Publications by authors named "Atsuko Matsuda"

Objectives For patients with brain disorders, regaining the ability to drive is crucial to their reintegration into society. Despite the existence of numerous assessment methods for determining the ability to resume driving, the most effective approach remains unclear. This study evaluated patients with brain disorders who had received support for driving resumption.

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  • The study focuses on the implementation of an electronic nursing record system in Japan, aiming to ease nursing workloads while addressing issues with traditional keyboard input methods that are time-consuming and challenging for many nurses.
  • Researchers explored the use of voice recognition input for the electronic record system, identifying that existing systems struggled with processing free-form sentences.
  • An experiment demonstrated that using a specially designed template for voice input significantly improved input speed and ease of use compared to keyboard input, even among participants who were inexperienced with voice technology.
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Recently, a patient with diabetes mellitus (DM) type 2 has been increasing in Japan. The patient should be managed not only by a specialist but also by himself focusing his attention on the improvement of his lifestyle at home. In the present study, we tried to develop a health management support system by which a diabetic patient in early stage can easily enter his daily life information, i.

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We constructed a safety management system for narcotic drug use by using an RFID tag with barcode. In this system, RFID tags are mainly used for postscript of information, while barcodes, especially standardized unit drug codes for distribution, are used for drug identification. The outline of the system is described in the present paper.

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