background: increasing hospital costs and its social and cultural problems has led to the idea of providing healthcare services at home. because of infrastructural and implementation problems, providing healthcare at home in iran has not been initiated yet. therefore, this study set out to elaborate the need for a comprehensive system in order to provide this service in iran. methods: all artic...

Over the past decade, there have been massive advances in technology. These advances in technology have significantly transformed various aspects of healthcare. The advent of E-health and its influence on healthcare practice also implies that there is a paradigm shift in the way healthcare professionals work. Conventionally, healthcare professionals would have to refer to books and journals for...

• Socially assistive robots are already being used in mental healthcare applications. • These robots have served in three primary roles: companion, coach, and play partner. • Robots have a wide range of potential applications in mental healthcare. • Psychologists must collaborate with roboticists to shape the direction of this work. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o As a field, mental healt...

The use of wireless hand held devices is becoming popular in healthcare applications for data management. While the concept is attractive, difficulties encountered by nurses included the small size of the device, problems in fitting current data collection forms into one screen of a handheld device and data entry using the 'garfiti' option. It appears that prior studies, while highlighting the ...

Security plays a vital role in the design and practical deployment of distributed applications. All companies have to repeatedly spend considerable time, capital and effort on the implementation of the security mechanism for their applications, and the result is unsatisfactory as well. In this paper, we investigate an integrated security management tool ManageSecure, present a formal descriptio...