Wireless sensor networks for healthcare: A survey

Coronary heart disease

Smart wearable systems: Current status and future challenges

The evolution of ubiquitous sensing technologies has led to intelligent environments that can monitor and react to our daily activities, such as adapting our heating and cooling systems, responding to our gestures, and monitoring our elderly. In this paper, we ask whether it is possible for smart environments to monitor our vital signs remotely, without instrumenting our bodies. We introduce Vital-Radio, a wireless sensing technology that monitors breathing and heart rate without body contact. Vital-Radio exploits the fact that wireless signals are affected by motion in the environment, including chest movements due to inhaling and exhaling and skin vibrations due to heartbeats. We describe the operation of Vital-Radio and demonstrate through a user study that it can track users' breathing and heart rates with a median accuracy of 99%, even when users are 8~meters away from the device, or in a different room. Furthermore, it can monitor the vital signs of multiple people simultaneously. We envision that Vital-Radio can enable smart homes that monitor people's vital signs without body instrumentation, and actively contribute to their inhabitants' well-being.

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Smart Homes that Monitor Breathing and Heart Rate

https://cyberleninka.org/article/n/463350.pdf

Factors influencing acceptance of technology for aging in place: A systematic review

Elderly persons’ perception and acceptance of using wireless sensor networks to assist healthcare

The existing literature in relation to electronic personal health records (PHRs) has typically focused on the discussion of several key issues—namely, their design, functional evaluation, privacy, security and architecture The benefits of PHRs and barriers preventing their adoption are also widely discussed These issues are affected by technology infrastructure, and current and planned technology infrastructure deployment will be key determinants in the selection and design of PHR architectures Assumptions about the community-wide deployment of required technologies such as hardware and internet accessibility are implicit in the architectural selection of PHRs and these dependencies have not been fully appreciated or addressed in the existing literature This review article introduces and describes two infrastructural drivers—ubiquitous technology baseline for PHRs and connectivity coverage—and examines their inter-relationships with the selected PHR architectures Eleven functional capabilities are also described, providing a basis for the analysis of the relationships between the two infrastructural drivers and architectural selection © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/asi.22635

Personal health record architectures: Technology infrastructure implications and dependencies

The information and communication technology infrastructure available in rural and remote areas may often not have the bandwidth to support all types of telehealth applications; therefore, for example, some traditionally envisaged videoconferencing-based telehealth applications may not be able to be used or not used in their anticipated form at this time. While the level of broadband services available may impose limitations on these types of telehealth applications, in this review article, we identify applications that allow the maximizing of telehealth benefits in the presence of low-bandwidth connectivity and have potential benefits well-matched to rural and remote area healthcare challenges. In particular, we include consideration of how ubiquitous computing might potentially bring non-traditional approaches to telehealth that can also come into usage more immediately in bandwidth-constrained rural and regional areas. In this article, we review the benefits of ubiquitous computing for rural and remote telehealth including social media-based preventative, peer support and public health communication, mobile phone platforms for the detection and notification of emergencies, wearable and ambient biosensors, the utilization of personal health records including in conjunction with mobile and sensor platforms, chronic condition care and management information systems, and mobile device---enabled video consultation.

Telehealth and ubiquitous computing for bandwidth-constrained rural and remote areas

Personal Health Records (PHRs) and other emerging health information technologies create the potential for the capture and storage of a much greater quantity and quality of health data in the future. PHRs in particular provide a likely more privacy supporting form of electronic health data storage. This paper discusses how new health information technologies can support richer future health record data and how these records can provide a foundation for current and future applications of computational science approaches, supporting what might be called Computational Health.

Future Personal Health Records as a Foundation for Computational Health

Kai Yang7 Robert Steele and Amanda Lo University of Technology, Sydney {kayanglrsteeleiamanda }@it.uts.edu.au This paper addresses the problem that exists in the context of XML to Ontology translation. We firstly discuss the problem regarding the loss of information during roundtrip transformation between XML and Ontology followed by the proposal of a mapping representation ontology for modeling concept mappings defined between XML schema and Ontology. Our goal is to enable bidirectional data conversion between XML and Ontology as well as achieving seamless XML data translation through ontology mediation.

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Amanda Lo

Papers

Elderly persons’ perception and acceptance of using wireless sensor networks to assist healthcare

Personal health record architectures: Technology infrastructure implications and dependencies

Telehealth and ubiquitous computing for bandwidth-constrained rural and remote areas

Future Personal Health Records as a Foundation for Computational Health

An Ontology for XML Schema to Ontology Mapping Representation