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The development of a pervasive Web application to alert patients based on busin...
Esteves, Marisa Araújo; Abelha, António; Machado, José ManuelThis paper proposes the development of a pervasive Web application based on business intelligence clinical indicators created with the data stored into the health information systems of a Portuguese health institution in the last 3 years i.e. between the beginning of 2015 and the end of 2017. With this computational tool, it is principally intended to reduce the number of appointments, surgeries, and medical ex...
A novel system to assist elders’ self-care and their informal caregivers throug...
Esteves, Marisa AraújoNos últimos anos, dados estatísticos oficiais refletem o envelhecimento da população em todo o mundo. Esta situação acarreta vários desafios à nossa sociedade e temas como a independência e a mobilidade dos idosos se tornam cada vez mais uma situação crítica. Assim sendo, ser dependente num contexto domiciliar é uma situação que merece indubitavelmente mais atenção por parte de entidades de apoio social integra...
A mobile health application to assist health professionals: a case study in a p...
Machado, José Manuel; Abelha, António; Esteves, Marisa Araújo; Esteves, MárciaThe rapidly aging population has been a matter of concern over years since this problematic has been posing several challenges to healthcare systems worldwide. In Portugal, which is one of the countries with the largest aging population, nursing homes have been getting a higher demand, and health professionals are overloaded with work. Furthermore, the fact that few nursing homes use health information and comm...
A case based methodology for problem solving aiming at knee osteoarthritis dete...
Esteves, Marisa Araújo; Vicente, Henrique; Machado, José Manuel; Alves, Victor; Neves, JoséKnee osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis and a major cause of impaired mobility and disability for the ageing populations. Therefore, due to the increasing prevalence of the malady, it is expected that clinical and scientific practices had to be set in order to detect the problem in its early stages. Thus, this work will be focused on the improvement of methodologies for problem solving aiming a...
An agent-based RFID monitoring system for healthcare
Marins, Fernando de Abreu; Cardoso, Luciana Almeida; Esteves, Marisa Araújo; Machado, José Manuel; Abelha, AntónioIn the last years, with the progressive expansion of Healthcare Information Systems (HISs), the healthcare platforms for interoperability and monitoring systems have become increasingly more vital sources of clinical information. In this context, in Centro Hospitalar do Porto (CHP), the INTCare system was developed with the purpose to create new useful knowledge for deci sion support in real-time. It is an unqu...
Understanding stroke in dialysis and chronic kidney disease
Rodrigues, Mariana; Peixoto, Hugo Daniel Abreu; Esteves, Marisa Araújo; Machado, José Manuel; Abelha, AntónioPatients with severe kidney failure need to be carefully monitored. One of the many treatments is called Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD). This kind of treatment intends to maintain the blood tests as normal as possible. Data Mining and Machine Learning can take a simple and meaningless blood's test data set and build it into a Decision Support System. Through this article, Machine Learning algo...
Desenvolvimento e exploração de uma nova geração de ferramentas de Business Int...
Esteves, Marisa AraújoAo longo dos últimos anos, tem aumentado exponencialmente a utilização de Tecnologias de Informação (TIs) e de ferramentas computacionais em vários setores económicos, incluindo o setor da saúde, por serem defendidas como tecnologias que podem transformar e melhorar radicalmente a prestação de cuidados de saúde. O principal objetivo das instituições de saúde é prestar os melhores cuidados de saúde aos seus uten...
A benchmarking analysis of open-source business intelligence tools in healthcar...
Brandão, Andreia; Pereira, Eliana Sofia Cunha; Esteves, Marisa Araújo; Portela, Filipe; Santos, Manuel Filipe; Abelha, António; Machado, José ManuelIn recent years, a wide range of Business Intelligence (BI) technologies have been applied to different areas in order to support the decision-making process. BI enables the extraction of knowledge from the data stored. The healthcare industry is no exception, and so BI applications have been under investigation across multiple units of different institutions. Thus, in this article, we intend to analyze some op...