
Gema CastilloUniversity of Valladolid | UVA · Department of Theory of Signal and Communications and Telematic Engineering
Gema Castillo
Doctor of Engineering
PhD in Information Technology and Telecommunications
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I like to collaborate with systems that are used by people for everyday problems, research is important if it can be applied.
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E-learning platforms and models are useful methods for educating gatekeepers in suicide prevention. This paper describes a general model for carrying out the design, development, and conduct of training courses for health professionals in suicide prevention, using a Learning Management platform (LMS). The presented model is novel including aspects...
Background: Offering follow-up and care in their treatment to people with suicidal intentions, is a challenge for health professionals in conjunction with experts in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). That is why, in a joint will through the use of mobile applications as a technological resource, efforts are conducted to carry out the...
During the first confinement in Spain, between the months of March to June 2020, Information and Communication Technologies strategies were implemented in order to support health workers in the Wellbeing of Mental Health. Faced with so much uncertainty about the pandemic, an Online Mindfulness course. The objective of the course was to support heal...
Suicide was the main source of death from external causes in Spain in 2020, with 3,941 cases. The importance of identifying those mental disorders that influenced hospital readmissions will allow us to manage the health care of suicidal behavior. The feature selection of each hospital in this region was carried out by applying Machine learning (ML)...
Suicide is one of the most important public health problems. The implementation of suicide prevention strategies depends on the region, available resources, willingness of stakeholders, and policies. This study considers the strategy of Castilla y León (CyL) in Spain designing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to aid suicide preventi...
The use of artificial intelligence in health care has grown quickly. In this sense, we present our work related to the application of Natural Language Processing techniques, as a tool to analyze the sentiment perception of users who answered two questions from the CSQ-8 questionnaires with raw Spanish free-text. Their responses are related to mindf...
The aim of this study was to build a tool to analyze, using artificial intelligence, the sentiment perception of users who answered two questions from the CSQ – 8 questionnaires with raw Spanish free-text. Their responses are related to mindfulness, which is a novel technique used to control stress and anxiety caused by different factors in daily l...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report in 2016, around 800,000 of individuals have committed suicide. Moreover, suicide is the second cause of unnatural death in people between 15 and 29 years. This paper reviews state of the art on the literature concerning the use of machine learning methods for suicide detection on social networ...
Background: Employing software engineering to build an integrated, standardized, and scalable solution is closely associated with the healthcare domain. Furthermore, new diagnostic techniques have been developed to obtain better results in less time, saving costs, and bringing services closer to the most unprotected areas.
Objective: This paper pr...
Depression is one of the most important causes of disability due to illness in our environment. The primary care health system receives a high percentage of this consultation about psychological distress. Often this end in a pharmacological overtreatment in patients with mild depression, due to a lack of access to alternative tools for management....
In this opportunity, we present the Development of a model to train mental health staff in the prevention of suicide. This paper describes a general model for carrying out the design, development, and conduct of training courses for health professionals using e-learning and a learning management (LMS) platform. The model presented is novel in the s...
Este artículo presenta los resultados relacionados con la aplicación comparativa de dos herramientas de evaluación que son: las prácticas grupales de problemas y la aplicación de exámenes cortos a estudiantes de la asignatura tópicos de actualización tecnológica, siendo estos alumnos de IV año de ingeniería electromecánica de la Facultad de Ingenie...
This paper presents the results of a comparison between two evaluation tools: group problem solving and short quizzes to students of the course Special Topics in Technology from Electro mechanical Engineering in the College of Electrical Engineering, and in the course Experimental Design to students of Forest Engineering at the College of Science a...
RESUMEN-Este artículo presenta la importancia del acceso a la información, muestra el concepto de datos abiertos, las demandas gobiernos a las universidades y plantea un propuesta de gobierno abierto. Es por ello, que el objetivo de este artículo es mostrar los procesos utilizados para estructurar, centralizar y visibilizar los contenidos de invest...
BACKGROUND
Offering follow-up and care in their treatments to people with suicidal intentions, is a challenge for health professionals in conjunction with experts in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). That is why, in a joint will through the use of mobile applications as a technological resource, efforts are conducted to carry out the...
Background:
Provision of follow-up and care during treatment of people with suicidal intentions is a challenge for health professionals and experts in information and communications technology (ICT). Therefore, health professionals and ICT experts are making efforts to carry out these activities in collaboration by using mobile apps as a technolog...
Este artículo presenta tanto una metodología tutorial puesta en práctica como los resultados obtenidos de las acciones de tutoriales durante el desarrollo de un proyecto final de la asignatura Tópicos de Actualización Tecnológica para estudiantes de IV año de Ingeniería Electromecánica en la Facultad de Ingeniería Eléctrica de la Universidad Tecnol...
Este artículo se presentó una metodología tutorial puesta en práctica y los resultados obtenidos de las acciones de tutoriales durante y posteriores al desarrollo de un proyecto final de la asignatura Tópicos de Actualización Tecnológica para estudiantes de IV año de Ingeniería Electromecánica en la Facultad de Ingeniería Eléctrica de la Universida...
Currently, with the widespread penetration of mobile devices with Internet access, including the smartphones, they can allow specific and/or complementary activities in the health field as well as in other commercial sectors. To verify the impact of the studies about medical scientific publications relatives to cardiac mobile applications (app). Th...
Currently, with the widespread penetration of mobile devices with Internet access,
including the smartphones, they can allow specific and/or complementary activities in the health
field as well as in other commercial sectors. To verify the impact of the studies about medical
scientific publications relatives to cardiac mobile applications (app). Th...
Abstract– The following article corresponds to a proposal of automation of document management in the Department of Culture of the Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí (Ecuador). This article is divided into introduction, context and state of the art, objectives and work methodology, specific development of the contribution, discussion and resul...
During the last years, there has been an increasing interest for the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) communications, since life expectancy and population aging have been incrementing thanks to the advances in medicine and health care. This paper presents an academic literature review of the use of RFID and NFC technologies for AAL communications and...
In the last years, handheld devices have experienced an incredible boost and expansion and that expansion has propitiated the creation of a new software industry of mobile apps. These devices and apps are used in every aspect of life, including one of the most important, like is health care. This paper presents the development and QoE evaluation of...
Background: Suicide is the second cause of death in young people. The use of technologies as tools facilitates the detection of individuals at risk of suicide thus allowing early intervention and efficacy.
Objective: Suicide can be prevented in many cases. Technology can help people at risk of suicide and their families. It could prevent situations...
Health monitoring of patients has been proposed to reduce health care expenses by managing chronic conditions, resulting fewer hospitalizations and improving patients' quality of life. Thus health monitoring of patients can be applied at any time at any location. Pervasive health care monitoring has the advantages of reduced medical costs, increase...
En este artículo se presenta los resultados de una experiencia de evaluación de los trabajos finales de la asignatura Tópicos de Actualización Tecnológica impartida a los estudiantes de IV año de la carrera de Ingeniería Electromecánica de la Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá. Dicha experiencia corresponde a la presentación de un póster o afiche ci...
Los resultados presentados en este manuscrito corresponden a las experiencias de evaluación de los proyectos finales de la asignatura titulada Tópicos de Actualización tecnológica durante los años 2014, 2015 y 2016 para estudiantes de IV año de ingeniería electromecánica de la Facultad de Ingeniería Eléctrica de la Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá...
In recent years, thanks to the progress of electronics and computing, it is possible to process a large volume of clinical data. As a result of this scenario, real world data (RWD) are gaining enormous relevance. RWD are the data, whose origin is the usual clinical practice, used to make medical decisions about drugs or medical practice. This resea...
El objetivo es presentar los principales buscadores de acceso libre y gratuito, como por ejemplo, PATENTSCOPE de la OMPI y Google Patents. También se persigue verificar el sistema de recuperación de información, el cual busca transformar la necesidad de información del usuario en una lista o colección de documentos cuyo contenido satisfaga esa nece...
In recent years, thanks to the progress of electronics and computing, it is possible to process a large volume of clinical data. As a result of this scenario, real world data (RWD) are gaining enormous relevance. RWD are the data, whose origin is the usual clinical practice, used to make medical decisions about drugs or medical practice. This resea...
Background: The best manner to prevent suicide is to recognize suicidal signs and signals, and know how to respond to them.
Objective: We aim to study the existing mobile apps for suicide prevention in the literature and the most commonly used virtual stores.
Methods: Two reviews were carried out. The first was done by searching the most commonly u...
Es necesario un cambio cultural que afecte a toda la sociedad donde todo el mundo sea consciente de la importancia de los RWD.
Tenemos que aumentar la disponibilidad y accesibilidad de los datos.
Debemos incentivar la investigación clínica en efectividad comparada y seguridad.
Hay que fortalecer el rol del paciente para que participe en la recolecc...
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Esta investigación presenta una revisión de la literatura y los proyectos de salud en Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (TIC’s) en Panamá. La principal contribución es aportar una visión de la situación del país, permitiendo comprender la dinámica de las políticas de salud y cómo han afectado...
This paper presents a review about Information and
Communications Technologies (ICTs) health projects in
Panama. The main contribution is to provide a vision of the
situation in Panama, allowing an understanding of the dynamics
of health policies and how they have affected the implementation
of ICT’s Projects to improve the health of
Panamanians. W...
La congestión vehicular de las urbes produce pérdidas anuales en millones de dólares, afectando sensitivamente la productividad. Los beneficios sociales de los sistemas masivos de transporte público producen un impacto positivo en la dinámica de las áreas metropolitanas. En este trabajo se presentan resultados relativos al ahorro de tiempos de viaj...
Resumen En este trabajo de investigación se analizan algunas de las externalidades de corte económico generadas por la Línea 1 del Metro en la Ciudad de Panamá. La congestión vehicular de las urbes produce pérdidas anuales en millones de dólares, afectando sensitivamente la productividad.Los beneficios sociales de los sistemas masivos de transporte...