Policy-based Awareness Management (PAM): Case study of a wireless communication system at a hospital

Talaei-Khoei, Amir; Solvoll, Terje; Ray, Pradeep; Parameshwaran, Nandan

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2011.05.024

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“…Thus, the games would help them to improve their driving by empowering their functional abilities (physical, visual and cognitive). This is a commonly used method in literature (Talaei-Khoei et al 2011;Talaei-Khoei et al 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

The University of the Sunshine Coast

2018

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In this paper, we argue that the existing adoption theories lack a sufficient level of attention to the context of the everyday lives of seniors and as such have been incapable of successful explaining adoption concepts specifically related to seniors. The study highlights the concept of empowerment and relates it to assistive technologies that may assist in training and improving the functional abilities of the elderly with respect to their capabilities to undertake daily activities e.g. driving. The paper looks at empowering capabilities and utilises the capability approach to explain the constructs involved in the adoption technologies among seniors. In order to clarify the proposed constructs and the utilisation of the capability approach, the article presents an exemplar in adopting Xbox Kinect video games that combine physical, visual and cognitive abilities and can be used to help seniors to improve their driving. The paper is research in progress and invites experts to collect in-depth empirical evidence for the proposed model.

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“…In this section, we illustrate the motivation behind this study using an example that authors have discussed (Talaei-Khoei 2011) where they were proposing a policy based communication system at St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim, Norway.…”

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“…The use of software agents has proved useful in many CSCW application areas such as emergency management (Yuan and Detlor, 2005), risk management (Ulieru and Worthington, 2005), mobile health monitoring (Ray et al, 2008), disaster management (Ray and Chattopadhyay, 2009), and wireless communication in hospitals (Talaei-Khoei 2011) .CSCW tends to agree that the following characteristics of software agents make them useful in assisting individuals (Woolridge and Wooldridge, 2001): Autonomy, an agent can operate without the intervention of individuals; Social Ability, an agent is able to interact with other agents and individuals; Reactivity, computing power of agents makes it possible for them to react on the changes of the environment in a timely fashion (however, this is heavily dependent on the computing power); Pro-Activity, an agent tries to achieve the purpose for which it was initiated, which can be highly useful to assist individuals employing agents for particular purpose. Therefore, PoDMan has chosen software agents to present individual roles.…”

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PoDMan: Policy Deviation Management

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et al. 2017

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Whenever an unexpected or exceptional situation occurs, complying with the existing policies may not be possible. The main objective of this work is to assist individuals and organizations to decide in the process of deviating from policies and performing a non-complying action. The paper proposes utilizing software agents as supportive tools to provide the best non-complying action while deviating from policies. The article also introduces a process in which the decision on the choice of non-complying action can be made. The work is motivated by a real scenario observed in a hospital in Norway and demonstrated through the same settings.

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“…The use of portable devices for monitoring patients can find its application both within and out of hospitals [ 2 ]. With respect to the former, telemonitoring has the advantage of increasing efficiency in managing more patients, increasing patients’ safety, increasing quality of works, and reducing those opportunity costs (costs related to the fact that professionals spend a lot of time performing activities that do not need professional skills and competencies).…”

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Telemonitoring in Cystic Fibrosis: A 4-year Assessment and Simulation for the Next 6 Years

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Trieste²,

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et al. 2016

Interact J Med Res

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BackgroundInnovative technologies and informatics offer a wide range of services to health districts, doctors, nurses, and patients, and is changing the traditional concept of health care. In the last few years, the availability of portable devices, their easiness to transport and use, and the capability to collect and transmit various clinical data have resulted in the fast development of telemedicine. However, despite its potential impact in improving patient conditions, and its cost effectiveness reported in literature, telemedicine is not in daily practice.ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to provide evidence of the positive impact of telemonitoring proving the sustainability of an application by sending spirometry outcomes from patients’ homes to the hospital doctors via the Internet, and from doctors to patients by an additional phone call solution.MethodsWe examined collected data related to clinical improvement of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). The patients were followed-up at home using telemonitoring for a period of 10 years, with the aims to prove the sustainability of the methodology (transmissions of spirometry from the patients' home to the doctors and feedback from the doctors to the patients by phone call from the hospital). We stored and analyzed all spirometry transmissions received, and tested the possible presence to decrease the costs between the standard clinical trial (only ambulatory visits) and standard clinical trial with telemonitoring for the follow-up of patients with CF (telemedicine). This was done through an economic analysis of the costs for patients followed at home by telemonitoring. We assessed four years of observation and a simulation of total long-term costs between 2010 and 2020.ResultsWe discovered a potential saving of €40,397.00 per patient for 10 years, actualized at €36,802.97 for the follow-up of all patients enrolled.ConclusionsThe results from the study suggest that telemedicine can improve the health of patients with CF. It is a relatively cheap and potentially sustainable solution, compared to standard clinical trials. However, to establish and prove the long-term effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, more controlled psychological and behavioral studies are needed.

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Policy-based Awareness Management (PAM): Case study of a wireless communication system at a hospital

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Telemonitoring in Cystic Fibrosis: A 4-year Assessment and Simulation for the Next 6 Years

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