PERVASIVEHEALTH 2009
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    CMPC

    CMPC WORKSHOP (PervasiveHealth) 2009

    The Connectivity, Mobility and Patient's Comfort (CMPC) workshop is the second international workshop organized In conjunction with 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2009. The aim of this workshop is to bring together all scientists and international…

    The Connectivity, Mobility and Patient's Comfort (CMPC) workshop is the second international workshop organized In conjunction with 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2009. The aim of this workshop is to bring together all scientists and international players from the globe, who work on CMPC spects helping elderly and patients to be treated and/or after cared safely at own home. The workshop presenters will discuss scientific knowledge related to healthcare technologies from two different but complementary point of view; Engineering (including the development of novel sensory technologies, telemedicine, advanced and secure wireless and mobile technologies), and Medical implementation in healthcare environments (including hospital, clinic, nursing home, private home with focus on patient's compliance and satisfaction).

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    Editor(s): Gerhard Troester, Kay Connelly and Bert Arnrich
    Publisher
    IEEE
    ISBN
    978-963-9799-42-4
    Conference dates
    4th Aug–31st Mar 2009
    Location
    London, UK
    Appeared in EUDL
    4th Aug 2009
    Appears in
    IEEEXplore

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    • Multimodal platform for communication, training and health monitoring at home

      Research Article in CMPC WORKSHOP (PervasiveHealth) 2009

      J. Ruminski, T. Kocejko, A. Bujnowski, J. Wtorek

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      Health monitoring at home could be an important element of care and support environment for older people. Diversity of diseases and different needs of users require universal design of a home platfor…Health monitoring at home could be an important element of care and support environment for older people. Diversity of diseases and different needs of users require universal design of a home platform. In this work the design of multimodal platform for communication, training and patient monitoring at home is presented and discussed. Two specific problems were investigated: visually guided human-computer interface for immobilized users and GSM-based module for user's home environment monitoring. Results of the camera based eye tracking system shown accepted hit accuracy with longer action time in comparison to traditional mouse. However, user training can highly improve the results. Possible extensions of the tracking and monitoring system are presented.
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    • Wearable wireless ECG monitoring - Hardware prototype for use in patients own home

      Research Article in CMPC WORKSHOP (PervasiveHealth) 2009

      Jakob Justesen, Soren Christian Madsen

      Abstract
      Recent miniaturization of ECG sensors and other health monitoring systems potentially allowing remote monitoring of certain diseases in the patients own home. Exploiting the full potential of this te…Recent miniaturization of ECG sensors and other health monitoring systems potentially allowing remote monitoring of certain diseases in the patients own home. Exploiting the full potential of this technology poses several design challenges for both the miniaturized ECG sensor, as well as the required infrastructure for data transport, storage and diagnosis. This paper proposes an ECG sensor prototype allowing experimentation on sensor technology and signal processing as well as infrastructure. The prototype is based on the Blackfin processor from Analog Devices, and uses Bluetooth for wireless communication.
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    • Trust delegation for medical records access using public mobile networks

      Research Article in CMPC WORKSHOP (PervasiveHealth) 2009

      Dasun Weerasinghe, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Veselin Rakocevic

      Abstract
      This paper provides detailed solutions for trust delegation and secure temporary storage of medical records for authorized users in public mobile communication networks. The solutions presented in th…This paper provides detailed solutions for trust delegation and secure temporary storage of medical records for authorized users in public mobile communication networks. The solutions presented in this paper enable the development of software that can be used by emergency medical units in urgent need of sensitive personal information about unconscious patients. In today's world, technical improvements in mobile communication systems mean that users can expect to have access to data at any time regardless of their location. While this paradigm is a natural goal for both service providers and users in commercial applications, for the exchange of sensitive personal medical information authentication and security present major challenges. This paper presents a token-based procedure for the delegation of trust between a requesting mobile unit and secure medical data storage. Once the trust is established, the received data should only temporarily be available. Our paper presents the design of the proposed solutions and gives details of the software demonstration developed in our research group.
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    • Establishingethical guidelines for telehomecareresearch on chronic diseases

      Research Article in CMPC WORKSHOP (PervasiveHealth) 2009

      Y. Tony Yang

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      Telehomecare technologies are applications designed to be used in patients' personal living spaces ranging from private homes to assisted-living facilities. The goal of these technologies is to help …Telehomecare technologies are applications designed to be used in patients' personal living spaces ranging from private homes to assisted-living facilities. The goal of these technologies is to help physically and/or mentally vulnerable people live more safely, more capably, and longer in their location of choice. The technologies support a person's ability to conduct normal activities of daily living and maintain well-being. This is usually accomplished by integrating the technologies into the home environment, thereby creating a homecare that proactively monitors and reports undesirable events. The technologies focus on disease management and the monitoring of physiologic data for aberrant indicators necessitating clinical treatment. Such technologies have been developed for a wide range of clinical applications to manage mostly chronic diseases (CD), such as monitoring of asthma (eg, a home asthma tele-monitoring system, which assists patients in the daily routine of asthma care with personalized interventions), diabetes (eg, a diabetes care management support system to support care delivery to diabetic patients), and coronary heart disease and sleep apnea (eg, a tele-device which monitors throughout the nights as patient sleeps, and sends information to a diagnostic testing facility, where a report is run and delivered to patient's physician.) Most previous research on telehomecare technology has focused on the effectiveness of the devices, and very little of it specifically addresses the ethical issues in research. This paper employs an ethical perspective, and offers guidelines to apply an ethical model to telehomecare research.
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    • OpenCare project: An open, flexible and easily extendible infrastructure for pervasive healthcare assisted living solutions

      Research Article in CMPC WORKSHOP (PervasiveHealth) 2009

      Stefan Wagner, Claus Nielsen

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      Pervasive healthcare technology is needed to meet the challenges of an aging population in the western world, as well as an expected major shortage of healthcare personnel in the near future. The Ope…Pervasive healthcare technology is needed to meet the challenges of an aging population in the western world, as well as an expected major shortage of healthcare personnel in the near future. The OpenCare Project is an open source infrastructure framework, designed to be used by researchers and corporate developers for developing experimental assisted living prototypes, as well as a complete feature rich systems with a high degree of flexibility and modifiability. Following a motivating discussion on the problem domain, a survey of related research projects and commercial products, points out the need for an open source infrastructure framework. Finally, the OpenCare Project is presented and the overall design is discussed.
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