INTRODUCTION Despite advances in the management of sickle cell disease, gaps still exist in the training of primary healthcare professionals for monitoring patients with the disease. OBJECTIVE To assess the perception of community healthcare workers about the care and monitoring of patients with sickle cell disease after an educational intervention. METHOD This exploratory, descriptive, and...

Pervasive healthcare systems have the potential to revolutionize next generation medical applications and significantly improve the quality of healthcare services. In recent years, significant progress has been made in the development of a number of sensing and monitoring healthcare devices for clinical applications ranging from managing chronic diseases and acute diabetes to epilepsy and other...

The U-healthcare System is an interesting new technology that needs an extra attention from the researchers and developers. There have been a lot of researches on how to integrate the new technology to maximize the use to enhance the healthcare system but there is no specific research how it is to be done in a way that this is reliable and cost effective to the end users. This study is focused ...

aligning financial incentives (fis) to health policy goals is becoming increasingly popular. in many cases, such initiatives have failed to deliver anticipated benefits. attributing this to the actions of self-interested and resistant professionals is not an entirely helpful approach. it is important to avoid simplistic assumptions to build knowledge of how and why schemes are implemented in pr...

The progress in communication and information technology has contributed to the creation of Internet Thing (IoT). Things today plays a crucial role tracking, documenting, storing, presentation variety fields like healthcare, smart cities, engineering, others. Using an IoT-based monitoring system, critical parameters health are tracked data transmitted via network. Data will be accessed for bene...

Remote monitoring is an essential part of future mHealth systems for the delivery of personal and pervasive healthcare, especially to allow the collection of personal bio-data outside clinical environments. Yet, by its very nature, it presents considerable challenges: it will be a highly distributed task, requiring collection of bio-data for a myriad of cources, to be marshalled at the clinical...