Studies in health technology and informatics
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2012
Personalised mobile health and fitness apps: lessons learned from myFitnessCompanion®.
Smartphones and tablets are slowly but steadily changing the way we look after our health and fitness. Today, many high quality mobile apps are available for users and health professionals and cover the whole health care chain, i.e. information collection, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring. Our team has developed a mobile health and fitness app called myFitnessCompanion® which has been available via Android market since February 2011. ⋯ We discuss the acceptance of health apps by end-users and healthcare industry. We discuss how mobile health apps will be distributed in the near future, the use of Personal Health Record (PHR) systems such as Microsoft HealthVault and the impact of regulations (FDA) on the future of mobile health apps. The paper is based on seven years of experience by the authors as mobile health and fitness application developers and we discuss the challenges and opportunities for app developers in the health industry.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2012
Organizing data quality assessment of shifting biomedical data.
Low biomedical Data Quality (DQ) leads into poor decisions which may affect the care process or the result of evidence-based studies. Most of the current approaches for DQ leave unattended the shifting behaviour of data underlying concepts and its relation to DQ. ⋯ In this paper we propose an organization of biomedical DQ assessment based on these concepts, identifying characteristics and requirements which will facilitate future research. As a result, we define the Data Quality Vector compiling a unified set of DQ dimensions (completeness, consistency, duplicity, correctness, timeliness, spatial stability, contextualization, predictive value and reliability), as the foundations to the further development of DQ assessment algorithms and platforms.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2012
Challenges of the e-Health curricular education in bio-medical engineering and in medicine.
Curricular recommendations coming from highly respectable associations are highly useful. Nevertheless, they show fatigue in keeping the pace of any fast evolution, as in the ICT happens. So we do the attempt to disclose the emerging challenges affecting e-Health curricular education.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2012
Comparative StudyA comparison of an integrated suction blade versus a traditional videolaryngoscope blade in the endotracheal intubation of a hemorrhagic cadaver model - a pilot study.
In this pilot study, we evaluated two types of videolaryngoscope blades (integrated suction vs. traditional) with the Storz CMAC videolaryngoscope in the intubation of a lightly embalmed hemorrhagic cadaver model. No significant differences were found between the devices in the success rates for the intubations. The study subjects indicated a preference for the integrated suction blade in hemorrhagic airway intubation.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2012
User preference comparing a conventional videolaryngoscope blade vs. a novel suction videolaryngoscope blade in simulated hemorrhagic airway intubation.
The hemorrhagic airway makes visualization during laryngoscopy and intubation difficult. A specially designed videolaryngoscope blade with integrated suction was developed and studied in a simulated hemorrhagic airway at the Omaha VA Medical Center. Results show that, if available, many users would choose to include this new suction device in their standard airway carts due to its "always there" design.