As life expectancy in the industrialized world increases, so does the number of elders with chronic health conditions such as diabetes and congestive heart failure that require complex self-management routines. The traditional model of episodic care in clinic and hospital-based settings is not optimal for improving chronic disease outcomes. Instead, solving these issues requires a low-cost long...

children with autism spectrum disorders (asds) have great problems in social interactions including face recognition. there are many studies reporting deficits in face memory in individuals with asds. on the other hand, some studies indicate that this kind of memory is intact in this group. in the present study, delayed face recognition has been investigated in children and adolescents with asd...

Substance use disorders (SUDs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are pervasive epidemics that synergize, resulting in negative outcomes for HIV-infected people who use drugs (PWUDs). The expanding epidemiology of substance use demands a parallel evolution of the HIV specialist-beyond HIV to diagnosis and management of comorbid SUDs. The purpose of this paper is to describe healthcare dispa...

Most body sensor networks (BSN) only offer best-effort service delivery, which may compromise the successful operation of emergency healthcare (e-emergency) applications. Due to its real-time nature, e-emergency systems must provide quality of service (QoS) support, in order to provide a pervasive, valuable and fully reliable assistance to patients with risk abnormalities. But what is the real ...

Technology innovation is the key to enhancing the quality of life for everyone in the continuum of life from newborns to senior citizens. Management innovation has been the fuel that has been sustaining the technology innovation engine. Thus, together, management innovation and technology innovation have the potential to rapidly transform information processing, especially in healthcare, by suc...

HealthCare system is considered a key element in ubiquitous computing, which means health care services are recommended at any time and at any places to monitor patients based on their context. This study aims to define a simple framework that could be guidelines when you start thinking about building a health context-awareness system in ubiquitous environment. This paper starts by defining the...