Ian Reinhart, Khaled Dawoud, O. Shafiq, R. Alhajj, J. Rokne, S. Edworthy
{"title":"Electronic medical referral system: A forum-based approach","authors":"Ian Reinhart, Khaled Dawoud, O. Shafiq, R. Alhajj, J. Rokne, S. Edworthy","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026740","url":null,"abstract":"In the medical field, it is common practice for physicians to refer to and consult one another to complete patients' medical treatment. The transfer of a patient from one physician to another is termed a referral. Medical referrals are not straightforward; a successful referral requires finding an available physician with the proper specialty. The focus of this paper is to understand the workflow of the referral process in Canada's public healthcare system, and propose a health informatics system to move the referral process into electronic form. The solution involves a forum-based approach that provides a common communication medium for healthcare professionals involved in the referral process.","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":"131381964","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. Rantz, M. Skubic, R. Koopman, L. Phillips, G. Alexander, Steven J. Miller, R. D. Guevara
{"title":"Using sensor networks to detect urinary tract infections in older adults","authors":"M. Rantz, M. Skubic, R. Koopman, L. Phillips, G. Alexander, Steven J. Miller, R. D. Guevara","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026731","url":null,"abstract":"Integrated sensor networks have been installed in apartments of volunteer residents at TigerPlace, an aging in place retirement community that allows residents to remain in their apartments even if their health deteriorates. The sensor networks supplement registered nurse (RN) care coordination provided by Sinclair Home Care by alerting the RN care coordinator about changes in the normal sensor patterns. In several cases, the alerts have prompted the care coordinator to have the resident tested for urinary tract infections. Importantly, the sensor network detected signs of illness earlier than traditional health care assessment.","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":"133591431","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":"Is the inter-patient coincidence of a subclinical disorder related to EHR similarity?","authors":"L. Chan, I. Benzie, Y. Liu, C. Shyu","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026738","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic Health Record (EHR) provide clinical evidence for identifying subclinical diseases and supporting decisions on early intervention. Simple string matching cannot link up the conceptually similar but verbally different clinical terms in patient records, limiting the usefulness of EHR. A novel ontological similarity matching approach supported by the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT) is proposed in this paper. The disease terms of a patient record are transformed into a vector space so that each patient record can be characterized by a feature vector. The similarity between the new record and an existing database record was quantified by a kernel function of their feature vectors. The matches are ranked by their similarity scores. To evaluate the proposed matching approach, medical history and carotid ultrasonic imaging finding were collected from 47 subjects in Hong Kong. The dataset formed 1081 pairs of patient records and the ROC analysis was used to evaluate and compare the accuracy of the ontological similarity matching and the simple string matching against the presence or absence of carotid plaques identified in ultrasound examination. It was found that the simple string matching randomly rated the record pairs but the ontological similarity matching provided non-random rating.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"96 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":"124629870","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 generic conceptual model linking wellness, health lifestyles, and user assistance","authors":"A. Kailas","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026762","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of the wellness mobile is one wherein wireless handheld devices such as cell phones are equipped with a set of biosensors, thereby enabling real-time, self-wellness monitoring by the cell phone user, and an incremental reduction in the healthcare costs. It is envisioned that this maturing technology will provide a safe and protective environment for an increasing cell phone user-population to help combat anti-wellness factors such as stress, fatigue, and illness. Because these factors manifest themselves in the form of detectable biometric fluctuations, they can be tracked using inexpensive biometric sensors embedded on smart phones. However, the monitoring solutions provided primarily cater to medical data collection from patients with specific diseases or health conditions and are unsuitable for day-to-day wellness monitoring. With this in mind, the purpose of this position paper is to motivate future research in this area, and to present a novel conceptual model for understanding (and implementation of) wellness assessment that links typical day-to-day user activities, wellness state recognition, and timely user assistance for a healthier lifestyle based on the multi-modality evidences.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"20 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":"127107693","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}
J. Ginger Han, Blake Anderson, Ion Gireada, Jonathan Dyer, C. Shyu
{"title":"Case workflow and interaction studies of a tele-consultation system for rare dermatology diseases","authors":"J. Ginger Han, Blake Anderson, Ion Gireada, Jonathan Dyer, C. Shyu","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2011.6026765","url":null,"abstract":"We established an expert advisory system utilizing store and forward teledermatology to allow communication and consultation between physicians with expertise in the rare inherited skin disease Ichthyosis and physicians caring for afflicted patients. We analyzed experts' behavior and involvement in case consultation by calculating key variables, accessing comment structures and quality, and applying concepts from the field of social networking. Preliminary findings suggest that a user-oriented tele-consultation system for dermatology benefits from active participation, detailed case description, sufficient images and good leadership of case moderators.","PeriodicalId":187103,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"20 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":"129430164","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}