This article focuses on the routine use of patient-reported outcomes measures in oncology clinical practice to monitor patient progress and inform decision making; and in particular, on measuring patient-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The article summarizes the current literature on the acceptability to patients and clinicians of HRQOL measurement and on the effectiveness of f...

A mobile patient monitoring system makes use of mobile computing and wireless communication technologies for continuous or periodic measurement and analysis of biosignals of a mobile patient. In a number of trials these systems have demonstrated their user-friendliness, convenience and effectiveness for both patients and healthcare professionals. In this paper we propose a generic architecture,...

In this paper we explore the use of replication for fault tolerant processing of streams. We perform these experiments in the context of the Granules stream processing system that is designed for real time processing of data streams generated by devices and instruments. In this paper we explore well-known replication schemes for fault tolerant processing of data streams. We analyze two basic ap...

Many healthcare ICT innovations fail in practice because of a failure to take into account user needs. User needs should be identified broadly, encompassing different levels of organization of the healthcare system and different stakeholder concerns. Full-scale simulators are starting to be used to help in the design and evaluation of novel biomedical devices and displays. Although promising, s...

Depth cameras enable long term re-identification exploiting 3D information that captures biometric cues such as face and characteristic lengths of the body. In the typical approach, person re-identification is performed using appearance, thus invalidating any application in which a person may change dress across subsequent acquisitions. For example, this is a relevant scenario for home patient ...

There is considerable interest in using wireless and mobile technologies in patient monitoring in diverse environments including hospitals and nursing homes. However, there has not been much work in determining the requirements of patient monitoring and satisfying these requirements using infrastructure-oriented wireless networks. In this paper, we derive several requirements of patient monitor...

A convenience sample of oncology clinicians from 17 practices throughout the northeastern United States participated in roundtable discussions. Discussions about oral adherence were initiated in multiple practices, and attendees were asked to describe what resources they currently use and what resources are lacking. A need for a new tool for oral adherence in oncology was identified during roun...