Falls in older adults are not only frequent but also potentially disabling for them. Detecting and preventing these falls have an important impact in the life of the elderly people. This paper presents the architecture of ...

The study of new technologies in the field of healthcare is fundamental, especially considering the problems faced by information systems, the increasing of population s life expectancy and the need of specialized assistance. ...

Worldwide Fetal-Maternal morbidity and mortality is frightfully high. Most of thesediseases occur in developing countries. One of the main reasons for this problem, after gestationalhypertension and complications in ...

Due to the problems faced in Healthcare, this is heading towards a paradigm shift. This change suggests that the care is no longer focused exclusively on large hospitals and into the hands of specialized professionals. ...

In despite of the great advantages of adopting computer systems for storing patient's information in hospitals and clinics, such systems are adopted with restrictions in these institutions. Some studies indicate that the ...

Every year the queues in hospitals publics and privates grows due to, among others, the increasing of the world population and the delay in the patients service. This is a serious problem faced by administrators of ...

Actual healthcare systems suffer from a high rate of rejection by the physicians who use these systems, because it is necessary that the users explicitly provide information constantly to these systems. This way, one of ...

Pervasive developmental disorders are now commonly referred to as autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). ASDs present with a range of severity and impairments, and often are a cause of severe disability, representing a major ...

The development of innovative techniques in healthcare leveraged, significantly, the life expectancy of human beings. This new scenario raises concern in society to create a health care network able to absorb this demand ...