scholarly journals Bacterial Contamination of Mobile Phones of Health Care Providers in a Teaching Hospital in Hamadan Province, Iran

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iraj Sedighi ◽  
Mohammad Yousef Alikhani ◽  
Samira Ramezani ◽  
Mansour Nazari ◽  
Amir Sasan Mozaffari Nejad
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Bacterial Contamination ◽  
Care Providers

TELE-MONITORING SYSTEM OF RISK IN RESPIRATORY PATIENTS

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150041
Author(s):  
Awad Al-Zaben ◽  
Lina M.K. Al-Ebbini ◽  
Badr Qatashah
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Signal Processing ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Server Side ◽  
Respiration Signal ◽  
At Home

In many situations, health care professionals need to evaluate the respiration rate (RR) for home patients. Moreover, when cases are more than health care providers’ capacity, it is important to follow up cases at home. In this paper, we present a complete system that enables healthcare providers to follow up with patients with respiratory-related diseases at home. The aim is to evaluate the use of a mobile phone’s accelerometer to capture respiration waveform from different patients using mobile phones. Whereas measurements are performed by patients themselves from home, and not by professional health care personnel, the signals captured by mobile phones are subjected to many unknowns. Therefore, the validity of the signals has to be evaluated first and before any processing. Proper signal processing algorithms can be used to prepare the captured waveform for RR computations. A validity check is considered at different stages using statistical measures and pathophysiological limitations. In this paper, a mobile application is developed to capture the accelerometer signals and send the data to a server at the health care facility. The server has a database of each patient’s signals considering patient privacy and security of information. All the validations and signal processing are performed on the server side. The patient’s condition can be followed up over a few days and an alarm system may be implemented at the server-side in case of respiration deterioration or when there is a risk of a patient’s need for hospitalization. The risk is determined based on respiration signal features extracted from the received respiration signal including RR, and Autoregressive (AR) moving average (ARMA) model parameters of the signal. Results showed that the presented method can be used at a larger scale enabling health care providers to monitor a large number of patients.

The Emerging Concept of an Inclusive mHealth Ecosystem in India

2019 ◽  
pp. 116-141
Author(s):  
Pradeep Nair
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Integrated Health Care ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
The Third ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
Unit Demand ◽  
Quality Health Services

The reason for considering ICT-based communication platforms, especially mobile phones, as the most efficacious media tool to interconnect health care providers, practitioners and other stakeholders to a substantially large number of consumers in the healthcare system is that the mobile phone subscribers in India has reached to 1,013.23 million in the third quarter of 2018. The prices of smartphones have also come down by 11 percent with a demand for 4G devices capturing 6 percent of smartphone unit demand in India. Hence, it is an appropriate time to understand that the future of healthcare business in India lies with mobile based healthcare services. This chapter explores some of the significant innovations taking place in mobile healthcare business in India and examines the emerging approach of integrated health care ecosystems to provide quality health services to everyone where and when it is required.

scholarly journals Herbal Products Use During Pregnancy in North of Iran

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gelareh Biazar ◽  
Bahram Naderi Nabi ◽  
Abbas Sedighinejad ◽  
Anoush Dehnadi Moghadam ◽  
Farnoush Farzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Pregnant Woman ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Herbal Products ◽  
Gastrointestinal Complications ◽  
North Of Iran ◽  
Guilan Province ◽  
In Pregnancy

Objectives: The use of herbs which has been increasing worldwide, requires special considerations particularly in pregnant woman. The present study was conducted at Alzahra Teaching hospital (from March 2016 to August 2017) to explore the pattern of herbal use during pregnancy in Guilan province (North of Iran). Materials and Methods: Data were obtained from 836 eligible women, who were interviewed at postnatal ward, and were analyzed. Results: The results of the study showed that 19.6% of the women consumed herbs during pregnancy. The most commonly used herbs included mint, flixweld, and cinnamon; in addition, the most prevalent indications resulted from these herbs consumption were gastrointestinal complications and cold. The rate of herbal consumption in pregnancy was related to education (P=0.001) and resistance (P=0.008); however, no relation was found regarding age (P=0.203), employment (P=0.255), or gravity (P=0.935). Conclusions: Although the findings of this study were preferable to those of some other studies, due to the importance of the issue, it is vital that health care providers to be open to question the herbal use during pregnancy.

scholarly journals Knowledge on Sepsis among Health Care Providers of Birat Medical College and Teaching Hospital

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 964-969
Author(s):  
Akriti Bajracharya ◽  
Lalit Kumar Rajbanshi ◽  
Batsalya Arjyal
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Knowledge Level ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Poor Knowledge ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Initial Resuscitation ◽  
Prompt Diagnosis

Introduction: Knowledge and awareness of sepsis among various health care professionals is essential for prompt diagnosis and appropriate initial resuscitation and management of patient with sepsis. Objective: To assess and compare the knowledge and awareness of sepsis among health care professionals working at Birat Medical College and Teaching Hospital. Methodology This was a questionnaire-based survey with comparative study in 200 health care professionals conducted at Birat Medical College and Teaching Hospital from July– September, 2019. Questions were designed to assess the knowledge on diagnosis, initial resuscitation and management of sepsis. The knowledge level of the participants was assessed with scoring system as good, average and poor which was finally compared between the various health care professionals. Result Out of 200, only 180 health care professionals were included for statistical analysis. While assessing the knowledge on diagnosis of sepsis, 55.6% consultant doctors, 42.8% medical officers and 21.5% nursing/paramedics answered correctly on an average. Similarly, 51.7 % consultant doctors, 33.7% medical officers and 26.6% nursing/ paramedics gave correct answers while assessing knowledge on initial resuscitation and management. The nursing/paramedics had comparatively lower knowledge level on sepsis than the doctors. Around 31.7%, 51.2% and 17% of health care professionals working in Emergency, ICU and Anesthesiology departments had good, average and poor knowledge on sepsis respectively as compared to 14.2%, 28.5% and 57.1% of participants working in other departments. Conclusion: The nursing/paramedics had lower knowledge level on sepsis as compared to the doctors while health care professionals working in Emergency,ICU and Anesthesiology departments had better knowledge on sepsis as compared to staffs working in other departments.

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