scholarly journals Pervasive Personal Healthcare Service Designed as Mobile Social Network

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanja Miskovic ◽  
Djordje Babic
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Mobile Networks ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Asynchronous Communication ◽  
Synchronous Communication ◽  
Body Sensor Networks ◽  
Mobile Social Network ◽  
Personal Healthcare ◽  
Number Of Patients

A global phenomenon of population ageing and an increasing number of patients with chronic diseases place substantial additional pressure on healthcare systems. A possible solution for this problem is a new emerging sort of pervasive personal healthcare service that is focused on the patient and allows the patient to be actively involved in his or her own health care. In this paper, we propose the architecture of the pervasive personal healthcare service which is based on the existing technologies available to almost everyone. Along with the conventional request-response synchronous communication, the proposed system features asynchronous communication based on publish-subscribe-notify model. In order to perform asynchronous communication, a web application server is integrated with the Google Cloud Messaging service. The communication between mobile device and servers is carried out through the available Wi-Fi or mobile networks, whereas Bluetooth protocol is conventional for Body Sensor Networks consisting of wearable sensor devices. We also present a mobile application which has been developed with use-case driven approach for both patients and medical personnel. The introduced application has a form of a nonintrusive customized mobile social network. We explain usage scenarios that clarify the required functions and present conclusions based on the system test.

scholarly journals PRUB: A Privacy Protection Friend Recommendation System Based on User Behavior

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Jiang ◽  
Ruijin Wang ◽  
Zhiyuan Xu ◽  
Yaodong Huang ◽  
Shuo Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Network Services ◽  
Mobile Social Network ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Friend Recommendation ◽  
Social Applications ◽  
Browsing Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Information

The fast developing social network is a double-edged sword. It remains a serious problem to provide users with excellent mobile social network services as well as protecting privacy data. Most popular social applications utilize behavior of users to build connection with people having similar behavior, thus improving user experience. However, many users do not want to share their certain behavioral information to the recommendation system. In this paper, we aim to design a secure friend recommendation system based on the user behavior, called PRUB. The system proposed aims at achieving fine-grained recommendation to friends who share some same characteristics without exposing the actual user behavior. We utilized the anonymous data from a Chinese ISP, which records the user browsing behavior, for 3 months to test our system. The experiment result shows that our system can achieve a remarkable recommendation goal and, at the same time, protect the privacy of the user behavior information.

scholarly journals Covidom, a Telesurveillance Solution for Home Monitoring Patients With COVID-19 (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youri Yordanov ◽  
Agnes Dechartres ◽  
Xavier Lescure ◽  
Caroline Apra ◽  
Pascaline Villie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Home Monitoring ◽  
Control Center ◽  
Regional Control ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Paris Area ◽  
Innovative Solution

UNSTRUCTURED In a matter of months, COVID-19 has escalated from a cluster of cases in Wuhan, China, to a global pandemic. As the number of patients with COVID-19 grew, solutions for the home monitoring of infected patients became critical. This viewpoint presents a telesurveillance solution—Covidom—deployed in the greater Paris area to monitor patients with COVID-19 in their homes. The system was rapidly developed and is being used on a large scale with more than 65,000 registered patients to date. The Covidom solution combines an easy-to-use and free web application for patients (through which patients fill out short questionnaires on their health status) with a regional control center that monitors and manages alerts (triggered by questionnaire responses) from patients whose health may be deteriorating. This innovative solution could alleviate the burden of health care professionals and systems while allowing for rapid response when patients trigger an alert.

scholarly journals The Interplay of Content and Community in Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication: Virtual Communication in a Graduate Seminar

2002 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Schwier ◽  
Shelly Balbar
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Asynchronous Communication ◽  
Synchronous Communication ◽  
Bulletin Board ◽  
Virtual Communication ◽  
Graduate Seminar ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Group A ◽  
The University ◽  
Intellectual Limitations

A group of graduate students and an instructor at the University of Saskatchewan experimented with the use of synchronous communication (chat) and asynchronous communication (bulletin board) in a theory course in Educational Communications and Technology for an eight-month period. Synchronous communication contributed dramatically to the continuity and convenience of the class, and promoted a strong sense of community. At the same time, it was viewed as less effective than asynchronous communication for dealing with content and issues deeply, and it introduced a number of pedagogical and intellectual limitations. We concluded that synchronous and asynchronous strategies were suitable for different types of learning, and what we experienced was a balancing act between content and community in our group. A combination of synchronous and asynchronous experiences seems to be necessary to promote the kind of engagement and depth required in a graduate seminar.

scholarly journals Efforts and Challenges to Ensure Continuity of Mental Healthcare Service Delivery in a Low Resource Settings During COVID-19 Pandemic—A Case of a Kenyan Referral Hospital

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith Kwobah ◽  
Florence Jaguga ◽  
Kiptoo Robert ◽  
Elias Ndolo ◽  
Jane Kariuki
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Referral Hospital ◽  
Number Of Patients

The rising number of patients with Covid-19 as well as the infection control measures have affected healthcare service delivery, including mental healthcare. Mental healthcare delivery in low and middle income countries where resources were already limited are likely to be affected more during this pandemic. This paper describes the efforts of ensuring mental healthcare delivery is continued in a referral hospital in Kenya, Moi Teaching and Referral hospital, as well as the challenges faced. These efforts are guided by the interim guidelines developed by the Kenyan ministry of health. Some of the adjustments described includes reducing number of patients admitted, shortening the stay in the inpatient setting, using outdoors for therapy to promote physical distancing, utilization of electronic platforms for family therapy sessions, strengthening outpatient services, and supporting primary care workers to deliver mental health care services. Some of the challenges include limited ability to move about, declining ability for patients to pay out of pocket due to the economic challenges brought about by measures to control Covid-19, limited drug supplies in primary care facilities, inability to fully implement telehealth due to connectivity issues and stigma for mental health which results in poor social support for the mentally ill patients. It is clear that current pandemic has jeopardized the continuity of usual mental healthcare in many settings. This has brought to sharp focus the need to decentralize mental health care and promote community based services. Meanwhile, there is need to explore feasible alternatives to ensure continuity of care.

scholarly journals Cooperation Dynamics on Mobile Crowd Networks of Device-to-Device Communications

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Yong Deng ◽  
Guiyi Wei ◽  
Mande Xie ◽  
Jun Shao
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
Evolutionary Game ◽  
Influence Factors ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Mobile Social Network ◽  
Crowd Density ◽  
Cooperation Rate ◽  
Cooperative Behaviors ◽  
Mobile Crowd

The explosive use of smart devices enabled the emergence of collective resource sharing among mobile individuals. Mobile users need to cooperate with each other to improve the whole network’s quality of service. By modeling the cooperative behaviors in a mobile crowd into an evolutionary Prisoner’s dilemma game, we investigate the relationships between cooperation rate and some main influence factors, including crowd density, communication range, temptation to defect, and mobility attributes. Using evolutionary game theory, our analysis on the cooperative behaviors of mobile takes a deep insight into the cooperation promotion in a dynamical network with selfish autonomous users. The experiment results show that mobile user’s features, including speed, moving probability, and reaction radius, have an obvious influence on the formation of a cooperative mobile social network. We also found some optimal status when the crowd’s cooperation rate reaches the best. These findings are important if we want to establish a mobile social network with a good performance.

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