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Smart hospital patient rooms incorporate various smart devices to allow digital control of the entertainment --- such as TV and soundbar --- and the environment --- including lights, blinds, and thermostat. This technology can benefit patients by ...

Patient’s understanding on forthcoming dental surgeries is required by patient-centered care and helps reduce anxiety. Due to the complexity of dental surgeries and the patient-dentist expertise gap, conventional techniques of patient education are ...

Health education is a fundamental process in strategies to inform and involve patients with effective health management. Nevertheless, challenges exist in motivating patients to engage with health information. This paper describes a study which ...

Anaphylaxis is a life-threatening allergic reaction which is rapid in onset. Adolescents living with anaphylaxis risk often lack the knowledge and skills required to safely manage their condition or talk to friends about it. We designed an educational ...

Effectively engaging patients in their care is essential to improve health outcomes, improve satisfaction with the care experience, reduce costs, and even benefit the clinician experience. This article will address the topic of patient engagement directly ...

The field of librarianship has a history of involvement in patient education, general literacy and information literacy efforts. This history and prominent placement in communities make libraries and librarians an excellent resource in advancing health ...

During the course of an illness, people may come to learn things about their bodies that they did not previously understand. This poster explores how one group of patients with a chronic illness, fibromyalgia, learned to listen to their bodies ...

During the course of an illness, people may come to learn things about their bodies that they did not previously understand. This poster explores how one group of patients with a chronic illness, fibromyalgia, learned to listen to their bodies over time. ...

National guidelines for a number of health conditions recommend that practitioners assess and reinforce patient's adherence to specific diet and lifestyle modifications. Counseling intervention has shown to have a long-term positive effect on patient ...

While Telemedicine technology greatly increases the quality of medical care with less health care costs, it also raises critical challenges for data security and privacy in the course of data entry, data review, patient education, video conference, and ...

This paper describes the user-centered design process of online patient education, focusing on Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). A user-centered design approach comprising four different methods (semi-structured interviews; Card Sort ...

Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empathic virtual nurse interface for educating and counseling hospital ...

A core problem for health information seekers is locating relevant information among the vast amount of online content. Personalization has been suggested as a solution to effective Web information retrieval and also explored in the healthcare context, ...

It is important to educate people before they start a new exercise program. Based on the established Computer-Assisted Education (CO-ED) model, we developed an e-Learning program for understanding general principles of a Chinese therapeutic exercise, ...

The application of already widely available mobile phones would provide medical professionals with an additional possibility of outpatient care, which may reduce medical cost at the same time as providing support to elderly people suffering from chronic ...

To support nutrition-related behavioural change, a dietitian can offer tailored educational programmes based on patients' specific dietary behaviours. A model has been developed to integrate learning technologies into this process. This tool allows ...

Medicine Department Safe training is a computer based review program named de'medici and it is an employee training program. This annual review packet serves as a generic training tool. All health-care providers with direct patient care are required by ...

Complex decision models in expert systems often depend upon a number of utilities and subjective probabilities for an individual. Although these values can be estimated for entire populations or demographic subgroups, a model should be customized to the ...

Diabetes is a chronic disease that causes a great deal of morbidity and mortality and poor quality of life for millions of people. Continuing care and patient education help maintain a good control of the disease and prevent complications. Since current ...