A large number of studies have applied simulation to a multitude of issues relating to healthcare. These studies have been published in a number of unrelated publishing outlets, which may hamper the widespread reference and use of such resources. In this paper, we analyse existing research in healthcare simulation in order to categorise and synthesise it in a meaningful manner. Hence, the aim o...

Many healthcare leaders find themselves overwhelmed with data, but lack the information they need to make informed decisions. Knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) can help organizations turn their data into information. KDD is the process of finding complex patterns and relationships in data. The tools and techniques of KDD have achieved impressive results in other industries, and healthcare ...

Patient similarity assessment aims at providing a clinically meaningful distance measure for case retrieval in the context of clinical decision intelligence. Two of the key challenges are how to incorporate physician feedback with regard to the retrieval results and how to interactively update the underlying similarity measure based on the feedback. In this paper, we present the interactive Met...

The population of the world is ageing rapidly. By 2050, the population aged 85 and over will be three times more than it is now. This phenomenon has caused several issues in the current health service system, especially workforce shortages in the health sector and a lack of space in aged care facilities (ACFs). In the face of these issues, home-based and community-based healthcare services have...

Following the tradition established at previous IEEE INES conferences, this paper presents the results achieved by the Physiological Controls Group of Óbuda University in the field of physiological control last year (2013). The application target was focused on diabetes (artificial pancreas), tumor (antiangiogenic therapy), and hemodialysis (control of peristaltic pumps).

Advancements of image processing and computer vision in healthcare sectors are required to be explored. Though this arena has been expanded a lot in the last few decades, still the progresses are not satisfactory. Hence, we have endeavored to delve into the healthcare using image processing and computer vision, though sensor-based activity is also a very important area [1, 2]. Integration of va...

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Healthcare has been recognised as one of the most important areas for enterprise applications and services. Presently, information technologists and systems engineers all over the world are working towards achieving better efficiency and quality of service in various sectors of healthcare, such as telemedicine, hospital management, patient-care, and treatment. This paper addresses the issue of ...

Within the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council in Pisa, a new working group on distributed ledgers (DL) is being set up. The main objective of the group is to study DL technology and implement DL-based solutions for different scenarios, such as traceability of products and health care applications (HCAs). In this paper we focus on HCAs and we illustrate how ...

3D printing is a relatively new, rapidly expanding method of manufacturing that found numerous applications in healthcare, automotive, aerospace and defense industries and in many other areas. In this review, applications in medicine that are revolutionizing the way surgeries are carried out, disrupting prosthesis and implant markets as well as dentistry will be presented. The relatively new fi...