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Information Management and Technology
Published in James Sherifi, General Practice Under the NHS, 2023
The practice intranet allows for electronic communication between staff that could be immediately actioned and audited. There was even a discrete panic button in every room to reassure staff in a turbulent world of frustrated patients. Google aids the doctor in confirming their diagnosis or learning about the latest popularised medical acronym. Patient advice leaflets on any medical condition are readily available for instant printing. The desktop monitor became so indispensable that often an extra one had to be added.
Introduction to E-Monitoring for Healthcare
Published in Govind Singh Patel, Seema Nayak, Sunil Kumar Chaudhary, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data, and Internet of Things for Healthcare, 2023
Seema Nayak, Shamla Mantri, Manoj Nayak, Amrita Rai
Quickly increasing aging populations and associated challenges in health- and social care raise the costs of healthcare sky high. There has been a need to monitor patients from a remote location. Take, for example, Alzheimer’s disease, which slowly destroys brain cells and causes elderly persons to forget things and past events. Many people spend more than $1,285 per year caring for someone with Alzheimer’s. Many elderly people die due to this disease because they forget to take medicine on time, and sometimes they fall down accidently. Researchers have developed a portable, easy-to-use, and cost-effective system that uses a panic button. If a person needs any help then they press the button, which sends an alert message to their caretaker. This innovation helps such patients.
Assessment of the psychiatric patient
Published in Peter Kopelman, Dame Jane Dacre, Handbook of Clinical Skills, 2019
Peter Kopelman, Dame Jane Dacre
Personal safety Personal safety should always be considered, although overall it is unusual for patients with mental illness to be violent. If you have any concerns, other members of staff should be within earshot, or should accompany you. Ideally, there should be a panic button to hand, and you should sit between the patient and the exit to the room. If it is felt that a patient will be violent, it is advisable politely to terminate the interview, leave and summon help.
Mobile application recovery support for patients with an alcohol use disorder. Acceptance, usability, and perceived helpfulness
Published in Journal of Addictive Diseases, 2022
Justyna Klingemann, Łukasz Wieczorek
The mWSPARCIE application is addressed to patients of Polish alcohol treatment facilities who have completed a basic 6-weeks inpatient treatment program based on the Minnesota model, which is a main treatment method in the Polish, rather homogenous, alcohol treatment system. This application was developed by the present research team as a part of the mWSPARCIE research project, with the participation of AUD psychotherapists and nearly one hundred patients of ten Polish inpatient treatment programs; therefore it is in line with the prevailing philosophy and methods of AUD treatment in Poland. The application has four main components: (a) self-observation of abstinence and drinking days (calendar), with daily requests to summarize the day; (b) monitoring the frequency and intensity of alcohol cravings (diary); (c) enhancing motivation—a user-personalized screen with individual reasons for abstinence and daily quotes, and (d) social support in a crisis—the possibility of entering a short list of contacts, for easy access to support in crisis situations (panic button and a support social list). This Polish—language application is free of charge and free of advertising, which is essential from the user’s perspective.9,13 An important feature of the app is the special concern for users’ privacy and anonymity: the app can be secured with a code, and its logo, name or notifications received do not suggest alcohol problems. Any functionality that potentially violates users’ privacy was deliberately omitted in the development of the application.12,14
Effect of vestibular stimulation using a rotatory chair in human rest/activity rhythm
Published in Chronobiology International, 2020
Florane Pasquier, Nicolas Bessot, Tristan Martin, Antoine Gauthier, Jan Bulla, Pierre Denise, Gaëlle Quarck
Six subjects withdrew from the protocol, and their data were excluded from all statistical analyses. We have excluded them from our analyses because they stopped the stimulation. They pressed the panic button when the stimulation was in progress due to severe motion sickness symptoms. The resulting stimulation received was thus not similar to that of the other participants. Two of the remaining participants were withdrawn from the rest/activity rhythm analysis, and from actigraphic estimates of sleep/wake cycle analysis, due to a dysfunction of the actigraph.