Application of ICT in health (eHealth) has become an integral part of modern healthcare systems. Elec‌tronic health information management has proven useful in improving quality of health care, reducing costs and facilitating health research. However, the increasing complexity of healthcare and the growing demand for high quality healthcare delivery has created a need for eHealth systems with t...

Use of conversational agents, like chatbots, avatars, and robots is increasing worldwide. Yet, their effectiveness in health care largely unknown. The aim this advanced review was to assess the use agents various fields care. A literature search, analysis, synthesis were conducted February 2022 PubMed CINAHL. included evidence analyzed narratively by employing principles thematic analysis. We r...

introduction: in recent decades, abilities related to emotional intelligence attracted the attention of many organizations and researchers. emotional intelligence provides a favorable environment for effective communication. it is a means by which users can express their needs and expectations to receive support from librarians. this study determined the relationship between emotional intellige...

abstract background: emotional intelligence as the ability to understand one and others, to communicate with people, to adapt and cope with environmental stress is defined. skills such as self-awareness, self-management, emotional awareness, emotional intelligence, relationship management as a recognized are four skills methods: this descriptive cross-sectional correlation in the 92-91 school y...

conclusions as the majority of the staff had average level of job satisfaction and emotional intelligence and others were lower than average, it seems necessary for authorities to explore the reasons for job dissatisfaction to prevent job burnout, depression and developing a sense of helplessness in the staff. it is also recommended to hold educational workshops for the staff especially who are...

introduction: health care professionals especially clinicians, undergo lots of job stress (js). emotional intelligence (ei) is among the variables that appear to be associated with stress. it is also included among the ways adopted by the individuals in order to resist js in the workplace. thus, this study aims to investigate the relationship between ei and js in the faculty members of esfahan ...

Intention recognition has significant applications in ambient intelligence, assisted living and care of the elderly, amongst others. In this paper we explore an approach to intention recognition based on clustering. To this end we show how to map the intention recognition problem into a clustering problem. To our knowledge the use of clustering techniques for intention recognition is novel, and...

The percentage of elderly people in European countries is increasing. Such conjuncture affects socio-economic structures and creates demands for resourceful solutions, such as Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), which is a possible methodology to foster health care for elderly people. In this context, sensor-based devices play a leading role in surveying, e.g., health conditions of elderly people, t...

We propose a framework for the development of next generation e-health systems and services. It results from the joint work of diverse research groups with 20 to 25 years of experience in their respective fields (e.g., business process management, medical informatics, business intelligence), and it articulates five elements: the mining of care workflows; their compliance with medical guidelines...