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The accumulation and analysis of large-scale patient data have led to breakthrough discoveries in potential flags for diseases based on pattern recognition, highlight medication efficacy, and local population health trends that would be impossible with traditional paper-based records. However, these benefits come with unique challenges posed by the application of data sharing for research and…

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a substantial death toll throughout the world. The pandemic has created a threat to public health, the economy, food systems, and the workplace. An increased reprioritization of health expenditure towards COVID-19 vaccines will impact on allocations to other medical facilities. In developing countries, hospitals shortage the infrastructure to facilitate patients.…

Process mining is an innovative technique through which inefficiencies in production systems can be eliminated. This technique has therefore become very important internationally in recent years and is also useful for pursuing the improvement of production systems by extrapolating process knowledge from event logs recorded by information systems. Process mining has easy application in production…

Blockchain technology has proven to be the best solution for digital data storage today, which is decentralized and interconnected via cryptography. Many consensus algorithms can be options for implementation. One of them is the PoA consensus algorithm, which is proven to provide high performance and fault tolerance. Blockchain has been implemented in many sectors, including…

Objectives: Describe the clinical characteristics and home care of patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in a Primary Healthcare Facility of the “Mi Peru” district, in the Callao Region, Peru. Materials and methods: Observational and descriptive cross-sectional study. A total of 84 subjects with positive results for Rapid Test IgM / IgG or molecular test (RT-PCR) participated.…

Since its appearance, COVID-19 has severely impacted the healthcare sector all over the world. The healthcare organizations should be agile in order to cope with this new health crisis. Indeed, organization agility was highly recommended as an essential basis for flexibility, innovation, speed, as well competitiveness. Different research provided different conceptual models suitable to evaluate…

Even though mobile technologies are increasingly used to enable communications between providers and receivers of healthcare services, there remain severity challenges owing to the use of various indigenous languages in many Africa countries. Some of the challenges get worst in a countries like South Africa where there are eleven official languages. As a result, interpreters…

eHealth is the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to enhance health quality access. Health care innovations are an essential element of Vision 2030 and National Transformation Program (NTP) 2020 operational plan that will lead to an improvement in the quality of health care in Saudi Arabia. The objective of this paper is to…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of the implementation of the Online Appointment Scheduling system and Pharm Partner system technologies on the quality of working life for users in a small healthcare environment at the University of Technology, Jamaica. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were employed. Two data collection instruments were:…

Day by day, data grows exponentially large using advanced technology and it requires effective analytical techniques to analyze the unknown and useful facts, patterns, associations and new trends which will provide new way for giving treatment to diseases and to provide good quality healthcare at low cost for everyone. This paper describes uncover valuable insights,…

The growing integration of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) into healthcare has amplified the need for secure and privacy-preserving artificial intelligence. Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a pivotal paradigm for decentralized medical data processing; however, it still faces challenges concerning data confidentiality, trust management, and scalability. This review presents an extended theoretical comparison…

The purpose of this paper is to explore the feasibility and development trend of utilizing smart medical technology for chronic disease health management in older people in the context of ageing at home. As the ageing society intensifies, the elderly population faces multiple health challenges, especially the management of chronic diseases. This paper analyzes the…

This article enhances discussions on Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and prompt engineering by exploring critical pitfalls and industry-specific advantages. It begins with a foundational overview of AI evolution, emphasizing how generative models such as GANs, VAEs, and Transformers have revolutionized language processing, image generation, and drug discovery. Prompt engineering is highlighted as a key methodology…

This manuscript offers an in-depth analysis of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), em- phasizing its crucial role in developing transparent and ethically compliant AI systems. It traces AI’s evolution from basic algorithms to complex systems capable of autonomous de- cisions with self-explanation. The paper distinguishes between explainability—making AI decision processes understandable to humans—and interpretability, which provides…

In healthcare, accurate communication is critical, and medical coding, especially coding using the ICD (International Classification of Diseases) standards, plays a vital role in achieving this accuracy. Traditionally, ICD coding has been a time-consuming manual process performed by trained professionals, involving the assignment of codes to patient records, such as doctor’s notes. In this paper,…

Bearing in mind that patient data is extremely sensitive, it is crucial to establish strong protection when the security and privacy of healthcare data are concerned. Prioritizing data security and privacy is essential for the overall healthcare industry in order to maintain the reliability of electronic healthcare (eHealth) information systems. This study explores the gathered…

Diabetes presents a significant public health issue for Native Americans, exacerbated by cultural nuances often ignored by conventional healthcare. To address this, we introduce a mobile app designed with the cultural context of Native American populations in mind. The app’s development followed participatory design principles, with direct input from Native American stakeholders through focus groups…

Advances in Internet of Things (IoT) and wireless technologies are revolutionizing various sectors, including environment, education, healthcare, industry, etc. In the same dynamic, as the world population constantly evolves, solutions based on such technologies need to be proposed to improve the agricultural sector. Senegalese agriculture, primarily rain-fed and based on both cash crops and subsistence…

A reliable healthcare system ensures that the population has access to top-notch medical ser- vices, ultimately enhancing their overall health most efficiently. At times, data are not secured or handled appropriately. Addressing these concerns, blockchain technology is projected to bring about a substantial revolution in the medical industry by assuring the confidentiality of electronic health…

In this work, our contribution will intervene to reduce the impact of noises on the ECG signals. Various ECG denoising approaches were tested to see how efficient they were in removing dominant noises that add to pure ECG signals. Due to different causes such as interference, muscular noise, body movement related to breathing, and so…

Blockchain technology has been successfully applied in many fields for immutable and secure data storage. However, for applications with on-chain big data, blockchain scalability remains to be a main concern. In this paper, we propose a novel scalable storage scheme, called HistoChain, for a consortium blockchain network to manage blockchain data. We use a current…

The South African government has embarked on the implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI), to increase access to healthcare and improve service delivery. However, the project has being encountering various challenges, which are not empirically known. The aim of the study is to identify the factors that influence the implementation of the NHI from…

The paper aims to describe a new technological and organizational approach in order to manage teleconsultation and telemonitoring processes involving a Physician, who remotely interacts with one or more Specialists, in order to evaluate and discuss the specific clinical conditions of a patient, based primarily on the sharing of digital clinical data, reports and diagnostic…

Blockchain technology is seeing a trend of popularity and adoption in many different application areas. One such area is healthcare, as there is a need to develop a system that can reliably store and share electronic health records (EHRs) among hospital-based health facilities. In this paper, we present a cloud-based hierarchical consortium blockchain framework for…

The development of Machine Learning methods and approaches offers enormous growth opportunities in the Healthcare field. One of the most exciting challenges in this field is the automation of clinical treatment selection for patient state optimization. Using necessary medical data and the application of Machine Learning methods (like the Genetic Algorithm and the Analytic Hierarchy…