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...

Patient safety within the Canadian healthcare system is currently a high national priority, which merits a comprehensive understanding of the underlying causes of adverse events. Not least among these is worker health and safety, which is linked to patient outcomes. Healthcare workers have a high risk of workplace injuries and more mental health problems than most other occupational groups. Man...

This article presents a research method called Discourse Structure Analysis (DSA) and a software application called ChatLine that supports the analysis of chat transcripts according to DSA. The DSA method is based on manual referencing and automatic analysis of chat transcripts in order to create visualizations and measures of their message and interaction structures. The goal of DSA is to prov...

Background Provincial Health Accounts (PHA) as a subset of National Health Accounts (NHA) present financial information for health sectors. It leads to a logical decision making for policy-makers in order to achieve health system goals, especially Fair Financial Contribution (FFC). This study aimed to examine Health Accounts in Kerman Province.   Methods The present analytical study was carried...

The 21st century has seen innovations in information technology and the healthcare sector is not left behind. Patient record witnessed a transformation from paper-based model to an electronic health-based system, more importantly, cloud-based frameworks have been suggested for storing managing patient health record. However, security privacy concerns impediment relationship between design adopt...

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a well-documented and evidencebased course of long-term management for patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). The core components of comprehensive CR programs for CHF patients are exercise, education, counseling and psychosocial support, services which are delivered by a multidisciplinary team and are accompanied by excellent outcomes for both the patient and ...

Big data in healthcare has drawn substantial attention in recent years. Current researches on big data in healthcare are highly interdisciplinary involving methodologies from engineering, computing, behavior science, information science, social science, management science, as well as many different areas in medicine and public health. However, the identification of major hot topics and related ...