The Internet of Things (IoT) has been widely used to interconnect the available medical resources and offer smart, reliable, and effective healthcare service to the elderly people. Health monitoring for active and assisted living is one of the paradigms that can use the IoT advantages to improve the elderly lifestyle. In this paper, we present an IoT architecture customized for healthcare appli...

Clinical outcomes are commonly monitored in healthcare practices to detect changes in care providers' performance. One key challenge in outcome monitoring is the need of adjustment for patient base-line risks. Various control charting methods have been developed to conduct risk-adjusted outcome monitoring, but they all rely on the availability of a large number of historical data. We propose a ...

Monitoring business activities using Business Intelligence (BI) tools is a well-established concept. However, online process monitoring is an emerging area which helps organizations not only plan for future improvements but also change and alter their current ongoing processes before problems happen. In this paper, we explore how monitoring process performance can help evolve process goals and ...

Pervasive healthcare promises to support the desire of many elderly for independent living and at-home care. This paper presents the CARA (Context Aware Real-time Assistant) system whose design goal is to provide a pervasive real-time intelligent at-home healthcare solution. While this is the goal it is recognized that current practice and current user requirements of both the subject (such as ...

Aligning Financial Incentives (FIs) to health policy goals is becoming increasingly popular. In many cases, such initiatives have failed to deliver anticipated benefits. Attributing this to the actions of self-interested and resistant professionals is not an entirely helpful approach. It is important to avoid simplistic assumptions to build knowledge of how and why schemes are implemented in pr...

INTRODUCTION Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) is important in diabetes management. Reliable and user-friendly instruments are essential. OneTouch Verio(®) is a new blood glucose concentration-measuring system designed to be used by patients with diabetes and healthcare professionals. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the analytical performance of the OneTouch Verio(®). ...

Healthcare is currently in the midst of a construction boom. An increasing number of hospitals are being constructed using the principles of evidence-based design to improve the quality and safety of patient care while at the same maximizing efficiency. As the McGill University Health Centre embarks on a redevelopment journey, performance measurement has been deemed to be a key requirement for ...

Customized and personalized healthcare, being self-administered by patients, is highly sought after in light of the increasing burdens chronic illnesses aging populations. Outside clinics that empower individuals to have a more prominent role managing their health are becoming trend due many benefits. For example, they can reduce hospital visits infection risk during pandemic like COVID-19. Fle...

In hospitals the monitoring of patient is usually done manually with help nursing staff for 24 x 7. The availability to monitor health critically ill patients or new born infant very difficult task and requires a lot man power. case, absence delay can become critical be fatal. order solve this many wireless technologies have been proposed patient’s condition using different sensors but these sc...