A Mobile App and Dashboard for Early Detection of Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Development Study.

Background: Outbreaks of infectious diseases pose great risks, including hospitalization and death, to public health. Therefore, improving the management of outbreaks is important for preventing widespread infection and mitigating associated risks. Mobile health technology provides new capabilities that can help better capture, monitor, and manage infectious diseases, including the ability to quickly identify potential outbreaks.

Telehealth for Noncritical Patients With Chronic Diseases During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

During the recent coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, telehealth has received greater attention due to its role in reducing hospital visits from patients with COVID-19 or other conditions, while supporting home isolation in patients with mild symptoms. The needs of patients with chronic diseases tend to be overlooked during the pandemic. With reduced opportunities for routine clinic visits, these patients are adopting various telehealth services such as video consultation and remote monitoring.

Emotion sharing in remote patient monitoring of patients with chronic kidney disease.

Objective: To investigate the relationship between emotion sharing and technically troubled dialysis (TTD) in a remote patient monitoring (RPM) setting.

Materials And Methods: A custom software system was developed for home hemodialysis patients to use in an RPM setting, with focus on emoticon sharing and sentiment analysis of patients' text data. We analyzed the outcome of emoticon and sentiment against TTD.

Development of a risk predictive scoring system to identify patients at risk of representation to emergency department: a retrospective population-based analysis in Australia.

Objective: To examine the characteristics of frequent visitors (FVs) to emergency departments (EDs) and develop a predictive model to identify those with high risk of a future representations to ED among younger and general population (aged ≤70 years).

Design And Setting: A retrospective analysis of ED data targeting younger and general patients (aged ≤70 years) were collected between 1 January 2009 and 30 June 2016 from a public hospital in Australia.

Participants: A total of 343 014 ED presentations were identified from 170 134 individual patients.

Remote Monitoring Systems for Chronic Patients on Home Hemodialysis: Field Test of a Copresence-Enhanced Design.

Background: Patients undertaking long-term and chronic home hemodialysis (HHD) are subject to feelings of isolation and anxiety due to the absence of physical contact with their health care professionals and lack of feedback in regards to their dialysis treatments. Therefore, it is important for these patients to feel the "presence" of the health care professionals remotely while on hemodialysis at home for better compliance with the dialysis regime and to feel connected with health care professionals.

Objective: This study presents an HHD system design for hemodialysis patients with features to enhance patient's perceived "copresence" with their health care professionals.