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International Journal of Electronic Healthcare

International Journal of Electronic Healthcare (IJEH)

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International Journal of Electronic Healthcare (2 papers in press)

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  • Diabetes medication trials using deep learning techniques   Order a copy of this article
    by Dalal Nawfal Hamid, Mohammed Chachan Younis 
    Abstract: Efficiently selecting participants for diabetes medication trials is crucial but challenging due to the time-consuming and error-prone manual screening of electronic health records (EHR). This study explores deep learning’s potential in healthcare, particularly in patient selection, aiming to advance precision medicine and enhance diabetes treatment outcomes. The methodology involved evaluating various neural network architectures, including fully connected neural network (FCNN), recurrent neural networks (RNN), deep belief networks (DBNs), and long short-term memory (LSTM), on handling EHR data. Results demonstrate that while LSTM networks excel in modelling extended dependencies in sequential data, FCNN architecture exhibits superior performance across multiple metrics, including area under the curve (AUC), F1 score, precision, recall, and accuracy metrics. assessment using Kappa score reveals a fair level of agreement for FCNN and LSTM architectures, contrasting with poor agreement levels observed with RNN and DBNs. These findings highlight the potential of deep learning methods, particularly FCNN architectures, in revolutionising patient selection processes for diabetes drug trials and advancing precision medicine initiatives.
    Keywords: clinical trials; diabetes medication; deep learning; data analysis; electronic health records; EHR.
    DOI: 10.1504/IJEH.2024.10067173
     
  • Factors influencing technology-enabled monitoring of patientcare in public healthcare centres in Botswana   Order a copy of this article
    by Joseph Ephraim Khengere, Indira Padayachee, Prabhakar Rontala Subramaniam 
    Abstract: Patient care delivery in public healthcare centres in the Southern Africa Development Community region is facing enormous pressure due to inadequate institutional arrangements, demonstrating the need for innovative technologies to monitor healthcare delivery. There is limited literature on issues affecting monitoring of healthcare delivery and how this problem could be ameliorated through a technology- based monitoring solution. Accordingly, this article aims to ascertain the factors that influence technology-based healthcare monitoring of patients in public healthcare centres in Botswana. A mixed methods research design was adopted to conduct the study. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were used for the identification of factors that influence patient care service delivery. The combined findings revealed significant agreement that Technology Organisation Environment (TOE) factors, namely Available Basic Technology, Connectivity, Available Advanced Technology, Training, Technical Proficiency, Management Support, Vendor Support, Government Regulatory and Financial Support influence technology-based monitoring of patient care delivery in public healthcare centres in Botswana.
    Keywords: technology-based monitoring; patient care; healthcare centres; technology factors; organisational factors; environmental factors; healthcare service delivery; Botswana; technology organisation environment; TOE.
    DOI: 10.1504/IJEH.2024.10068539
     

 

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