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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"e-Health"”.
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Dynamic trust negotiation for decentralised e-health collaborations
… environments with specific focus on e-Health environments. DTN describes how trust pathways can be discovered and subsequently how remote security credentials can be mapped to local security credentials through trust contracts, thereby bridging the gap that makes decentralised security …
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E-health, social media and the law in South Africa can ethical concerns in e-health practice be addressed through regulation?
… various legal and ethical difficulties faced by health practitioners and patients alike in the application and practice of ehealth. These include informed consent, the relationship between the doctor and patient, accuracy of online content, confidentiality, privacy, data security and licensure. …
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Can increasing surface credibility improve e-health intervention effectiveness?
… such factors play in the effectiveness of two e-health interventions. An e-health intervention is a health related website designed to change a person’s behaviour.<br/>Until now research into credibility has been largely theoretical. Studies have relied on subjective outcome measures such as …
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Design issues in the Knowledge Based E-Health Project
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2002.
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Chronic Pain Beyond Measure: E-Health and the Politics of Pain Care
… this study of chronic pain is the focus on e-health: the use of digital technologies in health. Therefore, more narrowly, this is a project about how the digitalization of healthcare impacts people living with chronic pain. From immersive serious games to symptom tracking applications to …
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E-health reference framework for personalised information provision to promote sound lifestyles
In the present context of increased healthcare demand and costs, health maintenance by prevention is a major strategic objective of public health systems. Western societies increasingly suffer from lifestyle-related diseases triggered by an unbalanced diet, physical inactivity, smoking or alcohol …
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PUBLIC E-HEALTH: THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET ON THE WORLD OF HEALTH
… change is ultimately influencing the health sector. In this perspective, it is important to assess how the Internet has affected the health world thus far. Subsequently, we can try to identify the criticalities and the potential of these changes, and how this process could develop. The …
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Towards secure and privacy preserving e-health data exchanges through consent based access control
How we administer healthcare continues to evolve alongside the advancement of information technology. As we become more connected, the Internet of Things and our want to share information in a timely manner encourage us to redefine and enhance how we exchange health information. A fully integrated, …
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Bridging the digital divide: examining the use and access to e-health based technologies by millennials and older adults in Ontario, Canada
… adult generation may not be familiar with e-Health usage, compared to generations such as millennials. A convenience non-random descriptive comparative study was conducted; Information was collected based on demographics; health information collection, usage and distribution; E-health and …
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Towards Security and Privacy in Networked Medical Devices and Electronic Healthcare Systems
<p>E-health is a growing eld which utilizes wireless sensor networks to enable access to effective and efficient healthcare services and provide patient monitoring to enable early detection and treatment of health conditions. Due to the proliferation of e-health systems, security and privacy have …
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A Priority-based Fair Queuing (PFQ) Model for Wireless Healthcare System
Healthcare is a very active research area, primarily due to the increase in the elderly population that leads to increasing number of emergency situations that require urgent actions. In recent years some of wireless networked medical devices were equipped with different sensors to measure and …
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EXAMINING THE GET YOURSELF TESTED CAMPAIGN: HOW ONLINE INFORMATION SEEKING AND SEXUAL HEALTH PERCEPTIONS INFLUENCE EFFICACY AND COMMUNICATIVE ACTION
… young adults' meaning construction of sexual health, sexual health campaigns, and online sexual health information through the lens of the GYT: Get Yourself Tested Campaign. A secondary purpose is to develop theory in the area of e-health. Finally, this study will offer practical …
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Access and information flow control to secure mobile web service compositions in resource constrained environments
… use of mobile web services such as electronic health records systems and applications like twitter, Facebook has increased interest in robust mechanisms for ensuring security for such information sharing services. Common security mechanisms such as access control and information flow control …
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Responsive temperature and pressure sensor design for in-situ prosthesis monitoring applications based on the piezoelectric and pyroelectric effects in lead zirconate titanate
… particular importance as an indicator of tissue health. With this in mind, a prototype wearable sensor for real-time temperature measurement at the skin/prosthetic socket/liner interface was developed and measurements that provide a proof of concept are presented. The sensor exploits the large …
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Education of Hypertensive Young Adults to Improve Health Habits: A Systematic Review [paper]
… education to young adults would improve overall health habits and self-efficacy. The focus of this research was specifically on young adults with hypertension. The goal of this research is to stratify long term risks associated with uncontrolled hypertension and to evaluate if this intervention …
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Improving network performance in the health care system: a network-based analysis of the Hungarian health care services = A hálózati teljesítmény javítása az egészségügyi rendszerben: a magyar egészségügyi szolgáltatások hálózati megközelítésű elemzése
… what role networks play in the organisation of health services, and how networks can contribute to better performance in the health care sector. Literature about performance measurement and management of public services as well as network research in public administration and public management …
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A Pilot Study- Identify Genetic Variants for Diabetic Cataract Using GoDARTS Dataset
… who has ever been recorded in the linked e-health records to have cataracts in one or both eyes and who had previous cataract extraction surgeries in at least one eye. A control in this study was defined as a type 2 diabetic individual who has never been diagnosed as cataract in the linked …
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Investigating the use of electronic referrals to facilitate the patient referral process in Southern African public hospitals
Digital health interventions, particularly electronic referrals (e-referrals) and health information systems, have revolutionised clinical workflows in public hospitals by automating processes. However, the utilisation of e-referrals has yielded mixed outcomes, with varying levels of success in …
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Investigating the use of electronic referrals to facilitate the patient referral process in Southern African public hospitals
Digital health interventions, particularly electronic referrals (e-referrals) and health information systems, have revolutionised clinical workflows in public hospitals by automating processes. However, the utilisation of e-referrals has yielded mixed outcomes, with varying levels of success in …
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