Gordana S. Velikic, Joseph Modayil, Mike Thomsen, M. Bocko, A. Pentland
{"title":"Predicting the near-future impact of daily activities on heart rate for at-risk populations","authors":"Gordana S. Velikic, Joseph Modayil, Mike Thomsen, M. Bocko, A. Pentland","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026795","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we demonstrate the ability to predict changes to heart rate due to changes in levels of activity, up to an hour into the future. Activity levels are calculated from data collected by a worn accelerometer for a person performing daily activities outside a laboratory environment. People with congestive heart failure must take care not to excessively stress their heart. This can be a challenge due to the difficulty of predicting how much stress an activity is exerting on the heart. We propose to model the relationship between motion and heart rate and thus to enable the prediction of heart rate changes prior to performing an activity. We explored three methods to predict current and future heart rate from activity level: a continuous state Kalman Filter, two simple linear models, and a nonlinear model given in the literature [5]. The results from healthy subjects and subjects with congestive heart failure show that using the proposed models, the heart rate can be predicted an hour into the future using accelerometer data.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"43 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":"128826778","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. See, Y. Ge, T. M. Chiam, Jeng Wai Kwan, Chee Wee Kim
{"title":"Experimental correlation of path loss with system performance in WBAN for healthcare applications","authors":"T. See, Y. Ge, T. M. Chiam, Jeng Wai Kwan, Chee Wee Kim","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026751","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the experimental characterization of the static on-body channel for healthcare applications at 2.48 GHz. The measurements are conducted in the anechoic chamber and laboratory. The link quality is measured by either using a vector network analyzer, where the path loss is averaged over a period of time or calculated from the received signal strength indicator (RSSI), which can be calculated from the receive sensor module. A correlation between the path loss and the packet delivery ratio (PDR) will be made via the probability distribution of the RSSI for a given transmit power. In addition, the optimal transmit power at the different body locations can be obtained, which will be useful to conserve the battery energy.","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":"133257404","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":"Taxonomy of current medical devices for POCT applications and the potential acceptance of Bluetooth technology for secure interoperable applications","authors":"D. Velez, M. Shanblatt","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026767","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a taxonomy for medical devices that includes the review of over 260 companies. The taxonomy classifies medical device products with respect to their output interface. Each medical device in the study is portable, designed for the point of care environment, non-implantable, and includes at least one output interface. The main motivation for this study is the possible resolution of current trends in medical device interfaces designed for point of care testing (POCT) scenarios. This paper also presents the Bluetooth Health Device Profile (HDP) as a possible option for current/new designs for POCT networks that use a smart phone as the main computational and communication engine. Vulnerabilities and countermeasures for current Bluetooth technology are described. The paper concludes by proposing a transitional solution involving the utilization of an interface box that supports the current legacy medical devices.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"35 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":"116328416","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":"KiMS: Kids' Health Monitoring System at day-care centers using wearable sensors and vocabulary-based acoustic signal processing","authors":"A. Basak, S. Narasimhan, S. Bhunia","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026744","url":null,"abstract":"Wearable sensors for healthcare and wireless health monitoring are rapidly becoming ubiquitous. They enable remote, accurate and low-cost health monitoring and can provide personal healthcare with timely detection of health issues. In this paper, we present a novel integrated system for monitoring children at day-care centers in order to facilitate proper care of health issues and overall wellbeing, including early detection of symptoms for various diseases, post-treatment monitoring as well as encouraging healthy habits and activities. The proposed “Kids Health Monitoring System”, referred to as KiMS, is built around a wearable acoustic sensor with embedded digital signal processing capabilities in order to detect various audio signals of interest, such as coughs, sneezes, and cries. It is also equipped with wearable body temperature and pulse rate sensors, along with on-site processing and a Bluetooth unit for communicating alerts and activity on a timely basis. The record of a child's activities can be used by daycare specialist, parents or the healthcare provider for understanding the probable cause or time of onset of symptoms and encouraging healthy habits. This paper also presents a signal processing framework for feature detection and classification of various audio signals, under varying Signal to Noise Ratios (SNR).","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"15 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":"130407902","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":"Memoirs of an ehealth device development","authors":"Mark D. Jerger, R. Ganton, K. Senthil","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026774","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the rapidly growing industry interest in wireless remote home health care solutions a number of technical, regulatory and business challenges bridle more rapid telehealth device growth. The current paper highlights several challenges encountered in a Qualcomm internal development of a telehealth-targeting wireless hub. These include: 1) supporting non-standard protocol implementations across a number of wireless medical devices 2) determining optimum carrier and the appropriate wireless modem provider 3) navigating through a myriad of certifications and 4) managing development amidst undefined volume expectations.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"58 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":"129519543","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. Soegijoko, I. Puspitasari, A. Aridarma, I. D. Jani
{"title":"e-health for improving community healthcare: Encouraging clinical experience of simple e-prescription system and m-health system development for mother and childcare","authors":"S. Soegijoko, I. Puspitasari, A. Aridarma, I. D. Jani","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026722","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe the eleven month encouraging clinical implementation experience of our e-prescription system in a community health center and further development activities of a mobile e-health system for mother and childcare. The e-prescription system has been developed for supporting the patient and medicine data recording, retrieving and reporting systems, as well as for minimizing the possible medication errors through improving the prescribing process. Several months of clinical experience have been used to enhance further development activities in our m-health system dedicated for supporting mother and childcare (especially the safe motherhood program). The m-health system consists of an SMS (short messaging system) manager module which is responsible for sending short messages with four different operating modes.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"151 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":"117354261","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":"First steps towards a recognition of ADLs with radio modules","authors":"Jakob Neuhaeuser, Axel Czabke, T. Lueth","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026752","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes a system, designed for unsupervised detecting and recording the activities of daily living (ADL) of patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) without human observation. Many miniaturized, radio linked and mobile μC-based tags are used. Some are fixed to objects others are carried by the patients. All tags have a limited and adjustable communication range. Basic concept is to detect, to record and to analyze the combinations of μC-tags. This paper deals especially with a first user interface to evaluate the ADL of a patient as well as an evaluation of our system over several days for some activities with a sensitivity of 92%. This is the last step before entering a clinical environment.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"76 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":"127268050","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":"Ubiquitous Healthcare for environmentally linked disease syndromic surveillance","authors":"G. Hong, A. Fong, B. Fong","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026791","url":null,"abstract":"Ubiquitous Healthcare utilizes an array of small low-power environmental sensors for prognosis and diagnosis of health degradation. By focusing on condition-based monitoring of patient behavior and the ambient environment assessment, this paper presents a framework for syndromic surveillance of chronic disease with an emphasis on asthma and control using ubiquitous telemedicine solution. This allows regulation of indoor air quality for a healthy living environment for active prevention and provides a framework for automatic update of electronic patient record. Upon detection of any abnormality, the system can also trigger an alert for immediate medical attention to be provided.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"290 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":"115916076","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}
Aishwarya Bakshi, Padmanesan Narasimhan, Junhua Li, Nick Chernih, P. Ray, R. MacIntyre
{"title":"mHealth for the control of TB/HIV in developing countries","authors":"Aishwarya Bakshi, Padmanesan Narasimhan, Junhua Li, Nick Chernih, P. Ray, R. MacIntyre","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026797","url":null,"abstract":"mHealth (healthcare using mobile communication technologies) is being strengthened as a new tool to tackle the global crisis in inadequate workforce and patient monitoring, especially in resource-limited settings. High numbers of people living with TB/HIV fail treatment and develop resistance because they cannot maintain a high degree of adherence to their medication regimens. This paper illustrates how a simple and inexpensive SMS-based mHealth application can be used to facilitate the TB/HIV treatment.","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":"122658674","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":"Facial animation framework for web and mobile platforms","authors":"E. Mendi, Coskun Bayrak","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026785","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a realistic facial animation framework for web and mobile platforms. The proposed system converts the text into 3D face animation with synthetic voice, ensuring synchronization of the head and eye movements with emotions and word flow of a sentence. The expression tags embedded in the input sentences turn into given emotion on the face while the virtual face is speaking. The final face motion is obtained by interpolating the keyframes over time to generate transitions between facial expressions. Visual results of the animation are sufficient for web and mobile environments. The proposed system may contribute to the development of various new generation e-Health applications such as intelligent communication systems, human-machine interfaces and interfaces for handicapped people.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"19 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":"134285600","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}