The reference model presented in this article encourages the breakdown of M-Health systems into the following five key dimensions: (1) Communication Infrastructure: a description of mobile telecommunication technologies and networks; (2) Device Type: the type of device being used, such as PDA, sensor, or tablet PC; (3) Data Display: describes how the data will be displayed to the user and trans...

Public infrastructure systems provide many of the services that are critical to the health, functioning, and security of society. Many of these infrastructures, however, lack continuous physical sensor monitoring to be able to detect failure events or damage that has occurred to these systems. We propose the use of social sensor big data to detect these events. We focus on two main infrastructu...

BACKGROUND In recent years, the completion of the Human Genome Project and other rapid advances in genomics have led to increasing anticipation of an era of genomic and personalized medicine, in which an individual's health is optimized through the use of all available patient data, including data on the individual's genome and its downstream products. Genomic and personalized medicine could tr...

BACKGROUND The effort to increase access to emergency and surgical care in low-income countries has received global attention. While most of the literature on this issue focuses on workforce challenges, it is critical to recognize infrastructure gaps that hinder the ability of health systems to make emergency and surgical care a reality. METHODS This study reviews key barriers to the provisio...

Mario Sicuranza, Mario Ciampi ICAR-CNR, Via P. Castellino 111, 80131 Napoli, Italy {mario.sicuranza, mario.ciampi } @na.icar.cnr.it Abstract. The EHR allows obtaining a considerable amount of health information, to improve the quality and efficiency of medical care and at the same time to reduce the costs of health care. The strong interest on sharing the healthcare information in information s...

Most of the systems used in medical healthcare are based on embedded electronics systems. These medical systems are primary made from OEM embedded electronics becoming mostly installed in health care systems nowadays. Utilization of these systems are more and more oriented also to home care applications are effective from the effectively of monitoring and economical point of view. The upcoming ...

background and objectives: knowledge management (km) has emerged as a pathway towards competitive advantage in current complex industrial environment. the aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between km effectiveness and various organizational factors including social interactions (trust, communication and coordination), infrastructure factors (structure, information technol...