Congratulations to Ning Xia on the successful defense of his Master's Thesis, "HealthyLifeHRA: Web Application" in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science!
The abstract of his thesis is pasted below.
Abstract
A health risk assessment (HRA) system is an important tool for helping people
realize what lifestyle changes they should have in order to live a healthier and
longer life, and what benefits they can have by doing the right things. In this thesis,
we discuss the design and implementation of various components of the web-based
version of a health risk assessment system, called the HealthyLifeHRA system, which
is being developed by a multi-institutional team of researchers.
The HealthyLifeHRA system allows a user to take a questionnaire, and produces a visualized report with statistics, messages, pictures, and bar charts about the user’s health status, that highlights potential mortality risks of the participant. Questions in the questionnaire include basic demographic information, epidemiologic data, and life-style information. This tool can be used by health care providers to communicate with patients on their health status. And individual users can use it to become aware of their health situation, and, perhaps, take early measures to deal with various higher-level mortality risks in their lifestyles.
The HealthyLifeHRA family consists of a website version, a standalone version, an iPad version and an Android tablet version. Web-based version of the HealthyLifeHRA family takes advantage of various computing and web technologies, and provides multiple HRA client systems for use in primary care clinical settings. The web-based version includes a client-side interface library, a client-side report generation library and a server-side risk computation engine.
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Monday, June 16, 2014
Friday, May 30, 2014
Congratulations Umang!
Congratulations to Umang Banguria on the successful defense of his Master's Thesis, "HealthyLifeiPad Health Risk Assessment System for iPads " in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science!
The abstract of his thesis is pasted below.
ABSTRACT
Over half of all deaths before the age of 65 can be attributed to lifestyle factors. In order to reduce the frequency of these lifestyle-related deaths, it is important to understand how lifestyle factors contribute to a person’s health risks and how these factors can be modified to reduce these risks. A health risk assessment (HRA) is an information tool that determines the impact a person’s lifestyle factors and current health status have on their probability of dying from specific diseases over a defined period of time. This thesis describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of an HRA application for iPads, HealthyLifeiPad.
The HealthyLifeiPad application prompts the user with a list of questions related to their health and lifestyle, and calculates, based on user’s responses, the risk factors for 43 different causes of death. Bases on these risk values, a report is generated providing visualizations of the user’s computed risks as well as personalized recommendations to improve their health. These reports can also serve a useful tool for healthcare providers to assess their patient’s health risks and provide advice.
The iPad application will be able to function on its own as a stand-alone application, as well as be integrated with the web and Android clients in the HealthyLife suite of applications. The stand-alone functionality allows for a user to take the questionnaire, generate a report, and email a PDF version of the report. In addition to this functionality, the integrated version allows users to create and log into their accounts where their questionnaire responses can be stored and later accessed by the user or their provider through the web HealthyLife client.
The abstract of his thesis is pasted below.
ABSTRACT
Over half of all deaths before the age of 65 can be attributed to lifestyle factors. In order to reduce the frequency of these lifestyle-related deaths, it is important to understand how lifestyle factors contribute to a person’s health risks and how these factors can be modified to reduce these risks. A health risk assessment (HRA) is an information tool that determines the impact a person’s lifestyle factors and current health status have on their probability of dying from specific diseases over a defined period of time. This thesis describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of an HRA application for iPads, HealthyLifeiPad.
The HealthyLifeiPad application prompts the user with a list of questions related to their health and lifestyle, and calculates, based on user’s responses, the risk factors for 43 different causes of death. Bases on these risk values, a report is generated providing visualizations of the user’s computed risks as well as personalized recommendations to improve their health. These reports can also serve a useful tool for healthcare providers to assess their patient’s health risks and provide advice.
The iPad application will be able to function on its own as a stand-alone application, as well as be integrated with the web and Android clients in the HealthyLife suite of applications. The stand-alone functionality allows for a user to take the questionnaire, generate a report, and email a PDF version of the report. In addition to this functionality, the integrated version allows users to create and log into their accounts where their questionnaire responses can be stored and later accessed by the user or their provider through the web HealthyLife client.
Friday, April 4, 2014
Congratulations Can!
Congratulations to Can Tuzla on the successful defense of his
Master's Project, "HealthyLife Android: Health Risk Assessment System for Android
Tablets."
in the CWRU Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science!
in the CWRU Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science!
HealthyLifeAndroid Health Risk Assessment System for
Android Tablets
by
Can Tuzla
This project presents the design, implementation and
evaluation of an HRA application for Android tablets, called HealthyLifeAndroid.
HealthyLifeAndroid questionnaire presents the user a list of
questions, calculates, based on the answers, user’s risk factors for 43
different causes of death, and produces a detailed report that provides a
multitude of statistics and advice tailored to the user. HealthyLifeAndroid
is a convenient tool for healthcare professionals to assess their patients’
risk of death, and to provide advice.
This project presents two versions of HealthyLifeAndroid
application, namely, a stand-alone version, and a web-version. For the implementation,
three external Android libraries are used, namely, AndroidPlot, org.json, and
iText. And, the risk computation engine for HealthyLife,
the web-browser version of HealthyLifeAndroid,
is rewritten from JavaScript to Java, and further modified for efficiency and
reusability purposes.
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