{"title":"Challenges in mobile bio-sensor based mHealth development","authors":"M. Nkosi, F. Mekuria, S. Gejibo","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026750","url":null,"abstract":"Healthcare providers are facing growing challenges in patient diagnostics and information gathering due to in-adequate infrastructure and insufficient number of health-care professionals to perform such operations. The traditional way of patient information gathering is largely based on text and dependent on self-report surveys and infrequent doctor consultations. The proposed bio-sensor based frame work can improve remote diagnostics and healthcare information gathering using mobile device based bio-sensor systems. Bio-sensor based systems can be used to gather relevant multimedia health information and improve the quality of remote diagnostic both for ambulatory and continuous monitoring of chronic diseases. The paper addresses bio-sensor signal processing and secure communication of sensor signals based on next generation mobile technology and bio sensors, with the aim to facilitate the development of secure and innovative mobile health services.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131643563","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 SOA-based health service platform in smart home environment","authors":"Y. Trinugroho, F. Reichert, R. Fensli","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026745","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing demand for a good healthcare quality has brought Information and Communication Technology to an important role in healthcare domain. The trend in decreasing number of formal healthcare workers gives further pressure to move non-urgent treatments to the patients' homes. However, delivering healthcare services to meet the changing needs of inhabitants in a smart home requires an open and flexible service creation and integration environment so that the modification of existing services as well as creation of new services can be achieved in a timely manner. This paper presents a vision of a logical integration platform in a smart home environment, integrating various devices and services by adopting the Service-Oriented Architecture paradigm to provide interoperability, modularity, and reusability of different service components.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"638 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131764139","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":"Considerations for a Universal Exchange Language for healthcare","authors":"B. Robson, U. Balis, T. Caruso","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026737","url":null,"abstract":"The US Government has called for a Universal Exchange Language for healthcare. This may be an opportunity to start from fundamental principles to deliver medical information in a uniform way that many stakeholders in the use of the system, not just programmers, IT architects, and standards organizations, but physicians, public health analysts, epidemiologists, and clinical decision support system designers, would like. To be truly universal, several aspects of a consistent formalism need to be considered. Some of these with examples are provided here.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130885197","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":"High impact blow detection over a reactive Mobile-Cloud Framework","authors":"Eric L. Luster, Hong Wu, Elodie Billionniere","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026727","url":null,"abstract":"Brain injury is quite common in athletes due to the frequent and high level of impact, especially in football and hockey. One of the most challenging problems faced by medical personnel responsible for the health care of athletes is the recognition and management of concussions [1, 2]. With the advancements in sensor technology, medical imaging, mobile devices, wireless communications, and cloud computing, we have opportunities to monitor and analyze the impact between athletes in real time. The research will assist team doctors to immediately identify head injuries among athletes and drive the development of new technology to be used for protecting the athletes more efficiently. We propose a Reactive Mobile Cloud-based framework that will be utilized to effectively manage both the textual and image data in DICOM format; allowing us to create a repository of information on each player throughout the length of their career.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129507057","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":"Robust license-free Body Area Network access for reliable public m-health services","authors":"Narjes Torabi, Victor C. M. Leung","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026771","url":null,"abstract":"Public m-health service will enable care-givers to continuously monitor patients' vital signals wherever they are, using Body Area Networks (BANs). To make this service available to a large number of people everywhere, public m-health service should be implemented in a license-free frequency band. However, the coexistence problem inherent in such a medium that may be shared by many co-located systems may cause disruption of BAN transmissions. This paper addresses the above problem by proposing a Centralized BAN Access Scheme (CBAS) to improve service availability and robustness of BANs. CBAS puts most of the complexities in the gateway, which has less energy and resource constraints than the body nodes. The gateway monitors all the available channels and assigns an interference-free channel to each scheduled node. Extensive simulation results show the effectiveness of CBAS in reducing durations of service interruption and thus improving service reliability of a BAN.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122363977","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":"CAM documentation in clinical notes Towards an automated surveillance system for drug-herb interactions","authors":"Carlos Nakamura, Qing Zeng, L. A. Scarton","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026736","url":null,"abstract":"Herbal dietary supplements are the most popular form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapy — they are used by over 38 million US adults. However, treatments involving dietary supplements could potentially interact with prescription medications and have a negative impact on patient outcomes. Despite safety concerns, previous studies indicate that most patients do not discuss CAM use with their physicians. In this preliminary study we set out to: (1) conduct a computer assisted chart review of notes from multiple sclerosis (MS) patients to identify the documentation level of CAM use; and (2) investigate whether any herbal supplement in the resulting list is known to have a negative interaction with prescription drugs commonly taken by MS patients. The outcomes of this study will be used to inform the design of a system to collect CAM information from both patients and physician notes and issue alerts for potential negative interactions. Five percent of the analyzed notes contained descriptions of CAM use, 63% of which were Biologically-Based Practices. The notes containing actual mentions of CAM represent a small percentage when compared with the number reported by studies that obtained their data directly from patients. These numbers indicate that the use of CAM is indeed underreported in patient notes. Among the 19 types of herbs which use was positively identified, four had moderate interactions and one had minor interactions with commonly prescribed MS medications. Our findings suggest the need to collect more accurate data on CAM use in order to provide adequate surveillance of drug-herb interactions","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115215685","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":"Identifying and addressing effectiveness in a user-centered design of voluntary medical incident reporting system","authors":"Lei Hua, Y. Gong","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026779","url":null,"abstract":"Two major challenges to current voluntary medical incident reporting system (VMIR) are underreporting and low quality reports, which make it difficult for health providers to effective use and learn from mistakes for patient safety improvement. According to prior researches on a variety of voluntary system design and usage in different domains such as aviation, system usability and utility were considered as significant contributing factors that influence the system acceptance. However, the published studies of dealing with these factors to maximize system acceptance and effectiveness in medical incident reporting domain are few and fragmented. In this study, we elaborated the background and problems in target domain of medical incident reporting firstly, and then synthesized practical and academic instance by unobtrusive data analysis and literature review to propose a design framework to the future applications. Finally, a developing computer-based prototype as a partial solution of proposed design was paraphrased to illustrate our initial progress on user-centered design of VMIR. It is expected to increase reporting efficiency and data quality that will promote a learning culture and help remove shame-blame barriers in collecting patient safety events.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121190194","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}
Federico Mancini, K. Mughal, S. Gejibo, Jørn Klungsøyr
{"title":"Adding security to mobile data collection","authors":"Federico Mancini, K. Mughal, S. Gejibo, Jørn Klungsøyr","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026793","url":null,"abstract":"mHealth is having a profound and increasing impact on the delivery of medical and health services using mobile devices. However, many existing mHealth systems do not systematically address the security issues involved. As sensitive information is stored, exchanged and processed in these systems, issues like privacy, authentication, secure storage, accountability and permissions must be given top priority. In this paper we propose a protocol that provides end-to-end security, encrypted data storage and recovery mechanisms on mobile devices. We use openXdata as our reference mHealth system.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125117239","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":"RF transmission power loss variation with abdominal tissues thicknesses for ingestible source","authors":"Chee Wee Kim, T. See","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026766","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the investigation of the variation in RF (radio frequency) transmission power loss at 403 MHz and 923 MHz due to different tissue thicknesses using a layered planar tissue model of skin, subcutaneous fat, abdomen muscle, visceral fat and small intestine. The generalized transmission coefficient is used to calculate the transmission power loss of various tissue thickness combinations that are based on medical findings of human abdomen composition. The calculations show large transmission power loss variations (up to 10 dB). The effect of visceral fat thickness variation is the largest. The results are useful for the design of wireless communications module of an ingestible device, e.g. capsule endoscope.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122419890","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":"Virtual Dermatologist: An application of 3D modeling to tele-healthcare","authors":"Dao Lam, G. DeSouza","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026768","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present preliminary results towards the development of the Virtual Dermatologist: A 3D image and tactile database for virtual examination of dermatology patients. This system, which can be installed and operated by non-dermatologists in remotes areas where access to a dermatologist is difficult, will enhance and broaden the application of tele-healthcare, and it will greatly facilitate the surveillance and consequent diagnosis of various skin diseases. Unlike other systems that monitor the progress of skin diseases using qualitative data on simple baseline (2D) photography, the proposed system will also allow for the quantitative assessment of the progress of the disease over time (e.g. thickness, size, roughness, etc). In fact, the 3D model created by the proposed system will let the dermatologist perform dermatoscopic-like examinations over specially annotated areas of the 3D model of the patient's body (i.e. higher definition areas of the 3D model). As part of its future development, the system will also allow the dermatologist to virtually touch and feel the lesion through a haptic interface. In its current form, the system can detect skin lesions smaller than 1mm, as we demonstrate in the result section.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127591751","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}