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Classification of Movement of People with Parkinsons Disease Using Wearable Inertial Movement Units and Machine Learning.

Studies in health technology and informatics
In this work, inertial movement units were placed on people with Parkinsons disease (PwPD) who subsequently performed a standard test of walking endurance (six-minute walk test - 6MWT). Five devices were placed on each the limbs and small of the back...

Converting Text to Structured Models of Healthcare Services.

Studies in health technology and informatics
The paper presents a concise method for transforming textual representations of healthcare services, to a structured, semantically unambiguous modelling language. The method is designed based on literature, as well as trial and error by the authors, ...

Finding 'Evidence of Absence' in Medical Notes: Using NLP for Clinical Inferencing.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Extracting evidence of the absence of a target of interest from medical text can be useful in clinical inferencing. The purpose of our study was to develop a natural language processing (NLP) pipelineto identify the presence of indwelling urinary cat...

Utilization of Communication Robot in Patient Education.

Studies in health technology and informatics
In Japan, the population is expected to decrease. Moreover, the proportion of elderly people living alone among the elderly population is expected to increase for both men and women. Therefore, the demand for elderly care is increasing year by year. ...

Clinical Knowledgebase Integration of Nursing Terminology.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Medicomp Point of Care Clinical Knowledgebase, MEDCIN is designed to support integrated care documentation and the care planning functions of nurses and allied health professional. In electronic medical records (EMRs) starting with one or more clinic...

Dementia and Robotics: People with Advancing Dementia and Their Carers Driving an Exploration into an Engineering Solution to Maintaining Safe Exercise Regimes.

Studies in health technology and informatics
The merging of the human world and the information technology world is advancing at a pace, even for those with dementia there are many useful smart 'phone applications including reminders, family pictures display, GPS functions and video communicati...

Towards a HPV Vaccine Knowledgebase for Patient Education Content.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Human papillomavirus is a widespread sexually transmitted infection that can be prevented with vaccination. However, HPV vaccination rates in the United States are disappointingly low. This paper will introduce a patient oriented web ontology intende...

Robotic Assistance in Medication Management: Development and Evaluation of a Prototype.

Studies in health technology and informatics
An increasing number of elderly people and the prevalence of multimorbid conditions often lead to age-related problems for patients in handling their common polypharmaceutical, domestic everyday medication. Ambient Assisted Living therefore provides ...

Identifying Outliers in Data from Patient Record.

Studies in health technology and informatics
It is important for health services to be able to identify potential outliers with minimal effort as part of their daily evaluation of care data from patient record. This study evaluates the suitability of three statistical methods for identifying nu...

Implementation of a Clinical Decision Support System for Interpretation of Laboratory Tests for Patients.

Studies in health technology and informatics
The paper presents the results of the development and implementation of an expert system that automatically generates doctors' letters based on the results of laboratory tests. Medical knowledge is expressed using a first order predicate based langua...