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Clinical records are the firsthand and vital evidences for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) research. With deep Chinese culture background and years of clinical experience, a TCM clinical expert usually has his or her unique diagnostic methods. Preserving clinical cases of high-experienced TCM practitioners in their original tastes and exploring the in-depth knowledge is thus an important but arduous...
A low doctor-to-patient ratio in rural areas of under-developed regions results in an inefficient and expensive delivery of healthcare. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) could play an important role in improving the efficiency and making healthcare more affordable. In this position paper, we present an architectural framework to use ICT (specifically mobile technology) for efficient delivery...
TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) is a wonderfully working, yet somewhat mysterious, healthcare system. Without involving the difficult I-Ching and Yin-yang principles, we develop a data mining approach to TCM by associating clinical cancer case studies with TCM therapies, both herbal doses and other methods. Thus, a scientific methodology is proposed for TCM, not only for cancer cases but also other...
National registries are databases intended to collect data useful for better planning and regulation of healthcare delivery at a national level. National registries can help government officials, health practitioners, and clinical researchers answer a variety of critical questions. These questions can be related to the efficacy of new drugs, spread patterns of a particular disease, or risk factors...
The quality of life of a country's citizens is much depended on its healthcare system. People have the right to know the status of their health. Healthcare providers need to know the medical histories of patients to offer better treatment. Therefore, demand for improvement in the access of healthcare information has been increased. This paper presents the design of an active distributed E-health system,...
Health care information systems tend to capture data for their research in order to promote the level of people's health status and the satisfaction of individuals in societies. To this aim, many approaches have been taken and examined. Data mining is one of the newest analytical methods that have been used to serve medical science research and has been shown to be a valid, sensitive, and reliable...
Elderly over 80 is the fastest growing segment of the Swedish population. With this increase in age the proportion of people with more than one chronic disease, multiple prescribed drugs, and disabilities is getting larger. At the same time, hospitalization accounts for a large amount of the total cost of healthcare. We hypothesize that the number and duration of these hospitalizations could be reduced...
The Electronic health record is kept in various hospitals in China. However, each hospital stores patient health records for its own purpose, and the patients do not have their own electronic health records. This does not achieve patient-centered medical service objectives. To this end, we have designed and developed a patient-centered of portable personal health information management system, and...
In this paper an innovative solution for delivery of CGA is described -healthcare information system. The purpose of this study is to integrate information technology and medical-related technologies to construct a “Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Healthcare Information System”. The systems of this paper can improve increase the timeliness and accuracy of patient care and administration information,...
To get baby care and medical-relative information via search engine from website is becoming a trend However, nowadays, search engine for such information retrieve is almost "single-shot" searching process. Users are only allowed to input target queries at beginning which is inconsistent with human decision process in reality practice. This work proposed an integrated Baby Care (iBC) platform...
This paper examines the obesity and overweight problem in our society. This problem has reached epidemic proportions globally and is nowadays under study by most of developed countries. All solutions proposed are based on educating people to make them more conscious about the importance of a good nutrition plan. However, passive learning techniques performed and used until now have not been useful...
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...
The relationship between passive smoking and female breast cancer with Meta-analysis were explored in this paper. The experiment was conducted in Department of Preventive Medicine of Qingdao University Medical College. Article that was about risk factors of female breast cancer were searched through Chinese journals full-text database and VIP Chinese science and technology journals full-text database...
Healthy population is the base of a society to function well. As we know, family plays a significant role in the development and maintenance of depression. According to the hygienic statistical data of WHO, depression is the leading cause of disability as measured by YLDs and the 4th leading contributor to the global burden of disease (DALYs) in 2000. By the year 2020, depression is projected to reach...
Privacy preservation has become an important requirement in information systems that deal with personal data. In many cases this requirement is imposed by laws that recognize the right of data owners to control whom their information is shared with and the purposes for which it can be shared. Hippocratic databases have been proposed as an answer to this privacy requirement; they extend the architecture...
Cognitive decline progresses from the mild cognitive impairment stage and proceeds into various dementia types and progresses through different severities. During the course of the cognitive decline the patient is subjected to actions and decision making as provided by respective professional groups. Coordination of various clinical and care giving skills and capacities involve information management...
Clinical databases have accumulated large quantities of information about patients and their clinical history. Data mining is the search for relationships and patterns within this data that could provide useful knowledge for effective decision-making. Classification analysis is one of the widely adopted data mining techniques for healthcare applications to support medical diagnosis, improving quality...
As pervasive or ubiquitous computing matures, researchers and developers look for areas of application of this promising technology that can improve the quality of our lives. The "healthcare" and "home" is the best environments, so we focused the effective and undeveloped area in ubiquitous healthcare service in home. People spend more time in their homes than in any other space...
Hypertension is a serious disease, which can affect the life of persons. However, access to medical care is sometimes very difficult for people living in rural and underserved areas. They have to trek long distances for a medical diagnosis. We propose a medical network based on state-of-the-art medical kiosk that addresses the problems of providing preventive and diagnostic health care. The patients...
Health care sector is currently experiencing a major crisis with information overload. With the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and the ageing population the amount of paper-work is more than ever before. In the US, a hospital admission of one patient generates an estimate of 60 pieces of paper. The federal governments of various countries have passed policies and initiatives that focus...
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