JENTIL: responsive clothing that promotes an ‘holistic approach to fashion as a new vehicle to treat psychological conditions’

This paper explores an ongoing interdisciplinary research project at the cutting edge of sensory, aroma and medical work, which seeks to change the experience of fragrance to a more intimate communication of identity, by employing emerging technologies with the ancient art of perfumery. The project illustrates .holistic' clothing called the JENTIL® Collection, following on from the Author’s SmartSecondSkin' PhD research, which describes a new movement in functional, emotional clothing that incorporates scent. The project investigates the emergent interface between the arts and biomedical sciences, around new emerging technologies and science platforms, and their applications in the domain of health and well-being. The JENTIL® Collection focuses on the development of .gentle., responsive clothing that changes with emotion, since the garments are designed for psychological end benefit to reduce stress. This is achieved by studying the mind and advancing knowledge and understanding of how known well-being fragrances embedded in holistic Fashion, could impact on mental health. This paper aims to combine applied theories about human well-being, with multisensory design, in order to create experimental strategies to improve self and social confidence for individuals suffering from depressive illnesses. The range of methodologies employed extends beyond the realm of fashion and textile techniques, to areas such as neuroscience, psychiatry, human sensory systems and affective states, and the increase in popularity of complementary therapies. In this paper the known affective potential of the sense of smell is discussed, by introducing Aroma-Chology as a tool that is worn as an emotional support system to create a personal scent bubble. around the body, with the capacity to regulate mood, physiological and psychological state and improve self-confidence in social situations. The clothing formulates a healing platform around the wearer, by creating novel olfactory experiences in textiles that are not as passive as current microencapsulated capsule systems generally are

Closed loop medication administration using mobile nursing information system

Through this long journey of PhD study including a research on ‘Closed Loop Medication Administration Using Mobile Nursing Information System’ and the thesis writing, I obtained a lot of knowledge and experience about research method and writing. I really very appreciate the help of all my supervisors

The Application of Augmented Reality Technology for the Anesthesiology Major

Anesthesiology is an important subject for in-depth research in the fields of clinical anesthesia, critical care medicine, first-aid and resuscitation, and pain treatment. As an important branch of clinical medicine, it has strong practicality and applicability. It has the commonality of clinical medicine and the specialty of anesthesiology. Carrying out anesthesiology practice teaching using augmented reality (AR) to simulate the experimental environment and scene simulation is of great significance to promoting the development of anesthesia practice teaching. This article mainly introduces the augmented reality technology. It not only analyzes the main forms of augmented reality technology in anesthesiology, but also explores the application of augmented reality technology for anesthesiology in the new era

Improvement of outpatient service processes based on BRP theory and information technology: a case study of the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital

JEL Classification: M15 – IT Management, I12 – Health ProductionCurrently, due to some irrational allocation of medical and healthcare resources, a considerable proportion of state-of-the-art medical equipment and talented medical personnel are concentrated in large urban hospitals. This situation is particularly common in 3A hospitals (3A hospitals are hospitals which are equipped with more than 501 beds, can provide medical and healthcare services with high-level specialty to various regions and with scores higher than 900 according to the grading standard), which are often crowded with patients. According to the normal outpatient process, patients need to undergo a prolonged procedure from registration, treatment, laboratory test, diagnosis to drug dispensing. Often patients have to spend a long time waiting for treatment, receiving tests and paying for medical care. The congestion of patients at certain time-consuming processes allows doctors little time to check and treat patients thoroughly. As a result, doctors are often unable to make accurate and comprehensive diagnosis. Considered the window of a hospital, outpatient service is extremely important. Whether the design of its process is reasonable and whether its management is able to maximize interests for patients will directly affect the hospital’s medical level, and even its social benefits and reputation. Therefore, it has become a major issue for a hospital achieves to optimize the business process of its outpatient service. Outpatient process, as a core business process of a hospital, is critical to improving the quality of its medical service, upgrading its performance and minimizing its operating costs. Therefore, re-designing the outpatient process of a hospital can help enhance its comprehensive strength by endowing it with a core competence. In addition, the hospital will be impelled to provide patients with more convenient medical services with higher quality and lower price. This work conducts a case study on The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital (HKU-SZH), which was the first to implement an outpatient appointment registration system. This thesis gives an anatomy of the outpatient process of the hospital through various methods and theories, such as literature review, field research, expert consultation, Business Process Reengineering Theory and Information technology, aiming to identify objectives and strategies of the case hospital in improving its outpatient process. The study consists of: - An investigation into the current situation of HKU-SZH’s outpatient registration process: through questionnaires and structured interviews, the defects and weak links in the hospital’s appointment registration model were analyzed. A structural equation model for existing outpatient processes was established and the influence of different variables on patients’ satisfaction level as well as the correlation between these variables was analyzed by means of a simulation model. - Research on outpatient process reengineering: with the needs and satisfaction of patients as a goal, this thesis reexamines the strategic goals and internal and external environment of HKU-SZH on the basis of Business Process Reengineering Theory, Queuing Theory, Six Sigma Theory and Information technology. This thesis improves HKU-SZH’s registration process, using methods of order modification, integration, simplification and automation and materializes the process by network technology and outpatient information system. - An empirical study on outpatient process: this thesis conducts a systemic and empirical analysis in a functional integration of registration and payment, process reengineering research through information technology (development of new functions of appointment system) and an empirical study on queuing theory. - Research on local adaptation of outpatient process: this thesis explores solutions and suggestions for HKU-SZH with the objective of optimize its outpatient process through the perspectives of hospital organizational structure, information technology, human resources, building of outpatient culture and optimization of waiting cost. By means of outpatient process reengineering, this thesis aim to increase the case hospital’s efficiency and raise its patients’ satisfaction so that the hospital may enhance its comprehensive competence. In addition, an effective and operable methodology will be generated, which is expected to serve as a reference for other hospitals to improve their operation and their management.Atualmente, devido a alguma atribuição irracional dos recursos médicos e de saúde, uma proporção considerável de modernos equipamentos médicos e pessoal médico talentoso estão concentrados em grandes hospitais urbanos. Esta situação é particularmente comum em hospitais 3A (hospitais 3A são os hospitais que estão equipados com mais de 501 camas, e que podem fornecer serviços médicos e de saúde com alto nível de especialidade para diversas regiões e com pontuações superiores a 900 de acordo com o padrão de classificação), que são frequentemente sobrelotados com pacientes. De acordo com o processo ambulatório normal, os pacientes precisam passar por um procedimento prolongado desde o registo, tratamento, análise laboratorial, diagnóstico, até à distribuição de medicamentos. Muitas vezes os pacientes têm de passar um longo tempo de espera para tratamento, para receber testes e para pagar por cuidados médicos. O congestionamento de pacientes em determinados processos demorados, leva a que os médicos tenham pouco tempo para verificar e tratar os pacientes completamente. Como resultado, os médicos são muitas vezes incapazes de fazer um diagnóstico preciso e abrangente. Considerado a montra de um hospital, o serviço ambulatório é extremamente importante. Se o desenho do seu processo é razoável e se a sua gestão é capaz de maximizar os interesses dos pacientes, irá afetar diretamente o nível médico do hospital, e até mesmo os seus benefícios sociais e reputação. Portanto, tornou-se um importante problema para um hospital conseguir otimizar o processo do seu serviço ambulatório. O processo ambulatório, como um processo de negócio nuclear de um hospital, é fundamental para melhorar a qualidade do seu serviço médico, aumentar o seu desempenho e minimizar seus custos operacionais. Portanto, reprojetar o processo ambulatório de um hospital pode ajudar a aumentar a sua força global dotando-o de uma competência essencial. Além disso, o hospital será impelido a oferecer aos pacientes serviços médicos mais convenientes com maior qualidade e menor preço. Este trabalho apresenta um estudo de caso sobre o Hospital da Universidade de Hong Kong-Shenzhen (HKU-SZH), que foi o primeiro a implementar um sistema de registo de consulta externa. Esta tese apresenta uma análise do processo ambulatório do hospital através de vários métodos e teorias, como a revisão de literatura, pesquisa de campo, consultas a especialistas, teoria da reengenharia de processos e tecnologias da informação, com o objetivo de identificar os objetivos e estratégias do hospital na melhoria do seu serviço ambulatório. O estudo consiste em: - Investigação sobre a situação atual do processo de registo ambulatório de HKU-SZH. Através de questionários e entrevistas estruturadas, foram analisados os defeitos e pontos fracos no modelo de registro de consultas do hospital. Um modelo de equações estruturais para os processos ambulatórios existentes foi estabelecido, e a influência de diferentes variáveis sobre o nível de satisfação dos pacientes, bem como a correlação entre essas variáveis foi analisada por meio de um modelo de simulação. - Investigação sobre a reengenharia do processo ambulatório. Tendo as necessidades e satisfação dos pacientes como objetivo, esta tese reexamina as metas estratégicas e o ambiente interno e externo de HKU-SZH com base na Teoria da Reengenharia de Processos, Teoria das Filas, Teoria Six Sigmae Tecnologias da Informação. Esta tese melhora o processo de registro de HKU-SZH, usando métodos de modificação, integração, simplificação e automação e materializa o processo através de tecnologias de rede e um sistema de informação para o processo ambulatório. - Estudo empírico sobre o processo ambulatório. Esta tese conduz uma análise sistémica e empírica sobre a integração funcional de inscrições e pagamentos, a pesquisa de reengenharia de processos através de tecnologias da informação (desenvolvimento de novas funções do sistema de consultas) e um estudo empírico sobre a teoria das filas. - Investigação sobre a adaptação local do processo ambulatório. Esta tese explora soluções e sugestões para o HKU-SZH para otimizar seu processo ambulatório através das perspetivas de estrutura hospitalar organizacional, tecnologias da informação, recursos humanos, construção da cultura do ambulatório e otimização do custo de espera. Por meio do processo de reengenharia do serviço de ambulatório, esta tese visa aumentar a eficiência do processo de internamento e aumentar a satisfação dos seus pacientes para que o hospital possa aumentar a sua capacidade global. Além disso, foi gerada uma metodologia eficiente e operacionalizavel, a qual se espera possa servir como referência para outros hospitais, para melhorar o seu funcionamento e a sua gestão

Digital Health Care in Taiwan

This open access book introduces the National Health Insurance (NHI) system of Taiwan with a particular emphasis on its application of digital technology to improve healthcare access and quality. The authors explicate how Taiwan integrates its strong Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry with 5G to construct an information system that facilitates medical information exchange, collects data for planning and research, refines medical claims review procedures and even assists in fighting COVID-19. Taiwan's NHI, launched in 1995, is a single-payer system funded primarily through payroll-based premiums. It covers all citizens and foreign residents with the same comprehensive benefits without the long waiting times seen in other single-payer systems. Though premium rate adjustment and various reforms were carried out in 2010, the NHI finds itself at a crossroads over its financial stability. With the advancement of technologies and an aging population, it faces challenges of expanding coverage to newly developed treatments and diagnosis methods and applying the latest innovations to deliver telemedicine and more patient-centered services. The NHI, like the national health systems of other countries, also needs to address the privacy concerns of the personal health data it collects and the issues regarding opening this data for research or commercial use. In this book, the 12 chapters cover the history, characteristics, current status, innovations and future reform plans of the NHI in the digital era. Topics explored include: Income Strategy Payment Structure Pursuing Health Equity Infrastructure of the Medical Information System Innovative Applications of the Medical Information Applications of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Digital Health Care in Taiwan is essential reading for academic researchers and students in healthcare administration, health policy, health systems research, and health services delivery, as well as policymakers and public officials in relevant government departments. It also would appeal to academics, practitioners, and other professionals in public health, health sciences, social welfare, and health and biotechnology law

高齢者の健康管理におけるウェアラブルデバイスと中国伝統医学の役割

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Glimpses of the future : Data policy, artificial intelligence and robotisation as enablers of wellbeing and economic success in Finland

Our society is moving into the 2020s in a situation where we are making more efficient use of services enabled by new technology to develop new services and business models in society and in business life. The 2020s is predicted to be a decade characterised by the clear breakthrough of artificial intelligence and robotisation in the same way as social media, cloud computing, smart phones, location and time independent working and digital services did in the 2010s. Finland has performed extremely well in international statistics in several fields of society. Finland's stability and security combined with high technology utilisation rate and education level provides an excellent platform for the creation and development of digital business. At the core of this development are citizens, businesses and data. The development of data policy and data management in a way that takes the different life situations of citizens into account is a unique innovation by global standards, and one which we believe will be a significant contributor to Finland’s success in the 2020s. In this big picture, trust plays a key role. This is a major issue that emerges in the context of the personal data processing of private citizens and customers, new business model and service development, making society more resilient, and in national and international cooperation. Trust requires continues development work in different sectors, paying due attention to the threats and risks affecting the digital environment. Here, digital security serves as the enabler of trust and of services made possible by new technology

Digital Health Care in Taiwan

This open access book introduces the National Health Insurance (NHI) system of Taiwan with a particular emphasis on its application of digital technology to improve healthcare access and quality. The authors explicate how Taiwan integrates its strong Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry with 5G to construct an information system that facilitates medical information exchange, collects data for planning and research, refines medical claims review procedures and even assists in fighting COVID-19. Taiwan's NHI, launched in 1995, is a single-payer system funded primarily through payroll-based premiums. It covers all citizens and foreign residents with the same comprehensive benefits without the long waiting times seen in other single-payer systems. Though premium rate adjustment and various reforms were carried out in 2010, the NHI finds itself at a crossroads over its financial stability. With the advancement of technologies and an aging population, it faces challenges of expanding coverage to newly developed treatments and diagnosis methods and applying the latest innovations to deliver telemedicine and more patient-centered services. The NHI, like the national health systems of other countries, also needs to address the privacy concerns of the personal health data it collects and the issues regarding opening this data for research or commercial use. In this book, the 12 chapters cover the history, characteristics, current status, innovations and future reform plans of the NHI in the digital era. Topics explored include: Income Strategy Payment Structure Pursuing Health Equity Infrastructure of the Medical Information System Innovative Applications of the Medical Information Applications of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Digital Health Care in Taiwan is essential reading for academic researchers and students in healthcare administration, health policy, health systems research, and health services delivery, as well as policymakers and public officials in relevant government departments. It also would appeal to academics, practitioners, and other professionals in public health, health sciences, social welfare, and health and biotechnology law

Medicines Reuse

This reprint examines the concept of medicines reuse, the idea that unused medication returned by one patient can be re-dispensed for use by another. Ten papers written by over 20 authors examine a range of issues related to medicines reuse including the circular economy of the pharmaceutical supply chain; the prevalence of unused medicines or medication waste within patients' homes; people's views about the causes of medication waste and the potential for medicines reuse; what might influence people to reuse medicines in the future; how sensing technologies might facilitate medicines reuse; and the effect of including sensing technologies on people's willingness to consider medicines reuse