"Avaris Net" Crisis and Emergency Management of Health Services
Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos ; Kyprianou, Stelios ; Christou, Synesios ; Constantinou, Riana ; Panayides, Andreas ; Pattichis, Constantinos ; Neofytou, Marios
eHealth
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Mobile health
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Health information systems
Management of Health Services during crisis or disasters is the major field of interest of this work. We had created a system that intent to…
A Comparison of Cross-Sectional and Prospective Algorithms for Falls Risk Assessment
Greene, Barry R. ; McGrath, Denise ; Caulfield, Brian
Mobile and wearable technologies for elderly
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Technology and services for assisted-living
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Mobile health
Falls are the most common cause of injury and hospitalization and one of the principal causes of death and disability in older adults…
A Method of ECG Template Extraction for Biometrics Applications
Zhou, Xiang ; Lu, Yang ; Chen, Meng ; Bao, Shu-Di ; Miao, Fen
Body sensor networks
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Mobile health
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Personal health systems
ECG has attracted widespread attention as one of the most important non-invasive physiological signals in healthcare-system related…
A Single vs. Multi-Sensor Approach to Enhanced Detection of Smartphone Placement
Guiry, John J. ; Karr, Chris ; van de Ven, Pepijn ; Nelson, John ; Begale, Mark
Mobile health
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Data mining
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Wireless/ubiquitous technologies and systems
In this paper, the authors evaluate the ability to detect on-body device placement of smartphones. A feasibility study is undertaken with N=5…
A Smartphone Based Ophthalmoscope
Giardini, Mario Ettore ; Livingstone, Iain ; Jordan, Stewart ; Bolster, Nigel Magnus ; Peto, Tunde ; Burton, Matthew ; Bastawrous, Andrew
Mobile health
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Low cost health delivery, public and environmental health, epidemiology
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eHealth
A low-cost alternative to the direct ophthalmoscope, a simple optical adapter for a smartphone, is described. It can overcome many of the…
A Smartphone Mediated Portable Intelligent Medicine Case for Medication Management Support
Suzuki, Takuo ; Nakauchi, Yasushi
Mobile health
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Electronic health records
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Personal health systems
We developed an epoch-making portable intelligent medicine case for recipients who take medicine every day. The medicine case consists of a…
A Study of Activity and Body Posture with the PiiX Mobile Body-Adherent Device
Chakravarthy, Niranjan ; Engel, Jonathan ; Chavan, Abhi ; Finlay, Brion ; Nosbush, Grant
Knowledge discovery and management
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Mobile health
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Wireless/ubiquitous technologies and systems
Remote monitoring of in-home activity and body posture provides useful physiological parameters for understanding patient status and for…
Achieving Clinical Quality from Wireless Sensors
Charlton, Peter ; Bonnici, Timothy ; Clifton, David ; Tarassenko, Lionel ; Watkinson, Peter J. ; Beale, Richard
Mobile health
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Wireless/ubiquitous technologies and systems
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Telehealth
Wireless sensors may aid detection of clinical deteriorations in hospital patients. Whilst acknowledging the challenges associated with…
An Ambulatory Sensor-Based System for Quantification of Nighttime Micturition for Accurate Nocturia Assessment
Eskofier, Bjoern M ; Paulus, Jan ; Paulsen, Ute ; Burkart, Martin ; Wullich, Bernd ; Huppert, Verena
Body sensor networks
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Mobile health
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Computer-aided decision making
Nocturia is a widespread condition where patients need to micturate frequently during the nighttime. In order to define treatment and…
An Integrated Model for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Mobile Diabetes Self-Management System
Alanzi, Turki ; Istepanian, Robert ; Philip, Nada
Health information systems
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Telemedicine
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Mobile health
There is increasing clinical evidence that behavioural change theories can help diabetic patients with their diabetic management in providing…
Application of Telemedicine to Support in Prenatal Care
Jomar Ferreira dos, Santos ; Hitalo Emanoel Gondim Bezerra de, Medeiros ; Gláucia Regina Medeiros Azambuja, Sizilio ; Ribeiro Neto, Pedro Fernandes ; G. Guerreiro, Ana Maria ; Maia, Cicilia ; Bezerra Soares, Heliana ; Fernandes Diógenes, Isabelle Cantídio
Telemedicine
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Health information systems
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Mobile health
The pregnancy care is of fundamental importance for the prevention of possible complications during delivery or even to prevent the child is…
Assessing the Challenges of a Pulse Wave Velocity Based Blood Pressure Measurement in Surgical Patients
Zhang, Guanqun ; McCombie, Scott ; Greenstein, Richard ; McCombie, Devin
Wireless/ubiquitous technologies and systems
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Mobile health
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Mobile and wearable technologies for elderly
Development of a continuous noninvasive blood pressure (cNIBP) monitor that is unobtrusive to patients is an attractive alternative to the…
Assessing the Privacy Policies in Mobile Personal Health Records
Cruz-Zapata, Belen ; Hernandez Niñirola, Antonio ; Fernandez Aleman, Jose Luis ; Toval, Ambrosio
Mobile health
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Personal health systems
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Personal/consumer health informatics
The huge increase in the number and use of smartphones and tablets has led health service providers to take an interest in mHealth. Popular…
Assessment of Visual Impairment in Stroke Survivors
Tarbert, Claire Margaret ; Livingstone, Iain ; Weir, Alexander James
Mobile health
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eHealth
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Mobile and wearable technologies for elderly
A novel, tablet-based application (app) has been developed to act as a screening tool for visual impairment in stroke survivors; The Stroke…
Closing the Loop from Continuous M-Health Monitoring to Fuzzy Logic-Based Optimized Recommendations
Benharref, Abdelghani ; Serhani, Mohamed Adel ; Al Ramzana, Nujum
Decision support methods and systems
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Mobile health
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Wireless/ubiquitous technologies and systems
Continuous sensing of health metrics might generate a massive amount of data. Generating clinically validated recommendations, out of these…
Co-Variation of Depressive Mood and Spontaneous Physical Activity Evaluated by Ecological Momentary Assessment in Major Depressive Disorder
Kim, Jinhyuk ; Nakamura, Toru ; Kikuchi, Hiroe ; Yoshiuchi, Kazuhiro ; Yamamoto, Yoshiharu
Body sensor networks
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Personalised health
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Mobile health
The objective evaluation of depressive mood is thought to be useful for the diagnosis and treatment of depressive disorders. Thus, we…
Comparison of Arrhythmia Prevalence in NUVANT Mobile Cardiac Telemetry System Patients in the US and India
Engel, Jonathan ; Chakravarthy, Niranjan ; Nosbush, Grant ; Fogoros, Richard ; Chavan, Abhi
Data mining
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Body sensor networks
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Mobile health
The Corventis NUVANT™ Mobile Cardiac Telemetry System provides continuous monitoring of symptomatic and asymptomatic cardiac abnormalities to…
Contribution of a Dual Process Model to mHealth Lifestyle Change
Spring, Bonnie ; Pavel, Michael
Personal health systems
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Personalised health
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Mobile health
This presentation will describe a dual process model of behavior and suggest approaches to deliver optimal intervention based on such a model.
Development and Usability of a Personalized Sensor-Based System for Pervasive Healthcare
Triantafyllidis, Andreas ; Koutkias, Vassilis ; Chouvarda, Ioanna ; Maglaveras, Nikolaos
Mobile health
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Personalised health
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Telehealth
Although a plethora of remote health monitoring systems have been proposed for chronic conditions, the challenge posed by the changing…
Development of Android Apps for Cognitive Assessment of Dementia and Delirium
Weir, Alexander James ; Paterson, Craig ; Tieges, Zoe ; MacLullich, Alasdair Maurice Joseph ; Parra, Mario A ; Della Sala, Sergio ; Logie, Robert
The next generation of medical technology applications for hand-held portable platforms will provide a core change in performance and…
Effective, Real-Time Ultrasound Video Communications Over HSPA Networks Using Despeckle Filtering
Panayides, Andreas ; Pattichis, Marios ; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos ; Spanias, Andreas ; Constantinides, Anthony G. ; Pattichis, Constantinos
Telemedicine
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Mobile health
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Telehealth
The paper presents an effective video communications system that uses despeckle filtering prior to real-time transmission. The system is…
Empowering Patients to Perform Physical Therapy at Home
Gonzalez-Franco, Mar ; Gilroy, Scott Jonathan ; Moore, John
Personal health systems
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Mobile health
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Telemedicine
In this paper we address the problem of patient adherence to physical therapy using a sensor-enabled virtual reality gaming interface that…
Evaluation of Heart Rate As a Marker for Psychological Stress
Gandhi, Shreyans ; Jain, Lakshya ; Jain, Jawahar ; Shojaei Baghini, Maryam ; Mukherji, Soumyo
Mobile health
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eHealth
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Personal/consumer health informatics
It has been shown that heart rate (HR) is proportional to and a marker for human stress. Numerous other studies have validated this fact,…
IEEE-EMBS Visions and American Perspectives in Health Informatics
Emerging IT for efficient/low-cost healthcare delivery
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Computer-aided decision making
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Mobile health
This talk gives and overview of the predominance, both current and future, of the field of biomedical and health informatics in shaping the…
Implementation of a Smartphone As a Wireless Gyroscope Application for the Quantification of Reflex Response
LeMoyne, Robert ; Mastroianni, Timothy
Mobile health
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Body sensor networks
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Wireless/ubiquitous technologies and systems
The patellar tendon reflex constitutes a fundamental aspect of the conventional neurological evaluation. Dysfunctional characteristics of the…
Implementation of a Smartphone for Evaluating Gait Characteristics of a Trans-Tibial Prosthesis
LeMoyne, Robert ; Mastroianni, Timothy
Mobile health
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Body sensor networks
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Wireless/ubiquitous technologies and systems
Smartphone applications have been demonstrated for their capacity to measure gait in functionally autonomous environments beyond the…
Intelligent Remote Health Monitoring using Evident-Based DSS for Automated Assistance
Serhani, Mohamed Adel ; Benharref, Abdelghani ; Al Ramzana, Nujum
Decision support methods and systems
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Wireless/ubiquitous technologies and systems
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Mobile health
the shift from common diagnosis practices to continuous monitoring based on body sensors has transformed healthcare from hospital-centric…
Interactive Telemedicine Solution Based on a Secure mHealth Application
Mobile health
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Telehealth
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eHealth
In dynamic healthcare environments, caregivers and patients are constantly moving. To increase the healthcare quality when it is necessary,…
Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAI) and the Need for Computational Dynamic Modeling
Personal health systems
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Mobile health
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Personalised health
The advent of mobile technologies has allowed behavior change interventions to tailor interventions not only at baseline but also to adapt and…
M-Health Service Infrastructure for Chronic Conditions
Velardo, Carmelo ; Shah, Syed Ahmar ; Triantafyllidis, Andreas ; Gibson, Oliver John ; Tarassenko, Lionel
Mobile health
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Personalised health
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Decision support methods and systems
m-Health systems can support patients with chronic conditions, such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Congestive Heart…
New Mobile Technologies and Visual Acuity
Livingstone, Iain ; Tarbert, Claire Margaret
Mobile health
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Telehealth
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Emerging IT for efficient/low-cost healthcare delivery
Mobile devices have shown promise in visual assessment. Traditional acuity measurement involves retro-illuminated charts or card-based…
Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitor Based on Spectroscopy Using a Smartphone
Dantu, Vishnu ; Vempati, Jagannadh ; Srivilliputhur, Srinivasan
Mobile health
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Smart home technology
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Personalised health
Development of a novel method for non-invasive measurement of blood glucose concentration using smartphone is discussed. Our research work…
Options for Intermittent and Continuous Atrial Fibrillation Monitoring
Mobile health
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Personal health systems
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Technology and services for home care
We hypothesize that for intermittent monitoring of atrial fibrillation (AF), our smartphone-based arrhythmia discrimination algorithm with data…
Peak Misdetection in Heart-Beat-Based Security: Characterization and Tolerance
Seepers, Robert Mark ; Strydis, Christos ; Peris-Lopez, Pedro ; Sourdis, Ioannis ; De Zeeuw, Chris I.
Mobile health
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Body sensor networks
The Inter-Pulse-Interval (IPI) of heart beats has previously been suggested for security in mobile health (mHealth) applications. In IPI-based…
Physical Activity Recognition Based on Rotated Acceleration Data Using Quaternion in Sedentary Behavior : A Preliminary Study
Shin, Young Eun ; Choi, Woo-hyuk ; Shin, Taemin
Personal health systems
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Decision support methods and systems
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Mobile health
This paper suggests a physical activity assessment method based on quaternion. To reduce user inconvenience, we measured the activity using…
Posture and Activity Recognition and Energy Expenditure Prediction in a Wearable Platform
Sazonova, Nadezhda ; Browning, Raymond ; Melanson, Ed ; Sazonov, Edward
Mobile health
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Personal health systems
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Wireless/ubiquitous technologies and systems
The use of wearable sensors coupled with the processing power of mobile phones may be an attractive way to provide real-time feedback…
Preliminary Study for the Personal Handheld Device Based Snoring Detection in Ordinary Sleep Situation
Shin, Hangsik ; Choi, Wangrim ; Kim, Yi-gon ; Cho, Jaegeol
Mobile health
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Technology and services for home care
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Emerging IT for efficient/low-cost healthcare delivery
Snoring is one of the representative phenomena of the sleep disorder and detection of snoring is quite important for improving quality of…
Proposal of a Novel Remote Command & Control Configuration Extension for Interoperable Personal Health Devices (PHD) Based on ISO/IEEE11073 Standard
Barron Gonzalez, Hector Gilberto ; Martinez-Espronceda, Miguel ; Trigo, Jesus Daniel ; Led, Santiago ; Serrano, Luis
Personal health systems
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Mobile health
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Health information system interoperability
New use cases to extend the interoperability standard ISO/IEEE11073 (X73) were found during the development of recent specializations. These…
Respiratory Rate Assessment from Photoplethysmographic Imaging
Karlen, Walter ; Garde, Ainara ; Myers, Dorothy ; Scheffer, Cornie ; Ansermino, J. Mark ; Dumont, Guy
Mobile health
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Personal health systems
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Wireless/ubiquitous technologies and systems
We present a study investigating the suitability of a respiratory rate estimation algorithm applied to photoplethysmographic imaging on a…
Scientific Basis and Challenges for Mhealth
Pavel, Michael ; Jimison, Holly
Mobile health
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Personal/consumer health informatics
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Personal health systems
Mobile health – mHealth – has the potential to revolutionize acute as well as preventive healthcare by making it person-centered, timely and…
Seamless Personal Health Information System in Cloud Computing
Chung, Wan-Young ; Fong, Ee May
Mobile health
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Personal health systems
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Health information systems
Noncontact ECG measurement has gained popularity these days due to its noninvasive and conveniences to be applied on daily life. This…
Sharing Vital Signs between Mobile Phone Applications
Karlen, Walter ; Dumont, Guy ; Scheffer, Cornie
Health information system interoperability
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Mobile health
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Personal/consumer health informatics
We propose a communication library, ShareVitalSigns, for the standardized exchange of vital sign information between health applications…
Smart Phone Monitoring of Second Heart Sound Split
Thiyagaraja, Shanti R ; Vempati, Jagannadh ; Dantu, Ram ; Sarma, Tom ; Dantu, Siva
Mobile health
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Smart home technology
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Personalised health
Heart Auscultation (listening to heart sounds) is the basic element of cardiac diagnosis. The interpretation of these sounds is a difficult…
Smartphone-Based Evaluation of Parkinsonian Hand Tremor: Quantitative Measurements vs Clinical Assessment Scores
Kostikis, Nikolaos ; Hristu-Varsakelis, Dimitrios ; Arnaoutoglou, Marianthi ; Kotsavasiloglou, Christos
Wireless/ubiquitous technologies and systems
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Mobile health
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Mobile and wearable technologies for elderly
With an ever-growing number of technologically advanced methods for the diagnosis and quantification of movement disorders, comes the need…
Task Independent Identification of Sensor Location on Upper Limb from Orientation Data
Lambrecht, Stefan ; Romero, Juan ; Benito-Leon, Julian ; Rocon, Eduardo ; Pons, Jose Luis
Mobile health
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Body sensor networks
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Mobile and wearable technologies for elderly
In this paper we describe a novel method for sensor placement identification, and demonstrate the effectiveness of this method on an upper…
The Potential of M-Health Systems for Diabetes Management in Post Conflict Regions A Case Study from Iraq
Istepanian, Robert ; Alanzi, Turki
Mobile health
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Emerging IT for efficient/low-cost healthcare delivery
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Telemedicine
The recent developments of m-health technologies particularly in the developing world are increasing sharply due to the importance and…
Toward Seamless Wearable Sensing: Automatic On-Body Sensor Localization for Physical Activity Monitoring
Saeedi, Ramyar ; Purath, Janet ; Venkatasubramanian, Krishna Kumar ; Ghasemzadeh, Hassan
Body sensor networks
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Mobile health
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Technology and services for home care
Abstract- Mobile wearable sensors have demonstrated great potential in a broad range of applications in healthcare and wellbeing. These…
Unobtrusive Monitoring of ECG-derived Features During Daily Smartphone Use
Kwon, Sungjun ; Kang, Seungwoo ; Lee, Youngki ; Yoo, Chungkuk ; Park, Kwang S.
Personal health systems
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Mobile health
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Emerging IT for efficient/low-cost healthcare delivery
Heart rate variability (HRV) is known to be one of the representative ECG-derived features that are useful for diverse pervasive healthcare…
USign – A Security Enhanced Electronic Consent Model
Li, Yanyan ; Xie, Mengjun ; Bian, Jiang
eHealth
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Mobile health
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Health information systems
Electronic consent becomes increasingly popular in the healthcare sector given the many benefits it provides. However, security concerns, e.g.,…
Validity of Association Rules Extracted by Healthcare-Data-Mining
Takeuchi, Hiroshi ; Kodama, Naoki
Personal health systems
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Data mining
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Mobile health
A personal healthcare system used with cloud computing has been developed. It enables a daily time-series of personal health and lifestyle…
Wireless Platform and Cloud System for AVF Stenosis Monitoring
Huang, Yi-Chun ; Huang, Yen-Ming ; Hou, Jen-Cheng ; Lee, Wen-Ting ; Yeih, Dong-Feng ; Chen, Ying-Hsien ; Lin, Yen-Hung ; Lu, Shey-Shi
Mobile health
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eHealth
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Wireless/ubiquitous technologies and systems
In this study, a wireless platform and cloud system for arteriovenous fistula (AVF) stenosis monitoring is developed. The platform is a…