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Even the most innovative healthcare technologies provide patient benefits only when adopted by clinicians and/or patients in actual practice. Yet realizing optimal positive impact from a new technology for the widest range of individuals who would benefit remains elusive. In software and new product development, iterative rapid-cycle “agile” methods more rapidly provide value, mitigate failure risks,...
An emergency can possess an immediate risk to life and may require urgent intervention to prevent or mitigate the further causalities. However, the level of mitigation depends on the response to address an emergency. The current practice of emergency frameworks includes different medical teams to improve the response time. In some cases, it is possible to achieve a reasonable performance with an additional...
Predicting early signs of illness in older adults by utilizing a continuous, unobtrusive nursing home monitoring system has been shown to increase the quality of life and decrease the cost of care. Illness prediction is based on sensor data such as motion and bed and uses algorithms such as support vector machine (SVM) or k-nearest neighbor (kNN). One of the greatest challenges in developing prediction...
The prediction of adverse events in patient health has attracted researchers' attention for many years. Sensors in or on the body allow the continuous monitoring of patient's vital signs and their accurate analysis, supporting the generation of medical alerts. Exploring adverse event prediction only makes sense if medical alerts can be promptly transmitted to a hospital emergency response team. However,...
Telehealth relies on the ability of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to maximize the quality of care provided remotely. Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is a key part within telehealth that enables patient to use devices to measure vital signs and sends it to a healthcare professional. Patients usually have multiple devices to measure vital signs. Those devices might be manufactured by...
Over the past years, the worldwide population, especially in developed countries, faces a new issue: the ageing of the population. In developed countries, special attention is paid to monitoring and providing medical services to the elderly. In EU, the number of persons dealing with cardiovascular diseases is increasing. The number of persons needing special medical services depends on the economic...
We propose a new framework combining dynamic sampling rates for healthcare sensors driven by user behavior, and an adaptive MAC scheduling scheme applied to the time-slotted channel hopping (TSCH) protocol in IEEE 802.15.4, which provides high throughput and reliable communications. First, we introduce a system software architecture for machine-learning-assisted healthcare monitoring that detects...
Body movement is one of the most useful information sources regarding preterm infants' condition and the prediction of motor impairment and/or movement disorders. Professionals observed neuro-developmental impairments like infantile cerebral palsy and assessed general movement for developing motor disorders. In addition, in the neonatal intensive care unit, body movement was used to evaluate developmental...
Advances in the information and communication technologies have led to the emergence of Internet of Thing (IoT). IoT allows many physical devices to capture transmit data, through the internet, providing more data interoperability methods. Nowadays IoT plays an important role not only in communication, but also in monitoring, recording, storage and display. Hence the latest trend in Healthcare communication...
Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBSNs) are a low-cost solution allowing remote patient monitoring and continuous health assessment, thus reducing healthcare expenditure. In such networks, sensor nodes periodically collect vital signs and send them to the coordinator for fusion. However, sensor nodes have limited energy and processing resources and transmission is the most power-hungry task. In this...
This paper describes an Internet Of Things-based wearable system for physical rehabilitation monitoring and characterization. The system is recording movement data with 3-axial accelerometer and gyroscope sensors. Data recorded by the sensors are used for characterization of movement, thus allowing for monitoring and estimation of the patients' state at all times. Main three parts of the system are:...
A wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) with ECG android monitor is presented that is capable of monitoring and displaying the ECG waveform and Heart Rate of an individual in real-time. The system uses the Wi-Fi 802.11 standard for wireless transmission of the data to an Android based mobile phone. The developed android smart-phone application displays the ECG information as well as the heart rate and...
Teledermatology offers the possibility of improving access to dermatologic care by using telecommunication technologies for connecting several medical centers and enabling to exchange information about skin conditions over a distance. This paper describes the main points of the implementation of a teledermatology project following the so-called smart region paradigm. A case study is presented to describe...
The expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) and the evolution in communication technologies have enabled homes, cars even whole cities to be network connected. However, during an emergency incident, IoT devices have not been used to trigger emergency calls directly to healthcare providers mainly due to their constrained capabilities and lack of support session-oriented communications. Moreover, emergency...
As the number of devices (things) connected to the Internet (Internet of things: IoT) is growing, achieving robust security and privacy (S&P) is becoming increasingly challenging. With the heavy use of medical things (MT), the S&P in the medical domain poses a serious issue that continues to grow. Due to the criticality and sensitivity of the data in the healthcare domain, ensuring...
Non-invasive, environmental monitoring is being successfully utilised to improve health care outcomes for patients while allowing them to more safely and comfortably live in their homes instead of health care facilities. This promises to reduce costs and ease the health care burden for many countries globally. However, these systems are still in early stages of research and only highly skilled researchers...
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a personal area wireless network technology that is of increasing importance for emerging Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. By design, BLE supports short-range, single-hop communication between a pair of BLE devices. As such, native BLE does not allow network-based policy control or in-network functions for service enhancement. These limitations are impediments to...
Of late, modern lifestyle has noticeably accentuated several health hazards related to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). A simple, cost efficient but effective way out of this threatening health issue can be the prevention of these diseases beforehand by ensuring customized routine exercise and regular health checkup. In this context, we propose Wrist-Card, a photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensor based wrist...
One of the difficulties in implementing family medicine is the number of people per physician. This large number of enrollees makes preventive health services unavailable due to forcing physicians to do only outpatient services. In this study, it is aimed to realize the Family Physician Monitoring S ystem which will enable early intervention to the diseases that may occur by watching realtime medical...
Respiratory rate during sleep is one of the important vital sign for home healthcare. Therefore, noncontact respiration monitoring method during sleep without uncomfortable feelings caused by sensor-insertion is needed. The purpose of this study is to develop the noncontact respiration monitoring method during sleep using only low priced web-camera. The innovative point is to adopt the bed cover with...
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