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The novel paradigm of Internet of Things (IoT) is gaining recognition in the numerous scenarios promoting the pervasive presence of smart things around us through its application in various areas of society, which includes transportation, healthcare, industries, and agriculture. One more such application is in the smart office to monitor the health of devices via machine learning (ML) that makes the equipment more efficient by allowing real-time monitoring of their health. It guarantees indoor comfort as per the user's satisfaction as it emphasizes on fault prediction in real-life devices. Early identification of various types of faults in IoT devices is the key requirement in smart offices. IoT devices are becoming ubiquitous and provide an assistant to supervise an office that is regulated by ML and data received from sensors is stored in cloud. A recommender system facilitates the selection of an appropriate solution for faults in IoT-enabled devices to mitigate faults. The architecture proposed in this paper is used to monitor each and every office appliance connected via IoT technology using ML technique, and recommender system is used to recommend solutions for fault patterns without much human intervention. The ultrasonic motion sensor is used to fetch the information of employee availability in cubicles and data is sent to the cloud through the WiFi module. ATmega8 is used to control electrical appliances in the office environment. The significance of this work is to forecast the faults in IoT appliances which will have an impact on life and reliability of IoT appliances. The main objective is to design a prototype of a smart office using IoT that can control and automate workplace devices and forecast whether the device needs repairing or replacing, thus reducing the overall burden on the employee and helping out in increasing physical as well as mental health of the person.
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Cloud Computing , Delivery of Health Care , Humans , Monitoring, Physiologic , Office Automation , Reproducibility of ResultsSubject(s)
Blood Pressure Determination/instrumentation , Equipment Design/instrumentation , Office Automation/statistics & numerical data , Blood Pressure/physiology , Blood Pressure Determination/standards , Blood Pressure Monitors/statistics & numerical data , Equipment Design/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Posture/physiologySubject(s)
Blood Pressure Determination/instrumentation , Blood Pressure/physiology , Office Automation/standards , Blood Pressure Determination/statistics & numerical data , Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory/methods , Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Hypertension/diagnosis , Office Automation/statistics & numerical data , Practice Patterns, Physicians'/statistics & numerical dataABSTRACT
The article chosen for this Journal Club commentary describes the development and testing of a report format using automated data to report urinary catheter utilization and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs).1 This research sought to address a gap in knowledge regarding the optimal display and content of data reports, communicating to diverse audiences, which used surveillance data from Department of Veterans Affairs' electronic health records. The specific research aim of this project was to develop and pilot test report formats deemed usable and trustworthy by the end user, and discover the best way to deliver to the ideal audience automated data, which is formatted and presented in a way that is acceptable to the end user.
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Catheter-Related Infections , Electronic Health Records , Infection Control/methods , Office Automation , Urinary Catheterization/adverse effects , Urinary Tract Infections/etiology , Catheters, Indwelling , Hospitals , Humans , Urinary CathetersSubject(s)
Internet , Local Area Networks , Office Automation , Social Networking , Telemedicine , Germany , HumansSubject(s)
Attitude of Health Personnel , Consumer Health Information , Internet , Office Automation , Telemedicine , Germany , HumansSubject(s)
Office Automation , Software Design , Emergency Medical Services , Germany , Hotlines , HumansABSTRACT
PURPOSE: To evaluate the relationship between subjective symptoms and clinical signs in dry eye disease (DED) in office workers using visual display terminals (VDTs). DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. METHODS: This study involved 672 Japanese young and middle-aged office workers who use VDTs. The subjects completed questionnaires designed to detect subjective symptoms and risk factors for DED. Dry eye tests, including tear film break-up time (TBUT), corneal-conjunctival staining with fluorescein and lissamine green, and the Schirmer test, were performed. Based on the Japanese diagnostic criteria for DED, the subjects were classified into 3 groups: definite DED, probable DED, and non-DED. Between each group, subjective symptoms and clinical signs were compared. RESULTS: Of the 672 subjects, 561 (374 male, 187 female) completed the questionnaire (response rate: 83.5%). Definite DED was diagnosed in 65 subjects (11.6%), probable DED in 303 subjects (54.0%), and non-DED in 193 subjects (34.4%). The mean subjective symptom score was significantly less in subjects with probable DED (2.05 ± 0.42) and non-DED (1.63 ± 0.38) than in those with definite DED (2.19 ± 0.40) (P < .05 and P < .01, respectively). In the subjects with probable DED, a subgroup with positive subjective symptoms and abnormal TBUT (≤5 seconds) was categorized as short TBUT-type DED, and it was found that they had a higher subjective symptom score (2.09 ± 0.40), equivalent to that of those with definite DED (P = .269). CONCLUSIONS: Despite no or minor epithelial damage, the severity of subjective symptoms was greater in short TBUT-type DED, most likely attributable to tear film instability. Thus, it might prove important to evaluate TBUT to successfully treat those patients.
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Computer Terminals , Dry Eye Syndromes/diagnosis , Occupational Diseases/diagnosis , Tears/metabolism , Workplace , Adult , Conjunctiva , Cornea , Cross-Sectional Studies , Dry Eye Syndromes/metabolism , Epithelial Cells , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Occupational Diseases/metabolism , Office Automation , Prospective Studies , Risk Factors , Surveys and Questionnaires , Young AdultABSTRACT
Este artículo contiene información concerniente al proyecto de investigación aplicada de la carrera Técnico en Sistemas Informáticos, realizado por docentes en colaboración con estudiantes del Centro Regional de San Miguel. El proyecto ejecutado se denomina "Diseño e Implementación de un Software para administrar expedientes de pacientes en la Unidad de Salud de Perquín, Departamento de Morazán". El objetivo principal del proyecto fue diseñar e implementar un software capaz de agilizar los procesos administrativos y de consultas en la unidad de salud. En este artículo se hace referencia a los progresos y alcances de las organizaciones con la utilización de los sistemas de información.
This article contains information related to the applied research project of the Computer Systems Technician career, carried out by teachers in collaboration with students from the San Miguel Regional Center. The executed project is called "Design and implementation of a software to manage patient records in the Health Unit of Perquín, Department of Morazán". The main objective of the project was to design and implement software capable of streamlining administrative and consultation processes in the health unit. This article refers to the progress and scope of organizations with the use of information systems.
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Patients , Office Automation , Software , Health , Information Management , Information TechnologyABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Manual surveillance of indwelling urinary catheters (IUCs) and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) is resource intense. METHODS: We implemented electronic surveillance in nonintensive care units of Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) hospitals. Capacity was created centrally to analyze data collected electronically or manually at each site. We measured the average IUC duration and proportion of patients with IUC duration <3 days. CAUTIs were identified using a validated algorithm based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention definition and used to calculate rates and standardized incidence ratios (SIRs). RESULTS: Electronic surveillance was implemented in 25 units at 20 NICHE hospitals. Full automation was achieved at 15 of 16 sites with electronic health records (EHRs). Electronic surveillance challenges included EHR data element formats and IUC documentation. Study units reported on 4,574 patients for 16,105 IUC days over a 6-month period. The mean of the unit-level average IUC duration was 3.2 ± 2.6 days, mean proportion of patients with IUC duration <3 days was 52.4% ± 50%, and mean CAUTI SIR was 0.14 ± 0.31. CONCLUSION: A centralized electronic surveillance strategy for CAUTI is feasible and sustainable. Baseline performance of participating sites was exemplary, with very low SIRs at baseline.
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Catheter-Related Infections/epidemiology , Catheters, Indwelling/adverse effects , Cross Infection/epidemiology , Infection Control/methods , Urinary Tract Infections/epidemiology , Electronic Health Records , Hospitals , Humans , Office Automation , Quality Improvement , Urinary Catheterization/adverse effects , Urinary Catheters/adverse effects , Urinary Catheters/statistics & numerical dataSubject(s)
Cooperative Behavior , General Practice/organization & administration , Group Practice/organization & administration , Personnel Staffing and Scheduling/organization & administration , Practice Management, Medical/organization & administration , Workload , Facility Design and Construction , Germany , Humans , Office Automation , Practice Patterns, Physicians'/organization & administrationABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: Although significant attention has been paid to the number of hours worked by residents, little consideration has been given to how the hours are assigned. This project describes an alternative to having Chief Residents manually create on-call schedules. In order to enhance objectivity and transparency, reduce perceived inequities in the process, and reduce inter-resident conflict, Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Training Program experimented with a computer-generated on-call schedule. METHOD: A locally written MATLAB script generated an on-call schedule for academic year (AY) 2012-2013. Measurements to assess the manual scheduling method (from AY 2011-2012) and the computer-generated method included the balance in the total number of hours assigned to individual residents; the number of call switches over two six-month periods; and survey of the residents' perception of fairness of the two scheduling methods and preferences. RESULTS: A retrospective analysis of the AY 2011-2012 Chief Resident-generated call schedule found a range of differences of up to 25.8% between total hours assigned to individual residents in a given year. In the AY 2012-2013 computer-generated schedule, the differences in total hours assigned were reduced to a maximum of 6.1%. There were 63% fewer call switches resulting from the computer-generated as compared to the Chief Resident-generated method. Resident survey response rate was 76%. Seventy-seven percent of resident respondents (N = 22) perceived the computer-generated method to be fairer, and 90.9% of residents preferred having a summary table of hours of call per resident. Residents perceived the computer-generated method as resulting in less inter-resident conflict. CONCLUSION: Methods for assigning duty hour schedules that are transparent, equitable, and require less Chief involvement may result in perceptions of greater fairness and less inter-resident conflict.
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Internship and Residency/organization & administration , Office Automation/statistics & numerical data , Personnel Staffing and Scheduling/organization & administration , Physicians/organization & administration , Adult , Conflict, Psychological , Humans , Internship and Residency/standards , Office Automation/standards , Personnel Staffing and Scheduling/standards , Retrospective StudiesABSTRACT
PURPOSE: To estimate the impact of dry eye disease (DED) on work performance and productivity in office workers using visual display terminals (VDTs). DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. METHODS: Six hundred seventy-two Japanese young and middle-aged office workers using VDTs completed a questionnaire that was designed to measured at-work performance deficits and productivity losses using the Japanese version of the Work Limitations Questionnaire, completed by e-mail. Using the Japanese dry eye diagnostic criteria, respondents were classified into 3 groups: definite DED, probable DED, and non DED. RESULTS: Of the 672 office workers, 553 subjects (82.3%), including 366 men and 187 women, completed the questionnaire and underwent clinical evaluation. As for the total workplace productivity loss, the non DED group demonstrated a loss of 3.56%, those with probable DED demonstrated a loss of 4.06%, and those with definite DED demonstrated a loss of 4.82%, indicating significantly worse performance and productivity (P = .014, trend test). For the 4 subscales, DED was associated with significantly lower on-the-job time management (P = .009, trend test) and combined mental performance and interpersonal functioning (P = .011, trend test). After controlling for age, sex, VDT working hours, and diagnosis of DED, time management, physical demands, and mental and interpersonal functioning showed a significant relationship to DED (each P > .05). Annual DED productivity losses were estimated to be $6160 per employee when measured by total production and $1178 per employee calculated by wage. CONCLUSIONS: This study indicated that there is a significant impact of DED on the total productivity of Japanese VDT users.