Leveraging the IoT to Enable the Guided Self-Determination Method
AbstractToday, chronic conditions such as diabetes, obesity and cancer and mental health are dominating the healthcare agendas of most, if not all, OECD countries and many developing countries. The...
View ArticleData for Social Good: A Tripartite Approach to Address Diabetes Self-Care and...
AbstractDiabetes, a massive problem globally, is noted by the WHO as the silent epidemic. By 2020, there would be a 54% rise in individuals diagnosed with this disease between 2010 and 2020 (WHO,...
View ArticleClinical Tele-Assessment: The Missing Piece in Healthcare Pathways for...
AbstractAn aging population coupled with longer life expectancy has resulted in an exponential growth in total hip and total knee replacements (THR and TKR, respectively). This, in turn, is providing a...
View ArticleUsing Colored Petri Nets for Optimization of Healthcare Processes
AbstractSimulation has been used in various aspects of healthcare delivery. One significant area has been the role of computer modeling and simulation use in the research and development of emergency...
View ArticleLeveraging Information Technology in Pharmacovigilance: Benefits for...
AbstractPharmacovigilance targets the safety of medicine. The collection and clinical risk assessment of post-marketing safety data are critical for evaluating and characterizing the safety profile of...
View ArticleTelehealth Implementation: A Synopsis of Patients’ Experience of Clinical...
AbstractTelehealth, which is the delivery of healthcare services at a distance using information and telecommunications technology, has increased healthcare access to rural and remote communities and...
View ArticleScoping Mobile Clinical Decision Support Systems to Enhance Design and...
AbstractClinical decision-making is crucial for quality health care, and mistakes in clinical decision-making can contribute to medical errors. Medical errors can then lead to adverse health and cost...
View ArticleBetter Pandemic Preparedness with the Intelligence Continuum
AbstractCOVID-19, a devastating global pandemic, has disrupted lives and killed millions of people worldwide. Such an emergency and disaster situation serves to highlight the utter chaos, devastation...
View ArticleRealising the Healthcare Value Proposition of Better Access, Quality and...
AbstractIn most OECD countries, healthcare delivery is facing significant challenges to provide quality care, appropriate levels of access for all and high value. In this chapter, we present a model...
View ArticleThe Internet Hospital in the Time of COVID-19: An Example from China
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic that has affected the world in 2020 has also served as a catalyst for innovative technology solutions to effectively, efficiently and safely administer care. One such...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Response in Australia and the United States (March–August 2020) and...
AbstractThe global COVID-19 pandemic dominated 2020 and caused severe and long-lasting impacts for the world with far-reaching implications, the full extent of which is yet to be understood. The...
View ArticleThe Case for Digital Twins in Healthcare
AbstractDigital twins, a virtual representation that is essentially a real-time digital counterpart of a physical object or process, first originated from NASA in an attempt to improve the physical...
View ArticleWhy Do You Want Me to Use This EMR?
AbstractIn Australia currently and globally, for a number of years, the implementation of EMR (electronic medical record) systems has accelerated. While Australia is only just commencing on this...
View ArticlePreadmission assessment of extended length of hospital stay with RFECV-ETC...
AbstractBackgroundPatients who exceed their expected length of stay in the hospital come at a cost to stakeholders in the healthcare sector as bed spaces are limited for new patients, nosocomial...
View ArticleEnsuring a Superior Level of Prepareness and Readiness by Adopting a...
AbstractIn December 2019 cases of pneumonia were first detected. By April 2020 the global pandemic called COVID-19 was declared by the WHO. As of January 2021, nearly 2 million people globally had died...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing Operational and Design Flaws of Diabetes Mobile Apps
AbstractUnfortunately, many of the diabetes mobile apps have operational and design flaws that are debarring users from maximizing from the self-management paradigm. We, therefore, aim to identify the...
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