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• Association of Telemedicine for Remote Monitoring of Intensive Care Patients With Mortality, Complications, and Length of Stay

  
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  Context Telemedicine technology, which can enable intensivists to simultaneously monitor several intensive care units (ICUs) from an off-site location, is increasingly common, but there is little evidence to support its use. Objective To assess the association of remote monitoring of ICU patients (ICU ...
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• Real-Time Multimedia Applications in a Web-Based Robotic Telecare System

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  In this paper, real-time multimedia applications are integrated into a Web-based robotic telecare system. Using Java media framework (JMF), a video/audio conference system is developed to improve the interaction among caregivers, and switches remote robot manipulating privilege with the help of a centralized ...
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• Design Issues of a Semi-Autonomous Robotic Assistant for the Health Care Environment

  
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  This paper discusses design issues of a mobile robotic assistant for health or home care applications with the objective of relieving hospital personnel or domestic users of time-consuming routine tasks. These tasks are delegated to the robot via natural language and in turn autonomously executed. With respect to the ...
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• Semi-autonomous Navigation of a Robotic Wheelchair

  
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  The present work considers the development of a wheelchair for people with special needs, which is capable of navigating semi-autonomously within its workspace. This system is expected to prove useful to people with impaired mobility and limited fine motor control of the upper extremities. Among the implemented ...
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• A Wheelchair Steered through Voice Commands and Assisted by a Reactive Fuzzy-Logic Controller

  
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  This paper describes new results with a Reactive Shared-Control system that enables a semi-autonomous navigation of a wheelchair in unknown and dynamic environments. The purpose of the reactive shared controller is to assist wheelchair users providing an easier and safer navigation. It is designed as a fuzzy-logic ...
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• Wheelchair Guidance Strategies Using EOG

  
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  This paper describes an eye-control method, based on electrooculography (EOG), for guiding and controlling a wheelchair for disabled people; the control is actually effected by eye movements within the socket. An eye model based on an electrooculographic signal is proposed and its validity is studied. Different ...
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• Mobile Robot Command by Man–Machine Co-Operation – Application to Disabled and Elderly People Assistance

  
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  Disabled people assistance is developing thanks to progress of new technologies. A manipulator arm mounted on a mobile robot can assist a disabled person for a partial restoration of the manipulative function. A user pilots the robot via a control station, using enhanced reality techniques. To be affordable such a ...
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• An Overview of the Development of Handy 1, a Rehabilitation Robot to Assist the Severely Disabled

  
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  The Handy 1 was developed in 1987 by Mike Topping to assist an 11 year old boy with cerebral palsy to eat unaided. The system is the most successful low-cost, commercially available robotic system in the world today [10] capable of assisting the most severely disabled with several everyday functions such as eating, ...
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• Are Electronic Medical Records Helpful for Care Coordination? Experiences of Physician Practices

  
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  BACKGROUND : Policies promoting widespread adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) are premised on the hope that they can improve the coordination of care. Yet little is known about whether and how physician practices use current EMRs to facilitate coordination. OBJECTIVES : We examine whether and how ...
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• The value teleradiology represents for Europe: A study of lessons learned in the U.S

  
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  Pathology and demography have combined to fuel exponential demand for advanced medical imaging. To support this demand, radiology must move beyond traditional department or modality-based picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) to solutions that ensure access regardless of location. This article delineates ...
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• Creation and evaluation of EMR-based paper clinical summaries to support HIV-care in Uganda, Africa

  
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  Purpose Getting the right information to providers can improve quality of care. We set out to provide patient-specific Electronic Medical Record (EMR)-based clinical summaries for providers taking care of HIV-positive adult patients in the resource-limited setting of Mbarara, Uganda. Methods We evaluated the ...
  5 days ago

• Supporting Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses through Information Technologies

  
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  Purpose : To evaluate the usability of mobile information terminals, such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) or Tablet personal computers, to improve access to information resources for nurses and to explore the relationship between PDA or Tablet-supported information resources and outcomes. Background : The ...
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• Attitudes and behaviors related to the introduction of electronic health records among Austrian and German citizens

  
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  Background Acceptance by citizens seems to be crucial for the future success of an electronic health record (EHR) in Germany and Austria. We analyzed citizens’ knowledge and expectations about the concept and contents of an EHR. We also addressed possible fears and barriers, and we investigated desired EHR ...
  1 week ago

• The use of mobile phones as a data collection tool: A report from a household survey in South Africa

  
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  Background To investigate the feasibility, the ease of implementation, and the extent to which community health workers with little experience of data collection could be trained and successfully supervised to collect data using mobile phones in a large baseline survey. Methods A web-based system was developed to ...
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• Next Generation Syndromic Surveillance: Molecular Epidemiology, Electronic Health Records and the Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) Virus

  
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  In the early phase of the 2009 A (H1N1) pandemic a marked increase in severity and a shift in the age distribution toward younger persons was found, with higher severity reported in patients with pre-existing medical conditions and pregnant women. Consistent with previous pandemics, the age and clinical history of the ...
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• Web Usage Data as a Means of Evaluating Public Health Messaging and Outreach

  
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  Background :  The Internet is increasingly utilized by researchers, health care providers, and the public to seek medical information. The Internet also provides a powerful tool for public health messaging. Understanding the needs of the intended audience and how they use websites is critical for website developers ...
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• The state of the art in clinical knowledge management: An inventory of tools and techniques

  
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  Purpose To explore the need for, and use of, high-quality, collaborative, clinical knowledge management (CKM) tools and techniques to manage clinical decision support (CDS) content. Methods In order to better understand the current state of the art in CKM, we developed a survey of potential CKM tools and ...
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• The quality of home care nurses’ documentation in new electronic patient records

  
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  Aims . The present study explores how community nurses addressed patient care in the EPR and the comprehensiveness of their documentation. Background . The need for comprehensive nursing documentation in home health care is considerable and quality is regarded as a prerequisite for continuity of care. Documentation ...
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• Meaningful use of pharmacogenomics in health records: semantics should be made explicit

  
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  The recent emphasis on ‘meaningful use’ of electronic health records in health information technology reforms (e.g., as in the US stimulus package) can leverage the pharmacogenomics field. In order for clinical trials outcomes, based on pharmacogenomics research, to be meaningfully and effectively used in clinical ...
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• Attitudes of nursing staff towards electronic patient records: A questionnaire survey

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 153
  Background A growing number of health care organizations are implementing a system of electronic patient records (EPR). This implies a change in work routines for nursing staff, but it could also be regarded as an opportunity to improve the quality of care. Objective The objective of this paper is to obtain more ...
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