J. De Jonckheere, F. Narbonneau, L. T. D'Angelo, J. Witt, B. Paquet, D. Kinet, K. Kreber, R. Logier
{"title":"FBG-based smart textiles for continuous monitoring of respiratory movements for healthcare applications","authors":"J. De Jonckheere, F. Narbonneau, L. T. D'Angelo, J. Witt, B. Paquet, D. Kinet, K. Kreber, R. Logier","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556557","url":null,"abstract":"The potential impact of optical fiber sensors embedded into medical textiles for the continuous monitoring of the patients is presented. We report on a novel non-intrusive optical sensing technology designed to measure the elongation due to abdominal and thoracic motions during breathing. The developed sensor can successfully sense textile elongation between 0.1% and 5%, while maintaining the stretching properties of the textile substrates for a good comfort of the patient. The solution prototyped shows a high stability and good reproducibility allowing consideration of a mobile or static application with an easier integration in all kinds of garment by stitching the sensor to the garment. The sensor is coupled to a compact, real time and accurate monitoring system which could be interfaced to a conventional monitor for medical application or to a wireless system for all mobile and ambulatory applications.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"109 3 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":"130631607","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}
Debkumar Patra, J. Mukhopadhyay, A. Majumdar, B. Majumdar, D. P. Dogra
{"title":"Tele-consultation using Clinical Document Architecture in disease specific domains","authors":"Debkumar Patra, J. Mukhopadhyay, A. Majumdar, B. Majumdar, D. P. Dogra","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556573","url":null,"abstract":"In recent times, telemedicine has become an essential and integral part of e-healthcare. Telemedicine helps a patient to receive health care services from distant location. Under the diverse scenario of health care services, it is often required that different telemedicine systems should interoperate with each other. However, syntactic and/or semantic mismatch in data and service often restrict the system interoperability. We have addressed that interoperability through Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), an HL7 standard for clinical document. Until recently, CDA specifies standards of document generation for different use cases such as progress note, discharge summary, operative note etc. but disease specific document development is not addressed explicitly. In this paper, we have focused on disease specific (pediatric HIV for example) refinement of clinical document architecture to build appropriate consultation notes for tele-consultation.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"8 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":"130835664","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}
Stefan Goetze, Feifei Xiong, J. Rennies, T. Rohdenburg, Jens-E. Appell
{"title":"Hands-free telecommunication for elderly persons suffering from hearing deficiencies","authors":"Stefan Goetze, Feifei Xiong, J. Rennies, T. Rohdenburg, Jens-E. Appell","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556568","url":null,"abstract":"Speech communication is the most natural form of human interaction. Communication by means of telephones, mobile phones or video-conference systems is common nowadays especially amongst younger persons. In the past years, also a growing amount of elderly people has started to extensively use communication systems since more and more people live apart from their relatives, friends or acquaintances. However, especially elderly people suffer from hearing loss, which often prevents them from using acoustic communication devices. While approximately every second European adult of age 65+ has a hearing loss that requires treatment, only the minority actually wears hearing aids for different reasons. To tackle this problem, this contribution deals with a personalized and adaptable communication system that enhances the acoustic signal and incorporates the individual hearing loss of a hearing-impaired person. By this, the typical elderly user is enabled to take part in natural communication again.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"233 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":"133707250","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":"Software tools for rapid development and customization of medical information systems","authors":"P. Rajković, D. Jankovic, T. Stankovic, V. Tosic","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556582","url":null,"abstract":"We present data modeling and code generation tools for easier and faster development and customization of electronic health record (EHR) based medical information systems (MIS). In development of MIS, it is usually necessary to create a large number of different, but somewhat similar, graphical user interface (GUI) forms and database tables corresponding to different medical data. This process can be inefficient and time consuming. Our software tools enable power users to define meta data models, from which the tools automatically generate database tables, data object model classes and several common components (input forms, selection components, components for tracking measured values, reporting profiles, access control configurations) for EHR-based MIS. While we first developed these tools for clinical and ambulatory MIS in Serbia, they can be used in other countries, due to the built-in flexibility and multi-language support.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"1100 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":"133731961","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}
Y. Tomioka, I. Nakajima, Kaoru Nakada, H. Juzoji, L. Androuchko
{"title":"Development of a compact pupillometer for emergency vehicles","authors":"Y. Tomioka, I. Nakajima, Kaoru Nakada, H. Juzoji, L. Androuchko","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556583","url":null,"abstract":"We summarize herein the results of research and development concerning a compact light-reflex pupillometer designed for use in emergency vehicles. Conventional methods of analog pupillary light reflex examinations performed in emergency vehicles are associated with errors that result in inaccurate measurements of changes in pupil size. To establish a simple method for quantifying nervous function in prehospital care, we applied an image processing technique based on the Laplace transform for video images captured by a CCD camera. This method produces more accurate measurements of rates of change in pupil size. While this method can be used to assess both direct and consensual light reflexes, we focused in our study on developing a direct light reflex measuring instrument because this choice presents greater technical challenges and offers the potential for a device of significantly smaller dimensions. The performance of the prototype was determined to be satisfactory. Personnel in emergency vehicles equipped with this pupillometer should be able to form objective assessments of pupil contraction rates before arrival at the hospital. We believe this pupillometer will prove useful in primary care and in selecting appropriate destination hospitals by facilitating patient assessments performed during transport, including neurological evaluations, assessments of consciousness, and confirmation of medical history items such as dementia or diabetes.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"69 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":"133061753","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. P. Phyo Wai, S. Foo, M. Jayachandran, J. Biswas, C. Nugent, M. Mulvenna, Daqing Zhang, D. Craig, P. Passmore, Jer-En Lee, P. Yap
{"title":"Technical development and clinical evaluation of intelligent continence management system at nursing home","authors":"A. P. Phyo Wai, S. Foo, M. Jayachandran, J. Biswas, C. Nugent, M. Mulvenna, Daqing Zhang, D. Craig, P. Passmore, Jer-En Lee, P. Yap","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556544","url":null,"abstract":"Urinary incontinence and diaper use is common among elderly people with dementia staying at nursing homes. Delays in timely diaper change will cause personal, social and economic ramifications to those elderly as well as to the carers who provide nursing care. In order to alleviate these daily care issues, an intelligent continence management system leveraging on sensors, pervasive sensor network, ambient intelligence and reminders is designed and developed. Clinical trial is conducted with multiple elderly people with dementia at a nursing home to evaluate the applicability and usefulness of the developed system. The analysis of trial outcomes and usability studies proves that this will be a feasible and effective approach to tackle the problems faced in managing incontinence effectively at nursing homes.","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":"132974816","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}
Austeclino Magalhaes Barros Junior, Ângelo Duarte, M. B. Netto, B. Andrade
{"title":"Artificial Neural Networks and Bayesian Networks as supportting tools for diagnosis of asymptomatic malaria","authors":"Austeclino Magalhaes Barros Junior, Ângelo Duarte, M. B. Netto, B. Andrade","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556584","url":null,"abstract":"In the preset study, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Bayesian Network (BN) techniques are evaluated as supporting tools for the diagnosis of asymptomatic malaria infection. These techniques are compared with two classical laboratorial tests for diagnosis of malaria: the light microscopy and the Nested PCR. To do this, the tests were run in a group of 380 individuals from the Brazilian Amazon. The results indicate that both innovative techniques are able to identify asymptomatically infected individuals with better accuracy than the microscopy test and are potentially useful for helping the diagnosis of asymptomatic malaria.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"138 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":"125738429","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":"Design of a physical simulator to improve the management of infant Chest Physiotherapy cares","authors":"C. Barthod, L. Marechal, L. Goujon","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556552","url":null,"abstract":"Chest physiotherapy is widely used for newborn babies suffering from bronchiolitis, despite the lack of studies regarding the technique. Qualitative protocols for Chest Physiotherapy technique have been established but no quantitative definition has been made to prove the efficiency or to characterize the gestures. Thus, with the growth in demand for training from the physiotherapy's community, we have decided to quantitatively characterize the gesture in order to enhance learning. So, an instrumented device has been implemented, in order to measure the relevant parameters that have been defined for an efficient gesture during the act. Moreover, as far as education is concerned, courses are mainly academic and the need of a realistic tool for learning seems to be essential to propose a didactic learning to physiotherapist students. Using such a realistic tool would allow the student to feel the limits of his gesture, before performing it on a baby. In the present study, we explain the approach we defined in close collaboration between expert physiotherapists and researchers in instrumentation, in order to design a torso simulator for learning. Its functionalities, expected by the practitioners have to be translated in terms of mechatronical functions to define the specifications. Last, the design of the structure is described.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"7 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":"127299301","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}
Philip D. Healy, Ruairi O'Reilly, G. Boylan, J. Morrison
{"title":"Web-based remote monitoring of live EEG","authors":"Philip D. Healy, Ruairi O'Reilly, G. Boylan, J. Morrison","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556574","url":null,"abstract":"In a critical care setting, delays in the diagnosis of neurological conditions can have a significant impact on patient outcomes. Recording the electrical activity of the brain (EEG) is often used to diagnose and monitor neurological conditions. A trained neurophysiologist is then required to analyse these signals. However, in many cases this expertise is not available on-site. A web-based remote monitoring system for EEG data is presented that reduces the delays that can arise when off-site expert analysis is required. The system allows EEG data to be streamed to a remote location in near-real-time and viewed while acquisition is ongoing. Data streamed earlier may also be reviewed, providing the user with a continually updating view of the entire EEG recording. All communications are performed using web technologies in order to minimise issues with firewalls and to enable analysis on most web-connected PCs. The only tool required for viewing EEG data is a modern web browser with the commonly-available Adobe Flash plugin installed. Since these are ubiquitous, data analysis is not limited by geographic location. Moreover, multiple users can independently view the data simultaneously","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":"129285233","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":"Remote tracking patients in retirement home using wireless multisensor system","authors":"E. Campo, S. Bonhomme, M. Chan, D. Estève","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2010.5556567","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an experiment for monitoring the behaviour of dependent elderly people living in a retirement home in rural area. The surveillance consists to monitor the physical activities of the elderly in order to detect automatically risk situations such as fall, high agitation or any change in behaviour. Monitoring is carried out both locally via a wireless multisensor system and remotely via a satellite communication link. This approach aims to associate advanced wireless technologies with health monitoring application.","PeriodicalId":112608,"journal":{"name":"The 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"10 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":"121099826","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}