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Table 1. The Benefits of a CREHS System for Epilepsy patients
Benefits
Financial saving
Quality of life
Disease
management
Supporting factors
Reduce travelling costs
Transportation
Convenience
Communication infra-
structure
Reduce hospital stay
Hospital
Convenience
Improve convenience, privacy, and
security
Convenience,
Privacy, Security
Software quality
Improve disease diagnosis efficiency
Time,
Effort
Convenience
Faster diagnosis
Software quality
Communication infra-
structure
Improve disease diagnosis effectiveness
Time,
Effort
Safety
Precise diagnosis Software quality
Can sense minor changes: irregular heart
rate, blood oxygen level, and others such
as breathing, EEG, glucose level, and
cardiac activity.
Time,
Effort
Convenience
Faster and pre-
cise diagnosis
Sensor and software
quality
Can restore information of memory aids
and other patient-assistance services
Time,
Effort
Precise diagnosis Information Manage-
ment
Use video phone to communicate be-
tween home and hospitals
Time, Communication Convenience
Real-time diag-
nosis
Infrastructure
Send emergency alert via broadband
networks
Time, Communication Convenience
Real
Infrastructure
case of emergency. This feature is a now imple-
mented in many hospitals with the assistance of
wireless Radio-frequency identification (RFID)
tags together with other features such as patient
admission, patient transfer, patient discharges,
and drug administration.
Patient health record management is one of the
most valuable functions. This function ensures
security of patient health records and the records'
availability to the right people at the right time. The
information detected by sensors is transmitted to
the central storage at healthcare centers from time
to time through Internet broadband connections.
This will be used for patients' disease analysis,
treatments, and serve as the pool for seizure trend
analysis by the system. Moreover, the health re-
cord management function will reduce the time
spent by healthcare specialists on searching for
patient's history and related healthcare records. It
also provides flexible data export features which
allows data to be exported from the data store
to different formats convenient for information
statistics or further researches.
Finally, patient admission is also an important
function. As a crucial aspect of care, the hospital
admissions process guides the entire workflow of
your operation, including revenue streams, bed
utilization, treatment plans and care delivery. By
implementing advanced technology, the entire
process can be enhanced. Implementing automated
admission modules will help:
•
Improve the efficiency of bed management,
•
Pinpoint the exact location of patients and
the status of their treatments,
•
Develop a standard process that simplifies
registration and discharge.
Automated Computational Methods
for Detecting Seizures Based on EEG
In this section we will discuss some automated
computation methods for detecting epileptic
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