A Personalized Health Monitoring System for Community-Dwelling Elderly People in Hong Kong: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation Study.

Background: Telehealth is an effective means to assist existing health care systems, particularly for the current aging society. However, most extant telehealth systems employ individual data sources by offline data processing, which may not recognize health deterioration in a timely way.

Objective: Our study objective was two-fold: to design and implement an integrated, personalized telehealth system on a community-based level; and to evaluate the system from the perspective of user acceptance.

Fraudulent antibiotic products on the market for aquaculture use.

Antibiotics in aquaculture are used to treat bacterial infections. In order for these products to work effectively fish need to be properly dosed. One of the emerging issues in aquaculture is under-dosing large populations of fish with antibiotics.

Monitoring data quality for telehealth systems in the presence of missing data.

Background: All-in-one station-based health monitoring devices are implemented in elder homes in Hong Kong to support the monitoring of vital signs of the elderly. During a pilot study, it was discovered that the systolic blood pressure was incorrectly measured during multiple weeks. A real-time solution was needed to identify future data quality issues as soon as possible.

Decreasing the dispatch time of medical reports sent from hospital to primary care with Lean Six Sigma.

Rationale, Aims And Objectives: Timely communication is important to ensure high-quality health care. To facilitate this, the Gastro Intestinal Oncology Center Amsterdam (GIOCA) stipulated to dispatch medical reports on the day of the patient's visit. However, with the increasing number of patients, administrative processes at GIOCA were under pressure, and this standard was not met for the majority of patients.