Ahmad Alaiad

• PhD
• University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Background: Patient-centered care emphasizes care coordination and communication through active involvement of patients, their families, physicians, and other professionals to improve decision making. Smart telecommunication technology and the Internet of Things, such as wireless-sensor-network-based smart home healthcare systems (WSN-SHHS) facilit...

Business globalization and the rising new technology enforced traditional banking to head towards online banking services, which facilitates customers to obtain access to their accounts from their business sites and personal computers to online banking services. The objective of this chapter is to construct a framework of adoption of online banking...

Business globalization and the rising new technology enforced traditional banking to head towards online banking services, which facilitates customers to obtain access to their accounts from their business sites and personal computers to online banking services. The objective of this chapter is to construct a framework of adoption of online banking...

Business globalization and the rising new technology enforced traditional banking to head towards online banking services, which facilitates customers to obtain access to their accounts from their business sites and personal computers to online banking services. The objective of this chapter is to construct a framework of adoption of online banking...

Business globalization and the rising new technology enforced traditional banking to head towards online banking services, which facilitates customers to obtain access to their accounts from their business sites and personal computers to online banking services. The objective of this chapter is to construct a framework of adoption of online banking...

Business globalization and the rising new technology enforced traditional banking to head towards online banking services, which facilitates customers to obtain access to their accounts from their business sites and personal computers to online banking services. The objective of this chapter is to construct a framework of adoption of online banking...

The home healthcare initiative aims to reduce healthcare cost, improve post-hospitalization healthcare quality and increase patient independency. Information technologies such as home healthcare robots are expected to play a major role in this effort. There have been some preliminary findings on the socio-technical determinants of robot adoption in...

Advances in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) have opened up new opportunities for healthcare systems. WSN based smart home healthcare systems (WSN-SHHS) represent innovations in the area of sensor technology that have promised to improve healthcare quality and to stem rising healthcare costs by facilitating effective patient-medical professional colla...

Home healthcare initiative is aimed to reduce readmission costs, transportation costs, and hospital medical errors, and to improve post hospitalization healthcare quality, and enhance patient home independency. Today, it is almost unimaginable to consider this initiative without information technology. Home healthcare robots are one of such emergin...

Background Much of the medical equipment used in homes today is originally designed by manufacturers to be used only in clinical settings and by trained healthcare professionals. The migration of such equipment to the home setting poses new challenges to both healthcare givers and recipients because the home environment differs in significant ways...

Background Home healthcare robots promise to make clinical information available at the right place and time, thereby reducing error and increasing safety and quality. However, it has been frequently reported that more than 40% of previous information technology (IT) developments have failed or been abandoned due to the lack of understanding of the...

The home healthcare initiative aims to reduce healthcare cost, improve post-hospitalization healthcare quality and increase patient independency. Information technologies such as home healthcare robots are expected to play a major role in this effort. There have been some preliminary findings on the socio-technical determinants of robot adoption in...

Home healthcare initiative aims primarily not only to control healthcare cost through reducing readmission costs and transportation costs but also improve pos-hospitalization healthcare quality and increase patient independency. Today, it is almost unimaginable to consider this initiative without health information technology (HIT). Healthcare that...

Home healthcare initiatives are aimed to reduce readmission costs, transportation costs, and hospital medical errors, and to improve post hospitalization healthcare quality, and enhance patient home independency. Today, it is almost unimaginable to consider this initiative without information technology. Home healthcare robots are one type of the e...

Poor patient to doctor ratio in a large part of the world, rapid increase of the older adult population, and a growing shortage of nurses are acute problems that face the health care industry today. Despite of the broad undertaking in healthcare robot initiative, its success is dependent not only on health institutions and robot designers but also...

Machine learning approaches have been widely used for many financial applications. Neural network is an evolutionary computational approach which has proved its effectiveness in stock price prediction. This study evaluates the effects of changing two training factors on the performance of neural networks in short and long term stock price predictio...