Automated Beat-To-Beat Heart Sound Analyzer for Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare Application

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Wang ◽  
L.H. Ling ◽  
Y. Kim ◽  
C.B. Soh
Keyword(s):  
Heart Sound ◽  
Home Healthcare ◽  
Distributed Diagnosis ◽  
Healthcare Application ◽  
Beat Heart

Ontology Based Context-Aware Adaptation Approach

2011 ◽  
pp. 26-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarak Chaari ◽  
Mohamed Zouari ◽  
Frédérique Laforest
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Adaptation Strategy ◽  
Functional Adaptation ◽  
Home Healthcare ◽  
Simple Description ◽  
Multimedia Contents ◽  
Healthcare Application ◽  
Service Adaptation ◽  
Open Strategy

Pervasive information systems aim to make information available anywhere and at anytime. These systems should be used in different contexts depending on the environment of the user, her/his profile and her/his device. Consequently, one of the main problems of such information systems is the adaptation to context. In this chapter, the authors propose a comprehensive and open strategy that guarantees the adaptation of applications to context on three facets: (i) the services offered to the user, (ii) the multimedia contents returned by these services, and (iii) their presentation to the user. Service adaptation consists of modules that intercept the application’s service calls and modify their behavior using a list of functional adaptation operators. Data adaptation consists in transforming or replacing the non-usable multimedia service outputs in the considered context situation. Presentation adaptation consists in automatically generating the complete code of the user interface that guarantees the interaction with the adapted data and services. The authors’ adaptation strategy has achieved two goals: (i) incrementally integrate context awareness in the application and (ii) guarantee the adaptation starting from a simple description of the services offered to the user. They have validated this strategy by developing a platform that guarantees applications adaptation to context. They used Java, OSGi and Web service technologies to implement this platform. They have also successfully tested our adaptation approach on a home healthcare application concerning dialyzed persons.

Evaluating the Usability of Home Healthcare Applications

2011 ◽  
pp. 319-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Bruun ◽  
Jan Stage
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Assisted Living ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Usability Evaluation ◽  
Home Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Applications ◽  
Usability Problems ◽  
Target User ◽  
Healthcare Application ◽  
High Level

Home healthcare applications have the potential to reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of life for elderly people who prefer to stay in their own homes instead of making frequent visits to the hospital. This requires ambient assisted living applications that fulfil relevant needs of the users; yet it also requires applications with a high level of usability in order to achieve user acceptance, especially when the target user group is elderly people. This chapter proposes a method to be used for conducting usability evaluations of smart healthcare applications. It includes a report from a usability evaluation where the method was used to evaluate a simple home healthcare application for collecting personal health data in the home. The usability evaluation demonstrates that the method presented here facilitates identification of key usability problems, while the efforts required to conduct the evaluation are considerably reduced compared to conventional methods.

scholarly journals Topic of Special Issue: Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 825-827
Author(s):  
E. Y. K. Ng ◽  
Rajendra Acharya U ◽  
Jasjit Suri
Keyword(s):  
Home Healthcare ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Distributed Diagnosis

scholarly journals The use of geocoding for home healthcare application and management an epidemic situation: Case of COVID-19 virus outbreak

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 285-293
Author(s):  
Ahmed Akakba ◽  
Belkacem Lahmar
Keyword(s):  
Social Contact ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Home Healthcare ◽  
World Health ◽  
C Programming Language ◽  
Spatial Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
C Programming ◽  
Healthcare Application ◽  
Health Organization

The lack of an addressing system is one of the problems of urban management in Algeria, which makes it hard to find the addresses concerned, especially in case of crisis where the decision-makers need accurate data in real-time. Like many countries, Algeria follows up the world health organization guidelines that declared the COVID-19 virus as pandemic and recommended the full quarantine and reduces the social contact as much as possible; however, these procedures weren't enough to control the increasing number of confirmed cases, which exceeded the hospital's capacities. To face up the outbreak of this pandemic, the Algerian health professionals decided to treat most coronavirus cases at home. This study aims to use a geocoding tool developed in C# programming language and ArcGIS Software Development Kit (SDK) to help in the epidemiological control operation in Ain Touta city and simplifies the interventions using a spatial approach. These problems are addressed by a tool to collect, analyze, store, and process archiving of the geographic data using a geodatabase server.

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