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Technology and the Ecology of Chronic Illness in Everyday Life
Authors: Novak Laurie L.  , Simpson Christopher L.  , Slagle Jason  , Mulvaney Shelagh A.
Published: February 2025

A major challenge in the design of useful technological tools is effectively conceptualizing the context in which users engage the technology. Contextually specific research on activities of patients and their caregivers - and how those activities are supported by social and material arrangements - can result in insights for design of consumer health informatics technologies and infrastructural advancements that can better support patients outside of institutional settings. This chapter describes an ecosystem focused on activity – how activity is shaped by cultural institutions, and the negotiations that arise between actors and institutions.
Technology in Intersecting Figured Worlds
Authors: Esbensen Gertrud Lynge  , Hasse Cathrine
Published: February 2025

In this chapter we analyze aspects of how Danish student nurses acquire technological literacy during their clinical internship at a Danish hospital. The argument is supported by several cases from Esbensen's empirical work. We focus on a Techno-Anthropological study of how student nurses learn to engage in technological mediated relations, and discuss how we think the ideas of intersecting worlds help to analyze some of the difficulties, student's experience.
Data Policies and Data Archives: A New Paradigm for Academic Publishing in Economic Sciences?
Authors: Vlaeminck Sven  , Herrmann Lisa-Kristin
Published: February 2025

In our paper we summarise the findings of an empirical study in which a sample of 346 journals in economics and business studies were examined. We regard both the extent and the quality of journals' data policies, which should facilitate replications of published empirical research. The paper presents some characteristics of journals equipped with data policies and gives some recommendations for suitable data policies in economics and business sciences journals. In addition, we also evaluate the journals' data archives to roughly estimate whether these journals really enforce data availability. Our key finding is that we are currently not able to determine a new publishing paradigm for journals in economic sciences.
Proposal for a European Public Health Research Infrastructure for Sharing of health and Medical administrative data (PHRIMA)
Authors: Burgun Anita  , Oksen Dina V.  , Kuchinke Wolfgang  , Prokosch Hans-Ulrich  , Ganslandt Thomas  , Buchan Iain  , van Staa Tjeerd  , Cunningham James  , Gjerstorff Marianne L.  , Dufour Jean-Charles  , Gibrat Jean-Francois  , Nikolski Macha  , Verger Pierre  , Cambon-Thomsen Anne  , Masella Cristina  , Lettieri Emanuele  , Bertele Paolo  , Salokannel Marjut  , Thiebaut Rodolphe  , Persoz Charles  , Chêne Geneviève  , Ohmann Christian
Published: February 2025

In Europe, health and medical administrative data is increasingly accumulating on a national level. Looking further than re-use of this data on a national level, sharing health and medical administrative data would enable large-scale analyses and European-level public health projects. There is currently no research infrastructure for this type of sharing. The PHRIMA consortium proposes to realise the Public Health Research Infrastructure for Sharing of health and Medical Administrative data (PHRIMA) which will enable and facilitate the efficient and secure sharing of healthcare data.
Health Interoperability into Practice: Results of the Development of a Consent Form in a Pilot Project in a Health District in São Paulo, Brazil
Authors: Becker Sander Guilherme  , Medeiros Borges Mauro  , do Prado Fay José Henrique  , Costa Denis  , Cesar Gadelha Vieira Augusto  , Bucciolli Guernelli Maurício  , Esteves Perche Moacyr  , Cantarutti Francisco  , Machado Ribeiro Izolda  , Ramos Enck Cleusa  , Forte Lombardi Alexandre  , Amaral Herberth  , Dota Edson  , Dornelles Picon Paulo
Published: February 2025

Interoperability of health information systems is a centerpiece of the “E-Health” Brazilian Ministry of Health strategy. It aims to solve at least partially the health information technology puzzle that we face today. This paper describes a health information exchange pilot project in a health district of the city of São Paulo. It discusses the results of the development of an informed consent form for health information exchange. This consent form showed excellent results, with median application time of 3 minutes and with 97.8% of patients feeling fully clarified. The patients' perception when faced with options of consent to share their data is also described.
The Collaborative Coordination of Special Interest Groups on the Telemedicine University Network (RUTE) in Brazil
Authors: de Lima Verde Brito Thiago Delevidove  , Baptista Roberto Silva  , de Lima Lopes Paulo Roberto  , Haddad Ana Estela  , Messina Luiz Ary  , Torres Pisa Ivan
Published: February 2025

In Brazil the Telemedicine University Network (Rede Universitária de Telemedicina RUTE) is an initiative that among others promotes collaboration between university hospitals, universities, and health professionals through information technology infrastructure and special interest groups (SIGs) support. This paper presents results of analyses on collaboration during implementation and coordination activities of RUTE SIGs. This study is based on descriptive statistics and data visualization previously collected by RUTE national coordination relative to the status in July 2014. The analysis through collaboration graph identified the strongest collaboration RUTE units. The graph also highlights the collaborative relationship of RUTE units in form of communities, the most collaborative with each other in a communion in the same SIGs, and the less the collaborative units in the network. It should be stated that the most active units are also the oldest in the community.
Trends of Patient Safety Topics Addressed in the Past Five MEDINFO Congresses
Authors: Zhang Qiyan  , Takeda Hiroshi
Published: February 2025

Health informatics has been promoted as a core curriculum in our patient safety program for four years. There is a need to let students understand how such topics were addressed with relevant literature of trends in medical informatics. In this study, we performed a content analysis by searching the past five MEDINFO Congress Proceedings. We used MeSH Terms or Keywords to search the study subjects and divided them into three categories. 76 subjects were identified, among which 16 were assigned to Category 1 (System-related), 26 to Category 2 (Database-related), and 34 to Category 3 (Others). Some socio-techical issues that emerged in Category 3 presented as future research interests.The identified topics reflect research trends in patient safety.
Proposal of Local Automatic Weighing Attribute in CBIR
Authors: Jones Ferreira de Lucena David  , Costa Oliviera Marcelo  , Pamponet Machado Aydano
Published: February 2025

Lung cancer is the most common malignant lesion and the principal cause of cancer-related death worldwide. This problem encourages researchers to build computer-aided solutions to help diagnose lung cancer. Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems are very promising in this context due to a large number of image generated everyday. However, semantic gaps have limited CBIR applicability. This work proposes a new approach to automatically adjust CBIR attribute weights to reflect users' semantic interpretation on retrieval process, minimizing the semantic gap problem and improving retrieval accuracy.
Development of Unified Lab Test Result Master for Multiple Facilities
Authors: Kume Naoto  , Suzuki Kenji  , Kobayashi Shinji  , Araki Kenji  , Yoshihara Hiroyuki
Published: February 2025

A clinical study requires massive amounts of of lab test data, especially for rare diseases. Before creating a protocol, the hypothesis if the protocol will work with enough amount of patients' dataset has to be proved. However, a single facility, such as a university hospital, often faces a lack of number of patients for specific target diseases. Even if collecting datasets from several facilities, there is no active master table that can merge lab test results between the facility datasets. Therefore, the authors develop a unified lab test result master. Because test master standards such as JLAC10 and LOINC are provided from a viewpoint of academic classification of laboratory medicine, the classification does not fit clinical classification, which doctors understand with a mind-set of establishing a clinical study protocol. The authors establish a method to unify masters using an active lab test result master from two university hospitals.
Integrated Database And Knowledge Base For Genomic Prospective Cohort Study In Tohoku Medical Megabank Toward Personalized Prevention And Medicine
Authors: Ogishima Soichi  , Takai Takako  , Shimokawa Kazuro  , Nagaie Satoshi  , Tanaka Hiroshi  , Nakaya Jun
Published: February 2025

The Tohoku Medical Megabank project is a national project to revitalization of the disaster area in the Tohoku region by the Great East Japan Earthquake, and have conducted large-scale prospective genome-cohort study. Along with prospective genome-cohort study, we have developed integrated database and knowledge base which will be key database for realizing personalized prevention and medicine.
Development of a Dynamic and Adaptive Simulator for Health
Authors: Correa-Arango Adrian L.  , Tamayo-Correa Carolina  , Mejía-Zapata David  , Castrillón Edison  , Torres-Silva Ever A.  , Luna-Gomez Ivan F.  , Restrepo Natalia  , Vélez-Zuluga Sebastián  , Florez-Arango Jose F.  , Smith Jack
Published: February 2025

One of the ways to develop health simulations is through the use of computers. This paper presents the use of Intelligent Computer-aided Instruction (ICAI) for the development of an interactive simulator for learning Cardio Pulmonary Resucitation (CPR) which incorporates online tutorials, training and evaluation.
Annotation methods to develop and evaluate an expert system based on natural language processing in electronic medical records
Authors: Gicquel Quentin  , Tvardik Nastassia  , Bouvry Côme  , Kergourlay Ivan  , Bittar André  , Segond Frédérique  , Darmoni Stefan  , Metzger Marie-Hélène
Published: February 2025

The objective of the SYNODOS collaborative project was to develop a generic IT solution, combining a medical terminology server, a semantic analyser and a knowledge base. The goal of the project was to generate meaningful epidemiological data for various medical domains from the textual content of French medical records. In the context of this project, we built a care pathway oriented conceptual model and corresponding annotation method to develop and evaluate an expert system's knowledge base. The annotation method is based on a semi-automatic process, using a software application (MedIndex). This application exchanges with a cross-lingual multi-termino-ontology portal. The annotator selects the most appropriate medical code proposed for the medical concept in question by the multi-termino-ontology portal and temporally labels the medical concept according to the course of the medical event. This choice of conceptual model and annotation method aims to create a generic database of facts for the secondary use of electronic health records data.
A Data Mining Approach to Identify Sexuality Patterns in a Brazilian University Population
Authors: Waleska Simões Priscyla  , Cesconetto Samuel  , Toniazzo de Abreu Larissa Letieli  , Côrtes de Mattos Garcia Merisandra  , Cassettari Junior José Márcio  , Comunello Eros  , Bisognin Ceretta Luciane  , Aparecida Manenti Sandra
Published: February 2025

This paper presents the profile and experience of sexuality generated from a data mining classification task. We used a database about sexuality and gender violence performed on a university population in southern Brazil. The data mining task identified two relationships between the variables, which enabled the distinction of subgroups that better detail the profile and experience of sexuality. The identification of the relationships between the variables define behavioral models and factors of risk that will help define the algorithms being implemented in the data mining classification task.
Optimizing Decision Support for Tailored Health Behavior Change Applications
Authors: Kukafka Rita  , Jeong In cheol  , Finkelstein Joseph
Published: February 2025

The Tailored Lifestyle Change Decision Aid (TLC DA) system was designed to provide support for a person to make an informed choice about which behavior change to work on when multiple unhealthy behaviors are present. TLC DA can be delivered via web, smartphones and tablets. The system collects a significant amount of information that is used to generate tailored messages to consumers to persuade them in certain healthy lifestyles. One limitation is the necessity to collect vast amounts of information from users who manually enter. By identifying an optimal set of self-reported parameters we will be able to minimize the data entry burden of the app users. The study was to identify primary determinants of health behavior choices made by patients after using the system. Using discriminant analysis an optimal set of predictors was identified. The resulting set included smoking status, smoking cessation success estimate, self-efficacy, body mass index and diet status. Predicting smoking cessation choice was the most accurate, followed by weight management. Physical activity and diet choices were better identified in a combined cluster.
Distributed Parallel Computing in Data Analysis of Osteoporosis
Authors: Waleska Simões Priscyla  , Venson Ramon  , Comunello Eros  , Casagrande Rogério Antônio  , Bigaton Everson  , da Silva Carlessi Lucas  , da Rosa Maria Inês  , Martins Paulo João
Published: February 2025

This research aimed to compare the performance of two models of load balancing (Proportional and Autotuned algorithms) of the JPPF platform in the processing of data mining from a database with osteoporosis and osteopenia. When performing the analysis of execution times, it was observed that the Proportional algorithm performed better in all cases.
A Standards-based Semantic Metadata Repository to Support EHR-driven Phenotype Authoring and Execution
Authors: Jiang Guoqian  , Solbrig Harold R.  , Kiefer Richard  , Rasmussen Luke V.  , Mo Huan  , Speltz Peter  , Thompson William K.  , Denny Joshua C.  , Chute Christopher G.  , Pathak Jyotishman
Published: February 2025

This study describes our efforts in developing a standards-based semantic metadata repository for supporting electronic health record (EHR)-driven phenotype authoring and execution. Our system comprises three layers: 1) a semantic data element repository layer; 2) a semantic services layer; and 3) a phenotype application layer. In a prototype implementation, we developed the repository and services through integrating the data elements from both Quality Data Model (QDM) and HL7 Fast Healthcare Inteoroperability Resources (FHIR) models. We discuss the modeling challenges and the potential of our system to support EHR phenotype authoring and execution applications.
Towards a Formal Representation of Processes and Objects Regarding the Delivery of Telehealth Services: The Telehealth Ontology (TEON)
Authors: Santana Filipe  , Schulz Stefan  , Campos Amadeu  , Novaes Magdala A.
Published: February 2025

This study introduces ontological aspects concerning the Telehealth Ontology (TEON), an ontology that represents formal-ontological content concerning the delivery of telehealth services. TEON formally represents the main services, actors and other entity types relevant to telehealth service delivery. TEON uses the upper level ontology BioTopLite2 and reuses content from the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI). The services embedded in telehealth services are considered as essential as the common services provided by the health-related practices. We envision TEON as a service to support the development of telehealth systems. TEON might also enable the integration of heterogeneous telehealth systems, and provide a base to automatize the processing of telehealth-related content.
Characterizing Health Information for Different Target Audiences
Authors: Sun Yueping  , Hou Zhen  , Hou Li  , Li Jiao
Published: February 2025

Different groups of audiences in health care: health professionals and health consumers, each have different information needs. Health monographs targeting different audiences are created by leveraging readers' background knowledge. The NCI's Physician Data Query (PDQ®) Cancer Information Summaries provide parallel cancer information and education resources with different target audiences. In this paper, we used targeted audience-specific cancer information PDQs to measure characteristic differences on the element level between audiences. In addition, we compared vocabulary coverage. Results show a significant difference between the professional and patient version of cancer monographs in both content organization and vocabulary. This study provides a new view to assess targeted audience-specific health information, and helps editors to improve the quality and readability of health information.
Systems Architecture for a Nationwide Healthcare System
Authors: Abin Jorge  , Nemeth Horacio  , Friedmann Ignacio
Published: February 2025

From a national level to give Internet technology support, the Nationwide Integrated Healthcare System in Uruguay requires a model of Information Systems Architecture. This system has multiple healthcare providers (public and private), and a strong component of supplementary services. Thus, the data processing system should have an architecture that considers this fact, while integrating the central services provided by the Ministry of Public Health. The national electronic health record, as well as other related data processing systems, should be based on this architecture. The architecture model described here conceptualizes a federated framework of electronic health record systems, according to the IHE affinity model, HL7 standards, local standards on interoperability and security, as well as technical advice provided by AGESIC. It is the outcome of the research done by AGESIC and Systems Integration Laboratory (LINS) on the development and use of the e-Government Platform since 2008, as well as the research done by the team Salud.uy since 2013.
The Shared Decision Making Frontier: a Feasibility and Usability Study for Managing Non-Critical Chronic Illness by Combining Behavioural & Decision Theory with Online Technology
Authors: Russell Amina  , Van Woensel William  , Abidi Samina Raza
Published: February 2025

The objective of this study is to determine if shared decisions for managing non-critical chronic illness, made through an online biomedical technology intervention, us feasible and usable. The technology intervention incorporates behavioural and decision theories to increase patient engagement, and ultimately long term adherence to health behaviour change. We devised the iheart web intervention as a “proof of concept” in five phases. The implementation incorporates the Vaadin web application framework, Drools, EclipseLink and a MySQL database. Two-thirds of the study participants favoured the technology intervention, based on Likert-scale questions from a post-study questionnaire. Qualitative analysis of think aloud feedback, video screen captures and open-ended questions from the post-study questionnaire uncovered six main areas or themes for improvement. We conclude that online shared decisions for managing a non-critical chronic illness are feasible and usable through the iheart web intervention.
On Building an Ontological Knowledge Base for Managing Patient Safety Events
Authors: Liang Chen  , Gong Yang
Published: February 2025

Over the past decade, improving healthcare quality and safety through patient safety event reporting systems has drawn much attention. Unfortunately, such systems are suffering from low data quality, inefficient data entry and ineffective information retrieval. For improving the systems, we develop a semantic web ontology based on the WHO International Classification for Patient Safety (ICPS) and AHRQ Common Formats for patient safety event reporting. The ontology holds potential in enhancing knowledge management and information retrieval, as well as providing flexible data entry and case analysis for both reporters and reviewers of patient safety events. In this paper, we detailed our efforts in data acquisition, transformation, implementation and initial evaluation of the ontology.
Lead User Design: Medication Management in Electronic Medical Records
Authors: Price Morgan  , Weber Jens H.  , Davies Iryna  , Bellwood Paule
Published: February 2025

Improvements in medication management may lead to a reduction of preventable errors. Usability and user experience issues are common and related to achieving benefits of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). This paper reports on a novel study that combines the lead user method with a safety engineering review to discover an innovative design for the medication management module in EMRs in primary care. Eight lead users were recruited that represented prescribers and clinical pharmacists with expertise in EMR design, evidence-based medicine, medication safety and medication research. Eight separate medication management module designs were prototyped and validated, one with each lead user. A parallel safety review of medicaiton management was completed. The findings were synthesized into a single common set of goals, activities and one interactive, visual prototype. The lead user method with safety review proved to be an effective way to elicit diverse user goals and synthesize them into a common design. The resulting design ideas focus on meeting the goals of quality, efficiency, safety, reducing the cognitive load on the user, and improving communication wih the patient and the care team. Design ideas are being adapted to an existing EMR product, providing areas for further work.
Making an APPropriate Care Program for Indigenous Cardiac Disease: Customization of an Existing Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
Authors: Bradford DanaKai  , Hansen David  , Karunanithi Mohan
Published: February 2025

Cardiovascular disease is a major health problem for all Australians and is the leading cause of death in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. In 2010, more then 50% of all heart attack deaths were due to repeated events. Cardiac rehabilitation programs have been proven to be effective in preventing the recurrence of cardiac events and readmission to hospitals. There are however, many barriers to the use of these programs. To address these barriers, CSIRO developed an IT enabled cardiac rehabilitation program delivered by mobile phone through a smartphone app and succesfully trialed it in an urban general population. If these results can be replicated in Indigenous populations, the program has the potential to significantly improve life expectancy and help close the gap in health outcomes. The challenge described in this paper is customizing the existing cardiac health program to make it culturally relevant and suitable for Indigenous Australians living in urban and remote communities.
Health Information Technology Evaluation Framework (HITREF) Comprehensiveness as Assessed in Electronic Point-of-Care Documentation Systems Evaluations
Authors: Sockolow Paulina S.  , Bowles Kathryn H.  , Rogers Michelle
Published: February 2025

We assessed the Health Information Technology (HIT) Reference-based Evaluation Framework (HITREF) comprehensiveness in two HIT evaluations in settings different from that in which the HITREF was developed. Clinician satisfaction themes that emerged from clinician interviews in the home care and the hospital studies were compared to the framework components. Across both studies, respondents commented on 12 of the 20 HITREF components within 5 of the 6 HITREF concepts. No new components emerged that were missing from the HITREF providing evidence that the HITREF is a comprehensive framework. HITREF use in a range of HIT evaluations by researchers new to the HITREF demonstrates that it can be used as intended. Therefore, we continue to recommend the HITREF as a comprehensive, research-based HIT evaluation framework to increase the capacity of informatics evaluators' use of best practice and evidence-based practice to support the credibility of their findings for fulfilling the purpose of program evaluation.
Driving the Profession of Health Informatics: The Australasian College of Health Informatics
Authors: Pearce Christopher  , Veil Klaus  , Williams Peter  , Cording Andrew  , Liaw Siaw-Teng  , Grain Heather
Published: February 2025

Across the world, bodies representing health informatics or promoting health informatics are either societies of common interest or universities with health informatics courses/departments. Professional colleges in Health Informatics (similar to the idea of professional colleges in other health fields) are few and far between. The Australasian College of Health Informatics has been in existence since 2001, and has an increasing membership of nearly 100 fellows and members, acting as a national focal point for the promotion of Health Informatics in Australasia.
Person-Specific Standardized Vulnerability Assessment in Health and Social Care
Authors: Deleris Léa A.  , Aonghusa Pól Mac  , Shorten Robert
Published: February 2025

We describe an integrated person-specific standardized vulnerability assessment model designed to facilitate patient management in health and social care. Such a system is not meant to replace existing health and social assessment models but rather to complement them by providing a holistic picture of the vulnerabilities faced by a given patient. In fact, it should be seen as a screening tool for health and social care workers. One key aspect of the modeling framework is the ability to provide personalized yet standardized multi-dimensional assessments of risk based on incomplete information about the patient status, as is the case in screening situations. Specifically, we integrate a Markov chain model describing the evolution of patients in and out of vulnerable states over time with a Bayesian network that serves to customize the dynamic model. We present an application in the context of elder care.
Health Informatics: Developing a Masters Programme in Rwanda based on the IMIA Educational Recommendations and the IMIA Knowledge Base
Authors: Wright Graham  , Verbeke Frank  , Nyssen Marc  , Betts Helen
Published: February 2025

Since 2011, the Regional e-Health Center of Excellence in Rwanda (REHCE) has run an MSc in Health Informatics programme (MSc HI). A programme review was commissioned in February 2014 after 2 cohorts of students completed the post-graduate certificate and diploma courses and most students had started preparatory activity for their master dissertation.
Recruit - An Ontology Based Information Retrieval System for Clinical Trials Recruitment
Authors: Patrão Diogo F.C.  , Oleynik Michel  , Massicano Felipe  , Morassi Sasso Ariane
Published: February 2025

Clinical trials are studies designed to assess whether a new intervention is better than the current alternatives. However, most of them fail to recruit participants on schedule. It is hard to use Electronic Health Record (EHR) data to find eligible patients, therefore studies rely on manual assessment, which is time consuming, inefficient and requires specialized training. In this work we describe the design and development of an information retrieval system with the objective of finding eligible patients for cancer trials. The Recruit system has been in use at A. C. Camargo Cancer Center since August/2014 and contains data from more than 500,000 patients and 9 databases. It uses ontologies to integrate data from several sources and represent medical knowledge, which helps enhance results. One can search both in structured data and inside free text reports. The preliminary quality assessments shows excellent recall rates. Recruit proved to be an useful tool for researchers and its modular design could be applied to other clinical conditions and hospitals.
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research in Practice: The CAPriCORN Infrastructure
Authors: Solomonides Anthony  , Goel Satyender  , Hynes Denise  , Silverstein Jonathan C.  , Hota Bala  , Trick William  , Angulo Francisco  , Price Ron  , Sadhu Eugene  , Zelisko Susan  , Fischer James  , Furner Brian  , Hamilton Andrew  , Phua Jasmin  , Brown Wendy  , Hohmann Samuel F.  , Meltzer David  , Tarlov Elizabeth  , Weaver Frances M.  , Zhang Helen  , Concannon Thomas  , Kho Abel
Published: February 2025

CAPriCORN, the Chicago Area Patient Centered Outcomes Research Network, is one of the eleven PCORI-funded Clinical Data Research Networks. A collaboration of six academic medical centers, a Chicago public hospital, two VA hospitals and a network of federally qualified health centers, CAPriCORN addresses the needs of a diverse community and overlapping populations. To capture complete medical records without compromising patient privacy and confidentiality, the network created policies and mechanisms for patient consultation, central IRB approval, de-identification, de-duplication, and integration of patient data by study cohort, randomization and sampling, re-identification for consent by providers and patients, and communication with patients to elicit patient-reported outcomes through validated instruments. The paper describes these policies and mechanisms and discusses two case studies to prove the feasibility and effectiveness of the network.
An Approach for Automatic Classification of Radiology Reports in Spanish
Authors: Cotik Viviana  , Filippo Darío  , Castaño José
Published: February 2025

Automatic detection of relevant terms in medical reports is useful for educational purposes and for clinical research. Natural language processing (NLP) techniques can be applied in order to identify them.
Time-Series Data Analysis of Long-Term Home Blood Pressure Measurements in Relation to Lifestyle
Authors: Takeuchi Hiroshi  , Kodama Naoki  , Takahashi Shingo
Published: February 2025

We conducted a long-term time-series analysis of an individual's home blood pressure measurements, stored on a personal healthcare system in cloud, relative to the individual's life-style. In addition to daily scattering, apparent seasonal variations were observed in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure measurements. We examined the effect of seasonal variations on the outcome of a healthcare data mining process that extracts rules between blood pressure measurements and life-style components such as exercise and diet, and found that the daily blood pressure data approached a normal distribution when adjusted for the seasonal variations. This implies that an adjustment is desirable in order to produce appropriate rules in the healthcare data mining process.
The Improvement of Dental Posture Using Personalized Biofeedback
Authors: Thanathornwong Bhornsawan  , Suebnukarn Siriwan
Published: February 2025

Background: Dentists are subject to staying in static or awkward postures for long periods due to their highly concentrated work.
Validation for Accuracy of Cancer Diagnosis in Electronic Medical Records Using a Text Mining Method
Authors: Lee Yura  , Shin Soo-Yong  , Ahn Sung-Min  , Lee Jae-Ho  , Kim Woo-Sung
Published: February 2025

To validate the accuracy of data in electronic medical record, we compared cancer diagnosis and key words in pathologic reports of cancer patients in a tertiary hospital, using text mining method. We investigated in fourteen kinds of cancers that had highest incidence rates in Korea. Approximately two-third (71.0%) of total patients had right match in cancer diagnosis with pathologic report. The ratio of concurrence was the highest (86.3%) in thyroid cancer patients, however, the ratio was the lowest (49.9%) in liver cancer patients. To prevent the errors in data input, a systematic alarm and feedback to clinicians should be required.
Description of a Mobile-based Electronic Informed Consent System Development
Authors: Hwang Min-A  , Kwak In Ja
Published: February 2025

Seoul National University Hospital constructed and implemented a computer-based informed consent system in December 2011. As of 2013, 30% of the informed consents were still filled out manually on paper. Patients and medical staff continuously suggested the implementation of a system for electronic informed consent using portable devices. Therefore, a mobile-based system for electronic informed consent was developed in 2013 to prevent the issues that arise with computer-based systems and paper informed consent. The rate of filling out electronic informed consent increased from 69% to 95% following the implementation of the mobile-based electronic informed consent. This construction of a mobile-based electronic informed consent system would be a good reference point for the development of a mobile-based Electronic Medical Record and for various mobile system environments in medical institutions.
Is Access to eHealth Records Important for Patients? – Opinions of Healthcare Personnel
Authors: Scandurra Isabella  , Ålander Ture
Published: February 2025

Sweden has had significant progress with the the introduction of electronic health records. A pilot county deployed in an eHealth service in 2012, giving access to health records for all of its patients. This eHealth service is, however, a controversial issue. Two surveys were conducted to discover whether healthcare professionals' opinions differ between professionals, and between staff who have had experience with patients using eHealth records and those, to date, who have had none. Experienced nurses found this eHealth service more important for the patients compared to unexperienced nurses outside the pilot county, as well as both semi-experienced physicians.
An Integrated Workflow For Secondary Use of Patient Data for Clinical Research
Authors: Bouzillé Guillaume  , Sylvestre Emmanuelle  , Campillo-Gimenez Boris  , Renault Eric  , Ledieu Thibault  , Delamarre Denis  , Cuggia Marc
Published: February 2025

This work proposes an integrated workflow for secondary use of medical data to serve feasibility studies, and the prescreening and monitoring of research studies. All research issues are initially addressed by the Clinical Research Office through a research portal and subsequently redirected to relevant experts in the determined field of concentration. For secondary use of data, the workflow is then based on the clinical data warehouse of the hospital. A datamart with potentially eligible research candidates is constructed. Datamarts can either produce aggregated data, de-identified data, or identified data, according to the kind of study being treated. In conclusion, integrating the secondary use of data process into a general research workflow allows visibility of information technologies and improves the accessability of clinical data.
Implementing Georeferencing in the Decision-Making Process of a Health Care Provider in Uruguay
Authors: Silva Layes Elizabeth  , Morales Fernando  , Leivas Julio
Published: February 2025

Proper management of information is not only essential but also critical in any organization's decision making process. Data integration and spacial visualization are the key features of georeferencial systems, which bring support to decision making in epidemiology as well as sanitary planning.This paper shows the development of a georeferential system that interacts with the data provided by the Health Care System.Thereby allowing creation of viable methods which will help to improve patient care, treatments, and interventions through building space-time relationships.
Nursing Software for Emergency Triage (NSET)
Authors: Mandirola Brieux H.F.  , Guillen S.  , La Rosa F.  , Moreno C.  , Benitez S.
Published: February 2025

Determining the priority of attention in an Emergency Room (ER) has always been a difficult issue. Priority is determined with a simple triage system as people arrive at the hospital. It is important to establish how long they can wait for treatment. In order to obtain the best assessment of patients' conditions, we built a Nursing Software for Emergency Triage (NSET). The objective of this work was to assess the efficacy of the NSET versus the triage process without any software (TWS). Results showed that the NSET we built was a substantial help. With this software, we decreased significantly:1) the length of the triage system process, 2) the waiting time of patients in the waiting room, 3) the number of complaints and 4) the number of patients who walk away. In conclusion, the NSET improves and helps to define more accurately a patient's risk. NSET helps in the emergency department triage.
Clinical Decision Support Using Electronic Medical Records: For the Improvement of Diabetes Care and Proper Use of Insulin for Inpatients
Authors: Seto Ryoma  , Wakabayashi Susumu
Published: February 2025

The aim of the study is to develop a scheme of a decision support system concerning insulin intervention for inpatients. Transaction data for 32,637 inpatients were collected from the EMR. As a result, antidiabetic agents were not taken by 38.9%–41.7% of patients with a Disease Complicated by DM. It is recommended that the EMR should provide a suggestion about insulin level for diseases with DM as a complicating factor.
Visualizing Sensor Data through an Open Platform for Connected Devices
Authors: Bock Christian  , Le Thai  , Samuel Arjmand  , Huang Danny  , Thompson Hilaire J.  , Demiris George
Published: February 2025

Integrating sensor systems within the home can be a tedious process due to the challenges of deploying systems across multiple environments, customizing applications, and connecting across various devices. We demonstrate the deployment of sensors using the Lab of Things platform within a residence over a 3 month period. We developed a real time visualization application from the generated sensor data, and evaluated it through a survey with 19 older adults and caregivers. Findings can be a valuable guide to scale a study across multiple settings, and to create personalized interfaces.
Automated Evaluation of Medical Software Usage: Algorithm and Statistical Analyses
Authors: Cao Ming  , Chen Yong  , Zhu Min  , Zhang Jiajie
Published: February 2025

Evaluating the correctness of medical software usage is critically important in healthcare system management. Turf [1] is a software that can effectively collect interactions between user and computer. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to compare the recorded human-computer interaction events with a predefined path. Based on the pass/fail results, statistical analysis methods are proposed for two applications: to identify training effects and to compare products of the same functionality.
Digital Inclusion for Older Adults based on Physical Activities: an Age Concern
Authors: Gusmão Cristine  , Menezes Jr. Júlio  , Pina Carmelo  , Lima Juliana  , Barbosa Neto João
Published: February 2025

Nowadays, we are living in an interdependent and interconnected world during an age that is driven by technological progress. It has extraordinary potential to improve the quality of later life: creating social networks to tackle isolation and loneliness; transforming services to help people live independently at home for longer; empowering consumers; and enabling civil participation. In light of this, this poster aims to present the development process of a digital booklet for mobile devices – smartphones and tablets that illustrate the benefits of doing physical exercises for older adults aiming to improve life quality and minimizing digital exclusion.
3D CPR Game Can Improve CPR Skill Retention
Authors: Li Jia  , Xu Yimin  , Xu Yahong  , Yue Peng  , Sun Liu  , Guo Ming  , Xiao Shuqin  , Ding Shu  , Cui Yanyan  , Li Shulan  , Yang Qiuying  , Chang Polun  , Wu Ying
Published: February 2025

Adequate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skill is essential in improving survival rate of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). However, the skill deteriorates rapidly following CPR training. We developed a computer game by using 3-Dimensional virtual technology (3-D CPR game) for laypersons in the purpose to improve skill retention. As the testing phase, a randomized control trial, in which we recruited 97 freshman medical students who had no prior CPR training experience, was used to test its effect on 3-month CPR Skill retention. The usability of the game was also tested using a 33 item questionnaire rated with 5-point Likert scale. Three months after the initial CPR training, the retention rate of CPR skill in the game group was significantly higher compared with the control (p<0.05) and the average score on 4 dimensions of usability were 3.99-4.05. Overall, using 3-D CPR game in improving CPR skill retention is feasible and effective.
(Br-SCMM) Brazilian Smart City Maturity Model: A Perspective from the Health Domain
Authors: Afonso Ricardo Alexandre  , dos Santos Brito Kellyton  , Holanda do Nascimento Clóvis  , Campos da Costa Luciana  , Álvaro Alexandre  , Cardoso Garcia Vinicius
Published: February 2025

The term definition “Smart City” still allows various interpretations, and this causes some difficulty in establishing parameters to measure how smart the cities can be. This paper presents a Maturity Model that uses a set of minimum domains and indicators that aim to encourage cities of different sizes to identify their potential and improve processes and public policies.
Care Professionals' Perceived Usefulness Of A Rehabilitation Ehealth Service In Stroke Care
Authors: Davoody Nadia  , Hägglund Maria
Published: February 2025

Despite many attempts to support stroke patients, there is still room for improvement. The aim of this study is to gain insight into care professionals' perceived usefulness of an online care and rehabilitation planning tool. A functional prototype was developed and presented to a neurology team in a primary care centre in Stockholm. Three focus group meetings were conducted. The data were analysed based on the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology. The results indicate that the care professionals were positive towards the tool and described potential usefulness such as ease of understanding the rehabilitation process and support for collaboration among care providers and also cooperation between the patient and the team. They also identified challenges such as time limitation in daily care.
Telehealth in Brazil: Contemporary Tool for Access to Health
Authors: Vieira Esteves Thais  , Pacheco de Oliveira Sérgio
Published: February 2025

This work raises questions about telehealth in Brazil, especially the areas of diagnosis, treatment and monitoring at distance, emphasizing its importance for the improvement of health conditions. It was based on a literature review. Three successful experiences were selected as examples: The Minas Gerais Project Telecardio, the São Paulo University Teleaudiology and Telerehabilitiation of UnB. Despite the increase of telehealth experiences in Brazil, much remains to be done in regard to diagnosis, treatment and follow-up, with potential positive effects on health.
End-User Experiences and Expectations Regarding Data Registration and Reuse Before the Implementation of a (New) Electronic Health Record: A Case Study in Two University Hospitals
Authors: Joukes Erik  , de Keizer Nicolette  , Abu-Hanna Ameen  , de Bruijne Martine  , Cornet Ronald
Published: February 2025

Patient data stored in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are used during care provision but are also potentially usefully reused for other purposes. Data (re)use requires good data quality, which necessitates efforts by healthcare professionals for proper data registration. However, their commitment depends on their perception of the reuse benefits. We developed a questionnaire to investigate the perception and expectations of end-users on data registration and reuse in two university hospitals starting a joint EHR implementation. Especially personnel in direct patient care reports to spend much time (40%) on data registration and this group is not willing to spend more time with the new EHR. Additionally, approximately one third of the personnel did not yet have a clear view on future developments regarding data registration and reuse. We found only small differences between hospitals.
Assessing User Needs and Requirements for Assistive Robots at Home
Authors: Werner Katharina  , Werner Franz
Published: February 2025

‘Robots in healthcare’ is a very trending topic. This paper gives an overview of currently and commonly used methods to gather user needs and requirements in research projects in the field of assistive robotics. Common strategies between authors are presented as well as examples of exceptions, which can help future researchers to find methods suitable for their own work. Typical problems of the field are discussed and partial solutions are proposed.
Collaboration between Industrial Designers and Design Engineers – Comparing the Understanding of Design Intent
Authors: Laursen Esben Skov  , Møller Louise
Published: February 2025

This paper describes a case study comparing the understanding of design intent between industrial designers and design engineers. The study is based on the hypothesis that it is not all aspects of the design intent that are equally difficult to share between industrial designers and design engineers in the product development process. The study builds on five semi-structured interviews, where two industrial designers and three design engineers were interviewed about different aspects of the design intent. Based on our results, there seem to be indications that the more complex and abstract elements of industrial design knowledge such as the meaning, semantics, values, emotions and social aspects of the product are less shared by the design engineers. Moreover, the results also indicate that the different aspects of the design intent are perceived separately, rather than as part of a whole by the design engineers. The connection between the different aspects of the design intent is not shared between the industrial designer and design engineer making the shared knowledge less meaningful to the design engineers. The results of this study cannot be claimed to be conclusive due to the limited empirical material. Further investigation and analytically richer data are required in order to verify and broaden the findings. More case studies have therefore been planned in order to understand the area better.
Supporting shoulder rehabilitation – designing simple devices aiding physiotherapy
Authors: Fiszter Ildikó  , Sisák Krisztián
Published: February 2025

The authors present simple devices which can facilitate and improve shoulder rehabilitation following various conditions. These commercially available and easily assembled functional aids improve patient experience and allow the bulk of the rehabilitation to take place in the patients' home environment.
Advanced work capacity testing
Authors: Bretz Károly J.  , Dános László  , Smudla Szilvia  , Pálosi Adrienn
Published: February 2025

The aim of this study is to describe an accurate work capacity testing which can be used in the industry, as well as in rehabilitation process.