New information and communication technologies for pain

2013 ◽  
pp. 569-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Stinson ◽  
Lindsay Jibb
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
New Information ◽  
Rigorous Research ◽  
Therapy Cost ◽  
Information And Communication

The rapid growth in the amount and availability of information and communication technology (ICT) in the last decade means that several new tools have become available to monitor and manage chronic pain. These tools include the Internet (and associated social support networks), mobile phones, and telemedicine and they are being used to enable self-management by people suffering from persistent pain. The benefits of ICT-based pain therapies are many and include improved treatment accessibility and satisfaction, as well as potential decreases in therapy cost. ICT therapies for people in pain represent exciting treatment possibilities. Future, rigorous research into the design and effectiveness of these therapies will shed more light on how ICT might improve the quality of life for people with chronic pain.

Digital health technologies for pediatric pain

2021 ◽  
pp. 638-648
Author(s):  
Lindsay A. Jibb ◽  
Jennifer N. Stinson
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Acute Pain ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Rigorous Research ◽  
Therapy Cost

The rapid growth in digital health technologies in the last two decades means that several new tools have become available to monitor and manage chronic, recurrent, and acute pain in children and adolescents. These tools include the internet (and associated social support networks), mobile phones, and telemedicine, as well as virtual reality and other high-technology distraction interventions. The benefits of digital health technology-based pain therapies include improved treatment accessibility and satisfaction, and potential decreases in therapy cost. Digital health therapies for children and adolescents with pain represent exciting treatment possibilities. Future, rigorous research into the design and effectiveness testing of these therapies will shed more light on how digital health technologies might decrease pain intensity and improve the quality of life for children and adolescents with chronic, recurrent, and acute pain.

scholarly journals Telemonitoring in diabetes: evolution of concepts and technologies, with a focus on results of the more recent studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Andrès ◽  
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Laurent Meyer ◽  
Abrar-Ahmad Zulfiqar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Remote Monitoring ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Medical Condition ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
New Information ◽  
Focus On Results ◽  
Samples Selection ◽  
Information And Communication

This is a narrative review of telemonitoring (remote monitoring) projects and studies within the field of diabetes, with a focus on results of the more recent studies. Since the beginning of the 1990s, several telemedicine projects and studies focused on type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Over the last 5 years, numerous telemedicine projects based on connected objects and new information and communication technologies (ICT) (elements defining telemedicine 2.0) have emerged or are still under development. Two examples are the DIABETe and Telesage telemonitoring project which perfectly fits within the telemedicine 2.0 framework – the first to include artificial intelligence (AI) with MyPrediTM and DiabeoTM. Mainly, these projects and studies show that telemonitoring diabetic result in: improvements in control of blood glucose (BG) level and significant reduction in HbA1c (e.g., for Telescot et TELESAGE studies); positive impact on co-morbidities (arterial hypertension, weight, dyslipidemia) (e.g., for Telescot and DIABETe studies); better patient’s quality of life (e.g., for DIABETe study); positive impact on appropriation of the disease by patients and/or greater adherence to therapeutic and hygiene-dietary measures (e.g., The Utah Remote Monitoring Project); and at least, good receptiveness by patients and their empowerment. To date, the magnitude of its effects remains debatable, especially with the variation in patients’ characteristics (e.g., background, ability for self-management, medical condition), samples selection and approach for the treatment of control groups. All of the recent studies have been classified as “Moderate” to “High”.

scholarly journals Using mobile phones to improve educational outcomes: An analysis of evidence from Asia

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
John-Harmen Valk ◽  
Ahmed T. Rashid ◽  
Laurent Elder
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
New Information ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Information And Communication

Despite improvements in educational indicators, such as enrolment, significant challenges remain with regard to the delivery of quality education in developing countries, particularly in rural and remote regions. In the attempt to find viable solutions to these challenges, much hope has been placed in new information and communication technologies (ICTs), mobile phones being one example. This article reviews the evidence of the role of mobile phone-facilitated mLearning in contributing to improved educational outcomes in the developing countries of Asia by exploring the results of six mLearning pilot projects that took place in the Philippines, Mongolia, Thailand, India, and Bangladesh. In particular, this article examines the extent to which the use of mobile phones helped to improve educational outcomes in two specific ways: 1) in improving access to education, and 2) in promoting <em>new learning</em>. Analysis of the projects indicates that while there is important evidence of mobile phones facilitating increased access, much less evidence exists as to how mobiles promote new learning.

Business Management and New Technologies to Improve the Services

2015 ◽  
pp. 65-84
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Granata
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Key Issues

Governments around the world have come to recognize the potential of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT's) to reshape the ways in which they interact with citizens, businesses and other key stakeholders, hence the current move towards e-Government. A major goal of e-Government initiatives is to improve the quality of public service delivery through providing individuals and organizations with a coherent interface with government that has to be organized around their needs rather than the structure of government bodies. To that end, many governments have begun applying to their e-Government strategies the commercial concept commonly referred to as “Customer Relationship Management” (CRM), thus generating a new field of knowledge and related applications. This chapter discusses some of the key issues to implementing CRM in e-Government. It lays particular stress on the CRM capabilities of identifying and differentiating users, promoting take-up of e-Government and measuring the progress against its stated objectives. The conceptual framework will also be related to a case-study dealing with the Italian Revenue Agency, responsible for collecting tax and customs duties for government, which is developing a rich CRM program along with an ICT re-engineering process.

scholarly journals Challenges and opportunities for science journalists in adopting new technologies: the case of Spain

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. A05 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carles Pont-Sorribes ◽  
Sergi Cortiñas Rovira ◽  
Ilaria Di Bonito
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
New Information ◽  
Spanish Science ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Information And Communication

This paper analyses the adoption of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) by Spanish journalists specialising in science. Applying an ethnographic research model, this study was based on a wide sample of professionals, aiming to evaluate the extent by which science journalists have adopted the new media and changed the way they use information sources. In addition, interviewees were asked whether in their opinion the Web 2.0 has had an impact on the quality of the news. The integration of formats certainly implies a few issues for today’s newsrooms. Finally, with the purpose of improving the practice of science information dissemination, the authors put forward a few proposals, namely: Increasing the training of Spanish science journalists in the field of new technologies; Emphasising the accuracy of the information and the validation of sources; Rethinking the mandates and the tasks of information professionals.

scholarly journals Running out of credit: the limitations of mobile telephony in a Tanzanian agricultural marketing system

2008 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 637-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Molony
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Wholesale Market ◽  
Agricultural Marketing ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTPoor farmers often lack credit to purchase agricultural inputs, and rely on their buyers to provide it. This paper considers the effects of mobile phones on traders of perishable foodstuffs operating between Tanzania's Southern Highlands and Dar es Salaam's wholesale market, with a particular focus on the importance of credit in the relationship between potato and tomato farmers and their wholesale buyers. It argues that the ability to communicate using these new information and communication technologies (ICTs) does not significantly alter the trust relationship between the two groups. It also suggests that farmers, in effect, often have to accept the price they are told their crops are sold for – irrespective of the method of communication used to convey this message – because their buyers are also their creditors. In this situation, many farmers are unable to exploit new mobile phone-based services to seek information on market prices, and potential buyers in other markets. Doing so runs the risk of breaking a long-term relationship with a buyer who is willing to supply credit because of their established business interaction. It is suggested that, under a more open system than currently exists in Tanzania, mobile-payment (‘m-payment’) applications should target these creditor-buyers as key agents in connecting farmers to the credit they so often require.

scholarly journals Usability Analysis of Andalusian Spas’ Websites

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2307
Author(s):  
Rosa Anaya-Aguilar ◽  
German Gemar ◽  
Carmen Anaya-Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
New Information ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Exploratory Investigation ◽  
Usability Analysis ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Tourism Websites

Health tourism is booming all over the world, and thermal spa tourism in Spain is a type of tourism aimed at integrating with nature, achieving sustainable development. In general, its facilities are located in areas specially protected by environmental legislation. This tourism sector attracts an increasingly wide market segment that has become more demanding and better informed and that more frequently uses the Internet to gather information. Tourists’ shopping and consumption habits are increasingly influenced by new information and communication technologies (ICTs), making these a topic of interest among academics and professionals. Website development has been shown to be an area of innovation for spa facilities, but evidence has also been found that this sector has experienced difficulty in adopting ICTs. This research sought to analyse spa websites’ usability by conducting an exploratory investigation of different websites’ contents. The results reveal that the use of new web technologies by spas is underdeveloped, although these facilities have achieved good positions in Internet search engines due to the synergistic effect of the official tourism websites. That is why most of them tell their story, detail their nature and the protection of their spaces. In this way, spas turn their websites into communication channels that convey to tourists their commitment to the environment and sustainable development.

scholarly journals Value-driven engineering of E-maintenance platforms

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 568-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Macchi ◽  
Adolfo Crespo Márquez ◽  
Maria Holgado ◽  
Luca Fumagalli ◽  
Luis Barberá Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Maintenance Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
A Value ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology for the engineering of E-maintenance platforms that is based on a value-driven approach. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology assumes that a value-driven engineering approach would help foster technological innovation for maintenance management. Indeed, value-driven engineering could be easily adopted at the business level, with subsequent positive effects on the industrial applications of new information and communication technologies solutions. Findings – The methodology combines a value-driven approach with the engineering in the maintenance scope. The methodology is tested in a manufacturing case to prove its potential to support the engineering of E-maintenance solutions. In particular, the case study concerns the investment in E-maintenance solutions developed in the framework of a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system originally implemented for production purposes. Originality/value – Based on literature research, the paper presents a methodology that is implemented considering three different approaches (business theories, value-driven engineering and maintenance management). The combination of these approaches is novel and overcomes the traditional view of maintenance as an issue evaluated from a cost-benefit perspective.

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