Mei-Ju Su, Huei-Ming Ma, Chow-In Ko, Wen-Chu Chiang, Chih-Wei Yang, Sao-Jie Chen, R. Chen, Heng-Shuen Chen
{"title":"Application of tele-ultrasound in medical emergency services","authors":"Mei-Ju Su, Huei-Ming Ma, Chow-In Ko, Wen-Chu Chiang, Chih-Wei Yang, Sao-Jie Chen, R. Chen, Heng-Shuen Chen","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2008.4600112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2008.4600112","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to add tele-ultrasound techniques and emergency physician support to improve the quality of pre-hospital medical emergency services. On the other hand, a diagnostically useful FAST scan is dependent on the skill level of the EMTs using the portable ultrasound unit. However, providing adequate tools is still a prerequisite to the successful execution of a job. In the future, an improved system interface and standardized training protocols in the EMT training program should overcome any deficit in EMT skill level while using the portable ultrasound scanner.","PeriodicalId":193623,"journal":{"name":"HealthCom 2008 - 10th International Conference on e-health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"34 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132118305","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 framework for assessing ICT preparedness for e-health implementations","authors":"S. Chattopadhyay, Junhua Li, L. Land, P. Ray","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2008.4600122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2008.4600122","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic health (e-health) is probably one of the most significant contributions of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in present daypsilas healthcare. ICT efficiently bridges healthcare sector and technology for e-health implementation, which is a costly affair due to involvement of considerable amount of planning and investment. Preparedness, on the other hand can be defined as a state of readiness prior taking any action and applicable for implementing any e-health project. Study of preparedness essentially i) renders insight to the existing resources, ii) specifies the requirements for successful implementation of a project, and iii) helps set up strategies for the said implementation. Preparedness may be assessed at various levels of e-health implementations, such as ICT, Application, Service, Process and Government or Organizational levels. The present work focuses at the very initial level i.e. ICT and proposes an ICT-preparedness-framework for e-health implementation. The proposed ICT-preparedness framework is a conceptual one and is based on two different applications - A) connected graph-based approach to capture and in turn quantify some of the ICT constructs (Hardware, Connectivity, Software and Skills) and their respective indicators and B) a fuzzy set-based technique to assess the preparedness levels of these constructs. Finally the framework is discussed with an e-health scenario on Tele-cardiology.","PeriodicalId":193623,"journal":{"name":"HealthCom 2008 - 10th International Conference on e-health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131195913","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":"Challenging interoperability and bandwidth issues in national e-Health strategies by a bottom-up approach: Establishing a performant IT infrastructure network in a Middle East State","authors":"T. Grechenig, B. Tappeiner, A. Wujciow","doi":"10.1109/HEALTH.2008.4600126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HEALTH.2008.4600126","url":null,"abstract":"Most developed countries get into an ldquointegration bottleneckrdquo when they try to establish a homogeneous e-Health network infrastructure providing high bandwidth for future uses of telemedicine as well as a common ground for effective interoperability. While in that case the challenge lies in the alignment existing infrastructures, in case of an emerging country we face the chance of building network systems bottom-up so that they provide high bandwidth and interoperability enhancers from the very beginning. The paper discusses the actual requirements of a case study (a Middle East state with 1 million inhabitants), discusses the design of such a health network infrastructure and explains the actual chosen design in detail. As a result we face the interesting symptom that an emerging ldquoinfrastructure weakrdquo nation can use this as an advantage on its roadmap towards an IT integrated health system.","PeriodicalId":193623,"journal":{"name":"HealthCom 2008 - 10th International Conference on e-health Networking, Applications and Services","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125713749","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}