Modern wearable healthcare devices require new technologies with resource efficiency in terms of high performance, low energy consumption and diagnostic accuracy. In the field artificial intelligence, convolutional neural network (CNN) has performed as an effective algorithm. Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have been extensively utilised to construct hardware accelerators for CNNs. This ...

Many people believe mobile healthcare (mHealth) would help alleviate the rising cost of healthcare and improve the quality of service. Bluetooth, which is the most popular wireless technology for personal medical devices, is used for most of the mHealth sensing applications. In this paper we raise the question – Is Bluetooth the right technology for mHealth? To instigate the discussion we discu...

To overcome drawbacks of traditional hospital management systems, this paper presents a new data management system based on sensor networks and cloud computing. Cloud-computing features are included in the system’s definition, framework and basic capabilities. The system is designed to tightly link various medical departments and coordinate among various medical institutions. Using sensor netwo...

The aim of the paper is to present the concept of mobile technology management in healthcare. The paper puts emphasis on application of mobile devices in provision of data indispensable for processing it by big data solutions and underlines relation between mobile technology and big data. Nowadays mobile devices generate large volumes of different types of data which can be analyzed by speciali...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the incidence of needlestick injuries (NSIs) among different models of safety-engineered devices (SEDs) (automatic, semiautomatic, and manually activated safety) in healthcare settings. DESIGN This multicenter survey, conducted from January 2005 through December 2006, examined all prospectively documented SED-related NSIs reported by healthcare workers to their occupati...

OBJECTIVE Extensive efforts have been made in both academia and industry in the research and development of smart wearable systems (SWS) for health monitoring (HM). Primarily influenced by skyrocketing healthcare costs and supported by recent technological advances in micro- and nanotechnologies, miniaturisation of sensors, and smart fabrics, the continuous advances in SWS will progressively ch...

In today's world, the Internet of Things (IoT), which is a fairly new technology, has become a popular topic for discussion. Meanwhile, the increasing demand for personalized healthcare with the assistance of new technologies has created new applications called e-health IoT applications; however, researchers are still attempting to find its applications, therefore they have not been able to foc...

Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs) have emerged as a break-through technology for e-healthcare. Healthcare providers use wireless medium of communication to monitor patients, perform diagnostics and download data in hospitals or from homes. This provides great convenience, flexibility, cost effectiveness and timely patient care. These implanted devices contain sensitive personal data and other ...