Communications

The communications sector of an economy comprises a range of technologies, physical media, and institutions/rules that facilitate the storage of information through means other than a society\u27s oral tradition and the transmission of that information over distances beyond the normal reach of human conversation. This chapter provides data on the historical evolution of a disparate range of industries and institutions contributing to the movement and storage of information in the United States over the past two centuries. These include the U.S. Postal Service, the newspaper industry, book publishing, the telegraph, wired and cellular telephone service, radio and television, and the Internet

Multimodal and ubiquitous computing systems: supporting independent-living older users

We document the rationale and design of a multimodal interface to a pervasive/ubiquitous computing system that supports independent living by older people in their own homes. The Millennium Home system involves fitting a resident’s home with sensors – these sensors can be used to trigger sequences of interaction with the resident to warn them about dangerous events, or to check if they need external help. We draw lessons from the design process and conclude the paper with implications for the design of multimodal interfaces to ubiquitous systems developed for the elderly and in healthcare, as well as for more general ubiquitous computing applications

Horizons and Perspectives eHealth

EHealth platform represents the combined use of IT technologies and electronic communications in the health field, using data (electronically transmitted, stored and accessed) with a clinical, educational and administrative purpose, both locally and distantly. eHealth has the significant capability to increase the movement in the direction of services centered towards citizens, improving the quality of the medical act, integrating the application of Medical Informatics (Medical IT), Telemedicine, Health Telematics, Telehealth, Biomedical engineering and Bioinformatics. Supporting the creation, development and recognition of a specific eHealth zone, the European Union policies develop through its programs FP6 and FP7, European-scale projects in the medical information technologies (the electronic health cards, online medical care, medical web portals, trans-European nets for medical information, biotechnology, generic instruments and medical technologies for health, ICT mobile systems for remote monitoring). The medical applications like electronic health cards ePrescription, eServices, medical eLearning, eSupervision, eAdministration are integral part of what is the new medical branch-eHealth, being in a continuous expansion due to the support from the global political, financial and medical organizations; the degree of implementation of the eHealth platform varying according to the development level of the communication infrastructure, allocated funds, intensive political priorities and governmental organizations opened to the new IT challenges.eHealth, telemedicine, telehealth, bioinformatics, telematics

AICPA Telephone Operations Guide, Spring 1998

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Skylab IMSS checklist application study for emergency medical care

A manual is presented that provides basic technical documentation to support the operation and utilization of the Portable Ambulance Module (PAM) in the field. The PAM is designed to be used for emergency resuscitation and victim monitoring. The functions of all the controls, displays, and stowed equipment of the unit are defined. Supportive medical and physiological data in those areas directly related to the uses of the PAM unit are presented

Implementation and maintenance of telephony network through Avaya s8720: practice application in Fabrics Division at Barcelona

La empresa W.L. GORE and Asociados es una empresa multinacional con sede en Barcelona dedicada a la fabricación y venta de membranas de PTFE (Politetrafluoroetileno), un material transpirable e impermeable con múltiples aplicaciones en el mercado. Una de dichas aplicaciones consiste en insertar dicha membrana en prendas de ciclismo y running, lo que confiere cualidades extras al tejido y mejora el rendimiento del deportista. Aprovechando esta línea de negocio, se ha creado un departamento internacional de atención al cliente compuesto por seis personas, mediante el cual se pretende dar servicio tanto a tiendas como al cliente final para la solicitud de pedidos y cambios. Una vez aprobado el proyecto en Barcelona, se encarga al Departamento de Telecomunicaciones de la empresa su puesta en marcha. Para ello, se parte de los medios de los que dispone la empresa, fundamentalmente un servidor de telefonía Avaya S8700 y un customer service de productos médicos en activo. En este contexto, se ha utilizado una tecnología IP para las conexiones lógicas de los teléfonos y la centralita de tecnología PSTN. De este modo, utilizaremos telefonía IP en el recorrido entre los teléfonos y la centralita, y pasaremos a modo analógico una vez se haya determinado la gestión de las llamadas, tanto internas como externas. La parte más importante del proyecto, una vez asegurada la conexión entre los dispositivos, es la programación de los grupos de llamada. En nuestro proyecto, aplicaremos unas determinadas secuencias de encaminamiento para derivar la llamada a la persona más indicada en cada caso. En este escenario, se considerará la procedencia de la llamada (entorno europeo) y la persona que ha de atenderla, que deberá tener un determinado nivel de conocimiento de la lengua de origen de la llamada. Para dotar al sistema de robustez, deberemos determinar un encaminamiento especial o backup para aquellos casos en que no haya personas disponibles para atender la llamada, la llamada se realice fuera de horario de oficina, haya que enviar mensajes de voz especiales, etc. Una vez completada la parte de instalación e implementación, y una vez terminada la programación del sistema, deberán efectuarse las pruebas correspondientes para depurar errores, así como los cambios propios del mantenimiento de las líneas. Igualmente, se han llevado a cabo otras operaciones secundarias como la configuración del sistema en cintas redundantes, la implementación de buzones de voz, la posibilidad de desviar las líneas locales a internacionales, COS y COR y otras opciones adicionales en vectores y skills

A feasibility study for the provision of electronic healthcare tools and services in areas of Greece, Cyprus and Italy

Background: Through this paper, we present the initial steps for the creation of an integrated platform for the provision of a series of eHealth tools and services to both citizens and travelers in isolated areas of thesoutheast Mediterranean, and on board ships travelling across it. The platform was created through an INTERREG IIIB ARCHIMED project called INTERMED. Methods: The support of primary healthcare, home care and the continuous education of physicians are the three major issues that the proposed platform is trying to facilitate. The proposed system is based on state-of-the-art telemedicine systems and is able to provide the following healthcare services: i) Telecollaboration and teleconsultation services between remotely located healthcare providers, ii) telemedicine services in emergencies, iii) home telecare services for "at risk" citizens such as the elderly and patients with chronic diseases, and iv) eLearning services for the continuous training through seminars of both healthcare personnel (physicians, nurses etc) and persons supporting "at risk" citizens. These systems support data transmission over simple phone lines, internet connections, integrated services digital network/digital subscriber lines, satellite links, mobile networks (GPRS/3G), and wireless local area networks. The data corresponds, among others, to voice, vital biosignals, still medical images, video, and data used by eLearning applications. The proposed platform comprises several systems, each supporting different services. These were integrated using a common data storage and exchange scheme in order to achieve system interoperability in terms of software, language and national characteristics. Results: The platform has been installed and evaluated in different rural and urban sites in Greece, Cyprus and Italy. The evaluation was mainly related to technical issues and user satisfaction. The selected sites are, among others, rural health centers, ambulances, homes of "at-risk" citizens, and a ferry. Conclusions: The results proved the functionality and utilization of the platform in various rural places in Greece, Cyprus and Italy. However, further actions are needed to enable the local healthcare systems and the different population groups to be familiarized with, and use in their everyday lives, mature technological solutions for the provision of healthcare services

ACUTA eNews April 1985, Vol. 14, No. 4

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