Evaluation of the Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on an Activity Recognition Platform for Healthcare Systems

López, José Luis Álvarez; Espinilla, Macarena; Verdejo-Espinosa, Ángeles

doi:10.3390/s23073563

Cited by 6 publications

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“…The primary objectives of this study are (1) to illustrate the information related to the most relevant research on accessibility in healthcare websites, including papers from different databases, authors, years of publication, and the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) Impact factors; (2) identify the methods applied for the accessibility evaluation of healthcare websites over the years; and (3) monitor trends in the application of the WCAG in order to identify the existing barriers that may limit access to health information, especially for underserved populations.…”

Section: Study Approach and Research Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A score of one means that the article complies, or zero if it does not comply, with the following criteria. (1) The paper relates to accessibility in health platforms; (2) the WCAG standards applied to accessibility evaluations in health platforms are described; (3) the article discusses the findings of accessibility evaluations; (4) limitations in the evaluated health platforms are described; (5) the journal or conference is indexed in the SJR. For the evaluation of quartiles, the SJR ranking website was used.…”

Section: Search Strategy and Quality Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A health platform [1] is an IT system that provides a common infrastructure for delivering healthcare services. Organizations, including hospitals, clinics, home care providers, and governments, can use healthcare platforms.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Enhancing Sustainability through Accessible Health Platforms: A Scoping Review

Ramírez-Saltos,

Acosta-Vargas,

Acosta-Vargas

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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The digital transformation of healthcare platforms has ushered in a new era of accessibility, making health information and services widely available. This comprehensive scoping review delves into the accessibility landscape of health platforms by analyzing 29 carefully selected research articles. These studies employ automated tools and manual evaluations to evaluate platform accessibility comprehensively. This study revealed that (52%) of these articles are based on automated methods, while 34% combine automated and manual approaches. Most studies show compliance with the latest versions of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), with a significant focus (70%) on compliance with level A. This study reveals recurring issues within the perceivable operable, understandable, and robust categories, underscoring the pressing need for strict the accessibility testing of health platforms. This study demonstrates substantial agreement between raters, reinforced by a Cohen’s kappa coefficient of 0.613, indicating their reliability in classifying the articles. Future efforts should persist in refining accessibility standards, advocating for compliance with the WCAG, exploring innovative methods to assess the accessibility of healthcare platforms, and conducting user-centered research. This review highlights the paramount importance of ensuring equitable access to health information and services for people, regardless of their abilities or conditions, which resonates significantly with the issue of sustainability in healthcare and its socioeconomic and environmental implications.

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Section: Study Approach and Research Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Search Strategy and Quality Evaluationmentioning

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Enhancing Sustainability through Accessible Health Platforms: A Scoping Review

Ramírez-Saltos,

Acosta-Vargas,

Acosta-Vargas

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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“…Healthcare 4.0 creates a smart health network by connecting patients, medical devices, hospitals, clinics, medical suppliers, and other healthcare-related components [ 7 , 8 ]. In this smart network, medical and care delivery decisions are made with much less human involvement; in some cases, even without any human participation [ 9 , 10 ].…”

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Smart Chemical Sensor and Biosensor Networks for Healthcare 4.0

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Eastburn,

Smirk

et al. 2023

Sensors

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Driven by technological advances from Industry 4.0, Healthcare 4.0 synthesizes medical sensors, artificial intelligence (AI), big data, the Internet of things (IoT), machine learning, and augmented reality (AR) to transform the healthcare sector. Healthcare 4.0 creates a smart health network by connecting patients, medical devices, hospitals, clinics, medical suppliers, and other healthcare-related components. Body chemical sensor and biosensor networks (BSNs) provide the necessary platform for Healthcare 4.0 to collect various medical data from patients. BSN is the foundation of Healthcare 4.0 in raw data detection and information collecting. This paper proposes a BSN architecture with chemical sensors and biosensors to detect and communicate physiological measurements of human bodies. These measurement data help healthcare professionals to monitor patient vital signs and other medical conditions. The collected data facilitates disease diagnosis and injury detection at an early stage. Our work further formulates the problem of sensor deployment in BSNs as a mathematical model. This model includes parameter and constraint sets to describe patient body characteristics, BSN sensor features, as well as biomedical readout requirements. The proposed model’s performance is evaluated by multiple sets of simulations on different parts of the human body. Simulations are designed to represent typical BSN applications in Healthcare 4.0. Simulation results demonstrate the impact of various biofactors and measurement time on sensor selections and readout performance.

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