Paper Info
Title
Thinking eHealth: A Mathematical Background of an Individual Health Status Monitoring System to Empower Young People to Manage Their Health
Abstract
This paper focuses on a mathematical background of an individual health status monitoring system to empower young people to manage their health. The proposed health status monitoring system uses symptoms observed with mobile sensing devices and prior information about health and environment provided it exists to define individual physical and psychological status. It assumes that a health status identification process is influenced by many parameters and conditions. It has a flexible logical inference system providing positive psychological influence on young people since full acceptance of recommendations on their behavioral changes towards healthy lifestyles is reached and a correct interpretation is guaranteed. The model and algorithms of the individual health status monitoring system are developed based on the composition inference rule in Zadeh's fuzzy logic. The model allows us to include in the algorithms of logical inference the possibility of masking by means of a certain health condition the symptoms of other health situations as well as prior information if it exists regarding health and environment. The algorithms are generated by optimizing the truth of a single natural "axiom", which connects an individual health status represented by classes of health situations with symptoms and matrices of influence of health situations on symptoms and masking of symptoms. The new algorithms are fairly different from traditional algorithms, in which the result is produced in the course of numerous single processing rules. Therefore, the use of a composition inference rule makes a health status identification process faster and the obtained results more precise and efficient comparing to traditional algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.4018/ijitn.2014070103
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications and Networking
Keywords
Field
DocType
Classes of Health Situations, Composition Inference Rule, eHealth, Fuzzy Logic, Identification Process, Individual Health Status Monitoring System, Masking Symptoms, Mobile Monitoring Devices, Model and Algorithms, Recommendations, Symptoms
Mobile sensing,Monitoring system,Logical inference,Axiom,Computer science,Fuzzy logic,Computer network,Risk analysis (engineering),eHealth,Rule of inference,Management science
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
3
1941-8663
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.39
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Izabella Lokshina171.41
Michael R. Bartolacci23110.92