Modelling and assessing one- and two-drug dose titrations.

In health-care, there is a need to quantify medical errors. Among these errors, we observe wrong dose prescriptions. Drug dose titration (DT) is the process by which dosage is progressively adjusted to the patient till a steady dose is reached.

A Model of Perception of Privacy, Trust, and Self-Disclosure on Online Social Networks.

Online Social Networks are used widely, raising new issues in terms of privacy, trust, and self-disclosure. For a better understanding of these issues for Facebook users, a model was built that includes privacy value, privacy risk, trust, privacy control, privacy concerns, and self-disclosure. A total of 602 respondents participated in an online survey, and structural equation modeling was used to evaluate the model.

Knowledge Formalization to Support Decision-Making in Heart Failure Treatment.

This paper presents medical knowledge representation of data provided within Clinical Practice Guidelines for Heart Failure. The formalization is provided in order to support taking decisions on an appropriate treatment strategy for a specific patient. An intuitive and efficient mechanism of medical knowledge formalization, called extended Timed Transition Diagram (eTTD), is used to represent acquired medical knowledge.

Sensors and Functionalities of Non-Invasive Wrist-Wearable Devices: A Review.

Wearable devices have recently received considerable interest due to their great promise for a plethora of applications. Increased research efforts are oriented towards a non-invasive monitoring of human health as well as activity parameters. A wide range of wearable sensors are being developed for real-time non-invasive monitoring.

Formalization and acquisition of temporal knowledge for decision support in medical processes.

Background: In medical practice, long term interventions are common and they require timely planning of the involved processes. Unfortunately, evidence-based statements about time are hard to find in Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) and in other sources of medical knowledge. At the same time, health care centers use medical records and information systems to register data about clinical processes and patients, including time information about the encounters, prescriptions, and other clinical actions.

Patient education on safety and privacy.

The individual's right to determine if, when and how data about them will be collected, stored, used and shared with others is called the right to privacy. The problem of data collection and sharing arises daily among health services. Among medical staff, there are numerous message flows, including the medical records of patients and other patient's personal data.