Patients do considerable information work. Technologies that help patients manage health information so they can play active roles in their health-care, such as personal health re...
Predrag V. Klasnja, Andrea Civan-Hartzler, Kenton ...
We describe a mobile robot system, designed to assist residents of an retirement facility. This system is being developed to respond to an aging population and a predicted shortage...
Patients’ basic understanding of clinical events has been shown to dramatically improve patient care. We propose that the automatic generation of very short microexplanations, s...
Lauren Wilcox, Dan Morris, Desney S. Tan, Justin G...
A number of applications based on personal health records (PHRs) are emerging in the field of health care and wellness. PHRs empower patients by giving them control over their hea...
With many industrialized societies bearing the cost of an increasingly sedentary lifestyle on the health of their populations there is a need to find new ways of encouraging physic...