An Agent Based System for the Contextual Retrieval of Medical Information

Rodríguez, Marcela D.; Preciado, Alfredo

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-24681-7_9

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“…Novel technological solutions are essential in order to effectively address these challenges. For this purpose, scholars have been suggesting the employment of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) techniques to help nurses and doctors in their work (Rodriguez, Favelaa, Preciado, & Vizcaino, 2005), as well as to back the concept of ageing in place (Nehmer, Karshmer, Becker, & Lamm, 2006;Friedewald, Da Costa, Punie, Alahuhta, & Heinonen, 2004). Medical personnel are very mobile and frequently share available resources.…”

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confidence: 99%

Using RFID and Wi-Fi in Healthcare

Dingli

Seychell²

2014

International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications

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Europe faces a considerable challenge in providing good quality health care in the forthcoming future as the aging population increases. The phenomenon also results in a considerable cost on society due to the dependency on the public health sector particularly because such individuals would not be able to contribute to the economy. On the other hand, younger persons would need to make alternative arrangements to assist their elderly parents or relatives, potentially affecting productivity. The project PervasIve Nursing And docToral Assistant (PINATA) seeks to tackle this matter through the merging of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) and semantic web technologies. PINATA utilises pervasive devices to aid doctors and nurses to focus on the patient and thus improve the quality of healthcare services. This project proves the significant importance of using wireless technology in healthcare. This paper focuses on the use of Wi-Fi and RFID in an effort to enable continuous and intelligent monitoring of patients' conditions remotely. Results show that the detection system performs well (over 80%) accuracy on fall detection and the manual readings mapped 100% with the results collected by the system over the Wi-Fi infrastructure discussed in this paper.

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Using RFID and Wi-Fi in Healthcare

Dingli

Seychell²

2014

International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications

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“…Policy-based approaches, as the one used for CARMEN [4], have the same goal, that is the separation of concerns, even if they differ on how this separation is achieved. Mobile agents have also been investigated in this scope, the SALSA framework [17] also investigates our application domain, since it addresses information retrieval in healthcare. We are not going to relate further, for this paper, on literature regarding ontologies and knowledge management issues.…”

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confidence: 99%