• DocumentCode
    160659
  • Title

    Empowering the Healthcare Worker Using the Portable Health Clinic

  • Author

    Kai, E. ; Rebeiro-Hargrave, Andrew ; Inoue, Shingo ; Nohara, Yasunobu ; Maruf, Rafiqul Islam ; Nakashima, Norihiro ; Ahmed, Arif

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Inf. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    13-16 May 2014
  • Firstpage
    759
  • Lastpage
    764
  • Abstract
    We present a remote healthcare consultancy system that enables healthcare workers to identify noncommunicable diseases in unreached communities. The healthcare system combines medical sensors with mobile health and is called a Portable Health Clinic. The Portable Health Clinic fits into a briefcase and is operated by the healthcare worker. The goal of this research is to empower the healthcare worker further by allowing her to recognize spurious measurements and to make lifestyle recommendations. In this paper, we show how to process the data: combine, link and compare - captured in patient electronic health records stored in database. We applied association rule technique to find common set of rules in order to build a clinical decision support system. We also showed examples of the meaningful information from the analyzed data to build a better clinical decision support.
  • Keywords
    biomedical communication; data mining; decision support systems; electronic health records; health care; clinical decision support system; data analysis; data mining; data processing; healthcare worker empowerment; medical information; medical sensors; mobile health; noncommunicable diseases; patient electronic health record; portable health clinic; remote healthcare consultancy system; spurious measurements; Association rules; Blood pressure; Databases; Diseases; Mobile communication; Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS); Data mining; Electronic Health Records (EHR); Healthcare worker empowerment; Medical information; Remote Healthcare Consultancy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), 2014 IEEE 28th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Victoria, BC
  • ISSN
    1550-445X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-3629-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/AINA.2014.108
  • Filename
    6838740