The percentage of the elderly population grew rapidly in recent years, so the tremendous life and health care needs became an issue of focus in an aging society. The Elderly Nursing Home plays an important role and intends to provide a comfortable environment and living space and serve as safe and healthy place for the elderly. However, the frailty and fragility of the elderly in both physiologically and psychologically make it an uneasy task. To enhance the service and care quality of an Elderly Nursing Home, a ubiquitous monitor system integrated with biosensors and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology was implemented as a prototyping system. The system was expected to improve the Activity of Daily Living (ADL) of the residents, to detect the emergencies or accidents such as stroke, falling down, fainting, and heart attack, in order to enhance the quality of care and promote efficiency at the same time.

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Indirect immunofluorescence technique applied on HEp-2 cell substrates provides the major screening method to detect ANA patterns in the diagnosis of autoimmune diseases. Currently, the ANA patterns are mostly inspected by experienced physicians to identify abnormal cell patterns. The objective of this study is to design a computer-assisted system to automatically detect cell patterns of IIF images for the diagnosis of autoimmune diseases in the clinical setting. The system simulates the functions of modern flow cytometer and provides the diagnostic reports generated by the system to the technicians and physicians through the radar graphs, box-plots, and tables. The experimental results show that, among the IIF images collected from 17 patients, 6 were classified as coarse-speckled, 3 as diffused, 2 as discrete-speckled, 1 as fine-speckled, 2 as nucleolar, and 3 as peripheral patterns, which were consistent with the patterns determined by the physicians. In addition to recognition of cell patterns, the system also provides the function to automatically generate the report for each patient. The time needed for the whole procedure is less than 30 min, which is more efficient than the manual operation of the physician after inspecting the ANA IIF images. Besides, the system can be easily deployed on many desktop and laptop computers. In conclusion, the designed system, containing functions for automatic detection of ANA cell pattern and generation of diagnostic report, is effective and efficient to assist physicians to diagnose patients with autoimmune diseases. The limitations of the current developed system include (1) only a unique cell pattern was considered for the IIF images collected from a patient, and (2) the cells during the process of mitosis were not adopted for cell classification.

To create the best e-learning environment, the project of Ministry of Education Taiwan, one of the e-Generation projects, established the digital e-learning web that includes Health, Life, Natural, Science, Arts and Cultural e-learning Networks. The health e-Learning Network combines experts in the field of health and physical education and primary and secondary school teachers to develop practical and high quality e-learning content, while also developing lesson plans and related activities. They can be divided into three areas including health education, medical care and sports and leisure which encompass the “Health e-Learning Network” (HeN). The curriculum of HeN (Chen, 2006) covers seven thematic strands and has lesson plans, material, knowledge, and multimedia learning modules for teachers to utilize during class time. Web2.0 is used to lead into the HeN website, enabling teachers the initiative to participate in e-learning, while also giving users their own initiative to build development, two-way interaction, fast response, and so forth (HeN website: http://health.edu.tw).

Today e-learning is not impossible, and it becomes a generation of next education technology. Now e-learning has two directions of developing: the one is the construction of Learning Management System (LMS); and the other is the developing reusable content. Our studies focus on the developing content. Now the medical image information system of hospital usually is Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). In PACS, the form of information and image are HL7 and DICOM; for the reusability of content, we decide SCORM to be our conformant. However, the forms of data have difference between SCORM, and DICOM, so in our studies, we will design an authoring tool that can transform the information from DICOM image into the SCORM course.

To create the best e-learning environment, the project of Ministry of Education Taiwan, one of the e-Generation projects, established the digital e-learning web that includes Health, Life, Natural, Science, Arts and Cultural e-learning Networks. The health e-Learning Network combines experts in the field of health and physical education and primary and secondary school teachers to develop practical and high quality e-learning content, while also developing lesson plans and related activities. They can be divided into three areas including health education, medical care and sports and leisure which encompass the “Health e-Learning Network” (HeN). The curriculum of HeN (Chen, 2006) covers seven thematic strands and has lesson plans, material, knowledge, and multimedia learning modules for teachers to utilize during class time. Web2.0 is used to lead into the HeN website, enabling teachers the initiative to participate in e-learning, while also giving users their own initiative to build development, two-way interaction, fast response, and so forth (HeN website: http://health.edu.tw).

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Problem: In Taiwan, approximately 62.1% of all music majors in universities have suffered musculoskeletal injuries. [1] Health Promotion in Schools of Music Conference (HPSM) 2004 proposed that university music departments provide a "course that covers the occupational health concerns related to music."[5] The conference concluded that schools of music play a vital role in helping reduce the incidence of performance-related injuries, as first contact medical surrogates. Therefore, the courses on Health Promotion for Music Performers (HPMP) are important for the students of music majors. HPMP course needs the interdisciplinary experts, music and medical experts. Method: In the research, we use e-learning on the courses, Health Promotion for Music Performers. To facilitate cross-domain interaction and cross-school mentoring, an e-learning model was adopted. The collaborative efforts of the