Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health From Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism, 2008 [PDF]
, 2008 Examines ten indicators to assess progress in state readiness to respond to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies. Evaluates the federal government's and hospitals' preparedness.
Jeffrey Levi +3 more
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Regional data exchange to improve care for veterans after non-VA hospitalization: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
, 2019 BACKGROUND: Coordination of care, especially after a patient experiences an acute care event, is a challenge for many health systems. Event notification is a form of health information exchange (HIE) which has the potential to support care ...
Bean, Andrew M. +8 more
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Federated Robust Embedded Systems: Concepts and Challenges [PDF]
, 2012 The development within the area of embedded systems (ESs) is moving rapidly, not least due to falling costs of computation and communication equipment. It is believed that increased communication opportunities will lead to the future ESs no longer being ...
Axelsson, Jakob, Kobetski, Avenir
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Towards a Formal Framework for Mobile, Service-Oriented Sensor-Actuator Networks
, 2013 Service-oriented sensor-actuator networks (SOSANETs) are deployed in health-critical applications like patient monitoring and have to fulfill strong safety requirements.
Glesner, Sabine, Gruhn, Helena
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Zhongguo gonggong weishengObjectiveTo understand and analyze the experiences and challenges of Beijing city in preventing and controlling the COVID-19 epidemic, providing references for improving the prevention and control practices and policy-making of infectious disease ...
Shuai DU, Ayan MAO, Wuqi QIU
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MOSAIC vision and scenarios for mobile collaborative work related to health and wellbeing [PDF]
, 2005 The main objective of the MOSAIC project is to accelerate innovation in Mobile Worker Support Environments by shaping future research and innovation activities in Europe.
Jones, Val, Saranummi, Niilo
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Peer Support for Addiction in the Inpatient Setting [PDF]
, 2019 Background: In 2006 the Institute of Medicine reported that combined mental illness and substance use disorder was the second leading cause of disability and death in women and the highest cause in men.
Sweeney, Rebecca
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An Integrated Framework for Sensing Radio Frequency Spectrum Attacks on Medical Delivery Drones
, 2020 Drone susceptibility to jamming or spoofing attacks of GPS, RF, Wi-Fi, and operator signals presents a danger to future medical delivery systems. A detection framework capable of sensing attacks on drones could provide the capability for active responses.
Kulp, Philip H., Mei, Nagi
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"They think we're OK and we know we're not". A qualitative study of asylum seekers' access, knowledge and views to health care in the UK [PDF]
, 2007 <i>Background</i>: The provision of healthcare for asylum seekers is a global issue. Providing appropriate and culturally sensitive services requires us to understand the barriers facing asylum seekers and the facilitators that help them ...
A Bischoff +31 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background A major healthcare reform agenda in Ireland is underway which underpins the establishment of a series of National Clinical Programmes (NCPs), which aim to take an evidence based approach to improve quality, access and value.
Catherine D. Darker +3 more
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