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16th World Congress on Healthcare & Technologies

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Past Conference Editorial of Healthcare & Technologies 2020

Nikhilesh Kakati

Conference Series LLC Ltd hosted the “Healthcare Summit 2020”, during June 15-16, 2020 at Barcelona, Spain with the theme- “Promoting Human health by the method of healthcare and its aspects”, which was a great success. Eminent keynote speakers from various reputed institutions and organizations addressed the gathering with their resplendent presence. We extend our grateful thanks to all the momentous speakers, conference attendees who contributed towards the successful run of the conference.
Healthcare Summit 2020 explored the new ideas and concepts to bring together to the Healthcare Professionals, Healthcare Administrators, Physicians, Healthcare Technicians, Primary care Providers, Healthcare Specialists, Healthcare Workers, Professors and Students in all the areas of Healthcare & Technologies in the fields of Healthcare and Technologies. Healthcare Summit Organizing Committee extends its gratitude and congratulates the Honorable Moderators of the conference. 
Conference Series LLC Ltd extends its warm gratitude to all the Honorable Guests and Keynote Speakers of “Healthcare Summit 2020”. 
•    Agustin Argelich, Argelich Networks, Spain
•    Roy Redd, The Redd Group, USA
Conference Series LLC Ltd is privileged to felicitate Healthcare Summit 2020 Organizing Committee, Keynote Speakers, Chairs & Co-Chairs and the Moderators of the conference whose support and efforts made the conference to move on the path of success. Conference Series LLC LTD thanks every individual participant for the enormous exquisite response. This inspires us to continue organizing events and conferences for further research in the field of Healthcare and Technologies. 
Conference Series LLC Ltd is glad to announce its “18th World Congress on Healthcare & Technologies  cordially welcome all the eminent researchers, healthcare professionals, Healthcare Administrators, Physicians, Healthcare Technicians, Primary care Providers, Healthcare Specialists, Healthcare Workers, Professors and Students in all the areas of Healthcare & Technologies delegates to take part in this upcoming conference to witness invaluable scientific discussions and contribute to the future research in the field of healthcare and technology with 30% abatement on the early bird prices.
 

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Healthcare digital transformation-There is no other option

Agustin Argelich

Always, there is a lack of resources on healthcare.  That became dramatic when a critical situation, like COVID pandemic, knocks. The good news is that there are available technological and organization tools to help. We are talking about digital transformation. The human body only has one unified communications system, the nervous system, to send information to our brain. It sends any type of information, what we see, touch, feel, etc. After all the data available has been processed, it sends instructions to any part of the body to act.

Similarly, new IP converging networks using IP protocols allow only one wire and wireless network to be implemented to transmit voice, data, video, and control signals from anywhere in the hospital and anywhere a patient is to the data center. After it is analyzed and processed, the information is sent to the person who can make the right decisions. Digital broadband infrastructures also allow critical resources to be shared between distanced hospitals and Tele assistance (e-health) to be implemented at homes. The digital hospital is where a patient is. No more walls.

Digital solutions and tools not only optimize investment but also reduce the on-going cost of ICT infrastructures (hard $). However, what’s more, important is that it allows productivity and the efficiency of all hospital and healthcare systems procedures (soft $) to be continuously improved. The implementation of unified communications and collaboration (UC2) tools in healthcare means introducing new methods of communication as an additional element in the workflow of hospital procedures to make them more efficient, i.e. the task is performed properly and successfully without wasting time or energy, reducing late deliveries and the human error introduced by manual or poorly automated procedures.

Highly talented human resources, doctors, and nurses are scarce and very expensive; therefore, any digital tool that can help them be more efficient is essential. Implementing digital transformation in healthcare is simply indispensable. There is no other option, for both, developed or developing countries. How can it be done? Do and don’ts. Which are the best practices and lessons learned?

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There are no mental problems

Roy Redd

Why is it that psychologists, philosophers, and Neuroscientists know so much about the brain and mind but mental health is getting worse? The results of mental health are how they are because of so-called experts. Our current attempts to impact mental health in any given situation are based on and bounded by our current explanation for mental health that was given to us by the experts. Our current explanations have been derived from and bounded by today’s social model. The result is, our access to creating mental health is shaped by that social model of mental health. We do not want explanations about mental health; what we want is actual mental health. An explanation is defined as a reason or justification for an action or belief. Access is defined as a means of approaching or entering a place. That is what a result is; that is what we want for you. We do not want to know about mental health; what we want is an actual healthy mentality. This talk will do that for you!!!

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Well@Birth- Can a mobile health (mHealth) intervention, with no internet connection, support multi-disciplinary healthcare teams at remote locations in a developed country?

Alan White

Statement of the Problem: Access to up to date educational materials is viewed as being critical in both recruiting and retaining healthcare staff in remote areas. This proposal draws on investigations (White, 2018; White et al, 2019). These explored whether mHealth tools could support the management of women with pre-eclampsia in rural and remote settings in Highland Scotland.

Methodology & Theoretical Orientation: A prototype toolkit was piloted as part of Making it Work a European project about recruitment and retention of Healthcare Practitioners in remote and rural areas. Members of multidisciplinary healthcare teams, at remote locations in Highland Scotland were recruited as participants in the study. They were asked to consider the quality of the content and the usefulness of the toolkit. The study also explored whether such a toolkit might offer any advantage and/or improvement over areas of current practice other than maternal health.

Qualitative methods were used and focus groups [n=18] and several 1:1 interviews [n=9] were conducted with multidisciplinary team members. A thematic analysis was used to identify themes from the transcribed data.

Findings:  5 themes were identified:

  • Using the toolkit
  • Offering support to those working at remote locations
  • Assisting in decision making
  • Learning on the move
  • Using the toolkit to explain conditions to patients

The participants in the study agreed that a mHealth toolkit could be of value to both midwives and less specialised healthcare practitioners. These include GPs, Practice Nurses, Mental Health Practitioners, GP Practice Receptionists, NHS 24, Healthcare Support Workers, Paramedics, Police Officers and carers who encounter people with health, and social care challenges at remote locations.

The ability to use the toolkit to work on Continuous Professional Development (CPD) whilst on the move was particularly welcomed. The potential to incorporate predictive analytics was also thought to be valuable and worth further exploration.

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Managing the intersection of global healthcare innovation in Value-based healthcare systems

Singithi Chandrasiri

Innovative transformation is currently creating monumental impacts across the world. Whether it be the exponential development of artificial intelligence and robotic surgical platforms or the adoption of value based health care systems, global health systems are facing the challenges of leading innovation for delivering better healthcare.  In spite of health care reform efforts around the world, unwarranted variation, frequent errors, and unsustainable costs continue to persist.

To solve our global healthcare crisis, we must begin to reorient health care around value for patients, we must nurture and equip our clinical leaders with new and specific skills to lead this transformation and we must begin to move away from the zero-sum competition nature that our health system is structured around. We must incorporate healthcare innovations as part of an overarching outcome based value generating assessment in the management of health services.

This presentation will explore Michael Porter’s teachings of generating positive-sum competition to achieve value based healthcare, present strategies for financial incentivising of health providers, funders and regulators and will discuss the intersection of value in medical robotics and artificial intelligence. Adopting a global perspective, this presentation will further explore the key leadership personas and leadership styles essential in the monumental shift from volume to value based healthcare systems in leading the future of robotics and artificial intelligence.

This session will be relevant for all healthcare stakeholders -providers, funders, employers, clinicians and administrators, in looking at how we can adapt and embrace the monumental transformation towards value based healthcare that is facing our industry today

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Machine learning analysis of readmission of patients diagnosed with ischemic and pulmonary heart diseases

Venkat Lellapalli

Hospital readmissions are indicators of the quality of service offered by hospitals and give an insight into the performance measures on the cost at the hospital. A readmission event occurs when a patient that has been discharged from a hospital after diagnosis and procedure is again readmitted to the hospital within a certain period. The Nationwide Readmissions Database (NRD) is part of a family of databases and software tools developed for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). For this research, the data for the year 2016 from the National Readmission Database (NRD) will be studied and machine learning models built to model the relationship between readmission and various factors related to the patient. The models built in this research study will be used to ease the prediction of hospital readmission which is very important in healthcare management. Ischemic And Pulmonary Heart diseases are among the critical diseases in health care services. The monitoring of these diseases, therefore, should be handled with ultimate care and with trained professionals. Various studies have shown that readmission of these diseases has a higher rate compared to non-pulmonary disease, thus the need for critical research and study in these areas. The observations for Ischemic heart diseases and diseases of pulmonary circulation (diagnosis codes I20 to I28) will be used for this study. Analysis and goodness of model indexes such as the confusion matrix, AUC index, MSE, and R squared scores and findings from the study will also be evaluated and reported taking into account the model parameters

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Electronic medical devices for different purpose and robot implementation

Vitaly Mishlanov

The aim is to overview different approach to electronic devices using in clinical practice. There are two main suggestions: to use open access to patient personal data and to close this information for physician only. Both variants have their advantages and disadvantages. In the case of open access the main perspective point of view consists of possibility of artificial intelligence exploration. But the main negative side consists of social effects for some persons. Limited variant as usual is out of global companies interests but very important for big companies and government services which are need in confidence. Limited access to personal data is a positive factor in private medical companies’ actions, because many persons with chronic disease appreciate the monitoring under individual supervision.

Today we have a lot of types of electronic devices in medical practice. They are special for medicine or not only for it. For example, smartphones, smartwatches and many others are not specific. Pulse oximeters, tonometers, glucometers are specific. The most important question is how we can organize the smart interaction with different equipment and analyze the results automatically and distantly. This presentation is devoted to comparison of different medical systems in data analysis and the perspectives of robots using in different medical tasks solving.

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Horses, Zebras and Unicorns: The paradox of healthcare innovation

Neel Bhadresh Mehta

The speed of innovation in medical technology over the last 50 years has produced extraordinary breakthroughs but has also created unintended consequences. We are reaching a point where the existence of millions of revolutionary technological solutions is in itself becoming a problem.

As a Biomedical Informaticist and Healthcare Futurist, it’s time to rethink our infatuation towards chasing the ‘unicorn.’ New and supportive healthcare solutions require an environment in which the technological innovation can be successfully adopted. As innovation increases exponentially, it needs a different set of evolving relationships, partnerships, and communication between stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem, thus enter the ‘zebra’.

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Z�?RAC: Apps for the integral management of overweight and obesity in mexican children.

Donovan Casas Patino

In Mexico, obesity and overweight (OySP) have become a social epidemic of uncontrollable magnitude, in this context there have been multiple proposals to combat OySP, from invasive clinical models to food policies such as food labeling and calorie reduction in food, and even thus the problem of OySP is increasing, so we devised a virtual page proposal which, through translation of the knowledge of experts in the under study area, we propose the creation of the Pepitometer, which functions as the diffuser instrument of the knowledge of styles of healthy life in this age group, through two parameters scientific awareness of knowledge translation and availability of information, this makes in children behavioral appropriation towards healthy lifestyles through the promotion of these contents in the family nucleus. It is worth mentioning that this page was piloted in a group of 600 children between 6 and 12 years old, of which 74% on admission to the page presented OySP, 6% malnutrition and 20% normal weight, in a period of 3 months 4,000 visits were registered by registered users, the most visited portals, Menu of the week [60%], Physical Activity [20%], Psychological Support [20%] at the end of the cross section After three months, we found 68% of OySP, 12% of malnutrition and 20% of normal weight this in registered users, this shows that the trend remains static, in two dichotomous slopes of the country, OySP and malnutrition, this APPs, is a tool that can be very useful to monitor and combat these global pandemics , which depend on social nutrition.

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The efficacy of playing video games versus anti-depressants in reducing treatment resistant symptoms of depression

Carmen V. Russoniello, Matthew T. Fish and Kevin O�??Brien

Statement of the Problem: Approximately, 332 million people are living with depression in the world and only 25% receive any treatment. Thus, there is a need for inexpensive, readily accessible, non-pharmacological, efficacious interventions. The goal of this month-long controlled study was to compare the efficacy of a second antidepressant (sAD) medication with a prescribed regimen of Plants vs. Zombies (PvZ), a casual videogame, in reducing treatment-resistant depression symptoms (TRDS) and improving heart rate variability (HRV).

Methods: Approximately *8 weeks after beginning antidepressant therapy, participants returned to psychiatrists for evaluation and complained of TRDS. The psychiatrist gave them a choice of self-selecting a sAD medication or playing a prescribed regimen of PvZ as part of a research study. Those who agreed were referred to researchers who then screened them for major depression, the criteria for inclusion. PvZ was prescribed four times per week for 30–45 minutes over 4 weeks. Self-reported data were collected at four different times utilizing the Patient Health Questionnaire-9. HRV, an indicator of autonomic nervous system (ANS) functioning, was also recorded each time.

Findings: The sAD group’s TRDS significantly improved. Remarkably, the PvZ group’s TRDS improved significantly beyond the control group at all measurement times except for time 1 or baseline. In addition, a single 30-minute session of playing PvZ was significantly more effective in acutely reducing TRDS when compared with the sAD group that surfed the NIHM website on depression. Changes in HRV parameters indicated increased parasympathetic engagement and ANS balance in the PvZ group compared with the sAD group.

Conclusion and Significance: The findings illustrate the potential of PvZ as an acute and chronic intervention for reducing TRDS. Health care practitioners such as physicians and recreational therapists can consider prescribing a regimen of PvZ as a method to ameliorate TRDS for those clients who self- select this option. Finally, a psychophysiological method for measuring the efficacy of videogames in reducing TRDS and a means to quantify ANS changes during gameplay are presented

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Overview of COVID 19 disease in Albania

Enida Xhaferi, Fatbardha Lamaj, Klejda Tani, Florjan Risilia

Background. An outbreak of severe pneumonia cases was reported in the province of Wuhan, China in December 2019. Samples from infected patients were analyzed and a novel betacoronavirus, named 2019-nCoV was isolated in human epithelial cells. The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses renamed the new virus: SARS-CoV-2, due to similarities with the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV), and the disease that it causes was termed COVID-19 by the WHO.

Members of the Coronaviridae family are enveloped, single-stranded RNA viruses, that can be isolated in different species (bats, livestock, mice, humans etc). These viruses, which manage to transverse species, can cause human diseases ranging from the common cold to more severe pathologies. Two important viruses of this family are SARS-CoV (causing the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome/SARS infection) which triggered a large-scale epidemic, with 800 deaths, and MERS-CoV (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome/MERS infection) that provoked an outbreak with 800 deaths, which started in the Arabic Peninsula.

The novel and contagious infection spread quickly around the world, and on March 11, 2020, the WHO, announced COVID-19 global pandemic.

Objective. This abstract aims to report the impact of COVID 19 in Albania and describe some of the measures taken by the Government to cope with this disease.

Methods. Data from the Ministry of Health and Institute of Public Health were reviewed and analyzed. The demographic distribution of active cases as of May 20, 2020 was mapped, and disease progress and impact examined and visualized.    

Results. The first confirmed case of COVID 19 in Albania was reported in March 9, 2020.  Since then, a total of 964 individuals have been infected with SARS-CoV-2.  79% of patients have recovered (758 cases). There have been 31 deaths in these three months of pandemic and currently there are 175 active cases. The Government took swift measures to reduce transmission and contain the spread of infection. Some of these measures are: shifting online university and school classes, closing restaurants and bars, stopping public gatherings, applying travel restrictions and placing the population under lockdown. These measures are being gradually removed.

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Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: improving response to challenge

Nino Korinteli

Statement of the Problem: The Association Agreement with Europe commits Georgia to conduct epidemiological surveillance of transmitted diseases, including tuberculosis and its resistant forms. Until 2016 Georgia was among the twenty-seven countries under the “high burden” of resistant tuberculosis. The situation has been improved since 2016, but the problem of resistant tuberculosis has not lost its sensitivity and has proved to be a major challenge for the country as airborne disease, “attacking” people in reproductive age and with low immunity.

Methodology & Theoretical Orientation: Desk research based on the data of different countries (laws, studies, statistics), case study, comparative analysis of research conducted in Georgia. In addition, five In-Depth Interviews were conducted with four employees of the National Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Center and one WHO Technical Officer.

Findings: the continuity of treatment of resistant tuberculosis (with its many sub-components - personal, social and institutional) is a central factor for prevention and decrease of the disease, along with factors such as TB diagnosis, governance, financing and TB/HIV collaboration. In 2013 and 2016, in Georgia, three barriers for the continuity of treatment were identified: stress / depression, financial, time constraint (e.g. loss of job due to illness) and problems in medical service, and motivator - social support.

Conclusion & Significance: The prevention of resistant TB as a public health risk, involves a number of interrelated measures, including the improvement of: TB control law (Mandatory Isolation), which resulted in contradictory assessments and medical services (e.g. management of side effects, training of health care workers, wide coverage of the primary health care and TB institutions, technology (Telemedicine development) and screening, enhancement - expansion of multidisciplinary approach)), as well as information campaigns (peer education, fighting against stigma, main target groups, family, society, employers).

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