{"title":"MicroRNA-mediated alteration of TET2 interaction network in myeloproliferative neoplasms","authors":"Fengfeng Wang, L. Chan, S. Yip, B. Yung","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026756","url":null,"abstract":"Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) constitute a type of proliferative and dysplastic myeloid tumors, which are frequently found in the elderly people. Although some kinds of gene mutations in MPNs have been studied, the biological mechanisms behind this disease are still not very clear. Researchers have found that MPN patients with TET2 mutations have low level of 5hmC. However, they do not give reasons why there is also low level of 5hmC in patients with wild-type TET2. The aim of this study is to investigate into the role of TET2 and its interacting proteins in MPN under the repression by microRNAs. MicroRNAs are short, endogenous, non-coding RNA molecules, which regulate the target genes expression. We hypothesize that microRNAs lead to low level of 5hmC by down-regulating the expression of TET2 and other proteins interacting with TET2 in MPN patients with wild-type TET2, which is similar to the function of TET2 mutations. Bioinformatics tools were performed in this study. There were 11 databases considered, only 3 of which predicted microRNAs binding to TET2. Moreover, 10 proteins were found to be associated with TET2 according to STRING database and their targeting miRNA predictions was compared with that of TET2. The hypothesis can be supported by he predicted simultaneous repression of DNMT-1 and TET2 by miR-152.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"14 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":"133495467","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":"vNurse: Using virtualisation on mobile phones for remote health monitoring","authors":"Devan Rehunathan, S. Bhatti, O. Chandran, Pan Hui","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026792","url":null,"abstract":"We present vNurse, a system based on a smartphone platform that permits comprehensive, secure and modular patient remote monitoring outside a clinical environment, e.g. in the home. Using both virtualisation of the phone OS and virtual mobile networks of sensors with full Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity, we enable real-time remote sensor readings of patient Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) to be stored, processed and forwarded securely to healthcare practitioners based at clinical sites, while patients are remote or mobile.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"46 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":"122091432","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":"Research on Medical Learning Management System based on SCORM","authors":"Jian Shang, Jijiang Yang, Qing Wang, Hui Pan","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026758","url":null,"abstract":"Learning Management System (LMS) becomes more and more important for medical training management along with the developing of learning informationlization in medical college. How to improve reusing and sharing the learning resources, and to track the learning progress in medical training are interesting topics on Medical Learning Management System (MLMS). This paper tries to propose a designing method to improve MLMS by using Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) technology,. It can enhance the reusing and sharing level of learning resources, and encourage the learning interaction between tutors and students as well. The SCORM-based MLMS can greatly improve the medical training quality in medical college.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"124 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":"128165669","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}
Rolf-Dietrich Berndt, M. C. Takenga, S. Kuehn, P. Preik, N. Stoll, K. Thurow, M. Kumar, M. Weippert, A. Rieger, R. Stoll
{"title":"A scalable and secure Telematics Platform for the hosting of telemedical applications. Case study of a stress and fitness monitoring","authors":"Rolf-Dietrich Berndt, M. C. Takenga, S. Kuehn, P. Preik, N. Stoll, K. Thurow, M. Kumar, M. Weippert, A. Rieger, R. Stoll","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026726","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile telemedical applications are of crucial importance today as they do offer the potential to improve the quality of the health care related services. It has been proven that the leading cause of several illnesses and diseases are stress and the lack of fitness practices. Based on that, a system capable of estimating and monitoring both stress and fitness levels without a physical consultation of a medical specialist is presented in this work. A correlation between physiological parameters and stress or fitness is explored in the developed intelligent expert system. In order to enable the implementation of such a complex system, a flexible Telematics Platform is conceived. This Telematics Platform does guarantee a secure data communication involving encryption and a suitable visualization of the fitness and stress assessment results on both the patient's mobile phone and on a web-based portal. Moreover, the platform is scalable and can therefore be easily extended in order to support different kinds of telemedical applications. The system presented in this paper does enable the efficient and cost-effective stress and fitness monitoring of patients while being at home or practicing their daily jobs with their subsequent eventual mobility.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"6 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":"126821564","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":"Fast synchronization algorithms for GMSK at low SNR in BAN","authors":"Yan Li, Y. Kwok, Sumei Sun","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026749","url":null,"abstract":"As Gaussian minimum shift keying (GMSK) modulation scheme is adopted for body area network (BAN) applications, fast and power efficient synchronization algorithms for GMSK are desired considering the limited resources in BAN. We propose new synchronization algorithms for GMSK with the constraints of low complexity and low signal-to-noise ratio. Our new feedforward timing and frequency recovery algorithms can provide much better performance than those with similar complexity in the literature. The overall bit error rate (BER) performance of the GMSK system is within 1 dB loss compared to that with perfect synchronization.","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":"128007122","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. Kawarasaki, Kyoji Konishi, Makoto Ohara, Tetsuya Igarashi
{"title":"Adding telephone interface to web service Implication to the self-care support system for life-style diseases","authors":"M. Kawarasaki, Kyoji Konishi, Makoto Ohara, Tetsuya Igarashi","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026725","url":null,"abstract":"Various web services are offered over the internet and forms the social infrastructure indispensable to our daily life. Many of healthcare systems developed so far are also offered as web service. However, user interface of web services that require web access makes obstacle to elderly or inexperienced users. As a mean to mitigate such digital divide, we developed a generic method of adding telephone interface to web service and implemented it to the self-care support system for life-style diseases. In our method, by making software PBX cooperate with web service, input/output to web service can be achieved by ordinary telephone device and users can talk with web service interactively. Evaluation experiment revealed that the proposed method endures practical use.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"32 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":"128687680","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":"Enhancing patient safety through clinical communication knowledge representation","authors":"Saif S. Khairat, Y. Gong","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026729","url":null,"abstract":"Clinical communication is considered the leading cause to medical errors [1]. In order to improve communication, a comprehensive understanding of the overall communication process in health care is required. In an attempt to further understand clinical communication, we conducted a thorough methodology literature review to identify strengths and limitations of previously utilized approaches. This research work proposes a new data collection plan that will study the clinical communication activities among the ICU clinical team. Along with refining the clinical communication model we previously proposed [2], this is a step towards building an exhaustive representation of the clinical communication framework to be implemented in medical error reporting systems through an ontological approach. The aim behind further understanding clinical communication is to develop an educational tool that can educate clinicians about communication habits, trends, and risks. The ultimate goal of our research is to improve clinical communication knowledge, reduce medical errors and hence, enhance patient safety.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"7 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":"115835990","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":"Mobile decision support system for outreach health worker","authors":"Nataraj Kuntagod, Chinmoy Mukherjee","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026786","url":null,"abstract":"People in rural areas do not have convenient access to quality healthcare close to their locations. Although there are health care centers in villages, they are not staffed and most lack in basic infrastructural facilities. Villagers are forced to travel long distances to district head quarters or major cities to avail of medical facilities, often at high cost, which they can ill afford. We developed a mobile based decision support framework on the Android open platform and demonstrated the feasibility of building the complete end to end system for large scale deployment to outreach health worker. The decision support system enables the outreach health worker to deliver consistent and quality primary healthcare to rural population. The same platform can host other revenue generating opportunities for the outreach worker to keep them motivated and providing them a means of livelihood.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"115 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":"117098282","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}
Bruno M. C. Silva, Ivo M. C. Lopes, Joel Rodrigues, P. Ray
{"title":"SapoFitness: A mobile health application for dietary evaluation","authors":"Bruno M. C. Silva, Ivo M. C. Lopes, Joel Rodrigues, P. Ray","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026782","url":null,"abstract":"Health problems related to diet, including obesity and cancer, are important concerns in the current society. The main treatment for obesity includes dieting and frequent physical activity. Diet programs keep and cause weight loss over short, medium, or long term. However, to maintain balanced body energy, a frequent physical exercise is required. This paper presents SapoFitness, a mobile health application for a dietary evaluation and the implementation of challenges, alerts, and constantly motivates the user to use the system and keep the diet plan. SapoFitness is customized to its user keeping a daily record of his/her food intake and daily exercise. The main goal of this application is to offer a motivation tool for weight reduction and increase physical activity. SapoFitness includes the ability to share personal achievements with social networks, a very intuitive human-device interaction and control weight, applying not only to control obesity but also to malnutrition problems. The application offers a continuous alert system activity, sending alerts/messages concerning the user diet program taking into account also his/her physical activity. SapoFitness is a challenged mobile application that delivers the action to the user, motivating for a healthier life style.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"2 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":"124625360","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}
Mei-Ju Su, Yu-Huei Su, Yaw-Jen Lin, Heng-Shuen Chen
{"title":"E-learning development on Health Promotion for Music Performers in Taiwan","authors":"Mei-Ju Su, Yu-Huei Su, Yaw-Jen Lin, Heng-Shuen Chen","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026757","url":null,"abstract":"Problem: In Taiwan, approximately 62.1% of all music majors in universities have suffered musculoskeletal injuries. [1] Health Promotion in Schools of Music Conference (HPSM) 2004 proposed that university music departments provide a “course that covers the occupational health concerns related to music.” [5] The conference concluded that schools of music play a vital role in helping reduce the incidence of performance-related injuries, as first contact medical surrogates. Therefore, the courses on Health Promotion for Music Performers (HPMP) are important for the students of music majors. HPMP course needs the interdisciplinary experts, music and medical experts. Method: In the research, we use e-learning on the courses, Health Promotion for Music Performers. To facilitate cross-domain interaction and cross-school mentoring, an e-learning model was adopted. The collaborative efforts of the Department of Music at the National HsinChu University of Education (NHCUE) Department of Music and the Department of Family Medicine at the National Taiwan University (NTU) College and Hospital of Medicine enabled NHCUE's Graduate Institute of Music to conduct the ‘Health Promotion for Music Performers’ (HPMP) Course and adopted an e-learning model since the spring of 2009. Result: HPMP course by e-learning will make the medical expert easy to get the teaching aids and case experiment sharing by e-learning in his hospital. After transitioning to an e-learning model, HPMP now utilizes the JoinNet digital platform.","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":"129540199","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}