PHC and case studies of remote healthcare services in Asian countries

2020 ◽  
pp. 145-163
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Remote Healthcare

scholarly journals An Unsupervised Behavioral Modeling and Alerting System Based on Passive Sensing for Elderly Care

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Rui Hu ◽  
Bruno Michel ◽  
Dario Russo ◽  
Niccolò Mora ◽  
Guido Matrella ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Living Condition ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Remote Healthcare

Artificial Intelligence in combination with the Internet of Medical Things enables remote healthcare services through networks of environmental and/or personal sensors. We present a remote healthcare service system which collects real-life data through an environmental sensor package, including binary motion, contact, pressure, and proximity sensors, installed at households of elderly people. Its aim is to keep the caregivers informed of subjects’ health-status progressive trajectory, and alert them of health-related anomalies to enable objective on-demand healthcare service delivery at scale. The system was deployed in 19 households inhabited by an elderly person with post-stroke condition in the Emilia–Romagna region in Italy, with maximal and median observation durations of 98 and 55 weeks. Among these households, 17 were multi-occupancy residences, while the other 2 housed elderly patients living alone. Subjects’ daily behavioral diaries were extracted and registered from raw sensor signals, using rule-based data pre-processing and unsupervised algorithms. Personal behavioral habits were identified and compared to typical patterns reported in behavioral science, as a quality-of-life indicator. We consider the activity patterns extracted across all users as a dictionary, and represent each patient’s behavior as a ‘Bag of Words’, based on which patients can be categorized into sub-groups for precision cohort treatment. Longitudinal trends of the behavioral progressive trajectory and sudden abnormalities of a patient were detected and reported to care providers. Due to the sparse sensor setting and the multi-occupancy living condition, the sleep profile was used as the main indicator in our system. Experimental results demonstrate the ability to report on subjects’ daily activity pattern in terms of sleep, outing, visiting, and health-status trajectories, as well as predicting/detecting 75% hospitalization sessions up to 11 days in advance. 65% of the alerts were confirmed to be semantically meaningful by the users. Furthermore, reduced social interaction (outing and visiting), and lower sleep quality could be observed during the COVID-19 lockdown period across the cohort.

scholarly journals The Interiority of Proximity Between Nature and Architecture in Contemporary and Tropically Context with Cases Studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-144
Author(s):  
Budi Pradono
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Temperature Difference ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
The Other ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Tropical Countries ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Tropical Climates ◽  
The Relationship

The interiority of buildings in tropical countries requires specific characteristics unlike those in countries with four distinct seasons. Buildings in non-tropical climates must protect their inhabitants from extreme weather, meaning that the architecture’s connection with nature is necessarily limited by a boundary which can withstand extreme climatic differences. In tropical countries, on the other hand, the temperature does not fluctuate much throughout the year, so the temperature difference between seasons is not extreme. This characteristic is reflected in traditional Nusantara architecture, which incorporates a breathable wall so that free winds come in, reducing heat. The roof is tilted or saddled-shaped to keep rain water away from the building. The architecture uses organic materials and includes terraces for dialogue with nature. Modern Indonesian architecture, however, particularly in large cities, is mostly closed off, severely limiting the interaction with nature. Since the advent of air conditioning (AC) technology during the 1980’s, architecture has changed to seal the boundaries of the building. Advances in information technology such as Internet and smartphones have made for further changes to architecture in the area; some functional spaces are being discarded, while others are expanded. The relationship between architecture and nature is now constrained by impenetrable materials such as brick, concrete and glass, as opposed to the more traditional, permeable boundary. In contrast to this trend, modern Indonesian society is tempted to form a closer relationship with nature. This paper examines how a relationship between nature and the interior of buildings may be accommodated again, presenting some existing projects by several architects from Europe and Asian countries—including the authors’ own work—as case studies.

Cyberinsecurity and Cyberwarfare

2015 ◽  
pp. 383-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Chong
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
User Behaviour ◽  
Social Science Theory ◽  
Science Theory ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
Computer Interaction

This chapter seeks to define the term “cyberinsecurity” as the intersection of human fears and errors with user behaviour in a digital setting. Examining links between psychology and human-computer interaction, the author explores several case studies set against the context of cyber-authoritarianism in Asian countries and argues that any attempts to address or advance studies in cybersecurity and cyberwarfare must be grounded in a solid foundation of current social science theory.

scholarly journals Arogyasree: An Enhanced Grid-Based Approach to Mobile Telemedicine

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sriram Kailasam ◽  
Santosh Kumar ◽  
Janakiram Dharanipragada
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Specialist Care ◽  
Telemedicine System ◽  
Remote Healthcare ◽  
Small Set ◽  
Store And Forward ◽  
Model Features ◽  
Scalable Internet

A typical telemedicine system involves a small set of hospitals providing remote healthcare services to a small section of the society using dedicated nodal centers. However, in developing nations like India where majority live in rural areas that lack specialist care, we envision the need for much larger Internet-based telemedicine systems that would enable a large pool of doctors and hospitals to collectively provide healthcare services to entire populations. We propose a scalable, Internet-based P2P architecture for telemedicine integrating multiple hospitals, mobile medical specialists, and rural mobile units. This system, based on the store and forward model, features a distributed context-aware scheduler for providing timely and location-aware telemedicine services. Other features like zone-based overlay structure and persistent object space abstraction make the system efficient and easy to use. Lastly, the system uses the existing internet infrastructure and supports mobility at doctor and patient ends.

scholarly journals Health Monitoring using Edge Cognitive Computing Based Smart Health Care

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5356-5361
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Cognitive Computing ◽  
Smart Healthcare ◽  
The People ◽  
Remote Healthcare ◽  
Health Progress ◽  
Remote Viewing

With an enhancement in technology and development of sensors, they have decided to concern the latest technology in particular areas to increases the Quality of their life. One of the important section of research that has seen an agreement of the latest technology is the healthcare. the people who need healthcare services they have to suffer for long process, to reduce the problem As a result, basically this complete technology would try to resole the healthcare issues. The main goal of the project is to develop a remote healthcare system. It have three main parts. The first and most important section in this process is to detecting the patient current health status using this sensors. second important thing is sending data to cloud storage and the last section is to get the detected data for remote viewing. Remote viewing of the data provided to the doctor will able to monitor a patients health progress aboard from hospital places. The Edge-Cognitive- Computing-based (ECC-based) smart healthcare system. This technology is able to check also distinguish and detect the current status of patient using this sensors. It also accommodate the computing resource appropriation of the complete edge computing network expansive to the health different percentage of each user. The experiments show that the ECC-based healthcare system provide a exceed user background and try to improvement the computing resources moderately, as well as consequentially improving in the durability rates of patients in emergency

scholarly journals The Interiority of Proximity Between Nature and Architecture in Contemporary and Tropically Context with Cases Studies

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arteks Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Temperature Difference ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
The Other ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Tropical Countries ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Tropical Climates ◽  
The Relationship

The interiority of buildings in tropical countries requires specific characteristics unlike those in countries with four distinct seasons. Buildings in non-tropical climates must protect their inhabitants from extreme weather, meaning that the architecture’s connection with nature is necessarily limited by a boundary which can withstand extreme climatic differences. In tropical countries, on the other hand, the temperature does not fluctuate much throughout the year, so the temperature difference between seasons is not extreme. This characteristic is reflected in traditional Nusantara architecture, which incorporates a breathable wall so that free winds come in, reducing heat. The roof is tilted or saddled-shaped to keep rain water away from the building. The architecture uses organic materials and includes terraces for dialogue with nature. Modern Indonesian architecture, however, particularly in large cities, is mostly closed off, severely limiting the interaction with nature. Since the advent of air conditioning (AC) technology during the 1980’s, architecture has changed to seal the boundaries of the building. Advances in information technology such as Internet and smartphones have made for further changes to architecture in the area; some functional spaces are being discarded, while others are expanded. The relationship between architecture and nature is now constrained by impenetrable materials such as brick, concrete and glass, as opposed to the more traditional, permeable boundary. In contrast to this trend, modern Indonesian society is tempted to form a closer relationship with nature. This paper examines how a relationship between nature and the interior of buildings may be accommodated again, presenting some existing projects by several architects from Europe and Asian countries—including the authors’ own work—as case studies.

scholarly journals Patient Monitoring System with Miniaturization of Sensors

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1S3) ◽  
pp. 495-501
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Human Life ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
K Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Alert Message ◽  
Remote Healthcare

The quality of human life has improved with the technological advancement and miniaturization of sensors. Healthcare sector has adopted the new technology with the results of related research. Still, healthcare services are not easily affordable in developing countries. This paper aims to reduce the expenses of healthcare system through designing a remote healthcare system comprising of three modules. The first module deals with detection of patient’s vitals using sensors. Second module is to collect and analyze the data and can be sent back to the doctor or guardian through Email and/or SMS alerts in case of any emergencies using Arduino. Third module implemented by K nearest neighbor classification algorithm is used to make runtime decisions if the alert message is not answered by doctors. By implementing these three modules, we achieved a better results in prediction and accuracy than the Attribute based credential and Amrita IoT-based Medical.

Part II Investor-State Arbitration in the Energy Sector, 14 Energy Investor-State Disputes in Asia

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yen Koh Swee
Keyword(s):  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Bitter Taste ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Critical View ◽  
Energy Cooperation ◽  
Recent Growth ◽  
Investment Agreement

This chapter takes a critical view on some energy-related investor-state disputes in Asia which have ‘left a bitter taste in the Host State's mouth’. Using selected case studies, the chapter concludes that some Asian countries, who once saw agreeing to investor-state arbitration as a means to attract investment, are nowadays more reticent towards this type of dispute resolution. The chapter discusses how to revive investor-state arbitration in Asia. In particular, it considers investor-state arbitration against the backdrop of recent growth in outward Asian investment. It emphasizes the importance of regional and international energy cooperation and initiatives such as the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Comprehensive Investment Agreement.

Bioboard

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (09) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
Genome Project ◽  
Genetically Engineered ◽  
High Yield ◽  
Cancer Genes ◽  
Heavy Ion Therapy ◽  
Ion Therapy ◽  
Remote Healthcare ◽  
New Treatment

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