AIMC Topic: Health Services Needs and Demand

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Integrating autonomously navigating assistance systems into the clinic: guiding principles and the ANTS-OR approach.

International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
PURPOSE: Autonomously self-navigating clinical assistance systems (ASCAS) seem highly promising for improving clinical workflows. There is great potential for easing staff workload and improving overall efficiency by reducing monotonous and physicall...

Machine Learning-Based Forecast of Hemorrhagic Stroke Healthcare Service Demand considering Air Pollution.

Journal of healthcare engineering
This study aimed to forecast the pattern of the demand for hemorrhagic stroke healthcare services based on air quality and machine learning. Hemorrhagic stroke, air quality, and meteorological data for 2016-2017 were obtained from the Longquanyi Dist...

Community-dwelling older adults' needs and acceptance regarding the use of robot technology to assist with daily living performance.

BMC geriatrics
BACKGROUND: The rate of aging in Korea is extremely fast compared to major countries. We examined the key demands of community-dwelling older adults with regard to Connected Active Space technology, which provides tailored assistance with daily livin...

Estimation of the Basic Reproduction Number and Vaccination Coverage of Influenza in the United States (2017-18).

Journal of research in health sciences
BACKGROUND: Determining the epidemic threshold parameter helps health providers calculate the coverage while guiding them in planning the process of vaccination strategy. Since the trend and mechanism of influenza is very similar in different countri...

An ensemble boosting model for predicting transfer to the pediatric intensive care unit.

International journal of medical informatics
BACKGROUND: Early deterioration indicators have the potential to alert hospital care staff in advance of adverse events, such as patients requiring an increased level of care, or the need for rapid response teams to be called. Our work focuses on the...

A comparison of rule-based and machine learning approaches for classifying patient portal messages.

International journal of medical informatics
OBJECTIVE: Secure messaging through patient portals is an increasingly popular way that consumers interact with healthcare providers. The increasing burden of secure messaging can affect clinic staffing and workflows. Manual management of portal mess...

Automated Classification of Consumer Health Information Needs in Patient Portal Messages.

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Patients have diverse health information needs, and secure messaging through patient portals is an emerging means by which such needs are expressed and met. As patient portal adoption increases, growing volumes of secure messages may burden healthcar...

Creating a place for caregivers in personal health: the iHealthSpace copilot program and diabetes care.

Journal of diabetes science and technology
BACKGROUND: As America's baby boom generation reaches retirement, the number of elders, and, in turn, the number of lay individuals who support them, will continue to increase. With the important services caregivers provide, it is critical that we re...