Navigating Healthcare Through Challenging Times

Proceedings of dHealth 2021 – Health Informatics Meets Digital Health

D. Hayn, G. Schreier, M. Baumgartner, Günter Schreier

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781643681801
• eBook ISBN: 9781643681818
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Public Health, Administration & Care

Aside from the dramatic effects that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the lives of people everywhere, it has also triggered and accelerated some important process changes in healthcare. Digital health has become ever more important, supporting test strategies and contact tracing, statistical analysis, prognostic modeling, and vaccination roll-out and documentation. Video calls have become more common, and it seems likely that all these changes will continue to influence healthcare in the longer-term. This book presents the proceedings of dHealth 2021 – the 15th annual conference on Health Informatics Meets Digital Health – held as a virtual conference on 11 & 12 May 2021. The dHealth conference is where research and application meet as equals, and the conference series has been contributing to scientific exchange and networking since 2007. The 2021 edition is the second that has been organized virtually. Each year, this event attracts 300+ participants from academia, industry, government and healthcare organizations, and provides a platform for researchers, practitioners, decision makers and vendors to discuss innovative health informatics and dHealth solutions with the aim of improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare. The 24 papers included here offer an insight into the research on digital health conducted during the COVID-19 crisis, and topics include the management of infectious diseases, telehealth services, standardization and interoperability in healthcare, nursing informatics, data analytics, predictive modeling and digital tools for rare-disease research. The book provides new healthcare insights from both science and practice, and will be of interest to all those working in healthcare.

Table of contents

• Title
• Preface
• Scientific Programme Committee
• Reviewers
• eHealth Interventions for Dementia - Using WordPress Plugins as a Flexible Dissemination for Dementia Service Providers
• Operations Management in Ambulatory Care in Switzerland
• Developing Intelligent Interviewers to Collect the Medical History: Lessons Learned and Guidelines
• Topic Discovery on Farsi, English, French, and Arabic Tweets Related to COVID-19 Using Text Mining Techniques
• First Accreditation of a Medical Informatics Program by the European Federation of Medical Informatics: Experiences
• A Customized Smart Home and Interior Design Concept Co-Designed with and for People with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Semiautomatic Recruitment of Trial Patients Using ELGA Data: Conceptual Design and Implementation of an IT Tool
• A Design Method of Tele-Rehabilitation Platforms for Post-Stroke Patients Based on Consumer Technology
• Unsupervised Learning for Hydrogen Breath Tests
• Reporting of Studies Conducted on Austrian Claims Data
• Health Data Privacy in the COVID-19 Pandemic Context: Discourses on HIPAA
• Mobile Motion Tracking for Disease Prevention and Rehabilitation Using Apple ARKit
• Pathway-Supporting Health Information Systems: A Review
• Digital Health Intervention to Support Refugees in Switzerland
• Developing an App for Cardiovascular Prevention and Scientific Data Collection
• Secure Peer Review and Feedback on Medical Findings via IHE XDS
• Introducing a Navigation Algorithm for Reducing the Spread of Diseases in Public Transport Networks
• Health Pandemic and Social Media: A Content Analysis of COVID-Related Posts on a Telegram Channel With More Than One Million Subscribers
• A Mechanism for Verifying the Integrity and Immutability of Tuberculosis Data Using IOTA Distributed Ledger Technology
• Machine Learning Based Risk Prediction for Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events
• Enabling FAIR Discovery of Rare Disease Digital Resources
• Visual Analytics in Delirium Management
• Co-Designing a Primary Care Breathlessness Decision Support System: General Practitioners Requirements Analysis, Workflow Assessment and Prototype Development
• Natural Language Processing for Free-Text Classification in Telehealth Services: Differences Between Diabetes and Heart Failure Applications
• Subject Index
• Author Index