{"title":"Representing Traits in WS/PIDS","authors":"E. Vasilescu, M. Dorobantu, S. Govoni, S. Padh","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624819","url":null,"abstract":"The only standard for handling and sharing patient demographics and other identifying information is the CORBAmed Person Identification Service (PIDS). We recently introduced WS/PIDS, a corresponding specification using Web Services, immediately usable for sharing EHR data in heterogeneous distributed environments; this paper focuses on the XML Schema definition of traits (attributes) in WS/PIDS. Assumptions implied in the original PIDS are discussed, as well as new needs due to multimedia data formats. Different possible alternatives for representing traits are explored, and the most suitable one among them is incorporated and validated in WS/PIDS","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"9 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":"125153351","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":"Micromachined Amperometric Cells for Continuous Monitoring of Glucose and Lactate","authors":"R. Dudde, G. Piechotta, R. Hintsche","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624782","url":null,"abstract":"Design, set-up and test of miniaturized amperometric cells are described. These sensors are produced using silicon micromachining technologies to minimise geometrical sensor dimensions and chemical conversion rate for measurements in small sample volumes. The sensors use conventional reactions of glucose- or lactate-oxidase with amperometric detection of H2O2. A novel sensor design is described with external dimensions of 3,0 mmtimes6,0 mmtimes0,7 mm that includes a working-, counter- and an iridium reference electrode. This chip contains a cavity filled with immobilised glucose- or lactate-oxidase. The reaction chamber exchanges material with the analyte by diffusion through a thin (12mum) silicon membrane with an array of well-defined holes etched through the silicon membrane. Number and size of the pores can be varied to adjust the sensor to the required sensitivity and linear measuring range. These sensors have been developed and adjusted for continuous and reliable supervision of mobile persons. All sensors were tested and characterised in vitro prior to using them for measurements in saliva and interstitial fluid. For glucose sensors the linear range was designed between 0,5 and 20 mM glucose concentration. The glucose sensors were tested in interstitial fluid and used in clinical trials for continuous glucose measurement in patients. Linear range of lactate sensors was adjusted from 0,1 to 5 mM. Tests for lactate sensors were performed using saliva of persons under exercise. Sensor readings of both sensor types were compared to blood concentrations of glucose or lactate determined using standard laboratory equipment","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"80 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":"125166203","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. Alaoui, N. Patel, N. Subbiah, I. Choi, J. Scott, W. Tohme, S. Mun
{"title":"Health Information Sharing System for Refugees and Immigrants in Five States","authors":"A. Alaoui, N. Patel, N. Subbiah, I. Choi, J. Scott, W. Tohme, S. Mun","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624811","url":null,"abstract":"Resettled immigrants and refugees in the US do not get appropriate healthcare attention because of organizational barriers, cultural differences, poor explanation of health problems and their geographical distribution in the country. These problems often lead to inappropriate diagnoses and inappropriate treatment. Healthcare providers also face significant challenges partly due to the diversity of languages, cultures, and protocols of immigrants and refugees, and partly due to their inexperience in handling diseases not found among the American population. In response to these issues, we have developed the Refugee Health Information Network (RHINtrade) a Web-based information management system that can improve access to medical and public health information related to refugees and immigrants and to facilitate the exchange of this information between distributed health departments, health professionals and service providers in five states","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"3 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":"127387320","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}
S. Ramachandran, J. Gerdes, Phillip I. Tarr, P. Yager, L. Dillman, R. Peck, M. Kokoris, M. Nabavi, F. Battrell, D. Hoekstra, B. Weigl
{"title":"Dry-Reagent Storage for Disposable Lab-On-Card Diagnosis of Enteric Pathogens","authors":"S. Ramachandran, J. Gerdes, Phillip I. Tarr, P. Yager, L. Dillman, R. Peck, M. Kokoris, M. Nabavi, F. Battrell, D. Hoekstra, B. Weigl","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624786","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a process for dry-reagent storage and handling for a microfluidic lab-on-a-card platform for point-of-care applications to identify enteric bacterial pathogens in patients presenting with acute diarrhea, with special reference to infections that might be encountered in developing countries. Three different reagents are studied: i) antibody-coated magnetic beads for pathogen capture, ii) lysis buffer for extraction of nucleic acids from the pathogens, and iii) DNA amplification of the nucleic acids by polymerase chain reaction. This presentation will report on the process of dry reagent storage, resuspension and its functionality","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"376 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":"114849416","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":"Quality Healthcare Management and Well-Being through INTERLIFE Services: New Processes and Business Models","authors":"A. Prentza, S. Maglavera, N. Maglaveras","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624809","url":null,"abstract":"INTERLIFE is a revolutionary product that can radically change the way healthcare services are offered by introducing new means for quality health care management by the healthcare providers, and by improving the patients', health providers' and citizens' quality of life. INTERLIFE is a technological and medical knowledge management and processing infrastructure able to support an early discharge and a continuous home monitoring service thus leading to reduction hospitalisation rates and to the increased efficacy of healthcare service delivery of patients suffering from chronic diseases such as CHF, COPD and Diabetes as well as a special category of acute health care related patients. Six test sites are participating in the validation trials, more specifically EAP Sardenya and MUTUAM in Spain, Hippokrateion Hospital and AHEPA Hospital in Greece, RAMIT in Belgium and University of Regensburg Medical Centre in Germany","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":"127991458","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":"The Evolution of Distributed Diagnosis: Teleradiology As a Case Study","authors":"W. Tohme, I. Choi, E. Vasilescu, S. Mun","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624810","url":null,"abstract":"As the limits of the healthcare enterprise expand so is the need to provide diagnoses across boundaries and disciplines. The definition of the healthcare enterprise has grown in such a way to encompass the diagnoses of images within individual hospital department to the sharing of images across the globe. From a single hospital the healthcare enterprise expands to a multi-center environment eventually creating the concept of the virtual healthcare enterprise where regardless of geographical boundaries and local site technical characteristics, sharing of patient information is possible. Based on a National Library of Medicine effort, this paper uses teleradiology as a case study to explore the concept of the expanding healthcare enterprise and identifies the technical issues associated with image sharing especially as they relate to middleware considerations including access control in a federated environment with grid computing as an enabling architecture","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"14 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":"128242192","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. Oberleitner, P. Elison-Bowers, J. Harrington, R. Hendren, L. Kun, U. Reischl
{"title":"Merging Video Technology with Personal Health Records to Facilitate Diagnosis and Treatment of Autism","authors":"R. Oberleitner, P. Elison-Bowers, J. Harrington, R. Hendren, L. Kun, U. Reischl","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624822","url":null,"abstract":"Improved imaging techniques and an increased demand for a personal health record platform indicates that a telehealth based system has an excellent potential for improving patient care, providing a high capacity for information storage and retrieval, and for reducing healthcare costs. A video-capture technology is presented that will allow parents, schoolteachers, and other caregivers to capture a child's behavior for subsequent evaluation by an appropriate specialist worldwide. This platform is especially pertinent for the timely evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD). Autism is a neuro-developmental disorder affecting many children in the US. Early intervention is important in treating this disorder. Long waiting periods delay evaluation and children often do not receive timely therapy. The new telehealth based system may shorten the time for a diagnosis, potentially increase diagnostic accuracy, reduce costs, and contribute to improved status of personal health records. Health insurance providers who must recognize the cost-saving potential of this approach will likely drive the commercial viability of this technology","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":"130460941","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. Peng, R. Sclabassi, Q. Liu, Bing Liu, J. Xu, M. Sun
{"title":"Object-Based Video Representation for Remote Patient Monitoring","authors":"R. Peng, R. Sclabassi, Q. Liu, Bing Liu, J. Xu, M. Sun","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624803","url":null,"abstract":"Object-based video representation plays an important role in remote patient monitoring built on video coding and Internet transmission. This paper introduces an object-based video representation method using two novel change detection techniques, and presents a demo system built upon ConferenceXP, where three types of video objects are constructed by exploiting the features in patient monitoring video. Our experimental results based on real-world data have shown that these techniques provide better foreground and background separation, higher coding efficiency, and improved performance in remote patient monitoring","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"76 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":"133879465","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 Customized Human Fall Detection System Using Omni-Camera Images and Personal Information","authors":"S. Miaou, Pei-Hsu Sung, Chia-Yuan Huang","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624792","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new approach to detect the fall of the elderly. The detection system uses a MapCam (omni-camera) to capture images and performs image processing over the images. The personal information of each individual is considered in the processing task. The MapCam is used to capture 360deg scenes simultaneously and eliminate any blind viewing zone. The personal information is combined into the system and makes it smarter by customizing the system for each individual. With personal information such as height, weight, and electronic health history, we can adjust the detection sensitivity on a case by case basis to reduce unnecessary alarms, and put more attention on the elderly with special diseases or conditions. We perform a simple experiment to verify the feasibility of our approach. The experimental results show that the successful rates of fall detections with and without personal information are 79.8% and 68%, respectively. The Kappa value of the system is 0.798 which is higher than 0.75, showing that we have a reliable system","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"197 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":"133751279","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":"In-Home Hand-Held Device to Measure Respiratory Resistance","authors":"J. Vossoughi, A. Johnson, N. Silverman","doi":"10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624785","url":null,"abstract":"A small hand-held Airflow Perturbation Device (APD) has been developed that is capable of noninvasively evaluating respiratory resistance. The APD has several advantages over commercially available spirometers. The APD is small, compact, self-contained, and low cost. It can measure respiratory resistance noninvasively in inhalation and exhalation accurately and reliably. Because of its size, cost, and ease of operation, it can be a suitable diagnostic device for home use","PeriodicalId":164569,"journal":{"name":"1st Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2.","volume":"9 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":"124978371","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}