is diagnosed by analysis of the morphological and rhythmic properties of the electrocardiogram. It was recently shown that accurate detection of AFib is possible using beat-to-beat interval variations. This raises the question of whether AFib detection can be performed using a pulsatile waveform such as the Photoplethysmogram (PPG). The recent explosion in use of recreational...
The delta wave remains an important indicator to diagnose the WPW syndrome. In this paper, a new method of detection of delta wave in an ECG signal is proposed. Firstly, using the continuous wavelet transform, the P wave, the QRS complex and the T wave are detected, then their durations are computed after determination of the boundary location (onsets and offsets of the P, QRS and T waves). Secondly,...
Atrial fibrillation ranks among the most common heart rhythm disorders. Considering the lack of any trusted method capable of foreseeing possible recurrence of atrial fibrillation after it has been terminated, nonlinear analyses of beat-to-beat heart rate variability demonstrate promising potential. This work focuses on verifying the capability of the nonlinear methods to differentiate patients with...
Health condition in the most of Indian villages is comparatively poor and requires more attention. This is due to number of factors like unavailability of Health Check up and health care services is villages, access to town or city due to distance or non-awareness of Government schemes. The proper healthcare can be achieved using routine health check up at village itself by providing required facility...
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