The reason for this review based on the results of many meta- analyses is the great assessed difference in the methods of most studies in e-Health, telemedicine and tele-rehabilitation. It consists of different understanding of new terms, using different hard- and software, including criteria, different methodology of patient’s treatment and its evaluation. This status suggests that first of all m-Health/e-Health requires a unique ontology of terms using and methodology of studies comparing. In this review we try to describe shortly the most significant points of modern e-Health field of medicine. The basic parts include methodology of review formation, tele-communication implementation results, tele-education, interactive questioning, tele-consultation, telemedicine diagnosis, tele-monitoring, rehabilitation and tele-rehabilitation, gamification, acceptability of mobile electronic devices and software in e-Health and planning studies. At the end of the review the new ontological structure of digital medicine is presented.
Electronic health (e-health) and mobile health (m-health) technologies came into medicine on a wave of rapid digitalisation in all areas of public life at the beginning of the 21st century. Even before a group dedicated to digital health was established within European Respiratory Society (ERS) Assembly 1, clinicians and researchers from many ERS assemblies and groups had been exploring the potential of telemedicine and telehealthcare. Significant achievements have been made in using e-health/m-health for tuberculosis treatment control, smoking cessation [1], conducting remote pulmonary rehabilitation, physical activity tele-coaching [2] and supporting self management [3]. @ERSpublications An action plan prepared by @EuroRespSoc Group 01.04 (m-health/e-health) concerning the implementation of digital health interventions in respiratory medicine http://bit.ly/2JeEuox
The paper presents the results of studies directed toward the determination of physical mechanisms and causal factors responsible for variations in the electrical impedance of the cardiovascular system. Experiments were carried out using the original hydrodynamic apparatus modelling different hemodynamic conditions, i.e., a pulsatile flow in a blood vessel of variable diameter, ramified pulmonary blood flows and the function of a cardiac valve. Computer-assisted signal processing techniques provided measurements of the active and capacitive components of the electrical conductivity with an error not exceeding 0.1%. Impedance values were analyzed for different vessel size and geometry, flow rate, temperature, concentration of ionic and dielectric components in some model biological fluids at different frequencies of the probing alternating current. It has been found that bioimpedance oscillations can be mainly attributed to the local modulations of the diameter of blood vessels such as the function of cardiac valves.
A practical method of studying the dynamics of respiratory function associated with the registration of the electrical impedance of conductive biological fluids exhaled by the patient is described. In the model measuring cell, the physical causes and relationships in the conductivity of the air flow, saturated with an electrolytic fluid aerosol created by an ultrasonic nebulizer have been investigated experimentally. The design of a new electrical impedance spirometer in the form of a mouthpiece with electrical sensors, filled with a porous medium impregnated with electrolyte, through which the patient breathes, is developed and tested. To register fluctuations in the magnitude of the impedance modulus, an original hardware and software complex is used, made on the basis of a high-speed analog-to-digital converter. Based on electrical impedance analysis data, the methods are proposed for quantitative assessment of the basic spirometric medical indicators characterizing the state and functioning of the patient’s breathing apparatus, such as respiration rate, entry and expiration rate, exhaled air volume, amount and concentration of exhaled lung fluid.
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