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Key principles involving ethical and deontological issues in military stress ma...
Gomes, Paulo Veloso; Vianez, Ana; Curado, Henrique; Marques, António; Pereira, Javier; Machado Veloso Gomes, Paulo SérgioThe integration of Virtual Reality in military contexts, which simulates realistic combat and high-risk operational scenarios, provides a controlled environment for developing various skills and psychological resilience. This technology has proven to be a valuable tool for enhancing soldiers’ training and preparedness. The creation and use of VR programs, especially those involving the collection of biofeedback...
Telemonitoring in heart failure patient management
Silva, Patrícia; Gomes, Paulo Veloso; Condeço, Jorge; Curado, Henrique; Veloso, RitaHeart failure is a highly prevalent clinical syndrome, associated with high costs to the national health system and with a negative impact on patients’ quality of life. In order to reduce mortality, the rate of hospitalisations and improve quality of life, the empowerment of the patient for self-care from self-monitoring of signs and symptoms, taking medication, education about the disease, is a pillar of the t...
m-Health system for the self-management of patients with heart failure
Silva, Patrícia; Gomes, Paulo Veloso; Condeço, Jorge; Marques, António; Curado, Henrique; Veloso, Rita; Pereira, JavierIncreasingly, the use of technology is emerging as a tool to support health care. The new information and telecommunications technologies have triggered a new paradigm in health: in access, availability and management of information. Telemonitoring interventions in patients with heart failure have been shown to be cost effective in reducing the rate of hospitalisations and mortality. The development of m-Health...
Health data risks In 2026 – The future european health data ecosystem
Curado, HenriqueThere are two types of purposes for the European Health Data Ecosystem – EHDE (scheduled to come into force in 2026). The primary uses are for healthcare delivery, so it is important to have access to health information for citizens outside their country to prescribe and buy medicines. A novelty is the secondary use of data, i.e. sharing information for scientific research purposes, given its relevance for medi...
Strategy for data cybersecurity in european health data ecosystem
Curado, Henrique; Gomes, Paulo Veloso; Jacquinet, Marc; Marques, António; Pereira, JavierThis study aims to analyze the Strategy for Data Cybersecurity in the European Health Data Ecosystem, to be implemented in 2025. The document analysis was carried out to map the different proposals for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council, regarding the sharing of the Electronic Health Record in the European space, and the General Data Protection Regulation implemented in the European Unio...
Distributed database model for mobile health telemonitoring applications
Gomes, Paulo Veloso; Curado, Henrique; Marques, António; Gomes, Bárbara; Pereira, JavierTelemonitoring interventions in patients allow to collect and transmit information to health professionals bringing recognized advantages in the personalization of health care services. Those applications deal with sensitive data, raising ethical and legal issues that must be considered. Guarantee the quality and accuracy of the data collected in telemonitoring and ensure confdentiality to protect the patient p...
The multiplicities of an ethics committee in higher education
Tavares, Diana; Cruz, Agostinho; Cabral, Ana Paula; Machado, Alberto; Sousa, Helena; Curado, Henrique; Faria, Isabel; Amorim, ManuelaIn the academic context, the main activity of ethics committees is evidently to regulate and monitor any investigation carried out within the institution, if the object of study is a person or biological material. However, it is important to note that ethics committee activity does not end, and cannot end, in this sphere of action. These entities are fundamental in raising awareness of the academic community fo...
A proteção dos dados pessoais na investigação e inovação em saúde
Curado, Henrique; Amorim, Manuela; Cabral, Ana Paula; Cruz, Agostinho; Faria, Isabel; Gonçalves, Maria João; Lopes, Paula; Machado, AlbertoInvestigação e inovação em saúde pressupõe o tratamento de dados pessoais sensíveis, protegidos pelo regulamento europeu de proteção de dados e pela legislação nacional. O presente estudo procura demonstrar a compatibilidade entre a investigação e inovação em saúde e as garantias de confidencialidade e proteção dos dados pessoais, indicando os pressupostos para tal, alertando para a fragilidade acrescida nos es...
The relevance of an ethics committee in a higher education institution in the h...
Monteiro, Pedro; Tavares, Diana; Cruz, Agostinho; Cabral, Ana Paula; Machado, Alberto; Curado, Henrique; Sousa, Helena; Faria, IsabelEthics Committees arose as consequence of medical-scientific advances made in an eminent demand to extend morality and ethics to the field of biomedicine, to expand and preserve autonomy and dignity of human beings. The Ethics Committee (EC) of Escola Superior de Saúde (ESS) was born in February 2011. The importance for this unit of P.PORTO in having such a committee, for ethical and not legal imperative, came ...
A importância das comissões de ética nas tecnologias da saúde: a experiência da...
Tavares, Diana; Amorim, Manuela; Cabral, Ana Paula; Cruz, Agostinho; Curado, Henrique; Faria, Isabel; Gonçalves, Maria João; Lopes, PaulaA Escola Superior de Saúde (ESS) do Instituto Politécnico do Porto (P.PORTO) completou recentemente o seu 40º aniversário de existência, enquanto instituição de ensino superior (IES) de referência na área da saúde. A evolução desta IES tem sido notória tanto ao nível da formação graduada, como pós-graduada, atividades de extensão à comunidade, onde se insere a recente Clínica Pedagógica, e criação de dois centr...