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Home healthcare is a rapidly growing area of the health sector in the United States. We study its role in the shift toward value-based care, as it is viewed as an avenue for achieving reductions in the cost and utilization of expensive downstream ...

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disease that affects many people around the world, the number of which is increasing along with population aging. Therefore, it is important to be able to measure the severity of symptoms easily. Tremors are ...

Mime is a tablet-based augmented reality system which guides new chemotherapy patients through testing their blood at home. Starting from the socio-economic push towards home healthcare, we use blood analysis as a case study to illustrate the user ...

Current demographic and health trends mean it is becoming imperative to rethink healthcare provision worldwide. This paper introduces SPHERE, a large-scale Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration that aims to make a contribution to addressing this ...

Crucial advancements in science education and information technology provide promising resources that require many academic disciplines to work together. Innovations of Information Systems (IS) and Technology (IT) offer major potential to improve ...

YU is an artistic home healthcare system including measuring, visualizing and displaying personal bio-data as well as biofeedback. It integrates with the home setting and aims for bringing aesthetic experience. Through the system YU, we explore ...

Our ultimate goal is to develop autonomous mobile home healthcare robots which closely monitor and evaluate the patients' motor function, and their at-home training therapy process, providing automatically calling for medical personnel in emergency ...

Information technology can improve the quality, efficiency, and cost of healthcare. In this survey, we examine the privacy requirements of mobile computing technologies that have the potential to transform healthcare. Such mHealth technology enables ...

Our ultimate goal is to develop autonomous mobile home healthcare robots which closely monitor and evaluate the patients' motor function, and their at-home training therapy process, providing automatically calling for medical personnel in emergency ...

This paper presents an interactive home-based adaptive mixed reality system (HAMRR) for upper extremity stroke rehabilitation. This home-based system is an extension of a previously designed and currently implemented clinical system. The goal of HAMRR ...

Establishing trust in systems is a difficult problem to tackle. In the Cloud, establishing trust is even more complicated considering its dynamic nature and distributed resources. One of the Cloud's potential feature is providing transparent management ...

With the aging population, mobility is an important issue and thus restricts the elderlies to visit health clinics on a regular basis. Also, people living in remote areas often do not get the needed health care unless they are willing to travel. ...

Cloud computing is an emerging technology that is expected to support Internet scale critical applications which could be essential to the healthcare sector. Its scalability, resilience, adaptability, connectivity, cost reduction, and high performance ...

In door, in electromagnetic wave environments, electromagnetic compatibility and analyzing human physical symptoms in using electromagnetic devices were evaluated with sticking detector type's home healthcare ECG equipment among healthcare products. ...

This paper presents a guideline-driven healthcare service platform for smart homes. The clinical guidelines are usually established by medical experts according to the symptoms of diseases. Based on the biological and ambient information detected by ...

Home telecare systems are improving the current level of quality in healthcare services. This paper describes an eHealth system designed to support people living in their homes. The approach introduces a flexible system architecture that is running on a ...

We present the current status and the interim results of our e-Care / e-Care Mobile project, which aims at better integration of home healthcare with institutional health-care (hospitals, nursing homes) through mobile devices. We develop a software ...

We describe a map-based location-based service 'GeoHealth' for home healthcare workers who attend patients at home within a large geographical area. Informed by field studies of work activities and interviews with care providers, we have designed a ...

In this paper, we consider the challenge of preserving patient privacy in the context of mobile healthcare and home-care systems, that is, the use of mobile computing and communications technologies in the delivery of healthcare or the provision of at-...

The increasing trends in the occurrence of chronic diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension, and an aging population present serious near-term problems in providing suitable healthcare within the existing medical structure. Further, ill and elderly ...