The evolution from a disease-centered model of care to a more patient-centered model presents opportunities for going beyond designing technology to support medical professionals ...
We describe an approach to healthcare coordination using object life cycles (OLCs) [1]. By consulting the OLC of a given patient object instance, the legal methods to apply to tha...
Sistine Barretto, James R. Warren, Markus Stumptne...
Guidelines for clinical practice are being introduced in an extensive way in more and more different fields of medicine They have the potential to improve the quality and cost-effi...
The monumental cost of health care, especially for chronic disease treatment, is quickly becoming unmanageable. This crisis has motivated the drive towards preventative medicine, ...
Darcy A. Davis, Nitesh V. Chawla, Nicholas Blumm, ...
The development of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) for wireless sensing and monitoring of a person’s vital functions, is an enabler in providing better personal health care w...