- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Electronic Health Records Systems
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring
- Technology Use by Older Adults
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Healthcare Systems and Practices
- Healthcare Systems and Technology
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
- Medication Adherence and Compliance
- Health, Medicine and Society
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
University Hospital of Geneva
2015-2024
University of Geneva
2003-2022
Geneva College
2018-2021
Hôpital Beau-Séjour
2020
Charles Humbert 8
2011
Universität Innsbruck
1967
Background Digital innovations continue to shape health and care. As technology socially integrates into daily living, the lives of care consumers are transformed a key source information, commonly referred as patient-generated data (PGHD). With chronic disease prevalence signaling need for refocus on primary prevention, electronic PGHD might be essential in strengthening proactive person-centered Objective This study aimed review synthesize existing literature utilization implications...
Background: The American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) are nowadays recognized as the world's most authoritative guidelines. Adherence to these optimizes management of critically ill patients and increases their chances survival after cardiac arrest. Despite availability, suboptimal quality CPR is still common. Currently, median hospital rate pediatric in-hospital arrest 36%, whereas it falls below 10% out-of-hospital Among emerging information...
We introduce the first meta-service for information extraction in molecular biology, BioCreative MetaServer (BCMS; http://bcms.bioinfo.cnio.es/ ). This prototype platform is a joint effort of 13 research groups and provides automatically generated annotations PubMed/Medline abstracts. Annotation types cover gene names, IDs, species, protein-protein interactions. The are distributed by meta-server both human machine readable formats (HTML/XML). service intended to be used biomedical...
During pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), vasoactive drug preparation for continuous infusion is both complex and time-consuming, placing children at higher risk than adults medication errors. Following an evidence-based ergonomic-driven approach, we developed a mobile device app called Pediatric Accurate Medication in Emergency Situations (PedAMINES), intended to guide caregivers step-by-step from delivery of drugs requiring infusion.The aim our study was determine whether the...
Patient satisfaction has become an increasingly important element in a service-oriented healthcare market. Although is influenced by many factors, the waiting time to be seen medical staff been shown one of key criteria. However, not objective experience and several factors can influence its perception.We conducted questionnaire-based, cross-sectional study among patients attending emergency unit Swiss university hospital order explore influencing wait perception.A total 509 participated...
<h3>Importance</h3> Medication errors are a leading cause of injury and avoidable harm, affecting millions people worldwide each year. Children particularly susceptible to medication errors, but innovative interventions for the prevention these in prehospital emergency care lacking. <h3>Objective</h3> To assess efficacy an evidence-based mobile app reducing occurrence compared with conventional preparation methods during simulated pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest scenarios....
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Chronic pain affects approximately 19% of the European population and poses significant challenges, both in terms individual suffering financial burden on healthcare systems worldwide. While provider expertise is critical, empowering patients with self-management tools has become increasingly important for addressing long-term effectively. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This report details development implementation Dolodoc, a mobile application designed by...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> In the context of an aging population, it is crucial to promote early discussions help patients express their view on what essential in life, preferences over future medical treatments and end-of-life issues. An inter-professional research team at Geneva University HUG hospital, has developed a digital version Anticip’action, game designed initiate conduct planning discussions, that can be used smartphone or tablet. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This study...
Background: Demographic growth in conjunction with the rise of chronic diseases is increasing pressure on health care systems most OECD countries. Physical activity known to be an essential factor improving or maintaining good health. Walking especially recommended, as it that can easily performed by people without constraints. Pedometers have been extensively used incentive motivate become more active. However, a recognized problem these devices their diminishing accuracy associated...
The introduction of clinical information systems has increased the amount documentation. Although this documentation generally improves patient safety, it become a time-consuming task for nurses, which limits their time with patient. On basis user-centered methodology, we have developed mobile app named BEDSide Mobility to support nurses in daily workflow and facilitate at bedside.
Background: Nurses are increasingly spending time on computers, and providing them with a tailored tool to access clinical information perform documentation at the bedside could help improve their efficiency. Designing an app support nurses' work is challenging task, given complexity of care process. Objective: This study aimed present design, development, testing smartphone for nurses guided by adapted software development life cycle model that takes into consideration constraints health...
Abstract Background In the context of BioCreative competition, where training data were very sparse, we investigated two complementary tasks: 1) given a Swiss-Prot triplet, containing protein, GO (Gene Ontology) term and relevant article, extraction short passage that justifies category assignement; 2) pair, protein automatic assignement set categories. Methods Sentence is basic retrieval unit. Our classifier computes distance between each sentence provided with entry. The Text Categorizer...
Evidence-based best practices are the cornerstone to guide optimal cardiopulmonary arrest resuscitation care. Adherence American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines for (CPR) optimizes management of critically ill patients and increases their chances survival after cardiac arrest. Despite advances in science improvement over last decades, only approximately 38% children survive hospital discharge in-hospital 6%-20% out-of-hospital arrest.We investigated whether a mobile app developed as...
Working in a clinical environment requires unfettered mobility. This is especially true for nurses who are always on the move providing patients' care different locations. Since introduction of information systems hospitals, this mobility has often been considered hampered by interactions with computers. The popularity personal mobile assistants such as smartphones makes it possible to gain easy access data anywhere.To identify challenges involved deployment applications handheld devices and...
The demographic transition in industrialized countries leads to a growth of elderly population. This population is more prone chronic diseases and puts an increasing pressure on the healthcare system. One way reduce cost associated support this improve its autonomy keep it independent as long possible. Many assistive technologies environmental interventions can be implemented achieve goal. In paper, we are looking at advantages drawbacks smartwatches platform home. By doing literature search...
Medication errors are among the most common medical adverse events and an important cause of patient morbidity mortality, affecting millions people worldwide each year. This problem is especially acute in paediatric settings, where drugs given intravenously to children provided vials prepared for adult population. leads need a specific, individual, weight-based drug-dose calculation preparation child, which varies widely across age groups. error-prone process places at high risk...
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) are stressful, high-stake events that associated with low survival rates. Acute stress experienced in this situation is lower cardiopulmonary resuscitation performance calculating drug dosages by emergency medical services. Children particularly vulnerable to such errors. To date, no app has been validated specifically support preparation paramedics through reducing the level of procedure and medication errors.This study aims determine effectiveness an...
Patient experience in emergency departments (EDs) remains often suboptimal and can be a source of stress, particularly pediatric settings. In an attempt to support patients their families before, during, after visit ED, mobile health (mHealth) app was developed by multidisciplinary team based on patient-centered care principles.This study aims evaluate the usability (effectiveness, efficiency, satisfaction) new mHealth app, InfoKids, potential end users through testing.The assessed...
There is an increased demand in hospitals for tools, such as dedicated mobile device apps, that enable the recording of clinical information electronic format at patient's bedside. Although human-machine interface design on devices strongly influences accuracy and effectiveness data recording, there still a lack evidence to which offers best guarantee ease use quality recording. Therefore, interfaces need be assessed both usability reliability because errors can seriously impact overall...
Although mobile devices become more and common in clinicians' hands, transforming them into an institutional tool to access electronic health record information at the patient's bedside still raises many questions. One of these questions is provenance when are deployed level. Some advocate use personal devices, known as BYOD, for its lower cost, others favor which allow a standardization development, deployment support processes. The financial disadvantage could be reduced by sharing between...