- Bibliography
- Subscribe
- News
-
Referencing guides Blog Automated transliteration Relevant bibliographies by topics
Log in
Українська Français Italiano Español Polski Português Deutsch
We are proudly a Ukrainian website. Our country was attacked by Russian Armed Forces on Feb. 24, 2022.
You can support the Ukrainian Army by following the link: https://u24.gov.ua/. Even the smallest donation is hugely appreciated!
Relevant bibliographies by topics / Personal health technologies / Journal articles
To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Personal health technologies.
Author: Grafiati
Published: 4 June 2021
Last updated: 5 February 2022
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 journal articles for your research on the topic 'Personal health technologies.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse journal articles on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
1
Kobrinskii,B.A., O.G.Grigoriev, A.I.Molodchenkov, I.V.Smirnov, and N.A.Blagosklonov. "Artificial Intelligence Technologies Application for Personal Health Management." IFAC-PapersOnLine 52, no.25 (2019): 70–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.12.448.
Full textAPA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
2
Tang, Youhong, and Dan Ding. "Introduction to Luminogenic bioprobes for personal health technologies." Materials Chemistry Frontiers 5, no.17 (2021): 6292–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1qm90061g.
Full textAPA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
3
Танеева, Екатерина, Ekaterina Taneeva, Нина Троицкая, and Nina Troitskaya. "Higher Education Embracing Students’ Health Protection Technologies: A Practical Evaluation." Universities for Tourism and Service Association Bulletin 8, no.1 (January31, 2014): 33–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/2669.
Full textAbstract:
Personal health is a universally recognized asset leading to higher life satisfaction and life expectancy. According to the data provided by the World Health Organization, 20% of personal health is determined by hereditary biological factors, 20% is accounted for by environmental variables, a minor fraction of 10% depends on the healthcare system, and a major of 50% of personal health is related to individual lifestyles. With over a third of Russia’s population neglect health issues, top national priority is given to new initiatives within the framework of the National Project ‘Health’, as well as other state projects designed to promote healthy lifestyles among all the age groups.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
4
Soman, Salil. "Health and the New Media: Technologies Transforming Personal and Public Health." JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 275, no.24 (June26, 1996): 1932. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1996.03530480074045.
Full textAPA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
5
Fox,NickJ. "Personal health technologies, micropolitics and resistance: A new materialist analysis." Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 21, no.2 (July26, 2016): 136–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459315590248.
Full textAbstract:
Personal health technologies are near-body devices or applications designed for use by a single individual, principally outside healthcare facilities. They enable users to monitor physiological processes or body activity, are frequently communication-enabled and sometimes also intervene therapeutically. This article explores a range of personal health technologies, from blood pressure or blood glucose monitors purchased in pharmacies and fitness monitors such as Fitbit and Nike+ Fuelband to drug pumps and implantable medical devices. It applies a new materialist analysis, first reverse engineering a range of personal health technologies to explore their micropolitics and then forward engineering personal health technologies to meet, variously, public health, corporate, patient and resisting-citizen agendas. This article concludes with a critical discussion of personal health technologies and the possibilities of designing devices and apps that might foster subversive micropolitics and encourage collective and resisting ‘citizen health’.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
6
Roehrs, Alex, CristianoA.daCosta, RodrigoR.Righi, AndréH.Mayer, ValterF.daSilva, JoséR.Goldim, and DouglasC.Schmidt. "Integrating multiple blockchains to support distributed personal health records." Health Informatics Journal 27, no.2 (April 2021): 146045822110075. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14604582211007546.
Full textAbstract:
Blockchain technologies have evolved in recent years, as have the use of personal health record (PHR) data. Initially, only the financial domain benefited from Blockchain technologies. Due to efficient distribution format and data integrity security, however, these technologies have demonstrated potential in other areas, such as PHR data in the healthcare domain. Applying Blockchain to PHR data faces different challenges than applying it to financial transactions via crypto-currency. To propose and discuss an architectural model of a Blockchain platform named “OmniPHR Multi-Blockchain” to address key challenges associated with geographical distribution of PHR data. We analyzed the current literature to identify critical barriers faced when applying Blockchain technologies to distribute PHR data. We propose an architecture model and describe a prototype developed to evaluate and address these challenges. The OmniPHR Multi-Blockchain architecture yielded promising results for scenarios involving distributed PHR data. The project demonstrated a viable and beneficial alternative for processing geographically distributed PHR data with performance comparable with conventional methods. Blockchain’s implementation tools have evolved, but the domain of healthcare still faces many challenges concerning distribution and interoperability. This study empirically demonstrates an alternative architecture that enables the distributed processing of PHR data via Blockchain technologies.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
7
Apatova, Nataliya, Oleg Korolyov, and Sergey Ivanov. "Personal Health Monitoring with Mobile Application Based on Blockchain Technologies." SHS Web of Conferences 110 (2021): 05001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202111005001.
Full textAbstract:
Personal health monitoring is especially necessary in a pandemic of COVID19 and based on objective and subjective data. Modern medicine uses numerous diagnostic devices, many of which are for personal health monitoring. Applications for mobile phones are becoming more widespread, they make a possibility constantly monitor vital signs for a person. However, the consolidation into a single personalized database of information on daily mobile monitoring and examination results from various doctors in various medical organizations not yet carried out. Proposed to build a blockchain from this data and results of data analysis add subjective sensations and indicators to it, which clarified during the conversation with the doctor and not always fully and correctly transmitted by the patient. Using an integrated approach to personal health monitoring, building a blockchain from official data and personal objective and subjective indicators makes it possible to identify at the early stages of the disease, to have a complete and reliable picture of the state of health.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
8
Raffaeli, Laura, Susanna Spinsante, and Ennio Gambi. "Integrated Smart TV-Based Personal e-Health System." International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications 7, no.1 (January 2016): 48–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijehmc.2016010103.
Full textAbstract:
This paper discusses the design and experimental implementation of an integrated system for the delivery of health related services, based on different technologies and devices. The idea is to create a unique point of access for the user, towards both a cloud-based remote service for the consultation of medical reports, and a personal local service that allows to collect and display data from biomedical sensors, to manage user's reminders for medicines, and to monitor the patient's dietary habits. The proposed system employs suitable technologies to simplify the user interaction, such as Near Field Communications enabled devices, and a smart TV equipment. By this way, it is possible to effectively deliver telehealth services also to users who may be less familiar with technological equipments, such as older adults, or people living in rural communities. The experimental implementation proves the feasibility of the proposed service, and the possibility to gain users' adherence and compliance, through proper design criteria.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
9
Graham, Connor, Mark Rouncefield, and Christine Satchell. "Blogging as ‘therapy’? Exploring personal technologies for smoking cessation." Health Informatics Journal 15, no.4 (December 2009): 267–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1460458209345897.
Full textAPA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
10
Schartinger, Doris, Ian Miles, Ozcan Saritas, Effie Amanatidou, Susanne Giesecke, Barbara Heller-Schuh, Laura Pombo-Juarez, and Günter Schreier. "Personal Health Systems Technologies: Critical Issues in Service Innovation and Diffusion." Technology Innovation Management Review 5, no.2 (February23, 2015): 46–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.22215/timreview873.
Full textAPA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
11
Schartinger, Doris, Ian Miles, Ozcan Saritas, Effie Amanatidou, Susanne Giesecke, Barbara Heller-Schuh, Laura Pombo-Juarez, and Günter Schreier. "Personal Health Systems Technologies: Critical Issues in Service Innovation and Diffusion." Technology Innovation Management Review 5, no.2 (February23, 2015): 46–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.22215/timreview/873.
Full textAPA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
12
Becher, Stefan, Armin Gerl, Bianca Meier, and Felix Bölz. "Big Picture on Privacy Enhancing Technologies in e-Health: A Holistic Personal Privacy Workflow." Information 11, no.7 (July8, 2020): 356. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info11070356.
Full textAbstract:
The collection and processing of personal data offers great opportunities for technological advances, but the accumulation of vast amounts of personal data also increases the risk of misuse for malicious intentions, especially in health care. Therefore, personal data are legally protected, e.g., by the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which states that individuals must be transparently informed and have the right to take control over the processing of their personal data. In real applications privacy policies are used to fulfill these requirements which can be negotiated via user interfaces. The literature proposes privacy languages as an electronic format for privacy policies while the users privacy preferences are represented by preference languages. However, this is only the beginning of the personal data life-cycle, which also includes the processing of personal data and its transfer to various stakeholders. In this work we define a personal privacy workflow, considering the negotiation of privacy policies, privacy-preserving processing and secondary use of personal data, in context of health care data processing to survey applicable Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) to ensure the individuals’ privacy. Based on a broad literature review we identify open research questions for each step of the workflow.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
13
Ma, Wanli, Dat Tran, Hong Lin, Shang Ming Zhou, Byeongsang Oh, Gordon Waddington, Dharmendra Sharma, et al. "Information technologies: opportunities and challenges in personal healthcare systems." International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management 13, no.5/6 (2012): 345. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijhtm.2012.052564.
Full textAPA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
14
Wac,K. "Smartphone as a Personal, Pervasive Health Informatics Services Platform: Literature Review." Yearbook of Medical Informatics 21, no.01 (August 2012): 83–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1639436.
Full textAbstract:
SummaryThe article provides an overview of current trends in personal sensor, signal and imaging informatics, that are based on emerging mobile computing and communications technologies enclosed in a smartphone and enabling the provision of personal, pervasive health informatics services.The article reviews examples of these trends from the PubMed and Google scholar literature search engines, which, by no means claim to be complete, as the field is evolving and some recent advances may not be documented yet.There exist critical technological advances in the surveyed smartphone technologies, employed in provision and improvement of diagnosis, acute and chronic treatment and rehabilitation health services, as well as in education and training of healthcare practitioners. However, the most emerging trend relates to a routine application of these technologies in a prevention/wellness sector, helping its users in self-care to stay healthy.Smartphone-based personal health informatics services exist, but still have a long way to go to become an everyday, personalized healthcare-provisioning tool in the medical field and in a clinical practice. Key main challenge for their widespread adoption involve lack of user acceptance striving from variable credibility and reliability of applications and solutions as they a) lack evidence-based approach; b) have low levels of medical professional involvement in their design and content; c) are provided in an unreliable way, influencing negatively its usability; and, in some cases, d) being industry-driven, hence exposing bias in information provided, for example towards particular types of treatment or intervention procedures.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
15
Balakrishna, Sunil, and RamaParvathyL. "Distributed Network for Health Diagnosis Using Blockchain for Early Analysis and Detection of Health Aliment’s." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no.3.12 (July20, 2018): 449. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.12.16127.
Full textAbstract:
Information technology plays very important role in the healthcare sector and as new technology are introduced the potential of those technologies are tried out to see how better the healthcare sector could get advantage of these new technologies. From the time of internet age, the healthcare sector has undergone massive changes and with new technologies like Cloud Computing has bought enormous possibilities in having Personal Health Record (PHR) management. One of such latest technology which has been successfullytested and getting introduced is Blockchain. The growing interest in utilizing this technology into Health Sector especially for PHR due to its disturbed network model and the security design it has embedded in it.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
16
Immonen, Milla Sinikka, Heidi Similä, Mikko Lindholm, Raija Korpelainen, and Timo Jämsä. "Technologies for fall risk assessment and conceptual design in personal health record system." Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare 11, no.1-2 (March10, 2019): 53–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.23996/fjhw.73258.
Full textAbstract:
Falls among older people are a major economic and public health problem. Due to the demographic change and aging of populations, there is an urgent need for accurate screening tools to identify those at risk to target effective falls prevention strategies. Clinical fall risk assessments are costly and time-consuming and thus cannot be performed frequently. Technologies provide means for assessing fall risk during daily living, making self-evaluations and fast methods for fall risk assessment for professional use. This study collects and evaluates existing technological solutions for fall risk assessment including various different sensor technologies. The study also presents one easy to use solution for assessing fall risk and suggests a concept-design for integrating sensor-based solutions into the Finnish national Kanta Personal Health Record. The optimal solution for technological fall risk assessment is still unclear. A wide implementation still requires extensive validation studies, adoption to health care processes and novel IoT -solutions for collecting large amounts of sensor data. Thorough methods should be utilised in designing the privacy and security aspects of fall risk assessment solutions, as well as different user profiles, to allow suitable interfaces and visualisations to users. It should always be clear what kind of data are collected from users and how the data are utilised. The consent of the users should also always be collected.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
17
Williamson, Ben. "Algorithmic skin: health-tracking technologies, personal analytics and the biopedagogies of digitized health and physical education." Sport, Education and Society 20, no.1 (October 2014): 133–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2014.962494.
Full textAPA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
18
Azzopardi-Muscat, Natasha, and Kristine Sørensen. "Towards an equitable digital public health era: promoting equity through a health literacy perspective." European Journal of Public Health 29, Supplement_3 (October1, 2019): 13–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckz166.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract Digital technologies shape the way in which individuals and health systems interact to promote health and treat illness. Their propensity to exacerbate inequalities is increasingly being highlighted as a concern for public health. Personal, contextual and technological factors all interact and determine uptake and consequent use of digital technologies for health. This article reviews evidence on the impact of digital technologies on health equity. Health literacy is presented as a lens through which to approach research and policy on access, uptake and use of digital technologies. In the short term, based on our review of published literature, we conclude that it is likely that digital technologies will increase health inequities associated with increased age, lower level of educational attainment and lower socio-economic status. Geographical inequity may increase as a result of poor infrastructure but may decrease if digital technologies can be effectively widely deployed to compensate for health workforce and health system deficiencies. Programmes to enhance health and digital literacy and monitoring of access, utilization and impact across all groups in society can help to ensure that digital technologies act to reduce rather than reproduce or exacerbate existent health inequalities.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
19
Ruhi, Umar, and Ritesh Chugh. "Utility, Value, and Benefits of Contemporary Personal Health Records: Integrative Review and Conceptual Synthesis." Journal of Medical Internet Research 23, no.4 (April29, 2021): e26877. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/26877.
Full textAbstract:
Background Contemporary personal health record (PHR) technologies offer a useful platform for individuals to maintain a lifelong record of personally reported and clinically sourced data from various points of medical care. Objective This paper presents an integrative review and synthesis of the extant literature on PHRs. This review draws upon multiple lenses of analysis and deliberates value perspectives of PHRs at the product, consumer, and industry levels. Methods Academic databases were searched using multiple keywords related to PHRs for the years 2001-2020. Three research questions were formulated and used as selection criteria in our review of the extant literature relevant to our study. Results We offer a high-level functional utility model of PHR features and functions. We also conceptualize a consumer value framework of PHRs, highlighting the applications of these technologies across various health care delivery activities. Finally, we provide a summary of the benefits of PHRs for various health care constituents, including consumers, providers, payors, and public health agencies. Conclusions PHR products offer a myriad of content-, connectivity-, and collaboration-based features and functions for their users. Although consumers benefit from the tools provided by PHR technologies, their overall value extends across the constituents of the health care delivery chain. Despite advances in technology, our literature review identifies a shortfall in the research addressing consumer value enabled by PHR tools. In addition to scholars and researchers, our literature review and proposed framework may be especially helpful for value analysis committees in the health care sector that are commissioned for the appraisal of innovative health information technologies such as PHRs.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
20
Naumenko, Iurii Vladimirovich, and Olga Viktorovna Naumenko. "The modern maintenance of technologies of schoolboys keeping health in preparation of the teacher." Moscow University Pedagogical Education Bulletin, no.1 (March30, 2014): 52–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.51314/2073-2635-2014-1-52-69.
Full textAbstract:
In clause essentially new conceptual base (“is offered to technology of preservation of health in formation”, “formation saving up health” and “formation forming health”, “readiness for optimization of viability in conditions of system social changes”), is shown its interrelation with other pedagogical concepts. The system of didactic principles of designing of a specific component of the interdisciplinary maintenance of the general education directed on formation at schoolboys of health and a healthy way of life as personal characteristics is concretized. Conceptual positions of complex psychological and pedagogical monitoring of efficiency of activity of school on formation at trained a welfare phenomenon “health” are formulated.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
21
KAPLAN, BONNIE. "Selling Health Data." Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 24, no.3 (June10, 2015): 256–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963180114000589.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract:Two court cases that involve selling prescription data for pharmaceutical marketing affect biomedical informatics, patient and clinician privacy, and regulation. Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc. et al. in the United States and R v. Department of Health, Ex Parte Source Informatics Ltd. in the United Kingdom concern privacy and health data protection, data de-identification and reidentification, drug detailing (marketing), commercial benefit from the required disclosure of personal information, clinician privacy and the duty of confidentiality, beneficial and unsavory uses of health data, regulating health technologies, and considering data as speech. Individuals should, at the very least, be aware of how data about them are collected and used. Taking account of how those data are used is needed so societal norms and law evolve ethically as new technologies affect health data privacy and protection.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
22
Crilly,JohnF., RobertH.Keefe, and Fred Volpe. "Use of Electronic Technologies to Promote Community and Personal Health for Individuals Unconnected to Health Care Systems." American Journal of Public Health 101, no.7 (July 2011): 1163–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2010.300003.
Full textAPA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
23
Walsh, Susan. "Learning from stories of mental distress in occupational therapy education." Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice 11, no.4 (September12, 2016): 220–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmhtep-02-2016-0010.
Full textAbstract:
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe processes of learning from personal experiences of mental distress when mental health service users participate in occupational therapy education with tutors and students who have also had experiences of mental distress. Design/methodology/approach A post-structural theoretical perspective was applied to stories which emerged from the research process. Semi-structured group and individual interviews were used with three service users, three students and three tutors (including the author) who had all had, at some time in their lives, experiences of mental distress. Findings Stories based on previously hidden personal experiences of mental distress began to shift dominant understandings. Further, as educators, service users challenged whose authority it is to speak about mental distress and permitted different narrative positions for students and tutors. However, technologies of power and technologies of self of powerful discourses in professional education continued to disqualify and exclude personal knowledges. Learning from stories requires a critical approach to storytelling to expose how hidden power relations maintain some knowledges as dominant. Further, learning requires narrative work, which was often hidden and unaccounted for, to navigate complex and contradictory positions in learning. Social implications Although storytelling based on personal experience can help develop a skilled and healthy mental health workforce, its impact will be limited without changes in classrooms, courses and higher education which support learning at the margins of personal/professional and personal/political learning. Originality/value Learning from stories of mental distress requires conditions which take account of the hidden practices which operate in mental health professional education.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
24
Karampela, Maria, Sofia Ouhbi, and Minna Isomursu. "Connected Health User Willingness to Share Personal Health Data: Questionnaire Study." Journal of Medical Internet Research 21, no.11 (November27, 2019): e14537. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/14537.
Full textAbstract:
Background Connected health has created opportunities for leveraging health data to deliver preventive and personalized health care services. The increasing number of personal devices and advances in measurement technologies contribute to an exponential growth in digital health data. The practices for sharing data across the health ecosystem are evolving as there are more opportunities for using such data to deliver responsive health services. Objective The objective of this study was to explore user attitudes toward sharing personal health data (PHD). The study was executed within the first year after the implementation of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legal framework. Methods The authors analyzed the results of an online questionnaire survey to explore the willingness of 8004 people using connected health services across four European countries to share their PHD and the conditions under which they would be willing to do so. Results Our findings indicate that the majority of users are willing to share their personal PHD for scientific research (1811/8004, 22.63%). Age, education level, and occupation of the participants, in addition to the level of digitalization in their country were found to be associated with data sharing attitudes. Conclusions Positive attitudes toward data sharing for scientific research can be perceived as an indication of trust established between users and academia. Nevertheless, the interpretation of data sharing attitudes is a complex process, related to and influenced by various factors.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
25
Ciccone, Nicholas William, FrederikL.DornonvilledelaCour, Julia Rosemary Thorpe, Birgitte Hysse Forchhammer, and Anja Maier. "PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY USE AMONGST STROKE PATIENTS: UNDERSTANDING THE BEST PLATFORMS FOR THE DESIGN OF HEALTH INTERVENTIONS IN TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION." Proceedings of the Design Society 1 (July27, 2021): 2419–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pds.2021.503.
Full textAbstract:
AbstractEurope's healthcare systems are under strain with an ageing population contributing to increased risk of strokes. Rapid technology adaption is needed to prevent, rehabilitate and manage symptoms. This paper identifies what technology platforms are most familiar and accessible to stroke patients to guide designers and engineers to develop future interventions. A survey was distributed to 100 inpatients at a stroke unit, identifying patients' accessibility and usage of personal technologies. Results showed that desktop/laptops and smartphones were most used as opposed to tablets and smartwatches. Different technologies were used for different tasks with a notable lack of devices used for personal health. The underlying reasons for this are discussed with recommendations made on what personal technology platforms should be implemented by designers and engineers in technology-based health interventions.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
26
El Guemhioui, Karim, and StevenA.Demurjian. "Semantic Reconciliation of Electronic Health Records Using Semantic Web Technologies." International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering 12, no.2 (April 2017): 26–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijitwe.2017040102.
Full textAbstract:
In this paper, the authors present an approach to reconcile the semantics of distinct medical terms found in personal health records (PHRs - that store data controlled by patients) and electronic medical records (EMRs - that store data controlled by providers) that are utilized to describe the same concept in different systems. The authors present a solution for semantic reconciliation based on RDF and related semantic web technologies. As part of the solution, the authors utilize a centralized repository of ontologies to: uniformly interrogate the medical coding systems in which those terms are defined, extract all of their published synonyms, and save the results as RDF triples. The final step in the process is to employ a reasoner to infer non-explicit synonymy among those terms, hence evidencing the underlying semantics to the PHR and EMR systems for possible further processing.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
27
Korzun,DmitryG., Ilya Nikolaevskiy, and Andrei Gurtov. "Service Intelligence and Communication Security for Ambient Assisted Living." International Journal of Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems 6, no.1 (January 2015): 76–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijertcs.2015010104.
Full textAbstract:
Mobile health (m-Health) scenarios and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies form an important direction for enhancing medical systems for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). Yet current development meets with two challenges: 1) use of patient's health data with strong security guarantees in mobile network and resource-constrained assumptions and in emergency situations, 2) inclusion of personal data to the entire system for “smart” service construction and delivery. This paper presents a smart space based architectural model that adopts emerging IoT technologies to enable security of personal mobile data and their intelligent utilization in health services. To support the service intelligence, the authors employ the smart spaces approach with its prominent technologies adopted from IoT and Semantic Web. The intelligence and security solutions are considered symbiotic to present better user-experience, security level, and utility of a system.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
28
Hansen,M., L.Fernandez-Luque, A.Y.S.Lau, and C.Paton. "Self-Tracking, Social Media and Personal Health Records for Patient Empowered Self-Care." Yearbook of Medical Informatics 21, no.01 (August 2012): 16–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1639425.
Full textAbstract:
SummaryThis paper explores the range of self-tracking devices and social media platforms used by the self-tracking community, and examines the implications of widespread adoption of these tools for scientific progress in health informatics.A literature review was performed to investigate the use of social media and self-tracking technologies in the health sector. An environmental scan identified a range of products and services which were used to exemplify three levels of self-tracking: self-experimentation, social sharing of data and patient controlled electronic health records.There appears to be an increase in the use of self-tracking tools, particularly in the health and fitness sector, but also used in the management of chronic diseases. Evidence of efficacy and effectiveness is limited to date, primarily due to the health and fitness focus of current solutions as opposed to their use in disease management.Several key technologies are converging to produce a trend of increased personal health surveillance and monitoring, social connectedness and sharing, and integration of regional and national health information systems. These trends are enabling new applications of scientific techniques, from personal experimentation to e-epidemiology, as data gathered by individuals are aggregated and shared across increasingly connected healthcare networks. These trends also raise significant new ethical and scientific issues that will need to be addressed, both by health informatics researchers and the communities of self-trackers themselves.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
29
Chae, Jung Pyo, and Hyungun Sung. "The association of daily use of information and communication technologies with personal subjective health status." Journal of Korea Planning Association 52, no.3 (June30, 2017): 185–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.17208/jkpa.2017.06.52.3.185.
Full textAPA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
30
Owens, John, and Alan Cribb. "‘My Fitbit Thinks I Can Do Better!’ Do Health Promoting Wearable Technologies Support Personal Autonomy?" Philosophy & Technology 32, no.1 (June6, 2017): 23–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13347-017-0266-2.
Full textAPA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
31
Wang, Xiaohong. "Bioartificial Organ Manufacturing Technologies." Cell Transplantation 28, no.1 (November26, 2018): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963689718809918.
Full textAbstract:
Bioartificial organ manufacturing technologies are a series of enabling techniques that can be used to produce human organs based on bionic principles. During the last ten years, significant progress has been achieved in the development of various organ manufacturing technologies. According to the degree of automation, organ manufacturing technologies can be divided into three main groups: (1) fully automated; (2) semi-automated; (3) handworked (or handmade); each has the advantages and disadvantages for bioartificial organ manufacturing. One of the most promising bioartificial organ manufacturing technologies is to use combined multi-nozzle three-dimensional printing techniques to automatically assemble personal cells along with other biomaterials to build exclusive organ substitutes for defective/failed human organs. This is the first time that advanced bioartificial organ manufacturing technologies have been reviewed. These technologies hold the promise to greatly improve the quality of health and average lifespan of human beings in the near future.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
32
Klassen,BenjaminJ., NathanJ.Lachowsky, Sally Yue Lin, JoshuaB.Edward, SarahA.Chown, RobertS.Hogg, DavidM.Moore, and EricA.Roth. "Gay Men’s Understanding and Education of New HIV Prevention Technologies in Vancouver, Canada." Qualitative Health Research 27, no.12 (July1, 2017): 1775–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732317716419.
Full textAbstract:
Effective rollout of HIV treatment-based prevention such as pre-exposure prophylaxis and treatment as prevention has been hampered by poor education, limited acceptability, and stigma among gay men. We undertook a thematic analysis regarding the education sources and acceptability of these New Prevention Technologies (NPTs) using 15 semistructured interviews with gay men in Vancouver, Canada, who were early adopters of NPTs. NPT education was derived from a variety of sources, including the Internet, health care providers, community organizations, sexual partners, and peers; participants also emphasized their own capacities as learners and educators. Acceptable forms of NPT education featured high-quality factual information, personal testimony, and easy access. Stigma was highlighted as a major barrier. For public health, policy makers, and gay communities to optimize the personal and population benefits of NPTs, there is a need for increased community support and dialogue, antistigma efforts, early NPT adopter testimony, and personalized implementation strategies.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
33
East, Marlene Lynette, and ByronC.Havard. "Mental Health Mobile Apps: From Infusion to Diffusion in the Mental Health Social System." JMIR Mental Health 2, no.1 (March31, 2015): e10. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mental.3954.
Full textAbstract:
The roles of mental health educators and professionals in the diffusion of mental health mobile apps are addressed in this viewpoint article. Mental health mobile apps are emerging technologies that fit under the broad heading of mobile health (mHealth). mHealth, encompassed within electronic health (eHealth), reflects the use of mobile devices for the practice of public health. Well-designed mental health mobile apps that present content in interactive, engaging, and stimulating ways can promote cognitive learning, personal growth, and mental health enhancement. As key influencers in the mental health social system, counselor educators and professional associations may either help or hinder diffusion of beneficial mHealth technologies. As mental health mobile apps move towards ubiquity, research will continue to be conducted. The studies published thus far, combined with the potential of mental health mobile apps for learning and personal growth, offer enough evidence to compel mental health professionals to infuse these technologies into education and practice. Counselor educators and professional associations must use their influential leadership roles to train students and practitioners in how to research, evaluate, and integrate mental health mobile apps into practice. The objectives of this article are to (1) increase awareness of mHealth and mental health mobile apps, (2) demonstrate the potential for continued growth in mental health mobile apps based on technology use and acceptance theory, mHealth organizational initiatives, and evidence about how humans learn, (3) discuss evidence-based benefits of mental health mobile apps, (4) examine the current state of mHealth diffusion in the mental health profession, and (5) offer solutions for impelling innovation diffusion by infusing mental health mobile apps into education, training, and clinical settings. This discussion has implications for counselor educators, mental health practitioners, associations, continuing education providers, and app developers.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
34
Mattila, Elina, Anna-Leena Orsama, Aino Ahtinen, Leila Hopsu, Timo Leino, and Ilkka Korhonen. "Personal Health Technologies in Employee Health Promotion: Usage Activity, Usefulness, and Health-Related Outcomes in a 1-Year Randomized Controlled Trial." JMIR mhealth and uhealth 1, no.2 (July29, 2013): e16. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mhealth.2557.
Full textAPA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
35
Whiddett, Dick, Inga Hunter, Phoebe Elers, CarolineA.Lockhart, HansW.Guesgen, and Amardeep Singh. "New and Emerging Issues for Technologies to Support Older Adults to Age in Place." International Journal of Applied Research on Public Health Management 6, no.1 (January 2021): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijarphm.2021010101.
Full textAbstract:
There is increasing interest in using emerging technologies, such as social media, digital devices, and smart home technologies, to distribute information throughout an older person's formal and informal support networks to assist them to live independently in their own home (to age in place). An open research workshop was conducted as part of a health informatics conference, 24 self-selected participants were organised into sub-groups to discuss four generic questions relating to the collection and distribution of an older person's health information. Thematic analysis of the discussions identified three major themes relating to roles and responsibilities of stakeholders, information collection and interpretation, system management and control. The findings emphasise the importance of taking a socio-technical perspective to understand the requirements of all stakeholder groups. A number of new and emerging research issues are identified, particularly in relating to the long-term management and adaptation of personal support networks and technologies.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
36
HBroom,Dorothy. "Diabetes self-management: multiple technologies of self." Australian Journal of Primary Health 9, no.3 (2003): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py03025.
Full textAbstract:
Self-management is now positioned as essential to the optimal management of many chronic diseases. Health promoters and service providers often acknowledge that some forms of self-management are difficult and demanding, and that health education must be appropriately tailored in order to enhance ?compliance?. These discourses may recognise that part of a person?s response to diagnosis arises from the individual?s personality and their social circumstances. However, less attention is paid to the social and personal effects of the variety of strategies people deploy in order to manage an ongoing condition. Self-management affects more than symptoms or disease status; it also shapes the subjectivity of the person, so different management strategies may mould different selves. The self-management of diabetes entails numerous daily practices, and produces several distinct ways of constructing an embodied diabetic self. In this article, I describe how a sample of adults living with diabetes type 2 manage their diabetes from day to day, and how those activities both arise from, and contribute to, distinctive subject positions. Appreciating the daily and dynamic character of self-management may also help service providers to facilitate an improved quality of life for people with chronic conditions.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
37
Shin, Minho. "Secure Remote Health Monitoring with Unreliable Mobile Devices." Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology 2012 (2012): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/546021.
Full textAbstract:
As the nation’s healthcare information infrastructure continues to evolve, new technologies promise to provide readily accessible health information that can help people address personal and community health concerns. In particular, wearable and implantable medical sensors and portable computing devices present many opportunities for providing timely health information to health providers, public health professionals, and consumers. Concerns about privacy and information quality, however, may impede the development and deployment of these technologies for remote health monitoring. Patients may fail to apply sensors correctly, device can be stolen or compromised (exposing the medical data therein to a malicious party), low-cost sensors controlled by a capable attacker might generate falsified data, and sensor data sent to the server can be captured in the air by an eavesdropper; there are many opportunities for sensitive health data to be lost, forged, or exposed. In this paper, we design a framework for secure remote health-monitoring systems; we build a realistic risk model for sensor-data quality and propose a new health-monitoring architecture that is secure despite the weaknesses of common personal devices. For evaluation, we plan to implement a proof of concept for secure health monitoring.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
38
Rozhkova, Lilya, Svetlana Vlazneva, and Olga Salnikova. "The Value of Health and Healthy Lifestyle Among Russian Adolescents as a Bioinformatics Object." International Journal of Applied Research in Bioinformatics 9, no.1 (January 2019): 75–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijarb.2019010106.
Full textAbstract:
Health is a qualitative prerequisite for the future self-fulfillment of young people, the ability to create a family and bear children, receive education and perform work, social, political, and creative activity. The attitude of young people to health is a system of personal, selective relations of individuals with various phenomena and social environment that contribute, or vice versa, threaten the health of the younger generation. It is also a certain self-assessment of the individual's physical and psychological condition. Bioinformatics technologies are implemented using methods that allow for collection, processing, and interpretation of data on biological objects. Considering a human and its subsystem, health as bioinformatics object, analysis of biological, social, intellectual, and mental states using materials and information technologies seems appropriate. Specialized software “Sociology,” which allows working with research materials of various health indicators, was used for data processing. The article presents the values of health in the views of modern adolescents.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
39
Sui, Wuyou, and Danica Facca. "Digital health in a broadband land." Health Science Inquiry 11, no.1 (August10, 2020): 140–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/hsi294.
Full textAbstract:
The rapid rise and widespread integration of digital technologies (e.g., smartphones, personal computers) into the fabric of our society has birthed a modern means of delivering healthcare, known as digital health. Through leveraging the accessibility and ubiquity of digital technologies, digital health represents an unprecedented level of reach, impact, and scalability for healthcare interventions, known as digital behaviour change interventions (DBCIs). The potential benefits associated with employing DBCIs are of particular interest for populations that are disadvantaged to receiving traditional healthcare, such as rural populations. However, several factors should be considered before implementing a DBCI into a rural environment, notably, digital health literacy. Digital health literacy describes the skills necessary to successful navigate and utilize a digital health solution (e.g., DBCI). Given their limited access to high-speed internet, higher cost associated for similar services, and poorer development of information and communication technologies (ICTs), most rural populations likely report lower digital health literacy – specifically, computer literacy, the ability to utilize and leverage digital technologies to solve problems. Hence, DBCIs should address this ‘digital divide’ between urban and rural populations before implementation. Practical solutions could include evaluating rural communities’ access to ICTs, needs assessments with rural community members, as well as integrating rural community stakeholders into the design of digital literacy education and interventions.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
40
Galvin,HannahK., and PaulR.DeMuro. "Developments in Privacy and Data Ownership in Mobile Health Technologies, 2016-2019." Yearbook of Medical Informatics 29, no.01 (August 2020): 032–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1701987.
Full textAbstract:
Objectives: To survey international regulatory frameworks that serve to protect privacy of personal data as a human right as well as to review the literature regarding privacy protections and data ownership in mobile health (mHealth) technologies between January 1, 2016 and June 1, 2019 in order to identify common themes. Methods: We performed a review of relevant literature available in English published between January 1, 2016 and June 1, 2019 from databases including PubMed, Google Scholar, and Web of Science, as well as relevant legislative background material. Articles out of scope (as detailed below) were eliminated. We categorized the remaining pool of articles and discrete themes were identified, specifically: concerns around data transmission and storage, including data ownership and the ability to re-identify previously de-identified data; issues with user consent (including the availability of appropriate privacy policies) and access control; and the changing culture and variable global attitudes toward privacy of health data. Results: Recent literature demonstrates that the security of mHealth data storage and transmission remains of wide concern, and aggregated data that were previously considered “de-identified” have now been demonstrated to be re-identifiable. Consumer-informed consent may be lacking with regard to mHealth applications due to the absence of a privacy policy and/or to text that is too complex and lengthy for most users to comprehend. The literature surveyed emphasizes improved access control strategies. This survey also illustrates a wide variety of global user perceptions regarding health data privacy. Conclusion: The international regulatory framework that serves to protect privacy of personal data as a human right is diverse. Given the challenges legislators face to keep up with rapidly advancing technology, we introduce the concept of a “healthcare fiduciary” to serve the best interest of data subjects in the current environment.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
41
Tigerstrom, Barbara Von. "Current developments in Canadian privacy and information law: Implications for telehealth." Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 6, no.2_suppl (August 2000): 83–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/1357633001935716.
Full textAbstract:
An appropriate legal regime protecting privacy of personal information is an important element in assuring public confidence in telehealth initiatives while at the same time avoiding undue restrictions or difficulties for those implementing these technologies. In Canada there are several sources of legal protection of personal information but there is increasing emphasis on legislation. A bill recently passed by the Canadian House of Commons is expected have a significant impact on the way personal information, including health information, is handled in the private sector.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
42
Girardi, Francesco, Gaetano De Gennaro, Lucio Colizzi, and Nicola Convertini. "Improving the Healthcare Effectiveness: The Possible Role of EHR, IoMT and Blockchain." Electronics 9, no.6 (May26, 2020): 884. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics9060884.
Full textAbstract:
New types of patient health records aim to help physicians shift from a medical practice, often based on their personal experience, towards one of evidence based medicine, thus improving the communication among patients and care providers and increasing the availability of personal medical information. These new records, allowing patients and care providers to share medical data and clinical information, and access them whenever they need, can be considered enabling Ambient Assisted Living technologies. Furthermore, new personal disease monitoring tools support specialists in their tasks, as an example allowing acquisition, transmission and analysis of medical images. The growing interest around these new technologies poses serious questions regarding data integrity and transaction security. The huge amount of sensitive data stored in these new records surely attracts the interest of malicious hackers, therefore it is necessary to guarantee the integrity and the maximum security of servers and transactions. Blockchain technology can be an important turning point in the development of personal health records. This paper discusses some issues regarding the management and protection of health data exchanged through new medical or diagnostic devices.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
43
Beyan, Oya, Ananya Choudhury, Johan van Soest, Oliver Kohlbacher, Lukas Zimmermann, Holger Stenzhorn, Md Rezaul Karim, et al. "Distributed Analytics on Sensitive Medical Data: The Personal Health Train." Data Intelligence 2, no.1-2 (January 2020): 96–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dint_a_00032.
Full textAbstract:
In recent years, as newer technologies have evolved around the healthcare ecosystem, more and more data have been generated. Advanced analytics could power the data collected from numerous sources, both from healthcare institutions, or generated by individuals themselves via apps and devices, and lead to innovations in treatment and diagnosis of diseases; improve the care given to the patient; and empower citizens to participate in the decision-making process regarding their own health and well-being. However, the sensitive nature of the health data prohibits healthcare organizations from sharing the data. The Personal Health Train (PHT) is a novel approach, aiming to establish a distributed data analytics infrastructure enabling the (re)use of distributed healthcare data, while data owners stay in control of their own data. The main principle of the PHT is that data remain in their original location, and analytical tasks visit data sources and execute the tasks. The PHT provides a distributed, flexible approach to use data in a network of participants, incorporating the FAIR principles. It facilitates the responsible use of sensitive and/or personal data by adopting international principles and regulations. This paper presents the concepts and main components of the PHT and demonstrates how it complies with FAIR principles.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
44
Hawthorne, Kisha Hortman, and Lorraine Richards. "Personal health records: a new type of electronic medical record." Records Management Journal 27, no.3 (November20, 2017): 286–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/rmj-08-2016-0020.
Full textAbstract:
Purpose This paper examines existing research on the topic of personal health records (PHRs). Areas covered include PHR/patient portal, recordkeeping, preservation planning, access and provider needs for future reuse of health information. Patient and physician PHR use and functionality, as well as adoption facilitators and barriers, are also reviewed. Design/methodology/approach The paper engages in a review of relevant literature from a variety of subject domains, including personal information management, medical informatics, medical literature and archives and records management literature. Findings The review finds that PHRs are extensions of electronic records. In addition, it finds a lack of literature within archives and records management that may lead to a less preservation-centric examination of the new PHR technologies that are desirable for controlling the lifecycle of these important new records-type. Originality/value Although the issues presented by PHRs are issues that can best be solved with the use of techniques from records management, there is no current literature related to PHRs in the records management literature, and that offered in the medical informatics literature treats the stewardship aspects of PHRs as insurmountable. This paper offers an introduction to the aspects of PHRs that could fruitfully be examined in archives and records management.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
45
Kim, Seong-Kyu, and Jun-Ho Huh. "Artificial Neural Network Blockchain Techniques for Healthcare System: Focusing on the Personal Health Records." Electronics 9, no.5 (May6, 2020): 763. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics9050763.
Full textAbstract:
This paper seeks to use artificial intelligence blockchain algorithms to ensure safe verification of medical institution PHR data and accurate verification of medical data as existing vulnerabilities. Artificial intelligence has recently spread and has led to research on many technologies thanks to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This is a very important factor in healthcare as well as the healthcare industry’s position. Likewise, blockchain is very safe to apply because it encrypts and verifies these medical data in case they are hacked or leaked. These technologies are considered very important. This study raises the problems of these artificial intelligence blockchains and recognizes blockchain, artificial intelligence, neural networks, healthcare, etc.; these problems clearly exist, so systems like EHR are not being used. In the future, ensuring privacy will be made easier when these EHRs are activated and data transmission and data verification between hospitals are completed. To overcome these shortcomings, we define an information security blockchain artificial intelligence framework and verify blockchain systems for accurate extraction, storage, and verification of data. In addition, various verification and performance evaluation indicators are set to obtain the TPS of medical data and for the implementation of standardization work in the future. This paper seeks to maximize the confidentiality of blockchain and the sensitivity and availability of artificial intelligence.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
46
Hogan,TimothyP., Bonnie Wakefield, KimM.Nazi, ThomasK.Houston, and FrancesM.Weaver. "Promoting Access Through Complementary eHealth Technologies: Recommendations for VA’s Home Telehealth and Personal Health Record Programs." Journal of General Internal Medicine 26, S2 (October12, 2011): 628–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-011-1765-y.
Full textAPA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
47
Radin,JenniferM., Giorgio Quer, Marwa Jalili, Dina Hamideh, and StevenR.Steinhubl. "The hopes and hazards of using personal health technologies in the diagnosis and prognosis of infections." Lancet Digital Health 3, no.7 (July 2021): e455-e461. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s2589-7500(21)00064-9.
Full textAPA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
48
Yli-Kauhaluoma, Sari, and Mika Pantzar. "Seeking connectivity to everyday health and wellness experiences: Specificities and consequences of connective gaps in self-tracking data." DIGITAL HEALTH 4 (January 2018): 205520761877971. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055207618779714.
Full textAbstract:
Objective Self-tracking technologies have created high hopes, even hype, for aiding people to govern their own health risks and promote optimal wellness. High expectations do not, however, necessarily materialize due to connective gaps between personal experiences and self-tracking data. This study examines situations when self-trackers face difficulties in engaging with, and reflecting on, their data with the aim of identifying the specificities and consequences of such connective gaps in self-tracking contexts. Methods The study is based on empirical analyses of interviews of inexperienced, experienced and extreme self-trackers (in total 27), who participated in a pilot study aiming at promoting health and wellness. Results The study shows that people using self-tracking devices actively search for constant connectivity to their everyday experiences and particularly health and wellness through personal data but often become disappointed. The results suggest that in connective gaps the personal data remains invisible or inaccurate, generating feelings of confusion and doubt in the users of the self-tracking devices. These are alarming symptoms that may lead to indifference when disconnectivity becomes solidified and data ends up becoming dead, providing nothing useful for the users of self-tracking technologies. Conclusions High expectations which are put on wearables to advance health and wellness may remain unmaterialised due to connective gaps. This is problematic if individuals are increasingly expected to be active in personal data collection and interpretation regarding their own health and wellness.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
49
Chatzidiakou, Lia, Anika Krause, OlalekanA.M.Popoola, Andrea Di Antonio, Mike Kellaway, Yiqun Han, FreyaA.Squires, et al. "Characterising low-cost sensors in highly portable platforms to quantify personal exposure in diverse environments." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 12, no.8 (August30, 2019): 4643–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4643-2019.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract. The inaccurate quantification of personal exposure to air pollution introduces error and bias in health estimations, severely limiting causal inference in epidemiological research worldwide. Rapid advancements in affordable, miniaturised air pollution sensor technologies offer the potential to address this limitation by capturing the high variability of personal exposure during daily life in large-scale studies with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. However, concerns remain regarding the suitability of novel sensing technologies for scientific and policy purposes. In this paper we characterise the performance of a portable personal air quality monitor (PAM) that integrates multiple miniaturised sensors for nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), ozone (O3) and particulate matter (PM) measurements along with temperature, relative humidity, acceleration, noise and GPS sensors. Overall, the air pollution sensors showed high reproducibility (mean R‾2=0.93, min–max: 0.80–1.00) and excellent agreement with standard instrumentation (mean R‾2=0.82, min–max: 0.54–0.99) in outdoor, indoor and commuting microenvironments across seasons and different geographical settings. An important outcome of this study is that the error of the PAM is significantly smaller than the error introduced when estimating personal exposure based on sparsely distributed outdoor fixed monitoring stations. Hence, novel sensing technologies such as the ones demonstrated here can revolutionise health studies by providing highly resolved reliable exposure metrics at a large scale to investigate the underlying mechanisms of the effects of air pollution on health.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
50
Perleth, Matthias, and Reinhard Busse. "HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN GERMANY." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 16, no.2 (April 2000): 412–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300101072.
Full textAbstract:
The objectives of this paper are to describe the status and development of health technology regulation with regard to coverage decisions and utilization, and to analyze the current situation of health technology assessment (HTA) in Germany. The relevant literature for controlling health technologies was identified by searching the literature and databases and through personal contacts. The literature was analyzed with regard to the different sectors in the healthcare system. For the analysis of the current state of HTA in Germany, a national survey was carried out. In addition, the names of topics under assessment were collected. The results show that coverage decisions in the ambulatory sector appear to be much more regulated than those in the inpatient sector. The same is true for diffusion and usage of technologies. The strict separation of the hospital and the ambulatory care sector in Germany constitutes a barrier to regulation and to making HTA an effective instrument in Germany. Until recently, HTA in Germany focused on biotechnology, such as gene technology. Recently the German Scientific Working Group of Technology Assessment in Health Care has adopted a systematic methodology to undertake HTAs. It can be concluded that regulation of health technologies in Germany is characterized by inconsistencies ranging from strict regulation in the ambulatory sector to almost no regulation in the rehabilitation sector. Increasing interest in HTA, in conjunction with a high priority assigned to evaluation of health technologies by the newly elected government, is likely to improve this situation in the future.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
You might also be interested in the bibliographies on the topic 'Personal health technologies' for other source types:
Dissertations / Theses Books
We offer discounts on all premium plans for authors whose works are included in thematic literature selections. Contact us to get a unique promo code!