Ditis: A Collaborative Virtual Medical Team for Home Healthcare of Cancer Patients

Pitsillides, Andreas; Pitsillides, Barbara; Samaras, George; Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Christodoulou, Eleni; Andreou, Panayiotis C.; Georgiadis, Dimosthenis

doi:10.1007/0-387-26559-7_18

Cited by 31 publications

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“…Among the other services, the VirtualCRPs provides chat session with professionals and allows a self-reported data capture. DITIS [6] is a collaborative medical team for home healthcare of cancer patients. It supports the dynamic creation, management and coordination of virtual medical teams, for the continuous treatment of the patient at home, and if needed for periodic visits to places of specialised treatment and back home.…”

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Smart data synchronization in m-Health monitoring applications

Benharref

Serhani

Mizouni

2014

2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on E-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)

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Nowadays, mobile applications/devices have become the trends, especially, when they were gradually shifted from basic communication services to supporting more sophisticated service provisioning. Mobile applications are usually very light, are nowadays likely to be often connected to the Internet, and can be used quite easily. However, these applications exhibit some challenges related to limited resources they have access to, including limited processing power, memory, storage size, battery power, and intermittent network connection. In fact, these considerations have to be taken seriously into consideration when developing mobile applications especially if those applications will be used for critical services, for example, to collect and report vital health data over a long period of time. In this paper, we study the use of mobile applications for monitoring patient's vital. Mobile devices, through an application, are connected to body-strapped biosensors to collect and synchronize these parameters with information systems. This synchronization should be done in such a way that the cost of synchronization is kept low and urgent readings are delivered as soon as possible. To optimize the synchronization process and reduce its cost, we propose and validate cost-oriented algorithms. A case study is developed to illustrate the applicability and effectiveness of our innovative techniques in making continuous monitoring an efficient process.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Smart data synchronization in m-Health monitoring applications

Benharref

Serhani

Mizouni

2014

2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on E-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom)

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“…DITIS, Networked Collaboration supporting Home Healthcare Teams (CY-06) (Pitsillides et al, 1999), is a Cyprus research project that provides an Internet web-based group collaboration system supporting virtual collaborative medical teams for the continuous treatment of patients with chronic diseases at home and at , is a US federally funded research project at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). From the medical information management point of view, its objective is being an integrated application that brings wireless Internet technologies from the hospital to the field treatment station.…”

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Providing early resource allocation during emergencies: The mobile triage tag

Martí

Robles

Martín-Campillo

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Journal of Network and Computer Applications

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“…Some mobile healthcare applications also support 'telecooperation' amongst physically distributed and mobile healthcare workers through information sharing, team communication and coordination of team activities via mobile terminals and wireless data networks (e.g. Pitsillides et al 1999).…”

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GeoHealth: a location-based service for home healthcare workers

Kjeldskov

Christensen

Rasmussen

2010

Journal of Location Based Services

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We describe a map-based location-based service 'GeoHealth' for home healthcare workers who attend patients at home within a large geographical area. Informed by field studies of work activities and interviews with care providers, we have designed a mobile location-based service prototype supporting collaboration through information sharing and distributed electronic patient records. The GeoHealth prototype gives the users live contextual information about patients, coworkers, current and scheduled work activities and alarms adapted to their geographical location. The application is web-based and uses Google Maps, Global Positioning System (GPS) and Web 2.0 technology to provide a lightweight, dynamic and interactive representation of the work domain supporting distributed collaboration, communication and peripheral awareness among nomadic workers. Through a user-based evaluation, we found that the healthcare workers were positive towards the use of location-based services in their work, and that the dynamic and interactive geospatial representation of the work domain provided by GeoHealth supported distributed collaboration, communication and peripheral awareness. We also identified areas for improvements.

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Ditis: A Collaborative Virtual Medical Team for Home Healthcare of Cancer Patients

Cited by 31 publications

References 10 publications

Smart data synchronization in m-Health monitoring applications

Smart data synchronization in m-Health monitoring applications

Providing early resource allocation during emergencies: The mobile triage tag

GeoHealth: a location-based service for home healthcare workers

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