scholarly journals Software Engineering in Healthcare

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 326-328
Author(s):  
Archit Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Computing Power ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Software Engineers ◽  
Patients Experience ◽  
Patient Centric

Abstract: As technology is advancing and affecting every phase of human life, health care facilities are also getting improved with the introduction of new advanced, customized, and patient-centric approaches in software engineering. Engineers all around the world are working to create unique and efficient ways for the prevention and early detection of diseases along with improving the patients’ experience while using these technologies. With the gain in computing power and access to a wide range of software, software engineers are working on technologies such as Big Data, AI, Data Science, and Cybersecurity to improve the existing methodologies and pave the way for patient-centric approaches and knowledge translation.

Assessing the Preparedness of Healthcare Facilities for Disasters and Emergencies in Damghan, Iran

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Behrad Pourmohammadi ◽  
Ahad Heydari ◽  
Farin Fatemi ◽  
Ali Modarresi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Objectives: Iran is exposed to a wide range of natural and man-made hazards. Health-care facilities can play a significant role in providing life-saving measures in the minutes and hours immediately following the impact or exposure. The aim of this study was to determine the preparedness of health-care facilities in disasters and emergencies. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Damghan, Semnan Province, in 2019. The samples consisted of all the 11 health-care facilities located in Damghan County. A developed checklist was used to collect the data, including 272 questions in 4 sections: understanding threatening hazards, functional, structural, and nonstructural vulnerability of health-care facilities. The data were analyzed using SPSS 21. Results: The results revealed that the health-care facilities were exposed to 22 different natural and man-made hazards throughout the county. The total level of preparedness of the health-care centers under assessment was 45.8%. The average functional, structural, and nonstructural vulnerability was assessed at 49.3%, 31.6%, and 56.4%, respectively. Conclusions: Conducting mitigation measures is necessary for promoting the functional and structural preparedness. Disaster educational programs and exercises are recommended among the health staff in health-care facilities.

The helps toolkit - a tool to promote the physical health of residents in psychiatric facilities across Europe

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 587-587
Author(s):  
P. Weiser ◽  
T. Becker ◽  
R. Kilian
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Medical Care System ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Co Morbidity ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Care Facilities

IntroductionPeople with a mental disorder are at increased risk for physical illness and therefore their risk of premature death is raised. An unhealthy lifestyle, living conditions, medication side-effects and a lack of physical health monitoring are regarded as the main causes of high somatic morbidity. But up to now only little research has addressed the physical co-morbidity in mentally ill. At present, there are no specific policies to improve the health status of residents in mental health care facilities.Objectives / methodsAgainst this background a multi-disciplinary network of experts from 15 European countries was set up. Working together with researchers, stakeholders, professionals, networks, practitioners, and relevant organizations, the HELPS network developed a “physical health promotion toolkit” for routine application in a wide range of mental health care facilities across Europe. The HELPS toolkit intends to empower patients and staff to identify the most relevant risk factors in their specific context and subsequently select the most appropriate action out of a range of defined health promoting interventions. In doing so, the toolkit takes into account the heterogeneity of mental disorders, the high number of somatic problems, aspects of lifestyle, environment, medical care system, personal goals of patients and their motivation for health behavior.Results / conclusionsThe poster presents the HELPS toolkit. It illustrates the individual components of the tool and the processes of its implementation and evaluation. First results of the pilot study concerning the feasibility of the toolkit will be presented and discussed.

scholarly journals Development of Healthcare Kiosk for Checking Heart Health

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Riyanto Sigit ◽  
Zainal Arief ◽  
Mochamad Mobed Bachtiar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Heart Diseases ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Filter Method ◽  
Heart Health ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Method

The main problem encountered nowadays in the health field, especially in health care is the growing number of population and the decreasing health facilities. In this regard, healthcare kiosk is used as an alternative to the health care facilities. Heart disease is a dangerous one which could threaten human life. Many people have died due to heart disease and the surgery itself is still very expensive. To analyze heart diseases, doctor usually takes a video of the heart movement using ultrasound equipment to distinguish between normal and abnormal case. The results of analysis vary depending on the accuracy and experience of each doctor so it is difficult to determine the actual situation. Therefore, a method using healthcare kiosk to check the heart health is needed to help doctor and improve the health care facilities. The aim of this research is to develop healthcare kiosk which can be used to check the heart health. This research method is divided into three main parts: firstly, preprocessing to clarify the quality of the image.In this section, the writers propose a Median High Boost Filter method which is a combined method of Median Filtering and High Boost Filtering. Secondly, segmentation is used to obtain local cavities of the heart. In this part, the writers propose using Triangle Equation that is a new method to be developed. Thirdly, classification using Partial Monte Carlo method and artificial neural network method; these methods are used to measure the area of the heart cavity and discover the possibility of cardiac abnormalities. Methods for detecting heart health are placed in the kiosk. Therefore, it is expected to facilitate and improve the healthcare facilities.Keywords: Healthcare kiosk, heart health, reprocessing, segmentation, classification.

scholarly journals TOWARD SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES BASED ON ISLAMIC ETHICAL VALUES

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-51
Author(s):  
Shihab A. Hameed
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
High Ratio ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Islamic Ethics ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Modeling Software ◽  
Engineering Principle ◽  
Software Engineers

Software is the core for Computer-based applications which became an essential part for critical control systems, health and human life guard systems, financial and banking systems, educational and other systems. It requires qualified software engineers professionally and ethically. L.R and survey results show that software engineering professionals facing several ethical related problems which are costly, harmful and affected high ratio of people. Professional organizations like ACM, IEEE, ABET and CSAC have established codes of ethics to help software engineering professionals to understand and manage their ethical responsibilities. Islam considers ethics an essential factor to build individuals,communities and society. Islamic Ethics are set of moral principles and guidance that recognizes what is right behavior from wrong, which are comprehensive, stable, fair, and historically prove success in building ethically great society. The 1.3 billions of Muslims with 10s of thousands of software engineers should have an effective role in software development and life, which requires them to understand and implement ethics, specially the Islamic ethics in their work. This paper is a frame-work for modeling software engineering principle. It focuses mainly on adopting a new version of software engineering principle based on Islamic ethical values.

scholarly journals COVID-19 – Community Based Mitigation Measures

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 478-486
Author(s):  
Ankita Motwani, Dr. Swaroopa Chakole
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Disease Outbreak ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Game Changer

BACKGROUND COVID-19 pandemic is raging through continents and creating disturbances in almost all the activities of the human life sustenance. The worst disease outbreak is being faced by the humanity and containment is the need of the hour. SUMMARY Community based mitigation can prove game changer as current efforts are totally centralized and are hardly decentralized. Community participation under the supervision of the competent community health or medicine officer or equivalent authority can be ensured to effectively contain the coronavirus and thereby reducing the burden on the health care facilities. CONCLUSION More study needs to be done to target the efforts of containing the virus.People’s participation along with medical fraternity is the key to successfully defeating the menace of the pandemic of COVID-19.

scholarly journals Evacuation from Healthcare Facilities in Poland: Legal Preparedness and Preparation

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 1779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Goniewicz ◽  
Patrycja Misztal-Okońska ◽  
Witold Pawłowski ◽  
Frederick M. Burkle ◽  
Robert Czerski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Emergency Evacuation ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Medical Facilities ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Evacuation Drills

Medical facilities, while providing both essential and demanding health care to society’s most vulnerable populations, also belong to the most demanding category of risk to human life if and when a crisis event occurs within its walls. The development of a safe evacuation plan for these facilities is extremely complicated, as the evacuation of medical facilities is much more complex than for other critical infrastructure. In this category, the evacuated patients constitute a specific risk group requiring specialized medical care. Hospitalized persons may be dependent on life-saving measures, are unconscious or immobile, are significantly restricted in movement or mentally unbalanced, being dependent on the continued assistance of trained third parties. Additionally, the medical transport of evacuated patients becomes more difficult due to the limited capacity of ambulances and available health care facilities to transport them to, which are increasingly limited due to their overcrowded census. The study aimed to analyze the requirements which are placed on hospitals in Poland to ensure the safety of patients in case of an evacuation. The research method used in the paper was retrospective analysis and evaluation of the media and literature. We have found, that Polish law imposes an obligation on the administrator of a medical facility to ensure the safety of both patients and employees. The regulations cover issues of technical conditions to be met by buildings and their location, prevention, and fire protection requirements, and the determination of which staff is responsible for the evacuation. However, available documents fail to describe what the hospital evacuation process itself should entail under emergency evacuation. Taking into account the complexity of the hospital evacuation process, health care facilities should have a well-developed plan of action that must be implemented at least once a year in the form of facility-wide training. Evacuation drills should not be avoided. Only trained procedures offer the possibility of later analysis to identify and eliminate errors and provide the opportunity to acquire skill sets and habits which promote the behaviors expected in real-life emergencies.

Suicidal Behavior in Black South Africans

Crisis ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lourens Schlebusch ◽  
Naseema B.M. Vawda ◽  
Brenda A. Bosch
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
South African Society ◽  
South Africans ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Black South Africans ◽  
To Come

Summary: In the past suicidal behavior among Black South Africans has been largely underresearched. Earlier studies among the other main ethnic groups in the country showed suicidal behavior in those groups to be a serious problem. This article briefly reviews some of the more recent research on suicidal behavior in Black South Africans. The results indicate an apparent increase in suicidal behavior in this group. Several explanations are offered for the change in suicidal behavior in the reported clinical populations. This includes past difficulties for all South Africans to access health care facilities in the Apartheid (legal racial separation) era, and present difficulties of post-Apartheid transformation the South African society is undergoing, as the people struggle to come to terms with the deleterious effects of the former South African racial policies, related socio-cultural, socio-economic, and other pressures.

ETHNOVETERINARY MEDICINAL USES OF SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS ON PNEUMONIA BY THE GUJJAR AND PAHARI TRIBES OF POONCH DISTRICT OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMIL AHMED KHAN ◽  
RAJINDER PAUL
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Medicinal Uses ◽  
Modern Health Care ◽  
Care Facilities

Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir is a reservoir of enormous natural resources including the wealth of medicinal plants. The present paper deals with 12 medicinal plant species belonging to 8 genera of angiosperms used on pneumonia in cattle such as cows, sheep, goats and buffaloes in different areas of Poonch district. Due to poverty and nonavailability of modern health care facilities, the indigenous people of the area partially or fully depend on surrounding medicinal plants to cure the different ailments of their cattles. Further research on modern scientific line is necessary to improve their efficacy, safety and validation of the traditional knowledge.

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