Yasunobu Nohara, Eiko Kai, Partha Pratim Ghosh, Rafiqul Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of non-communicable diseases is increasing throughout the world, including developing countries. OBJECTIVE: The intent was to conduct a study of a preventive medical service in a developing country, combining eHealth checkups and teleconsultation as well as assess stratifi...
Ashir Ahmed, Andrew Rebeiro‐Hargrave, Yasunobu Nohara, Eiko Kai et al.
This study looks at how an e-Health System can reduce morbidity (poor health) in unreached communities. The e-Health system combines affordable sensors and Body Area Networking technology with mobile health concepts and is called a Portable Health Clinic. The health clinic is portable because all th...
Islam Rafiqul, Yasunobu Nohara, Rahman Md Jiaur, Nazneen Sultana et al.
The Portable Health Clinic (PHC) system endeavors to take healthcare facilities along with remote doctors' consultancy to the doorsteps of the unreached people using an advanced telemedicine system. Thus, the necessity of having physical healthcare peripheries specially in the developing countries c...
Ashir Ahmed, Andrew Rebeiro‐Hargrave, Yasunobu Nohara, Rafiqul Islam et al.
Eiko Kai, Andrew Rebeiro‐Hargrave, Sozo Inoue, Yasunobu Nohara et al.
We present a remote healthcare consultancy system that enables healthcare workers to identify noncommunicable diseases in unreached communities. The healthcare system combines medical sensors with mobile health and is called a Portable Health Clinic. The Portable Health Clinic fits into a briefcase ...
Naoki Nakashima, Yasunobu Nohara, Ashir Ahamed, Masashiro Kuroda et al.
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Min Hu, Yasunobu Nohara, Yoshifumi Wakata, Ashir Ahmed et al.
The prevalence of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is increasing throughout the world, including in developing countries. An NCD prevention program using information communication technology was implemented for 2 years in Bangladesh. Health checkup data were collected from 16,741 study subjects. Howe...
Min Hu, Megumi Sugimoto, Rebeiro Hargrave Andrew, Yasunobu Nohara et al.
Portable Healthcare Clinic (PHC) is a mobile healthcare system comprising of medical sensors and health assessment criteria. It has been applied in Bangladesh for the last two years as a pilot program to identify non-communicable diseases. In this study, we adapted PHC to fit post-disaster condition...
Kimiyo Kikuchi, Yoko Sato, Rieko Izukura, Mariko Nishikitani et al.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Regular health checkups are important for mothers and newborns to detect health problems at an early stage; however, this is often difficult in resource-limited settings. Therefore, the portable health clinic (PHC) for maternal and child health (MCH), a telemedicine health c...
Yukino Baba, Hisashi Kashima, Yasunobu Nohara, Eiko Kai et al.
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are no longer just a problem for high-income countries, but they are also a problem that affects developing countries. Preventive medicine is definitely the key to combat NCDs; however, the cost of preventive programs is a critical issue affecting the popularization ...
Eiko Kai, Ashir Ahmed, Sozo Inoue, Atsushi Taniguchi et al.
In this paper, we introduce the predictive way to evolve the process of the health consultancy by predictive methods with machine learning. We have tried health consultancy for over 22,000 patients with caravan health sensing in Bangladesh during 2012-2014. In health consultancy with caravan health ...
Fumihiko Yokota, Ashir Ahmed, Rafiqul Islam, Mariko Nishikitani et al.
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships among hypertension, diabetes, and proteinuria and their risk factors in adults who participated in a community-based mobile health check-up service called portable health clinic (PHC) in rural Bangladesh. Methods: Data were collec...
Masahiro Kuroda, Yasunobu Akaoka, Yasuyuki Koga, Yasunobu Nohara et al.
Standardization activities exist for a range of e-health services concerning personal and public health, and many standard results are available. Yet these standards sometimes cover the same use area and it is difficult to select appropriate ones. This paper discusses e-health standardization activi...
Ashir Ahmed, Mehdi Hasan, Masuda Begum Sampa, Kazi Mozaher Hossein et al.
Portable health clinic (PHC) is a remote healthcare system, jointly developed by Grameen Communications in Bangladesh and Kyushu University in Japan with the aim to providing affordable primary healthcare services to people who do not have regular access to healthcare facilities including the low-in...
Min Hu, Yasunobu Nohara, Masafumi Nakamura, Naoki Nakashima
The World Health Organization has declared Bangladesh one of 58 countries facing acute Human Resources for Health (HRH) crisis. Artificial intelligence in healthcare has been shown to be successful for diagnostics. Using machine learning to predict pharmaceutical prescriptions may solve HRH crises. ...
Mariko Nishikitani, Yasunobu Nohara, Partha Pratim Ghosh, Islam Maruf Rafiqul et al.
The residents of several cities and villages in Bangladesh underwent e-health checkups. The distribution of Hb increased from the first hemoglobin (Hb) measurement to the second, and some women recovered from severe anemia. A strong effect was observed in subjects who were prescribed iron supplement...
Rafiqul Islam, Ashir Ahmed, Fumihiko Yokota, Kimiyo Kikuchi et al.