background and objectives: exposure to contaminated needlesticks and sharp devices is an important occupational hazard among healthcare workers. the objective of this study was to gain further insight into prevalence and risk factors of needlestick and sharps injuries among healthcare workers. methods: a cross-sectional survey was carried out among 384 healthcare workers of two hospitals in ne...

OBJECTIVES Telehealth has an increasing role in future healthcare. This paper seeks to define and understand recent advances in provision of tele-healthcare through use of personal handheld computing devices, and suggests how such personalized solutions offer further opportunities for progress. METHODS We considered the current status of personal handheld computing devices for personalizing h...

Recently, there have been many changes in the area of healthcare. There is no certainty how these changes will affect the healthcare system and public health. However, to at least have these changes positively implemented, it is clear that evaluation through continuous monitoring is necessary. The enforcement of the Medical Institution Accreditation and Medical Dispute Mediation Law as well as ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the current culture of cooperation between healthcare providers (HCPs) and the healthcare industry (HCI) in the domain of Health-IT and Engineering (HITE) and identify possible strategies for improvement. METHODS Based on reports in the literature and personal experience, major challenges were identified, the current ways of cooperation defined and their relation to each ...

This paper suggests a healthcare home service system based on the Distributed Object Group Framework (DOGF) for ubiquitous healthcare in home environment. This system consists of 3 layers. The lower layer includes the physical sensors and devices for healthcare, as a physical layer. The middle layer is the DOGF layer. This framework supports the object grouping service and the real-time service...

Significant modifications have been seen in healthcare facilities over the past two decades. With use of IoT-enabled devices, monitoring and analysis patient diagnostic parameters is made considerably easy. The new technology shift for medical field IoMT. However, problem privacy data security information still a point to ponder. This research proposed prototype model integrate blockchain IoMT ...

In this paper, to deliver healthcare service pervasively, especially to the home space, we first discuss the status and activities on healthcare infrastructures and systems using mobile devices and sensor networks. We also provide the information and illustrate the reasons why home healthcare will be even more hot space in the near future. With the advance of wireless network, mobile devices be...

Today, wearable health products play a crucial role in most locations, such as constant wellness monitoring of people, street traffic management, weather forecasting, along with smart house. These sensor devices constantly generate massive amounts data and are kept cloud computing. This particular chapter proposes Internet Things design to store system scalable information for healthcare apps. ...

Applications accessible through mobile devices, such as mobile phones, are playing an increasingly important part in the delivery of high quality and personalized healthcare services. In this paper, we examine current usage of mobile devices and networks by mobile healthcare applications, and present our views on how mobile devices and networks could be used for creating patient-centered health...