Electronic Health (E-health) is referred to any communication technology, which could have impact on behavior change, physical activity, and dieting (1). One of the E-health tools is electronic intervention (E-intervention) that means treatment, prevention, management, and physical and mental health promotion with or without the support of human (2), which finally leads to promotion of healthy ...

Analyzing health conditions using sensors is one of the daily activities in a healthcare organization. The purpose of this research is to improve the e-healthcare formulated through the integration of wearable smart sensors and miniaturized devices. In this research, monitoring glucose level of the diabetic is considered as an example of the non-linear problem in which we show that accuracy and...

INTRODUCTION There is great potential for e-health to deliver cost-effective, quality healthcare and spending on e-health systems by governments and healthcare systems is increasing worldwide. However, the literature often describes problematic and unsuccessful attempts to implement these new technologies into routine clinical practice. To understand and address the challenges of implementing e...

Information systems support to reduce the disparity in health care that exist in urban and rural areas. It improves the health care services and coordination at different levels. Health information systems provide the tools to capture, store, process and communicate health care information . Telemedicine and e-health is growing both in developed as well as in developing countries and has remain...

The urgent needs of healthcare assistant for elderly senior citizens increase rapidly. This paper presents an e-service design on stroke-precaution for senior citizens, followed by its implementation and evaluation. The healthcare support e-service design focuses on the aging problems including the degeneracy of memory and vision as well as the recession of attention. These physiological proble...

J. Zhang, D. Rettmann, E. Han, C. Roddey, N. White, J. Kuperman, J. Santos, A. Dale, and A. Shankaranarayanan Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Global Applied Science Lab, GE Healthcare, Rochester, MN, United States, Global Applied Science Lab, GE Healthcare, Menlo Pa...

BACKGROUND Scientific and public interest in the use of the Internet for health-related purposes has grown considerably. Concerns regarding its impact on patient-doctor relationship and risks for patients have inflamed the debate. Literature provides scarce evidence in this field. This paper investigates whether a patient's decision to use the web also depends on previous experience and satisfa...

Nowadays society is demanding more and more smart healthcare services that allow monitoring patient status in a non-invasive way, anywhere and anytime. Thus, healthcare applications are currently facing important challenges guided by the u-health (ubiquitous health) and p-health (pervasive health) paradigms. New emerging technologies can be combined with other widely deployed ones to develop su...

OBJECTIVES To understand when patients use secure e-mail messaging with healthcare providers across several types of questions or concerns, associations between out-of-pocket costs for in-person visits and use of secure messaging, and to examine patient-reported impacts on care-seeking behavior and overall health. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of patients in an integrated healthcare del...

TRADITIONALLY, record keeping of patient data within a healthcare environment has been conducted using paper based systems. With the exponential growth in modern technology, electronic systems and highly sophisticated medical devices have started replacing this traditional method. Furthermore, with the Internet now a common everyday commodity in most developed parts of the world, the healthcare...