Accident & Emergency Informatics and One Digital Health.
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2022-08
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Climate changes are the major challenge in public and individual health, as they modify the ecosystem and yield contagious diseases from animal to human. Furthermore, we notice the rapid development of elderly, changing the population demographic. These critical measures have imposed economical costs, require trained personnel, and reduce the healthcare systems' performances.Methods
COVID-19 pandemic showed that digital health paradigms such as m-health, telemedicine, and Internet of medical things (IoMT) should be further developed for such disasters. Quarantine was experienced frequently at different levels, which indicates the urgent need to develop smart medical homes for continuous monitoring of the patients. Human health, environment, and animals are the three interwoven aspects of public health that should be formulated under a conceptual and unified framework. Accident and Emergency Informatics (A&EI) considers the prediction and prevention of an individual's health in the long term and detects instant accidents and emergencies for further processes linking to hospital and rescue services for lowering the impact. One Digital Health (ODH) considers the health of the human, the animal, and the environment as a whole.Results & conclusion
In this position paper, we discuss the mutual benefits of A&EI and ODH in disaster management. We outline the mission, current status of A&EI in healthcare, and summarize the most important development of A&EI-related scope in the other fields of science. We discuss developing smart environments to monitor environmental and animal aspects. Then we examine the use of the ODH framework for enhancing the A&EI capacities to deal with complex disasters. Moreover, we discuss the further development of the international standard accident number (ISAN) to include and link environmental and animal event related data. Besides, ODH will cope with the A&EI protocols and technical specifications to be part of A&EI in the application layer.Type
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Haghi, Mostafa, Arriel Benis and Thomas M Deserno (2022). Accident & Emergency Informatics and One Digital Health. Yearbook of medical informatics, 31(1). pp. 40–46. 10.1055/s-0042-1742506 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/33089.
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Arriel Benis
Dr. Arriel Benis is a researcher and educator working at the intersection of medical informatics, digital health, and artificial intelligence, advancing health systems and biomedical engineering innovation. His work leverages AI, data science, and knowledge management to improve health-related decision-making at the individual, population, and public health levels.
His research focuses on developing data-driven healthcare solutions that enhance patient care, optimize clinical processes, and promote sustainable systems. Dr. Benis has engineered (a) clinical decision support systems with direct patient and healthcare partitioners impact such as ADHD, PTSD, and diabetes patient management and health communication, (b) the MIMO -Medical Informatics and Digital Health Multilingual Ontology- integrating more than 3500 terms and concepts across 30+ languages, actively deployed in healthcare organizations for AI-powered training and international projects support, (c) smart home and smart city health monitoring approach from a One Health viewpoint. Dr. Benis is a pioneer of the One Digital Health framework, which strategically links digital health innovation with environmental monitoring.
His past academic positions include serving as a department head and track director in biomedical and health informatics. He holds various leadership roles in the international medical informatics community, a fellow of thr International Academy for Health Sciences Informatics, and is the Editor-in-Chief of JMIR Medical Informatics. Dr. Benis is committed to training the next generation of innovators in digital health and medical informatics.
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