Yaw-Jen Lin

A Study of Ubiquitous Monitor with RFID in an Elderly Nursing Home

The percentage of the elderly population grew rapidly in recent years, so the tremendous life and health care needs became an issue of focus in an aging society. The Elderly Nursing Home plays an important role and intends to provide a comfortable environment and living space and serve as safe and healthy place for the elderly. However, the frailty and fragility of the elderly in both physiologically and psychologically make it an uneasy task. To enhance the service and care quality of an Elderly Nursing Home, a ubiquitous monitor system integrated with biosensors and radio frequency identification (RFID) technology was implemented as a prototyping system. The system was expected to improve the activity of daily living (ADL) of the residents, to detect the emergencies or accidents such as stroke, falling down, fainting, and heart attack, in order to enhance the quality of care and promote efficiency at the same time.

A cloud based Bluetooth Low Energy tracking system for dementia patients

Location based services of trackers can keep dementia patients safe, but traditional GPS tracker or smartphone based solution device need to be removed for recharging or when taking bath. A water-proof Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) tag with a CR2302 battery can be used over a year so that it can be worn all the time. By combining BLE technology, smartphones and cloud services provided by Google, we can build a practical location and tracking system with minimal cost.

Pilot Study on a Community-Based Ubiquitous Healthcare System for Current and Retired University Employees

Entering the 21st century, the aging process and increasing chronic diseases in Taiwan society have become more prevalent. To deal with the problem, we develop a ubiquitous healthcare (u-Health) system platform that integrates wireless telecommunication, sensor network, and information technology to take care of patients having chronic diseases. The u-Health system provides not only telecare at home setting, but also a health community network which can further integrate medical care and life care and emphasize on patent humanity and dignity. For this purpose, a holistic u-Health system focusing on the physiological, psychosocial, arts, recreational, and even spiritual aspects of patients was implemented for people living in the community. In this study, we applied our community based u-Health system to the current and retired employees of National Taiwan University (NTU) who had at least one of the following chronic diseases: hypertension, diabetes mellitus and obesity, and required long term follow up and treatment. A community medical group (CMG) which is formed with family doctors from the Family Medicine Department of NTU Hospital, the Yung-Ho Branch of Cardinal Tien Hospital, NTU Health Center, and several other local clinics in Taipei City was in charge of the medical care along with a dedicated case managing nurse for the medical care at outpatient clinics, home telecare and 24-hour health consultation. Using this integrated community-based system is expected to provide a comprehensive and ubiquitous healthcare and eventually improve the quality of care by increasing compliance and reducing the complications of chronic diseases.

An E-learning Content Authoring tool for Transforming DICOM into SCORM

Today e-learning is not impossible, and it becomes a generation of next education technology. Now e-learning has two directions of developing: the one is the construction of learning management system (LMS); and the other is the developing reusable content. Our studies focus on the developing content. Now the medical image information system of hospital usually is picture archiving and communication system (PACS). In PACS, the form of information and image are HL7 and DICOM; for the reusability of content, we decide SCORM to be our conformant. However, the forms of data have difference between SCORM, and DICOM, so in our studies, we will design an authoring tool that can transform the information from DICOM image into the SCORM course

A study of integrating digital health network with UPnP in an elderly nursing home

The percentage of the elderly population grew rapidly in recent years, so the tremendous life and health care needs became an issue of focus in an aging society. The elderly nursing home plays an important role and intends to provide a comfortable environment and living space and serve as safe and healthy place for the elderly. However, the frailty and fragility of the elderly in both physiologically and psychologically make it an uneasy task. To enhance the service and care quality of an elderly nursing home, a ubiquitous monitor system integrated with biosensors and wireless network technology was implemented as a prototyping system. For managing sensors easily, the universal plug and play (UPnP) technology from digital living network alliance (DLNA) is adopted. The system was expected to be a digital health network to improve the activity of daily living (ADL) of the residents, to detect the emergencies or accidents such as stroke, falling down, fainting, and heart attack, in order to enhance the quality of care and promote efficiency at the same time.

Effects of erhu distance learning on cognitive and upper extremity function in elderly

The purpose of this research is to improve the cognitive and upper extremity functions of the elderly by teaching Erhu via distance learning. In this study Elderly Music Taste Survey showed the preference scores of Taiwanese folk rhyme (M=24.62), popular music (23.46), traditional Chinese music (M=18.92), Chinese folk rhyme (M=14.23), and western classics(M=9.69) respectively. Significant improvement can be observed of both the dominant hand grip strength between pretest (M=20.60) and posttest (M=26.546) (t=2.313, p<; .05), and non-dominant hand grip strength pretest (M=18.369) and posttest (M= 24.708) (t=2.746, p<; .05) of the upper extremities. However the cognitive function test MMSE of the elderly between the pretest (M=27.67) and posttest (M=27.42) revealed no significant difference (t= .256, p= .803). The results were not affected by Gender nor by Age. We conclude that music instrument learning can effectively improve the upper extremity function and maintain the cognitive function of the elderly. By developing distance learning courses with mobile music instructors via both real-time interaction, video on demand demo, and uploads of learning records it can effectively energize the music learning experience of the elderly.

Construct an Approximation Decision Model of Medical Record by Neural Networks - The Ophthalmology Department as an Example

The most traditional formative education of doctors is to have students to simulate diagnosis and treatment modes of their teachers, or carry handbooks such as “clinical summary” and “suit the remedy to the case for clinical illness” with them as the guideline. However, the temporary approach by finding answers in the books is not only time-consuming, but also affects the confidence of the patients to the doctor. This research aims at the above-said clinical practice in clinical emergency call and doctor formative education. We take the ophthalmology as an example; utilize the back-propagation algorithm of the artificial neural networks, to construct an “approximation decision model of medical record” for clinical diagnosis guideline. The doctor can input information such as chief complaint, other complaint and diagnosis etc. into the decision model and then correct ophthalmologic approximation medical records are outputted as the reference of diagnosis and treatment to improve the quality of medical treatment and medical care.

A Study of the Electronic Healthy Diet and Nutrition Assessment System Applied in a Nursing Home

Malnutrition has been a well-known risk factor of disease in elderly population, however, the welfare and quality of life can be reached for the elder with the implementation of information technology among a rapidly aging society. In this study, by integrating the food composition nutrient database into an electronic healthy diet and nutrition assessment system (eHDNAS) to establish an informative and healthy dinning environment for the elderly. It does not only provide the elderly with more enjoyable and flexible pre-order meal services but also enable self-management of diet control. At the same time, nutritionist, nurse or the caregiver of a nursing home can do nutrition assessment for the elderly by the electronic diet records. In the future, eHDNAS is expected to play an important role in nutrition-caring plan.

A Hospital Applied Circuit Back Up Framework for External Network Services

Services over the Internet are important components of hospitals today. It is a serious issue to make network reliable for network managers of a hospital. The issue might not solvable to them when the network is break off because external network outside the hospital could not be controlled by them. We propose a route-based architecture with general routers, and utilize the multi-homing spirit to make fault-tolerance circuit backup framework. We also develop a method in the framework to detect network problems and switch path automatically in order to reduce overloading of hospital network managers.

A communication system for living alone elders

There are increasing amount of elders to live alone. We utilize simple computers, cameras, and the Internet technology to provide an elders communication system. This system aids elders easy to contact families and volunteers via NetMeeting. It also provide the food order service for elder to order foods and for manager to manage nutrition status. Usage log of this system located on the service center can provide more information to be analyzed by the manager to improve life quality of live alone elders. Keyword-Live alone elders, Elder communication system, NetMeeting, Food order service.