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Ambient Intelligence for Health

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Ubiquitous and Ambient Assisted Living eHealth Platforms for the Republic of Panama: Two Cases of Study

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Using ubiquitous computing and software engineering, two E-Health platforms have being designed, developed and implemented to improve the Down’s Syndrome risk estimation process and, with ambient assisted living, enhance how palliative care is being provided to the elderly patients, improving the quality of life in the country of Panama.

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Acknowledgments

The Research Group Electronics Health and Supercomputing (GISES) of the Technological University of Panama support this research. As well as Dr. Miguel Vargas-Lombardo National Research Investigator award (SNI) from the SENACYT. Both projects are being presented as main topics looking for funds with SENACYT.

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  1. Software Engineering Department, Technological University of Panama, Chiriqui, Panama

    Juan Jose Saldaña, Luis Mendoza & Edgardo Pitti

  2. GISES-Technological University of Panama, Penonome, Panama

    Miguel Vargas Lombardo

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Saldaña, J.J., Mendoza, L., Pitti, E., Lombardo, M.V. (2015). Ubiquitous and Ambient Assisted Living eHealth Platforms for the Republic of Panama: Two Cases of Study. In: Bravo, J., Hervás, R., Villarreal, V. (eds) Ambient Intelligence for Health. AmIHEALTH 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9456. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26508-7_14

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