N. Saranummi, I. Korhonen, S. Kivisaari, H. Ahjopalo
{"title":"A Framework for Developing Distributed ICT Applications for Health","authors":"N. Saranummi, I. Korhonen, S. Kivisaari, H. Ahjopalo","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624816","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed health information and communication technologies (ICT) applications tend to fail in the marketplace. A framework comprising of four pillars is constructed that explains the reasons of failure and how the trajectory from idea to a product in the marketplace could be managed more successfully","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133082510","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}
M. Alwan, D. Mack, S. Dalal, S. Kell, B. Turner, R. Felder
{"title":"Impact of Passive In-Home Health Status Monitoring Technology in Home Health: Outcome Pilot","authors":"M. Alwan, D. Mack, S. Dalal, S. Kell, B. Turner, R. Felder","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624802","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a study designed to assess the impacts of passive health status monitoring technology in home health. Monitoring systems were installed in the homes of 13 home health clients to track physiological parameters (heart rate, breathing rate, and gait), the activities of daily living (ADLs) and key alert conditions of residents, such as falls. Activity reports and alert notifications were sent to professional caregivers in order to refine and target the care administered to clients participating in the study. Informal caregivers of participants were provided with access to the ongoing wellness status of their loved ones. The potential diagnostic utility of the monitoring data, the subjects' quality of life and health related quality of life, as well as the quality of life, strain and burden levels of the informal caregivers were assessed. Pre- and post-installation scores were compared. The results suggest that monitoring technologies could provide care coordination tools that have a positive impact on the perceived quality of life of monitored individuals, as well as a reduction in the strain levels of their informal caregivers, and may have a positive impact on the participants' health related quality of life","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123987243","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}
K. Prabaharan, J. Lavanya, K. W. Goh, Y. Kim, C. B. Soh
{"title":"Distributed Architecture towards Tele-Diagnosis","authors":"K. Prabaharan, J. Lavanya, K. W. Goh, Y. Kim, C. B. Soh","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624808","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed diagnosis and home healthcare aims to improve the quality of care and patient wellness and outcomes by transforming the delivery of healthcare from a central, hospital-based system to one that is more distributed and home-based. A personal health information management system (PHIMS) and a facilitated accurate referral management system (FARMS) were developed, tested and deployed by the University of Washington at its medical centre and other trial sites. We have adopted this PHIMS concept and have customized it to Singapore's context for tele-dermatology based on the distributed architecture approach. We have launched a clinical trial at a nursing home in Singapore for the distributed-PHIMS (D-PHIMS) system and have obtained preliminary results of the ongoing clinical trial","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129921972","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":"A Patient-Centered Health Record in a Demonstration Regional Health Information Network","authors":"A. Stolyar, William Lober, D. Drozd, J. Sibley","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624821","url":null,"abstract":"A personal health record (PHR) is a patient-created, patient-maintained record that patients can make available to their health care providers. This paper discusses an online PHR system, the patient-centered health record (PcHR), that was created by a research group at the University of Washington. The PcHR system was incorporated in the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Interoperability Showcase at the 2005 Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference. The showcase provided an opportunity to test the feasibility of integrating patient-centered and provider-centered information systems. Using the PcHR, the patient's own record of their health information was integrated into two clinical scenarios that involved exchanging health records with traditional clinical information systems. Using the Continuity of Care Record standard (CCR), a personal health record created through the PcHR system was successfully shared across the IHE demonstration regional health information network (RHIN) and the patient's health information viewed in several commercial clinical information systems. Similarly, provider records were viewed from within the patient's record","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127080230","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}
T. Yoshida, F. Mizuno, T. Hayasaka, K. Tsubota, S. Wada, T. Yamaguchi
{"title":"Gait Analysis for Detecting a Leg Accident with an Accelerometer","authors":"T. Yoshida, F. Mizuno, T. Hayasaka, K. Tsubota, S. Wada, T. Yamaguchi","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624793","url":null,"abstract":"We analyzed an acceleration pattern during natural walking and walking hampered by wearing weights to predict falls. These two types of walking could be distinguished with a peak at the half of the principal frequency of the gait in anterior movement. We measured walking while wearing each individual hampering weight and then analyzed. The peak was bigger when a subject wore the hampering weight that was restrictive and made the body unbalanced. As leg accidents are considered to occur with a change of the body balance, our system may be used to detect a leg accident by checking the peak at the half of the principal frequency of the gait in anterior movement","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127134310","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}
T. Kang, C. Merritt, B. Karaguzel, J. Wilson, P. Franzon, B. Pourdeyhimi, E. Grant, T. Nagle
{"title":"Sensors on Textile Substrates for Home-Based Healthcare Monitoring","authors":"T. Kang, C. Merritt, B. Karaguzel, J. Wilson, P. Franzon, B. Pourdeyhimi, E. Grant, T. Nagle","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624783","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we describe progress in developing textile-based sensors for wearable physiological monitoring systems. Active electrodes on nonwoven textile substrates are described for capturing ECG and EOG data. A capacitive sensor for monitoring breathing is presented. Data transmission by coplanar waveguides is also a topic introduced. The future of these devices for home-based healthcare monitoring is considered","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115025542","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}
M. Pavel, A. Adami, M. Morris, J. Lundell, T. Hayes, H. Jimison, J. Kaye
{"title":"Mobility Assessment Using Event-Related Responses","authors":"M. Pavel, A. Adami, M. Morris, J. Lundell, T. Hayes, H. Jimison, J. Kaye","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624800","url":null,"abstract":"The continuous assessment of mobility and speed of processing is an important component underlying physical and cognitive functions. We propose a novel approach to measure mobility, e.g. speed of walking and possibly speed of processing by unobtrusive monitoring of elders response times to specific events. The particular application investigated is response times to telephone ring. A key idea put forth in this paper is that if the elders' location distribution is stable over time, response times can be used to assess the \"instantaneous\" speed of walking. The feasibility of this approach is illustrated using data collected in a study performed by Intel in homes of several subjects","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115883122","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":"A Semi-Reversible Watermark for Medical Image Authentication","authors":"F. Ahmed, I. S. Moskowitz","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624797","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the secure storage and transmission of medical informatics in rapidly growing applications such as teleradiology and telesurgery. In particular, we propose a frequency domain digital watermarking technique that can be used to authenticate medical images in a distributed diagnosis and home healthcare environment. The most significant result of our method is the semi-reversibility property that undoes most of the degradation attributable to the watermarking process","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125466319","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}
G. Virone, A. Wood, L. Selavo, Q. Cao, L. Fang, T. Doan, Z. He, R. Stoleru, Shan Lin, J. Stankovic
{"title":"An Assisted Living Oriented Information System Based on a Residential Wireless Sensor Network","authors":"G. Virone, A. Wood, L. Selavo, Q. Cao, L. Fang, T. Doan, Z. He, R. Stoleru, Shan Lin, J. Stankovic","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624806","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with a new medical information system called Alarm Net designed for smart healthcare. Based on an advanced Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), it specifically targets assisted-living residents and others who may benefit from continuous and remote health monitoring. We present the advantages, objectives, and status of the system built at the Department of Computer Science at UVA. Early results of the prototype suggest a strong potential for WSNs to open new research perspectives for ad hoc deployment of multi-modal sensors and improved quality of medical care","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"20 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133425115","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":"Development of a Networked Blood Pressure Monitoring System","authors":"D. A. Tong","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624814","url":null,"abstract":"Healthcare costs are expected to increase at double-digit rates in the coming years. Cardiovascular disease is the primary cause of death of males in the U.S. and consumes a large share of these healthcare dollars. If untreated, hypertension can lead to heart attack or even death. If detected early, hypertension can often be reversed through diet, exercise, and pharmaceuticals, thus reducing the likelihood of catastrophic disease, hospitalization, and death. The objective of this project was to develop and implement a work-based network environment at Southwest Research Institutereg (SwRIreg) to monitor the arterial health of SwRI employees. The goal of this implementation was to establish a network of existing medical devices and to investigate improving employee health through use of the developed network. Existing blood pressure monitors were modified and connected to the SwRI network. A Web-based system was developed using open source software components and LabVIEWtrade to collect data measured by the blood pressure equipment and to present the collected data to the users. A total of 109 SwRI employees were enrolled in the program. Over a 7(1/2) month period during which blood pressure stations were installed, 1705 blood pressure measurements were obtained. The average systolic and diastolic measurements were 124 and 74, respectively, and 85% of the measurements were either normal or prehypertensive. Overall, 63.3% of the participants utilized a single blood pressure station to obtain measurements, usually the one closest to where they worked","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"276 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131615027","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}