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Enabling the E@syCare Telemedicine Platform with Push Notification with End-to-end Acknowledgment
No full textTelemedicine is becoming increasingly important in recent years, especially in chronic diseases treatment. Thanks to these platforms, it is possible to assist patients remotely, being continuously monitored according to personalized care plans as if they were at the hospital. The characteristics of telemedicine platforms resulted extremely useful when Covid-19 pandemic broke out. Intense monitoring of patients at home, social distancing, and resource rationalization provided great help to medical personnel and healthcare systems. This novel disease, however, has posed new challenges, given by the quicker evolution of a patient's clinical status with respect to chronic diseases. In particular, the updates of the care plan performed remotely by doctors need to be immediately delivered to monitoring kits located at the patient's home, in order to adjust the monitoring plan of the target patient. Since this update is a critical operation, acknowledgment strategies are required to guarantee feedbacks upon delivery. Immediate updates can be achieved via a push notification system. In this paper, we present a push notification system based on HiveMQ Community Edition message broker, that provides end-to-end positive (ACK) and negative (NACK) acknowledgments, strict authentication, and authorization of users and messages, security, data consistency, and privacy. The realized system has been integrated and tested in the E@syCare telemedicine platform certified as a medical device, but it can be easily adopted by any other telemedicine solutions, as long as they can perform web service requests to the authentication server and integrate HiveMQ client library in their software components
RT-PROFASY: Enhancing the Well-being, Safety and Productivity of Workers by Exploiting Wearable Sensors and Artificial Intelligence
No full textThis paper presents the concept and the system architecture of the ICT platform developed in the framework of the RT-PROFASY project, which aims to monitor the well-being of workers by means of wearable sensors in order to estimate in real-time their level of stress and fatigue, and to integrate data flows coming from production processes, environment and indoor localization within a single platform. This enables in-depth elaboration and analysis of aggregated data with a positive impact in workers safety and productivity, allowing companies to pursue product quality through sustainable processes for workers and appropriate working environments
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
SatNav E@syCare Telemedicine Platform in the Management of Covid-19 Patients: Field Trial Results
No full textIn the framework of the Covid-19 pandemic, digital technology has played a key role in the healthcare sector, becoming essential for improving the quality of care and well-being of individuals and populations. In this scenario, telemedicine platforms have enabled remote monitoring, reducing the contacts between patients and doctors and automating health processes. In this paper, we present the experience of SatNav E@syCare, a telemedicine platform enhanced with new functionalities to respond to the outbreak. In particular, Global Navigation Satellite System technology has been added to the system to geo-tag vital parameters, together with the possibility of digitizing examinations (e.g., lung ultrasound), planning access to the territory, automatically managing patient visits and monitoring patient physical activity. The system has been used by general practitioners and doctors of continuity care in different ways according to the phase of the pandemic and the adopted model of care (patient self-measurements vs home visits). More than 2000 patients of all ages have been monitored with SatNav E@syCare. Among the doctors involved in the project, more than 90% are using the system for at least one hour per day, leading to a reduction of time spent to manage patients. Moreover, the system has simplified their daily work, thanks to the digitization of information and sharing of data with colleagues. In their opinion, in a non-pandemic future, the use of the system will introduce benefits both for patients and healthcare professionals in the monitoring of chronic conditions on the territory
Leveraging from the SatNav E@syCare Experience in COVID-19 Pandemic Towards an Extensive Use of Telemedicine in Chronic Patients Long-Term Care Model
No full textThe current COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of digital technologies, in all sectors and in particular in healthcare. In this scenario, in fact, telemedicine systems have been adopted to remotely monitor and manage infected patients or patients subjected to quarantine regulations. In Tuscany region, Italy, SatNav E@syCare, a telemonitoring platform resulted from the integration of E@syCare, designed for chronic patients, and satellite technologies, has been experimented, receiving positive feedback both from doctors and patients. Such a system could be used also in long-term care, for monitoring chronic patients, providing characterisation and customisation of medical devices according to the patients’ chronic conditions and implementing an expert system, which generates personalised monitoring and treatment plans, to support physicians at the moment of enrolment. The pandemic experience could then be a lesson learnt promoting the adoption of smart telemedicine platforms for the care of chronic patients
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