AIMS To determine the relationship between tele-ICU (intensive care unit) implementations and improvement in quality measures and patient outcomes. BACKGROUND Tele-ICUs were designed to leverage scarce critical-care experts and promised to improve patient quality. EVALUATION Abstracts and peer-reviewed articles were reviewed to identify the associations between tele-ICU programmes and clini...

Background-Covid-19 pandemic has posed a great challenge for people with neurological disorders like Parkinson’s-disease to commute treatment center due risk of infection, unavailability transport and most importantly avail contact commonly practiced in physiotherapy management patients. With the view providing home-bound these patients, we speculated that safe balance intervention under expert...

Robots are used for the purpose of picking the object and placing it into another place. This robot runs with human guidance and communicates through blue tooth. The robot setup is controlled by the android mobile which is having the blue-control application. Tele-manipulation allows human to perform operations in a remote environment. This system provides human operators with the ability to se...

BACKGROUND Due to the great variability of 12-lead ECG instruments and medical specialists' interpretation skills, it remains a challenge to deliver rapid and accurate 12-lead ECG reports with senior cardiologists' decision making support in emergency telecardiology. METHODS We create a new cloud and pervasive computing based 12-lead Electrocardiography (ECG) service to realize ubiquitous 12-...

BACKGROUND A home based tele-monitoring system was developed to assess the effects of heat stress (days > 25°C) on clinical and functional status in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). METHODS Sixty-two COPD patients (GOLD II-IV) were randomized into a tele-monitoring Group (TG, N = 32) or Control Group (CG, N = 30). Tele-monitoring included 1) daily clinical status (C...

The first time I met Lloyd Old was in late 1976, several weeks after I had started a fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City. With the adventure of experiencing life in New York City as my major goal, I had come to MSKCC without clearly defined plans, only with a vague idea to study immunology in the context of the pathogenesis and therapy of cancer. The id...

Monoclonal antibodies of the immunoglobulin G (IgG) isotype have become a well-established therapeutic tool for the targeting of malignant cells in tumor patients. Despite tremendous success in the treatment of lymphoma and breast cancer, it has also become clear that we may not be able to further improve antibody therapy of cancer by simply generating more tumor-specific antibodies with a high...

When Toshitada Takahashi was in Nagoya, Japan, in 1972, one year after he left New York, he received a phone call from Lloyd Old, asking him to return to the Sloan-Kettering Institute (SKI); Dr. Old wished to organize a human tumor immunology group. By the early 1970s, tumor-associated antigens such as carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and -fetoprotein had been defined by analysis of heteroimmune...