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Intelligent Learning Analytics in the Healthcare Sector Using Machine Learning and IoT
Published in Govind Singh Patel, Seema Nayak, Sunil Kumar Chaudhary, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data, and Internet of Things for Healthcare, 2023
Kundankumar Rameshwar Saraf, P. Malathi
This chapter explains the intelligent health monitoring system. The dashboard and alert configured by this system are briefly explained. Integration of this system with Splunk industrial IoT performs the predictive analysis and sends the alert or notified event to the physician before the occur-rence of any future health issue. This system can also monitor various cyber threats to the CPS. Before occurrence of any harm to the system by these cyber threats, this system notifies the CPS admin. This system is extremely useful for patients located in remote locations and who have a scarcity of good medical facilities. During pandemics like COVID-19, the number of patients is high. Hence available physicians are insufficient to provide good treatment to all the patients within a stipulated time. This system is useful in such a situation. By using this system, physicians can monitor multiple patients and suggest essential medications to patients with serious health issue. Physicians can diagnose large numbers of patients and concentrate on the health issues of only emergency patients. This system can highly reduce the mortality rate and increases health awareness. This system is also relatively cheap and enables any patient to check their health condition.
Evidence-Based Medicine and Resource Allocation
Published in Rui Nunes, Healthcare as a Universal Human Right, 2022
The second objective is to allocate resources as fairly as possible and to uphold the treatments of unproven clinical results. In this way, both the individual and community will benefit. This course of action is a consequence of the acceptance of health as a social good and the overall responsibility of healthcare agents toward society. Access to healthcare is limited by the scarcity of resources. Treatments with unproven efficacy and effectiveness should not be included in the basic package. This package is financed by the solidarity of taxpayers and must truly contribute to the global improvement of health at both the individual and social levels. Citizens have the right to know how policy-makers spend their taxes on healthcare.
Social Determinants of Health:
Published in Connie White Delaney, Charlotte A. Weaver, Joyce Sensmeier, Lisiane Pruinelli, Patrick Weber, Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition, Book 4, 2022
Patrick Weber, Vivian Vimarlund, Ivana Ognjanović, Oommen John, Ying Wu, Meihua Ji, B. Kavitha, Suptendra Nath Sarbadhikari
Nursing was initiated in 1888 in China (Shen & Han, 2019). The nursing workforce in China has significantly improved over the years, especially after implementing the nursing regulation ‘Nurse Ordinance' in 2008 (The State Council of People's Republic of China, 2008). Health human resource allocation is key to health equality for all. China had more doctors than nurses in the past (Anand et al., 2008), which has been reversed in the last few years. The nurse to population ratio has greatly improved from 1.52:1,000 in 2010 to 6.41:1,000 in 2019 (NHC-PRC, 2010, 2020). Although the overall trend in the number of registered nurses is increasing, the nurse density in the rural area remains about three times lower compared to that in the urban area. In addition, the equity of human health resources in eastern China is higher than that of the western and central China where economically underdeveloped regions are concentrated (Li et al., 2020). These economic conditions and scarcity of health professionals contribute to the limited accessibility of healthcare resources in these regions.
Maternal Health Care in Ghana: Challenges Facing the Uptake of Services in the Shai Osudoku District
Published in Women's Reproductive Health, 2022
Joseph Adu, Mark Fordjour Owusu, Ebenezer Martin-Yeboah, Albert Ahenkan, Sebastian Gyamfi
On availability of care, participants mainly identified human resource challenges in various health facilities in the district, which often culminate in equity gaps in maternal health-care delivery. These constraints deprive women from receiving preventive healthcare services from skilled attendants and expose them to pregnancy-related complications. Our findings here agree with extant literature that the availability and use of ANC services from skilled attendants is imperative in ensuring the well-being of mothers and their babies and prepares them to access FBC (WHO, 2019). As a standard rule, all expectant mothers should attend ANC within the first trimester to be examined by a skilled birth attendant to rule out any hidden condition associated with their pregnancy (WHO, 2015). The nonavailability of care due to the scarcity of human resources could compound the issue of delays in reporting to health facilities to seek care.
Giving Digital Mental Health Technologies the Benefit of the Doubt, Rather than Doubting the Benefits
Published in AJOB Neuroscience, 2022
Mehrdad Rahsepar Meadi, Neeltje Batelaan, Anton J. L. M. van Balkom, Suzanne Metselaar
We agree with Skorburg and Yam that DMH technologies might exacerbate inequalities. However, they might also help to reduce these inequalities if public resources are invested in the right way. For instance, we can imagine the concerns when smartphone apps are used as stand-alone, commercial interventions. However, if these apps are developed and implemented to be embedded in a mental healthcare system in which they complement human-to-human contact, rather than replace it, this might be beneficial. This will enable tailoring the use of these technologies to the needs of each patient, for example, based on digital literacy and access to high-speed internet. It could also help dealing with long waiting lists and scarcity in mental healthcare and make care more affordable. Furthermore, public funding might help mental health organizations with fewer resources to set up the right DMH infrastructure, so that their less well-off patients can benefit as well.
The Safety and Effectiveness of On-Site Paramedic and Allied Health Treatment Interventions Targeting the Reduction of Emergency Department Visits by Long-Term Care Patients: Systematic Review
Published in Prehospital Emergency Care, 2021
Shannon Leduc, Zach Cantor, Peter Kelly, Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy, George Wells, Christian Vaillancourt
Healthcare systems are suffering from scarcity of resources and are struggling to meet the demands of a population that is ageing, living longer, and making more intense use of services than in the past. (1)This strain is felt acutely in the emergency department (ED), a gateway to the healthcare system, and has upstream effects on the prehospital system. EDs are suffering from crowding and often have long wait times for care. (2, 3) This leads to offload delay, a situation where paramedics regularly have to wait hours before they can transfer patients onto an ED bed and transfer their care to ED staff. This depletes paramedic resources in the community, impacts the number of paramedics available to respond to the next emergency call and can cause delays in care for sick or injured patients in the community. (4–9)