IoMT and healthcare delivery in chronic diseases

2020 ◽  
pp. 239-258
Author(s):  
Yogesh Shelke
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Healthcare Delivery

A Reconfigurable Supporting Connected Health Environment for People With Chronic Diseases

2017 ◽  
pp. 1064-1085
Author(s):  
Abbes Amira ◽  
Naeem Ramzan ◽  
Christos Grecos ◽  
Qi Wang ◽  
Pablo Casaseca-de-la-Higuera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Data Interpretation ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Connected Health ◽  
The Face

Digital healthcare is becoming increasingly important as the ageing population and the number of people diagnosed with chronic diseases is increasing. The face of healthcare delivery has changed radically and at its core is a digital and customer revolution. Connected health is the convergence of medical devices, security devices, and communication technologies. It enables patients to be monitored and treated remotely from their home or primary care facility rather than attend outpatient clinics or be admitted to hospital. This chapter discusses the recent advances in connected health technologies and applications. The authors investigate a reconfigurable supporting connected health solution for people with chronic diseases using reconfigurable hardware and intelligent data interpretation and analysis. In addition, a thorough review of the existing information and communications technologies and challenges in the area of connected health including embedded medical devices, sensors, social networking, knowledge management, data fusion, and cloud computing is presented in this chapter. Finally, future directions and ongoing research in the area of connected health are presented.

scholarly journals A Systems Thinking Approach to Designing Clinical Models and Healthcare Services

Systems ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inas Khayal
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Healthcare Delivery System ◽  
Clinical Model ◽  
Organ Systems ◽  
Clinical Models ◽  
High Level

Chronic diseases are on the rise, increasing in number and treatment regimen complexity. Consequently, the needs of patients with chronic diseases are increasing and becoming more complex and multi-faceted. Such chronic conditions require addressing not only the physical body, but also psychosocial and spiritual health. The healthcare delivery system, however, organically organized into departments based on physical organ systems. Such a configuration makes it ill-suited to provide comprehensive multi-faceted healthcare services that span multiple departments and specialties (e.g., podiatry and endocrinology for diabetes; primary care and psychiatry for behavioral health; and palliative care physicians, chaplains, and social workers for end-of-life care). To deliver new services, the medical field typically designs new clinical models to base its new services on. Several challenges arise from typical approaches to designing healthcare services and clinical models, including addressing only single conditions, describing models only at a high-level of abstraction, and using primarily narrative documents called text-based toolkits for implementation. This paper presents and uses systems thinking as an alternative strategy to designing clinical system models and healthcare services to alleviate many of the current design challenges in designing integrated services for chronic conditions. An illustrative example taking a clinical model and describing it as a system model is presented.

A Reconfigurable Supporting Connected Health Environment for People with Chronic Diseases

2015 ◽  
pp. 332-352
Author(s):  
Abbes Amira ◽  
Naeem Ramzan ◽  
Christos Grecos ◽  
Qi Wang ◽  
Pablo Casaseca-de-la-Higuera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Data Interpretation ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Connected Health ◽  
The Face

Digital healthcare is becoming increasingly important as the ageing population and the number of people diagnosed with chronic diseases is increasing. The face of healthcare delivery has changed radically and at its core is a digital and customer revolution. Connected health is the convergence of medical devices, security devices, and communication technologies. It enables patients to be monitored and treated remotely from their home or primary care facility rather than attend outpatient clinics or be admitted to hospital. This chapter discusses the recent advances in connected health technologies and applications. The authors investigate a reconfigurable supporting connected health solution for people with chronic diseases using reconfigurable hardware and intelligent data interpretation and analysis. In addition, a thorough review of the existing information and communications technologies and challenges in the area of connected health including embedded medical devices, sensors, social networking, knowledge management, data fusion, and cloud computing is presented in this chapter. Finally, future directions and ongoing research in the area of connected health are presented.

A Reconfigurable Supporting Connected Health Environment for People With Chronic Diseases

2018 ◽  
pp. 1436-1457
Author(s):  
Abbes Amira ◽  
Naeem Ramzan ◽  
Christos Grecos ◽  
Qi Wang ◽  
Pablo Casaseca-de-la-Higuera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Data Interpretation ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Connected Health ◽  
The Face

Digital healthcare is becoming increasingly important as the ageing population and the number of people diagnosed with chronic diseases is increasing. The face of healthcare delivery has changed radically and at its core is a digital and customer revolution. Connected health is the convergence of medical devices, security devices, and communication technologies. It enables patients to be monitored and treated remotely from their home or primary care facility rather than attend outpatient clinics or be admitted to hospital. This chapter discusses the recent advances in connected health technologies and applications. The authors investigate a reconfigurable supporting connected health solution for people with chronic diseases using reconfigurable hardware and intelligent data interpretation and analysis. In addition, a thorough review of the existing information and communications technologies and challenges in the area of connected health including embedded medical devices, sensors, social networking, knowledge management, data fusion, and cloud computing is presented in this chapter. Finally, future directions and ongoing research in the area of connected health are presented.

scholarly journals Mobile Health in Remote Patient Monitoring for Chronic Diseases: Principles, Trends, and Challenges

Diagnostics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 607
Author(s):  
Nora El-Rashidy ◽  
Shaker El-Sappagh ◽  
S. M. Riazul Islam ◽  
Hazem M. El-Bakry ◽  
Samir Abdelrazek
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Patient Monitoring ◽  
Wireless Body Area Network ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Remote Patient Monitoring ◽  
Remote Patient ◽  
The Right ◽  
Meta Analyses

Chronic diseases are becoming more widespread. Treatment and monitoring of these diseases require going to hospitals frequently, which increases the burdens of hospitals and patients. Presently, advancements in wearable sensors and communication protocol contribute to enriching the healthcare system in a way that will reshape healthcare services shortly. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is the foremost of these advancements. RPM systems are based on the collection of patient vital signs extracted using invasive and noninvasive techniques, then sending them in real-time to physicians. These data may help physicians in taking the right decision at the right time. The main objective of this paper is to outline research directions on remote patient monitoring, explain the role of AI in building RPM systems, make an overview of the state of the art of RPM, its advantages, its challenges, and its probable future directions. For studying the literature, five databases have been chosen (i.e., science direct, IEEE-Explore, Springer, PubMed, and science.gov). We followed the (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) PRISMA, which is a standard methodology for systematic reviews and meta-analyses. A total of 56 articles are reviewed based on the combination of a set of selected search terms including RPM, data mining, clinical decision support system, electronic health record, cloud computing, internet of things, and wireless body area network. The result of this study approved the effectiveness of RPM in improving healthcare delivery, increase diagnosis speed, and reduce costs. To this end, we also present the chronic disease monitoring system as a case study to provide enhanced solutions for RPMs.

Mobile Virtual Communities in Healthcare The Chronic Disease Management Case

2010 ◽  
pp. 258-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christo El Morr
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Disease Management ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Healthcare Cost ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Cost

The number of citizens with chronic diseases is increasing and is expected to grow more in the next few decades; consequently, the cost of healthcare delivery will increase, and it becomes vital for societies to investigate ways to decrease healthcare cost. On the other hand, mobile technologies are becoming widespread; besides, virtual communities (VCs) are evolving and are taking advantage of users’ mobility. This chapter explores the ways in which mobility within virtual communities can play an important role in facing the current and future healthcare challenges, suggests that mobile VCs (MVCs) can help patients with chronic disease to self-manage their health, shows the many advantages of this approach, particularly in terms of enhanced healthcare delivery and reduced healthcare cost, and discusses the challenges that this approach faces.

scholarly journals Telehealth care enhancement using the internet of things technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 2652-2660
Author(s):  
Farouk Boumehrez ◽  
A. Hakim Sahour ◽  
Noureddine Doghmane
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Direct Interaction ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Biomedical Sensors ◽  
Remote Healthcare ◽  
Internet Of Things Technology

Chronic diseases quickly become broader public health issues because of the difficulty in obtaining appropriate, often long-term health care. So that, it requires the extension of health care for patients with chronic diseases beyond the clinic to include patient’s home and work environment. To reduce costs and provide more appropriate healthcare, we need telehealth care where internet of things (IoT) technology plays an important role. The integration of the IoT and medical science offers opportunities to improve healthcare quality, and efficiency and to better coordinate healthcare delivery at home and in the workplace. In this paper, we present the realization of a remote healthcare system based on the IoT technology. The function of this system is the transmission via a gateway of internet collected data using biomedical sensors node based Arduino board (e.g., temperature, electrical activity of the heart, heart rate monitor). These data will be stored automatically in a cloud. The health can then be monitored by the doctor or patient using a web page in real-time from anywhere at any time in the world using laptops or smart phones, etc. This method also reduces the need for direct interaction between doctor and patient.

Audiology Service Models in a Family Physician Practice Setting

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sridhar Krishnamurti
Keyword(s):  
Pediatric Patients ◽  
Practice Patterns ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Practice Setting ◽  
Pediatric Populations ◽  
Family Practice Physicians ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Balance Problems

This article illustrates the potential of placing audiology services in a family physician’s practice setting to increase referrals of geriatric and pediatric patients to audiologists. The primary focus of family practice physicians is the diagnosis/intervention of critical systemic disorders (e.g., cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer). Hence concurrent hearing/balance disorders are likely to be overshadowed in such patients. If audiologists get referrals from these physicians and have direct access to diagnose and manage concurrent hearing/balance problems in these patients, successful audiology practice patterns will emerge, and there will be increased visibility and profitability of audiological services. As a direct consequence, audiological services will move into the mainstream of healthcare delivery, and the profession of audiology will move further towards its goals of early detection and intervention for hearing and balance problems in geriatric and pediatric populations.

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