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An HL7 v2 Platform for Standards Development and Testing

July 16, 2017
Author(s)
Sandra I. Martinez, Robert D. Snelick
Development of healthcare data exchange standards has long been problematic, plagued with ambiguous and inconsistent requirement specifications. This situation leads to potential misinterpretation by implementers, thus limiting the effectiveness of the

Examining the Copy and Paste Function in the Use of Electronic Health Records

January 19, 2017
Author(s)
Svetlana Z. Lowry, Mala Ramaiah, Sandra S. Prettyman, Debora Simmons, David Brick, Ellen Deutsch, Lorraine B. Possanza, Ollie B. Gray, Betty A. Levine, Kinsey Gimbel, Kyle Andrews
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in collaboration with ECRI conducted a study titled “Examining the Copy and Paste Function in the Use of Electronic Health Records” which was intended to help fill the gap in understanding the

Using RTS/CTS to Enhance the Performance of IEEE 802.15.6 CSMA/CA

December 22, 2016
Author(s)
Kamran Sayrafian, Martina Barbi, Mehdi Alasti
IEEE 802.15.6 is a radio interface standard for a wireless connectivity of wearable and implantable sensors and actuators located inside or in close proximity to the human body i.e. Body Area Network (BAN). Medical applications requirements impose

Maximizing Output Power of a CFPG Micro Energy-Harvester for Wearable Medical Sensors

October 31, 2016
Author(s)
Mehdi Dadfarnia, Kamran Sayrafian, Paul Mitcheson, John Baras
Energy Harvesting refers to the process of capturing and storing energy from the ambient environment. Kinetic energy harvested from the human body motion seems to be one of the most convenient and attractive solutions for wearable wireless sensors in

An Energy-Efficient Target Tracking Strategy for Mobile Sensor Networks

March 15, 2016
Author(s)
Kamran Sayrafian, Hamid Mahboubi, Walid Masoudimansour, Amir G. Aghdam
In this paper, an energy-efficient strategy is proposed for tracking a moving target in an environment with obstacles, using a network of mobile sensors. Typically, the most dominant sources of energy consumption in a mobile sensor network are sensing

A Regret Matching Strategy Framework for Inter-BAN Interference Mitigation

February 4, 2016
Author(s)
Vladimir Marbukh, Kamran Sayrafian, Martina Barbi, Mehdi Alasti
A Body Area Network (BAN) is a radio standard for wireless connectivity of wearable and implantable sensors located inside or in close proximity to the human body. Medical and some other applications impose stringent constraints on battery powered BAN
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