2 This paper describes the design of an interactive architecture of a web based Personal Healthcare System for cognitive rehabilitation which will be affordable, customizable and capable of delivering continuous, cognitive rehabilitation at home.

HEALTHCARE professionals and patients must be made more aware of the side effects of sedative and anti-psychotic drugs, the director of nursing at Europe's largest nursing home has warned.

INTRODUCTION Pressure ulcers are a common and severe complication of spinal cord injury, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries where people often need to manage pressure ulcers alone and at home. Telephone-based support may help people in these situations to manage their pressure ulcers. The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of telephone...

INTRODUCTION Awareness of the healthcare providers on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which is an important cause of mortality and morbidity in our country and all over the world, and on pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) which plays an important role in its nonpharmacological treatment will provide effectiveness in diagnosis and treatment of COPD. The present study aimed at determinin...

Technological advancements have and will revolutionise the way healthcare and community based care is being delivered to the home environment. In this paper we provide the rationale for usage of temporal based reasoning for the purposes of distributed care and healthcare management. This is exemplified through identification of the role of temporal reasoning in addressing the important role tha...

The proactive development in electronic health (e-health) has introduced seemingly endless number of applications such as telemedicine, electronic records, healthcare score cards, healthcare monitoring etc. Yet, these applications confront the key challenges of network dependence and medical personnel necessity, which hinders the development of universality of e-health services. To mitigate suc...

This paper proposes a Human-centered Pervasive Computing System Model (HPC), a Layered Architectural Analysis and Design Method (LAAD) and a Waterfall Prototyping Process Model (WPP). Based on the HPC model and the LAAD method, a pervasive computing based multimodal tele-home healthcare system is designed and partly implemented using the Waterfall Prototyping Process. The design and implementat...

Modernization of medical healthcare system using technology has become an important in research direction today. Transforming healthcare so as to better meet the needs of patients will require changes to strengthen delivery of care for patients who already have a good access to services, as well as changes to improve care for patients who find it harder to get the care they need. Diagnosis is a...

The implementation of telenursing within home healthcare of leg wounds is an innovative development initiative that focuses on patients and to some extent next-of-kin in collaboration with nurses. Eleven patients and nine nurses participated in the study. The methods for data collection were surveys, field-notes descriptions, and care charts, as well as digital photos of leg wounds and videotap...

The objective of this track is to bring together researchers working on the transferability and adaptability of methods and tools of Industrial engineering for healthcare management, in order to exhibit recent developments in this area. Specific difficulties encountered in the hospital sector are: • difficulty in the setting of the care production mix, within the hospital, but also in the care ...