Tile-Ippokratis: The Experience of an Ehealth Platform for the Provision of Health Care Services in the Island of Chios and Cyprus

Tile-Ippokratis proposed an integrated platform for the provision of low-cost ehealth services to citizens in southeast Mediterranean area (Island of Chios and Cyprus). The aim of the paper is to present the architecture, the design, and the evaluation results of this platform. The platform based on already evaluated state-of-the-art mobile ehealth systems and using wireless and terrestrial telecommunication networks is able to provide the following health care services: (i) telecollaboration and teleconsultation services between health care personnel and between health care personnel and patients and (ii) ehealth services for “at risk” citizens such as elderly and patients with chronic diseases (Island of Chios) and postsurgery patients (Cyprus). The ehealth systems supported capabilities for vital signal measurements (ECG 1 lead, SPO2, HR, BP, weight, and temperature), an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) infrastructure, and video conference, along with communication gateways for data transmission over ADSL, GPRS, and WLAN networks

Design And Development Of A Secure Wireless System Using Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum [TK5103.2. A148 2007 f rb].

Dalam penyelidikan ini, satu sistem tanpa wayar automasi untuk menghantar data yang bersertakan kod PN secara automatik kepada pihak berkuasa berkenaan telah dibangunkan. In this research, an automated wireless system that sends the data accompanied with PN code automatically to the concerned authorities has been developed

Raspberry Based Medical Aid With Dispenser System Using IOT

In India, the number of deaths due to lack of medical facilities and proper access to healthcare is on the rise in India. Also, unavailability of doctors in tourist places is a hindrance to the tourism in our country. Only 27% of the total healthcare in India is accessible by the rural masses which occupies 75% of the total population. A lot of minor medical conditions like common cold, fever, acidity, vomiting (especially in hilly areas) are left unaddressed due to the lack of medicines especially at night. If though we need to check some of medical parameters like weight, blood pressure, body temperature, pulse rate we need to go quite long to the hospital, which is quite difficult in rural areas. This is where our product, comes to the rescue. Proposed system is aimed at providing immediate medical and pharmaceutical remote aid automatically via IOT. This product would definitely affect the people living in villages and remote regions who usually travel about 100km and spend around 70% - 80% of their income in travel for medical and healthcare facilities. We aim at creating an Automated Medical Aid by incorporating various sensors that can measure vital parameters of our body like blood pressure, weight, temperature, pulse rate etc. These parameters data would be analyzed with our data model and we would provide suggestion according. If needed the medicines are dispensed by the machine. The machine can also be used to Dispense First-Aid Kits, Napkins and certain scheduled drugs for emergency situation. Though there are various medicine vending machines around the world, proposed system would be a stand-alone device that provides remote medical assistance and dispense medicines at the same time

Streaming in-patient BPM data to the cloud with a real-time monitoring system

Monitoring the heart activities for old people or people with medical history (Arrhythmia or CHD) is targeted by most new medical technologies. This paper demonstrated an in-patient real-time monitoring system for heart rate estimation. A ratio of beats per minute (BPM) is continuously recorded, streamed and archived to the cloud via WeMos WiFi development board. This cost effective system is simply based on two sub-systems: BPM data acquisition through pulse sensor and WeMos-based communication systems. The streamed BPM data are saved instantaneously in Google drive as spreadsheets which can only be accessed by authorized persons wherever the internet service is available. Thus, the person in charge can remotely observe the patient’s status and do analytics for the archived data. A pilot study with eight subjects was carried out to validate the developed BPM tele-monitoring system. Encouraging results have been achieved

Making the Case for Leveraging the Patient-Centered E-Health (PCEH) Context to Expand Information Systems Theory

Patient-centered e-health (PCEH) represents a fascinating area of digitized stakeholder interactions characterized by complex information flows, shared decision making, co-created value, and mutual interest in improving health outcomes. Such a context lies in contrast to often contentious firm-consumer relationships characterized by self-interest, surplus maximization (from both producer and consumer sides), and consumer segmentation. This article suggests that PCEH is an ideal context in which to study the emerging class of information systems that include consumers as empowered influencers, stakeholders, and decision makers, rather than only “purchasers” on the other side of the exchange relationship or “mandated” users in the enterprise context. The PCEH context is proposed as an enormous research opportunity that may significantly contribute to expanding information systems research and theory

A systematic review of primary health care delivery models in rural and remote Australia 1993 - 2006

Rural health policies over the past decade have been driven by the need to reduce health inequalities between metropolitan and rural Australia. These policies have concentrated on addressing workforce issues, targeting the medical workforce in particular. Little policy attention has focused specifically on the systematic development of sustainable comprehensive Primary Health Care (PHC) service models appropriate to rural and remote Australia. There is a need to know what model works best where, and why.The research reported in this paper is a project of the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, which is supported by a grant from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing under the Primary Health Care Research, Evaluation and Development Strategy

Overview of international teledermatology

Teledermatology is essentially “dermatology at a distance”, using one of many communication technologies to expand the reach of a dermatologist to those in need of their specialized knowledge. Most international teledermatology is store-and-forward in nature, a method in which images are stored on a computer and then transmitted electronically to a consulting dermatologist. This system is more convenient and less costly than realtime teledermatology. This review will focus on several of the store-and-forward teledermatology systems being developed and utilized successfully internationally. This discussion of “who” is practicing teledermatology is not comprehensive, but attempts to show some of the breadth of teledermatology practice around the world, including government national health plans, commercial endeavors, and charitable work by individuals and institutions. The goal in many instances is to provide better health outcomes through increased access, efficiency, and/or costeffectiveness. More studies ultimately need to be conducted to develop a more comprehensive and sustainable model for teledermatology