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- research-articleSeptember 2012
Wellness interventions and HCI: theory, practice, and technology
In recent years, we have seen an explosion of wellness interventions and technology applications focused on human's wellness with the intention of helping people avoid needing medical care. Given the increasing emergence of wellness applications, there ...
- research-articleSeptember 2012
Trends in computer-based medical systems
The 25th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, held June 20--22, 2012 in Rome, Italy, has been a forum for discussing the latest developments in the field of computational medicine, biomedical informatics, and related ...
- research-articleSeptember 2012
ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium report
This report summarizes the events and activities of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2012), which was held in Miami, Florida, January 28-30, 2012. IHI 2012 is the flagship conference of ACM SIGHIT concerned with the ...
- research-articleSeptember 2012
Research challenges in measuring data for population health to enable predictive modeling for improving healthcare
- Bruce Schatz,
- Clay Marsh,
- David Gustafson,
- Kevin Patrick,
- Jerry Krishnan,
- Santosh Kumar,
- Noshir Contractor
At the core of the healthcare crisis is a fundamental lack of actionable data, needed to stratify individuals within populations, to predict which persons have which outcomes. A new health system with better health management will require better health ...
- research-articleSeptember 2012
Towards the integration of near-patient collection of information for the delivery of healthcare services
This paper discusses the role that information, particularly information collected and used near to the patient, can play in the delivery of healthcare services. We define what we mean by "near the patient" and review many of the ways in which ...
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- research-articleSeptember 2012
Process-oriented application systems for mobile services: empirical analysis of healthcare professionals' intention
A growing number of rescue operations as well as people in need of care cause an increase in ambulant healthcare services. At the same time, the dedicated service providers have to cope with budgets and a decreasing number of qualified personnel. ...
- research-articleSeptember 2012
The IS-BioBank project: a framework for biological data normalization, interoperability, and mining for cancer microenvironment analysis
- Michelangelo Ceci,
- Pietro Hiram Guzzi,
- Elio Masciari,
- Mauro Coluccia,
- Federica Mandreoli,
- Massimo Mecella,
- Fabio Fumarola,
- Riccardo Martoglia,
- Wilma Penzo
Advances of high throughput technologies have yielded the possibility to investigate human cells of healthy and morbid ones at different levels. Consequently, this has made possible the discovery of new biological and biomedical data and the ...
- research-articleSeptember 2012
Privacy perception and fall detection accuracy for in-home video assistive monitoring with privacy enhancements
Video of in-home activity provides valuable information for assistive monitoring but raises privacy concerns. Raw video can be privacy-enhanced by obscuring the appearance of a person. We consider five privacy enhancements: blur, silhouette, oval, box, ...
- research-articleMarch 2012
2011 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare: understanding the physician perspective
This paper presents a review and summary of the 2011 Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC 2011). This was the second annual VAHC workshop and it was held in late October in conjunction with the IEEE VisWeek Conference. The primary goal of ...
- research-articleMarch 2012
Addressing extensibility requirements for health informatics data
The electronic health record (EHR) is a key artifact that threads the workflow from medical encounters to resolution (treatments and claims disposition) - it aims to provide a longitudinal view into a patient's interaction with care providers within an ...
- research-articleMarch 2012
Connection between traditional medicine and disease
In Japanese traditional medicine, "Monshin" plays an important role. "Monshin" is a questionnaire that asked the patient's lifestyle and subjective symptoms. Specialists decide traditional herbal medicine by using of "Monshin". In this research, we ...
- research-articleMarch 2012
A new paradigm for the development of future medical software systems
In many areas of human life, computer-based Information Technology (IT) has prevailed and become essential for the coordinated and efficient organization of workflows. Especially in the field of health care, interaction between human beings and IT is a ...
- research-articleMarch 2012
On the choice of centralized vs decentralized systems for EPR in hospitals
We consider the problem of information management standardization in health structures and the problem of implementing and using automatic systems for information management. Although national and European directives have been defined, the Health Care ...
- research-articleMarch 2012
Knowledge discovery system for automated quality abstraction
To encourage the delivery of high quality care with an additional emphasis on the transparency of hospital results and reporting, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Joint Commission require each hospital to submit certain ...
- research-articleMarch 2012
Statistical analysis of PET images
In recent decades, neuroimaging techniques have become relevant and essential supports to the diagnosis and therapy of neurological diseases. Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a method of functional investigation that measures brain metabolism and ...
- research-articleMarch 2012
Supporting a healthy lifestyle by re-using personal online data
Using technology to support users in healthy living undoubtedly has a high potential. With the availability of low-cost consumer medical devices, these technologies now more and more become part of a digital lifestyle. We present a system which ...
- research-articleMarch 2012
Migration of a pre-hospital cardiology emergency system from data model to multilevel modeling
This paper presents the migration of a prehospital cardiology emergency system from a data model to multilevel modeling. The clinical concepts of data model-based system were identified and modeled according to the Multilevel Healthcare Information ...
- research-articleMarch 2012
Situation role-based privacy control using dynamic credentials for emergency health services
Emerging Health Information Technologies (HIT) such as Electronic Health Record (EHR) and PHR systems and Heath Information Exchanges (HIEs) facilitate access to and sharing of patients' medical data distributed in different HIT systems. One of the many ...
- research-articleSeptember 2011
Pervasive computing technologies for healthcare
The conference series on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare is one of the leading fora for research dissemination in this space. In May 2011, the most recent event took place in Ireland. A brief overview of the conference is now presented.