N. Noury, Kim-Anh Quach, M. Berenguer, H. Teyssier, M. Bouzid, L. Goldstein, M. Giordani
{"title":"Ubiquitous but non invasive evaluation of the activity of a person from a unique index built on the electrical activities on the residential power line","authors":"N. Noury, Kim-Anh Quach, M. Berenguer, H. Teyssier, M. Bouzid, L. Goldstein, M. Giordani","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556570","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of ubiquitous computing, there is a particular interest in objectivizing the level of activity of elderly persons living independently in their own home. Whereas many existing monitoring systems are very intrusive and/or require a large number of sensors, an indirect approach based on the monitoring of the electrical appliances activities in home seems very attractive. We evaluated this approach and built a unique activity indicator which integrates all the activity of the person. This was experimented during 6 months within 12 flats occupied by single elderly persons.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131099276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Bustamante, K. Grandez, G. Solas, S. Arrizabalaga
{"title":"A low-cost platform for testing activities in parkinson and ALS patients","authors":"P. Bustamante, K. Grandez, G. Solas, S. Arrizabalaga","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556550","url":null,"abstract":"The diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases has become a key point in nowadays European healthcare system. However, the underlying testing and monitorization processes haven't experienced the innovation and advancement required to fulfill the needs that such diagnosis and treatment present. In this paper we propose a new testing device for Parkinson Disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients. The device is designed to carry out two of the most used tests for these patients: the finger-tapping test and the hand-grip strength test. The designed system has been divided in three main blocks, which have been implemented and tested: a sensorizec glove, equipped with Force sensitive Resistors (FSR), a tiny hardware device which gathers the data and a PC application, which presents the results to the doctors. This work is part funded by the ICT programme of the European Commission (PERFORM Project: FP7-ICT-2007-1-215952).","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132629183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An XML-based framework for automating data exchange in healthcare","authors":"H. Jumaa, P. Rubel, J. Fayn","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556559","url":null,"abstract":"Providing a transparent and automatic communication between health information systems for the purpose of exchanging patients' data among healthcare professionals is deemed as one of the most challenging problems in eHealth. Indeed, data storage in health information systems is mainly performed in relational databases, whereas eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is seen as the de facto standard for exchanging data among health organizations. Automating data interchange between relational databases and XML documents remains however a challenge. In this paper, we propose a general mediation framework to facilitate the storage of the new incoming data in XML format into the relational databases of the legacy health information systems and vice versa. The proposed mediation architecture is based on the XML technology and its related languages and derivatives (XML Schema, eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)…), which provide powerful tools for sharing, converting and exchanging information. The adopted methodology consists in converting the database model into an XML schema and in performing an automatic, reliable and efficient mapping between the schemas representing the exchanged source and target data by means of the XSLT language. Our approach has the capacity to preserve the integrity constraints of the relational schema, which allows to check the XML infosets for anomalies or incoherencies before updating the relational database from the XML document. It also captures the hierarchy of the tables in the target database, which guarantees that the automatically generated Structured Query Language (SQL) queries will be correctly performed. Moreover, our mediator includes a rule base allowing a coherent and secure mapping between the exchanged data sources for ensuring the database integrity.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134011003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Nabiev, Shahnoza Eshonkhojaeva, Nargis Rakhimi, R. Blom, I. Munabi, Eddie Mukooyo, L. Smedman
{"title":"Framework for low-cost maintenance of computer infrastructure applicable in low and middle income countries","authors":"R. Nabiev, Shahnoza Eshonkhojaeva, Nargis Rakhimi, R. Blom, I. Munabi, Eddie Mukooyo, L. Smedman","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556578","url":null,"abstract":"The World Health Organization in WHA58.28 e-Health Resolution has called upon the use of low-cost information and communication technology (ICT) to improve the quality of service delivery in low and middle income countries and to build up health worker's capacity especially at the primary healthcare (PHC) level. Thanks to market demands and technological progress, the cost for computer hardware is decreasing. Due to this progress, project such as ICT4MPOWER can provide lowcost ICT infrastructure to hospitals and rural clinics in Uganda for better health outcomes of the rural population. However, as number of low-cost computers increase, the more maintenance will be needed. Establishing local technical support team to maintain computer infrastructure in rural clinics of developing countries is a big challenge, since rural clinics lack funds to recruit and sustain local technical support team. Sustaining technical support team locally and providing maintenance for implemented ICT infrastructure is one of the reasons why e-health projects are hard to sustain in rural areas of developing countries. Authors present a framework for simple, practical and low-cost maintenance of computer infrastructure applicable in healthcare organizations of low and middle income countries. It includes innovative use of already existing technology (External Hard Drive) and Centralized Technical Support Team (CTST).","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"300 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121261505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Demianyk, D. Sandison, B. Libbey, R. Guderian, R. McLeod, Mehmet Rasit Eskicioglu, M. Friesen, K. Ferens, S. Mukhi
{"title":"Technologies to generate contact graphs for personal social networks","authors":"B. Demianyk, D. Sandison, B. Libbey, R. Guderian, R. McLeod, Mehmet Rasit Eskicioglu, M. Friesen, K. Ferens, S. Mukhi","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556576","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents three novel means of collecting and analyzing data to generate contact graphs of personal social networks. The means of collection include a web based service, an RFID system, and a network application running on a wireless sensor network. Data generated from networks of personal contact are demonstrated to be of utility in estimating the potential of the spread of a infection such as would be associated with the recent outbreak of H1N1 influenza.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125572524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Khattak, L. Vinh, D. V. Hung, P. Truc, L. X. Hung, D. Guan, Zeeshan Pervez, Manhyung Han, Sungyoung Lee, Young-Koo Lee
{"title":"Context-aware Human Activity Recognition and decision making","authors":"A. Khattak, L. Vinh, D. V. Hung, P. Truc, L. X. Hung, D. Guan, Zeeshan Pervez, Manhyung Han, Sungyoung Lee, Young-Koo Lee","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556585","url":null,"abstract":"Ubiquitous Life Care (u-Life care) nowadays becomes more attractive to computer science researchers due to a demand on a high quality and low cost of care services at anytime and anywhere. Many works exploit sensor networks to monitor patient's health status, movements, and real-time daily life activities to provide care services to them. Context information with real-time daily life activities can help in better services, service suggestions, and change in system behavior for better healthcare. Our proposed Secured Wireless Sensor Network - integrated Cloud Computing for ubiquitous - Life Care (SC3) monitors human health as well as activities. In this paper we focus on Human Activity Recognition Engine (HARE) framework architecture, backbone of SC3 and discussed it in detail. Camera-based and sensor-based activity recognition engines are discussed in detail along with the manipulation of recognized activities using Context-aware Activity Manipulation Engine (CAME) and Intelligent Life Style Provider (i-LiSP). Preliminary results of CAME showed robust and accurate response to medical emergencies. We have deployed five different activity recognition engines on Cloud to identify different set of activities of Alzheimer's disease patients.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127066046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Chowdhury, H. Chien, Sourabh Khire, S. Fan, N. Jayant, G. Chang
{"title":"Converged broadband optical and wireless communication infrastructure for next-generation telehealth","authors":"A. Chowdhury, H. Chien, Sourabh Khire, S. Fan, N. Jayant, G. Chang","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556562","url":null,"abstract":"Emerging Telehealth and Telemedicine systems need to deliver affordable high-quality health care services by utilizing telecommunication and multimedia technologies in conjunction with medical expertise. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a telecommunication and networking architecture for implementing next generation Telemedicine and Telehealth systems. Our integrated optical-wireless based network provides super broadband, ultra low-latency connectivity for voice, video, image and data across various telemedicine modalities to facilitate real-time and near real-time communication of remote health care information.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125186577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kelvin Sim, Ghim-Eng Yap, C. Phua, J. Biswas, A. P. Phyo Wai, A. Tolstikov, W. Huang, P. Yap
{"title":"Improving the accuracy of erroneous-plan recognition system for Activities of Daily Living","authors":"Kelvin Sim, Ghim-Eng Yap, C. Phua, J. Biswas, A. P. Phyo Wai, A. Tolstikov, W. Huang, P. Yap","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556555","url":null,"abstract":"Using ambient intelligence to assist people with dementia in carrying out their Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) independently in smart home environment is an important research area, due to the projected increasing number of people with dementia. We present herein, a system and algorithms for the automated recognition of ADLs; the ADLs are in terms of plans made up encoded sequences of micro-context information gathered by sensors in a smart home. Previously, the Erroneous-Plan Recognition (EPR) system was developed to specifically handle the wide spectrum of micro contexts from multiple sensing modalities. The EPR system monitors the person with dementia and determines if he has executed a correct or erroneous ADL. However, due to the noisy readings of the sensing modalities, the EPR system has problems in accurately detecting the erroneous ADLs. We propose to improve the accuracy of the EPR system by two new key components. First, we model the smart home environment as a Markov decision process (MDP), with the EPR system built upon it. Simple referencing of this model allows us to filter erroneous readings of the sensing modalities. Second, we use the reinforcement learning concept of probability and reward to infer erroneous readings that are not filtered by the first key component.We conducted extensive experiments and showed that the accuracy of the new EPR system is 26.2% higher than the previous system, and is therefore a better system for ambient assistive living applications.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124958088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transforming telemedicine for rural and urban communities Telemedicine 2.0 - any doctor, any place, any time","authors":"W. Lu, Henry Leung, Enrique Estrada","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556538","url":null,"abstract":"Providing quality healthcare in both rural and urban settings introduces many challenges. While today's Telemedicine attempts to address these challenges, the current approach is limited. This paper defines a new system architecture that leverages the network as the platform for intelligent transport and services to support high-definition videoconferencing and high-quality video and audio telemetry without the usual prohibitive cost. We describe the intelligent system components used at the end points and in the data center, and the requirements for a robust network both in the enterprise and in the service provider arenas. We contrast today's Telemedicine workflow with the workflow of Telemedicine 2.0. Finally, we offer a view of possible extensions Telemedicine 2.0 to further capitalize on the infrastructure and architecture proposed in this paper.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123825939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ane Murua, Xabier Valencia, E. Carrasco, Bruno Rosa, J. Bund, Gottfried Zimmermann, J. Alexandersson, U. Diaz
{"title":"Universally accessible Task-based user interfaces","authors":"Ane Murua, Xabier Valencia, E. Carrasco, Bruno Rosa, J. Bund, Gottfried Zimmermann, J. Alexandersson, U. Diaz","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556590","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a new AAL architecture intended to simplify and enhance the end user interaction with the technology. The proposed concept makes state-of-the-art task model technology available and accessible to all types of users. The concept relies on the integration of both ANSI/CEA-2018 Task Model Description (CE TASK 1.0) and ISO/IEC 24752 Universal Remote Console Framework standards. Additionally, a proof-of-concept implementation has been carried out which assist people in performing blood pressure measurements. Finally, a validation involving 8 elderly persons suffering from Alzheimer's disease has been carried out, obtaining encouraging results.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"163 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121140962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}