This paper presents a vital signs monitoring system using wireless networks in Thailand. The system consists of vital signs measurements including electrocardiogram and heart rate. In addition to the health information of patients that is monitored, the location of patients specified using the global positioning system (GPS) is employed in the system. A prototype of the system has been develope...

In Japan, the proportion of elderly people had reached up to 23% in 2009. The number of elderly people in long-term nursing homes or nursing facilities will increase in the next decade. By 2025, the majority of the elderly people would have developed cancer, stroke, cardio-vascular diseases, and dementia. Almost all of them would be treated with prescribed drugs. They would also have dysphagia ...

BACKGROUND Teen childbearing has potential negative health, economic, and social consequences for mother and child. Repeat teen childbearing further constrains the mother's education and employment possibilities. Rates of preterm and low birth weight are higher in teens with a repeat birth, compared with first births. METHODS To assess patterns of repeat childbearing and postpartum contracept...

Dr. Skubic will describe interdisciplinary research in the Center for Eldercare and Rehabilitation Technology at the University of Missouri. Longitudinal research studies with inhome sensing systems have shown that the sensors offer new vital signs for detecting early signs of illness and functional decline. This talk will focus on in-home gait and balance as vital signs for monitoring health s...

The kymograph is the art of measuring pressure-based attributes, such as human pulse and blood pressure. The Haptic Kymograph is one of the advanced haptically-enhanced virtual reality medical applications. It transforms human vital signs into sensible, scalable and ubiquitous media so that a user can easily comprehend subtle and ambiguous signals. The development of the system faced some commo...

On *A Eng Signal processing has become a core technology in medical devices today, as it is crucial in a wide range of applications. It is used to automate the measurement of various signal characteristics, which previously was done manually and, as a result, subjectivity is reduced and reliability is increased. Another purpose is to filter out undesired signal components of technical or physio...

The ability to predict patient outcomes is important for clinical triage, which is the process of assessing severity and assigning appropriate priority of treatment for large numbers of patients. In this study, we present an automatic prognosis system for patient outcome prediction with heart rate variability (HRV) and traditional vital signs. Support vector machine (SVM) and extreme learning m...

In order to improve the way of data collection and workflow of vital signs measurement in hospital, this paper proposed a Tablet PC based vital signs data collection and information system. This system comprises a database server, Tablet PC, and wireless devices such as blood pressure monitor, infrared thermometer and barcode scanner. The Tablet PC and wireless devices are put on a cart to serv...