Real-Time Cardiac Arrhythmias Monitoring for Pervasive Health Care

2011 ◽  
pp. 61-94
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Cardiac Arrhythmias ◽  
Pervasive Health

45. Education at distance: Broadcasting ECG rounds to Southeastern Ontario (BESO Project). An innovative approach for teaching electrocardiography

2007 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Baranchuk ◽  
G. Dagnone ◽  
P. Fowler ◽  
M. N. Harrison ◽  
L. Lisnevskaia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Digital Signal ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Medicine Clerkship ◽  
Time Problem ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Ecg Interpretation

Electrocardiography (ECG) interpretation is an essential skill for physicians as well as for many other health care professionals. Continuing education is necessary to maintain these skills. The process of teaching and learning ECG interpretation is complex and involves both deductive mechanisms and recognition of patterns for different clinical situations (“pattern recognition”). The successful methodologies of interactive sessions and real time problem based learning have never been evaluated with a long distance education model. To evaluate the efficacy of broadcasting ECG rounds to different hospitals in the Southeastern Ontario region; to perform qualitative research to determine the impact of this methodology in developing and maintaining skills in ECG interpretation. ECG rounds are held weekly at Kingston General Hospital and will be transmitted live to Napanee, Belleville, Oshawa, Peterborough and Brockville. The teaching methodology is based on real ECG cases. The audience is invited to analyze the ECG case and the coordinator will introduce comments to guide the case through the proper algorithm. Final interpretation will be achieved emphasizing the deductive process and the relevance of each case. An evaluation will be filled out by each participant at the end of each session. Videoconferencing works through a vast array of internet LANs, WANs, ISDN phone lines, routers, switches, firewalls and Codecs (Coder/Decoder) and bridges. A videoconference Codec takes the analog audio and video signal codes and compresses it into a digital signal and transmits that digital signal to another Codec where the signal is decompressed and retranslated back into analog video and audio. This compression and decompression allows large amounts of data to be transferred across a network at close to real time (384 kbps with 30 frames of video per second). Videoconferencing communication works on voice activation so whichever site is speaking has the floor and is seen by all the participating sites. A continuous presence mode allows each site to have the same visual and audio involvement as the host site. A bridged multipoint can connect between 8 and 12 sites simultaneously. This innovative methodology for teaching ECG will facilitate access to developing and maintaining skills in ECG interpretation for a large number of health care providers. Bertsch TF, Callas PW, Rubin A. Effectiveness of lectures attended via interactive video conferencing versus in-person in preparing third-year internal medicine clerkship students for clinical practice examinations. Teach Learn Med 2007; 19(1):4-8. Yellowlees PM, Hogarth M, Hilty DM. The importance of distributed broadband networks to academic biomedical research and education programs. Acad Psychaitry 2006;30:451-455

scholarly journals Systematic Review on Human Skin-Compatible Wearable Photoplethysmography Sensors

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 2313
Author(s):  
Inho Lee ◽  
Nakkyun Park ◽  
Hanbee Lee ◽  
Chuljin Hwang ◽  
Joo Hee Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Human Skin ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Semiconducting Materials ◽  
Physiological Conditions ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Monitoring Technologies

The rapid advances in human-friendly and wearable photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors have facilitated the continuous and real-time monitoring of physiological conditions, enabling self-health care without being restricted by location. In this paper, we focus on state-of-the-art skin-compatible PPG sensors and strategies to obtain accurate and stable sensing of biological signals adhered to human skin along with light-absorbing semiconducting materials that are classified as silicone, inorganic, and organic absorbers. The challenges of skin-compatible PPG-based monitoring technologies and their further improvements are also discussed. We expect that such technological developments will accelerate accurate diagnostic evaluation with the aid of the biomedical electronic devices.

Understanding the Need for a Non-invasive Wearable Real-time Database Device for Diabetic Patients

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elmer Jeto Gomes Ataide ◽  
Rajesh Kumar Sinha ◽  
G. Arun Maiya
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Care Process ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
Real Time Database

Diabetes occurs when the pancreas in the human body does not secrete sufficient insulin. It is a disease that is growing rapidly and affecting many lives. Hence, it needs constant monitoring. Wearable devices are those devices that are present on your person at all times. If the monitoring of this disease could be paired with wearable devices along with enabling real-time documentation in the patients’ medical records, it would benefit both the caregivers and the patients by saving time, money, effort and the amount of work put in by both during the health care process, hence, aiding in the delivery of quality health care. This article deals with identifying the existing wearable devices in detecting diabetes or risk of diabetes non-invasively and further scope of research in the respective area.

Big Data Paradigm for Healthcare Sector

2016 ◽  
pp. 169-186
Author(s):  
Jyotsna Talreja Wassan
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Electronic Health Records ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Real Data ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Clinical Environment ◽  
Time Dynamic ◽  
Health Care Records

The digitization of world in various areas including health care domain has brought up remarkable changes. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have emerged for maintaining and analyzing health care real data online unlike traditional paper based system to accelerate clinical environment for providing better healthcare. These digitized health care records are form of Big Data, not because of the fact they are voluminous but also they are real time, dynamic, sporadic and heterogeneous in nature. It is desirable to extract relevant information from EHRs to facilitate various stakeholders of the clinical environment. The role, scope and impact of Big Data paradigm on health care is discussed in this chapter.

Discrete Event Simulation and Real Time Locating Systems

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-28
Author(s):  
T. Eugene Day ◽  
Ajit N. Babu ◽  
Steven M. Kymes ◽  
Nathan Ravi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Discrete Event Simulation ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
The United States ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
Event Simulation

The Veteran’s Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated health care system in the United States, forming the arm of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that delivers medical services. From a troubled past, the VHA today is regarded as a model for healthcare transformation. The VA has evaluated and adopted a variety of cutting-edge approaches to foster greater efficiency and effectiveness in healthcare delivery as part of their systems redesign initiative. This paper discusses the integration of two health care analysis platforms: Discrete Event Simulation (DES), and Real Time Locating systems (RTLS) presenting examples of work done at the St. Louis VA Medical Center. Use of RTLS data for generation and validation of DES models is detailed, with prescriptive discussion of methodologies. The authors recommend the careful consideration of these relatively new approaches which show promise in assisting systems redesign initiatives across the health care spectrum.

scholarly journals Assessing real-time performances of N95 respirators for health care workers by simulated workplace protection factors

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 553-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyunwook KIM ◽  
Jung-Eun BAEK ◽  
Hye-Kyung SEO ◽  
Jong-Eun LEE ◽  
Jun-Pyo MYONG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
N95 Respirators

scholarly journals Real-Time Remote Surveillance of Doffing During COVID-19 Pandemic: Enhancing Safety of Health Care Workers

2020 ◽  
Vol 131 (2) ◽  
pp. e112-e113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajay Singh ◽  
B. Naveen Naik ◽  
Shiv Lal Soni ◽  
G. D. Puri
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Remote Surveillance
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