Life expectancy in most countries has been increasing continually over the several few decades thanks to significant improvements in medicine, public health, as well as personal and environmental hygiene. However, increased life expectancy combined w...
This paper addresses the growing demand for healthcare systems, particularly among the elderly population. The need for these systems arises from the desire to enable patients and seniors to live independently in their homes without relying heavily o...
The development of remote health monitoring systems has focused on enhancing healthcare services’ efficiency and quality, particularly in chronic disease management and elderly care. These systems employ a range of sensors and wearable devices...
Digital health tracking is a source of valuable insights for public health research and consumer health technology. The brain is the most complex organ, containing information about psychophysical and physiological biomarkers that correlate with heal...
Background: Remote health monitoring for time-critical conditions (e.g., acute stroke) demands rapid, reliable data delivery and immediate clinical interpretation. However, existing Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) frameworks often exhibit fragmented...
This study explores patients’ experiences participating in a home-based remote patient monitoring program for chronic disease management. Using a mixed-methods approach, data was collected through semi-structured interviews and surveys from par...
Chronic diseases are becoming more widespread. Treatment and monitoring of these diseases require going to hospitals frequently, which increases the burdens of hospitals and patients. Presently, advancements in wearable sensors and communication prot...
The remote monitoring of clinical parameters plays a fundamental role in different situations, like pandemic health emergencies and post-surgery conditions. In these situations, the patients might be impeded in their movements, and it could be diffic...
Ultrasonic guided waves, which are often generated and detected by piezoelectric transducers, are well established to monitor engineering structures. Wireless solutions are sought to eliminate cumbersome wire installation. This work proposes a method...
Forest ecosystems fulfill a whole host of ecosystem functions that are essential for life on our planet. However, an unprecedented level of anthropogenic influences is reducing the resilience and stability of our forest ecosystems as well as their ec...
Background/Objectives: Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is recognized as a key component of health system transformation in Europe, in the context of vulnerable populations. However, its large-scale adoption remains uneven across countries. The resear...
Diabetes, a chronic metabolic disease marked by elevated blood glucose levels, affects millions of people globally. A lower quality of life and a markedly higher chance of potentially deadly consequences, such as heart disease, renal failure, and oth...
Digital health solutions increasingly rely on interoperable software platforms that integrate heterogeneous data sources, support remote patient monitoring and deliver clinical decision support while complying with strict security, privacy and regula...
Wearable technologies are increasingly integrated into digital health systems to support continuous remote monitoring in oncology; however, the lack of standardized and reproducible criteria for device selection limits their scalable and regulation-c...
A novel design idea supported by affordable design processes can address unresolved social problems such as the imbalance of opportunity in healthcare services, owing to high costs and a lack of access. We designed an appropriate technology-assisted...
The prevalence of diet-related diseases underscores the imperative for innovative management approaches. The deployment of smart solutions signifies a paradigmatic evolution, capitalising on advanced technologies to enhance precision and efficacy. Th...
Structural health monitoring (SHM) by using remote sensing and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is a promising approach to assessing the safety and the integrity of civil structures. Apart from this issue, artificial intelligence and machine lea...
Within the Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain research, there is a growing interest in decentralizing health monitoring systems, to provide improved privacy to patients, without relying on trusted third parties for handling patients’ sensi...
Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) has gained great popularity with an aim to measure vital signs and gain patient related information in clinics. RPM can be achieved with noninvasive digital technology without hindering a patient’s daily activiti...
Addressing the increasing demand for remote patient monitoring, especially among the elderly and mobility-impaired, this study proposes the “ScalableDigitalHealth” (SDH) framework. The framework integrates smart digital health solutions w...
24 December 2021
Background: COVIDApp is a platform created for management of COVID-19 in the workplace. Methods: COVIDApp was designed and implemented for the follow-up of 253 workers from seven companies in Catalonia. The assessment was based on two actions: first,...
Background/Objectives: Telemedicine and remote patient monitoring have emerged as promising strategies to improve outcomes in heart failure (HF), but prior meta-analyses reported conflicting results, partly due to insufficient differentiation between...
The challenges and increasing number of elderly individuals requiring remote monitoring at home highlight the need for technological innovations. This study devised an eHealth mobile application designed to detect abnormal movement behavior and alert...
27 August 2021
Nowadays people are mostly focused on their work while ignoring their health which in turn is creating a drastic effect on their health in the long run. Remote health monitoring through telemedicine can help people discover potential health threats i...
Recent advances in mobile technology have created a shift towards using battery-driven devices in remote monitoring settings and smart homes. Clinicians are carrying out diagnostic and screening procedures based on the electrocardiogram (ECG) signals...
Temperature is a key physiological indicator of plant health, influenced by factors including water status, disease and developmental stage. Monitoring changes in multiple factors is helpful for early diagnosis of plant growth. However, there are a v...
Forests are increasingly subject to a number of disturbances that can adversely influence their health. Remote sensing offers an efficient alternative for assessing and monitoring forest health. A myriad of methods based upon remotely sensed data hav...
In ubiquitous health-care monitoring (HCM), wireless body area networks (WBANs) are envisioned as appealing solutions that may offer reliable methods for real-time monitoring of patients’ health conditions by employing the emerging communicatio...
Mental health issues are at the forefront of healthcare challenges facing contemporary human society. These issues are most prevalent among working-age people, impacting negatively on the individual, his/her family, workplace, community, and the econ...
We propose and demonstrate a wireless, passive, metamaterial-based sensor that allows for remotely monitoring submicron displacements over millimeter ranges. The sensor comprises a probe made of multiple nested split ring resonators (NSRRs) in a doub...
Continuous and personalized monitoring are beneficial for patients suffering from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis. However, such levels of monitoring are seldom ensured by...
Remote monitoring of a patient’s vital activities has become increasingly important in dealing with various medical applications. In particular, machine learning (ML) techniques have been extensively utilized to analyze electrocardiogram (ECG)...
Telemedicine over Internet of Things (IoT) generates an unprecedented amount of data, which further requires transmission, analysis, and storage. Deploying cloud computing to handle data of this magnitude will introduce unacceptable data analysis lat...
Remote patient monitoring is a promising and transformative pillar of healthcare. However, deploying such systems at a scale—across thousands of patients and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices—demands robust, low-latency, and scala...
Increased life expectancy in most countries is a result of continuous improvements at all levels, starting from medicine and public health services, environmental and personal hygiene to the use of the most advanced technologies by healthcare provide...
With an aging population and increased chronic diseases, remote health monitoring has become critical to improving patient care and reducing healthcare costs. The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently drawn much interest as a potential remote health...
Non-invasive remote health monitoring plays a vital role in epidemiological situations such as SARS outbreak (2003), MERS (2015) and the recently ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 because it is extremely risky to get close to the patient due to the spread...
Smart remote health monitoring requires time-critical medical data of patients from IoT-enabled cyber–physical systems (CPSs) to be securely transmitted and analysed in real time for early interventions and personalised patient care. Existing c...
The aim of this study was to describe the implementation of a novel 50-bed continuous remote monitoring service for high-risk acute inpatients treated in non-critical wards, known as Health in a Virtual Environment (HIVE). We report the initial resul...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the general term used to describe respiratory diseases such as chronic bronchitis or emphysema of the lungs. COPD is known to cause the onset of frailty due to limitations of physical activity (PA) in d...
Across the globe, COVID-19 had far-reaching impacts that included healthcare facilities, public health, as well as all forms of transport. Hospitals were experiencing staffing shortages at the same time as patients were experiencing healthcare issues...
Glucose concentration in the blood stream is a critical vital parameter and an effective monitoring of this quantity is crucial for diabetes treatment and intensive care management. Effective bio-sensing technology and advanced signal processing are...
The use of wearable body sensors for health monitoring is a quickly growing field with the potential of offering a reliable means for clinical and remote health management. This includes both real-time monitoring and health trend monitoring with the...
This paper systematically reviews the progress of remote-sensing technology in coastal-ecosystem health assessment. Coastal ecosystems, as transitional zones between land and ocean, play vital roles in maintaining biodiversity, carbon sequestration,...
The adoption of telehealth has soared, and with that the acceptance of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and virtual care. A review of the literature illustrates, however, that poor device usability can impact the generated data when using Patient-Gene...
Transportation infrastructure is an integral part of the world’s overall functionality; however, current transportation infrastructure has aged since it was first developed and implemented. Consequently, given its condition, preservation has be...
Abies nebrodensis L. is a critically endangered conifer endemic to Sicily (Italy). Its residual population is confined to the Madonie mountain range under challenging climatological conditions. Despite the good adaptation shown by the relict populati...
Remote monitoring technologies have transformed healthcare delivery by enabling the in-home management of chronic conditions, improving patient autonomy, and supporting clinical oversight. Passive sensing, a subset of remote monitoring, facilitates u...
Driven by the development of biomedical sensors and the availability of high mobile bandwidth, mobile health (mHealth) systems are now offering a wider range of new services. This revolution makes the idea of in-home health monitoring practical and p...
Grassland ecosystem is one of the largest ecosystems, which naturally occurs on all continents excluding Antarctica and provides both ecological and economic functions. The deterioration of natural grassland has been attracting many grassland researc...
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