Miguel Lopez-Coronado

• PhD
• Profesor ad honorem at European University of the Atlantic

IPTVCARE es una plataforma en la nube consecuencia del proyecto europeo WeTakeCare: Collaborative interaction in caring & training to improve the autonomy in Activities of Daily Living (2013-2016) http://wetakecare.ibv.org/ Este proyecto ha sido financiado con por el Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). Joint Programme: Call 5, ICT-based Solutions for S...

Despite the increasing demand for artificial intelligence research in medicine, the functionalities of his methods in health emergency remain unclear. Therefore, the authors have conducted this systematic review and a global overview study which aims to identify, analyse, and evaluate the research available on different platforms, and its implement...

IPTVCare es un sistema multimodal, interactivo accesible, usable, adaptativo, gamificado y colaborativo que facilita la capacitación online y la mejora de la autonomía en las actividades de la vida diaria, ADL (Activities of Daily Living) para personas mayores independientes y sus cuidadores. IPTVCare está construido principalmente por soluciones d...

TELEDU es un ecosistema compuesto por una serie de componentes software y hardware que permite usar los recursos de Internet a través de la TV Digital Interactiva (iDTV) sin necesidad de estar continuamente conectado a Internet, es decir, este ecosistema está indicado para usuarios que no tienen Internet de banda ancha en casa, aunque es necesario...

The main objective of this paper is to present a systematic analysis and review of the state of the art regarding the prediction of absenteeism and temporary incapacity using machine learning techniques. Moreover, the main contribution of this research is to reveal the most successful prediction models available in the literature. A systematic revi...

Mental Health disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, and dementia have a great impact on society worldwide. Recent developments have witnessed numerous advances in telemedicine that allow remote monitoring of elderly people with diseases of this pathology. One of key factors influencing recent advances in health information systems is the use...

Investigación sobre innovación

Los beneficios de la gamificación, como instrumento pedagógico para la motivación de los alumnos en su proceso de aprendizaje, están sobradamente demostrados. Este enfoque lúdico, basado en la competitividad que ofrece el juego, persigue el interés del discente por la materia, colocándole en un rol más activo y estimulándole a través de recompensas...

The most common dementia in developed countries is Alzheimer's Disease. Among other risk factors, age stands out. Prevention is important because both the genetics of each person and aging have their influence, although there are other factors that can change the likelihood of suffering Alzheimer's. That is why it is necessary to raise awareness am...

Mental Health disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, and dementia have a great impact on society worldwide. Recent developments have witnessed numerous advances in telemedicine that allow remote monitoring of elderly people with diseases of this pathology. One of key factors influencing recent advances in health information systems is the use...

Background Information and communications technologies are transforming our social interactions and life-styles. One of the most promising applications of information technology is healthcare and wellness management that characterized by early detection of conditions, prevention, and long-term healthcare management. Objective The main purpose of t...

Background: The blockchain technology has reached a great boom in the health sector, due to its importance to overcome interoperability and security challenges of the EHR and EMR systems in eHealth. Objective: The main objective of this work is to show a review of the existing research works in the literature, referring to the new blockchain techno...

In health, Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are one of the main sources. The main objective of this chapter is analyze techniques to help preserve privacy in ehealth and mHealth apps. Some of these techniques are data modification, cryptographic methods and protocols for data sharing and query auditing methods, between others. In the USA, healthcar...

Hoy en día, el uso de smartphones es algo que está totalmente extendido. La utilización habitual de estos dispositivos, junto a su facilidad de uso, ha dado lugar al desarrollo de numerosas apps. La evolución del uso de los smartphones y las apps ha permitido que se empleen más allá del ámbito social de las personas, apareciendo por ejemplo, apps d...

Introduction The telemedicine term represents the contribution of the new technology that combines knowledge exchange between health professionals and provides patients with access to quality services. Also, the adoption of new technology within a health organization is considered a significant change in the process [1,2]. e-Health is a fairly rece...

Introduction The telemedicine term represents the contribution of the new technology that combines knowledge exchange between health professionals and provides patients with access to quality services. Also, the adoption of new technology within a health organization is considered a significant change in the process [1,2]. e-Health is a fairly rece...

A regulatory regime is dynamic and adapts to all aspects of market evolution: infrastructure development, service catalogue, delivery conditions, market shares of operators and opportunities provided by technology. The present article analyses implications of the regulation of next generation networks (NGN) in two well-differentiated areas in Spain...

A regulatory regime is dynamic and adapts to all aspects of market evolution: infrastructure development, service catalogue, delivery conditions, market shares of operators and opportunities provided by technology. The present article analyses implications of the regulation of next generation networks (NGN) in two well-differentiated areas in Spain...

The provision of Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) is a mandatory requirement when transmitting telemedicine traffic, due to information relevance to maintain the patient’s health. The main objective of this paper is to present a review of existing research works in the literature, referring to QoS and QoE in telemedicine and...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a set of metabolic disorders characterized by an increase of blood glucose. The management and progression of diabetes is linked to the behaviour of the patients, since to control their blood glucose levels they must perform a regular physical activity, control diet and weight, and if necessary use medication. Today the...

Background: Data Mining in medicine is an emerging field of great importance to provide a prognosis and deeper understanding of disease classification, specifically in Mental Health areas. Objective: The main objective of this paper is to present a review of the existing research works in the literature, referring to the techniques and algorithms...

El objetivo de este trabajo es motivar a los alumnos, convirtiendo en lúdico el proceso de aprendizaje a través de la gamificación como herramienta pedagógica, buscando interesar a los alumnos por la materia, e incentivándoles a través de un sistema de recompensas que se sumen en la nota final del curso. Para evaluar el nivel de conocimientos previ...

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: Traditional stress management techniques have been proven insufficient to tackle the needs of today’s population. Computational-based techniques and now mobile health (mHealth) apps are showing promise to enable ease of use and access while educating end users on self-management. Objective: The main aim of this paper was to put forward...

Background: Social robots are currently a form of assistive technology for the elderly, healthy, or with cognitive impairment, helping to maintain their independence and improve their well-being. Objective: The main aim of this article is to present a review of the existing research in the literature, referring to the use of social robots for pe...

El trastorno por déficit de atención con hiperactividad o TDAH es uno de los principales desórdenes psiquiátricos en niños de edad escolar. Se estima que entre el 5-15% de niños sufre de este trastorno. Actualmente, gracias a los avances tecnológicos existen herramientas que permiten reconocer gestos humanos como movimientos oculares, voz, etc. A t...

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...

This project aims to test different health self-management solutions fully integrated in the whole telemedicine framework:  Biomedical sensors  Mobile data gateway/client-patient side  Database/server side  Clinical applications/caregivers side  Platform divided into modules shaped on their specific needs and mental diseases (mainly depression...

”Cuida tu corazón” es una app móvil desarrollada en el SSOO iOS, cuenta con una amplia información para el usuario y permite autogestionar las enfermedades cardiacas...

Las enfermedades cardiovasculares son la primera causa de muerte y discapacidad en Estados Unidos y de la mayoría de países europeos. En este trabajo se muestra el desarrollo de una app móvil “Cuida tu corazón”. Esta app trata de ayudar a personas con hayan sido sometidas a una intervención quirúrgica cardiaca, informándoles sobre diferentes aspect...

The main objective of this paper is to present a review of existing researches in the literature, referring to Big Data sources and techniques in health sector and to identify which of these techniques are the most used in the prediction of chronic diseases. Academic databases and systems such as IEEE Xplore, Scopus, PubMed and Science Direct were...

In recent years, medicine has seen how technology was going day by day more present to become necessary. At the same time, security became a critical aspect, since private patient medical data are handled. In this field in which gather mobile technologies with medicine, security has great importance. Therefore, it is essential to conduct security a...

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...

La función principal de la aplicación Cuida tu corazón será proporcionar a los usuarios con enfermedades y condiciones del corazón un medio para llevar un mejor control y gestión de las mismas y, por tanto, mejorar su calidad de vida. La aplicación consta principalmente de un calendario en donde se podrán registrar actividades relacionados con su c...

This edited volume is composed of fifteen chapters and covers topics such as educational robotics, mobile applications in the classroom, teaching-learning methodologies and virtual environments, ecology, education in values and emotional intelligence.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a brain disorder marked by an ongoing pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that affects with development or functioning. It affects 3–5% of all American and European children. The objective of this paper is to develop and test a dual system for the rehabilitation of cognitive fun...

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...

Modern-day society has moved towards a more sedentary lifestyle. Advances in technology and changes in habits in our daily lives have led a large part of the population towards a spiralling sedentary lifestyle and obesity. The main objective of this work is to develop and subsequently assess a mobile app, named DietApp, that provides advice about o...

Decision support systems (DSS) are increasingly demanded due that diagnosis is one of the main activities that physicians accomplish every day. This fact seems critical when primary care physicians deal with uncommon problems belonging to specialized areas. The main objective of this paper is the development and user evaluation of a mobile DSS for...

This article has the objective of obtaining detailed knowledge on the regulation of access to next generation networks (NGNs) and its effects on a specific country, specifically Spain, given that it can be used as a reference to gain a better perspective and draw several conclusions on what has been a global pursuit during a key period of time, 200...

Introduction: For a cloud-based telecardiology solution on the cloud to be established in any scenario, it is necessary to ensure optimum levels of security, as patients’ data will not be in the same place from where access is gained. The main objective of this paper is to present secure cloud-based solutions for a telecardiology service in differe...

This paper aims to evaluate OphthalDSS, a new mobile Decision Support System (DSS) for red eye diseases diagnosis, and presents the results after evaluating the Quality of Experience (QoE) by medical students of the University of Valladolid, Spain. The main utilities that OphthalDSS offers, will be a study guide for physicians and medical students,...

The information stored in healthcare systems has increased over the last ten years, leading it to be considered Big Data. There is a wealth of health information ready to be analysed. However, the sheer volume raises a challenge for traditional methods. The aim of this article is to conduct a cutting-edge study on Big Data in healthcare from 2005 t...

Analyze the utility of a mobile health app named HeartKeeper in several groups of population and obtain conclusions to be applied to other similar apps. A questionnaire has been designed to evaluate the usage and utility of the HeartKeeper app. The questionnaire information was collected by collaborating cardiologists from 32 patients before and af...

Nowadays, there is a great opportunity for mobile Health using different devices and platforms. A significant number of Health applications have been already developed for those platforms. According to WHO's latest update (2004) of the Global Burden of Disease, between the most prevalent conditions are iron-deficiency anemia, hearing loss, migraine...

In developed countries heart failure is one of the most important causes of death, followed closely by strokes and other cerebrovascular diseases. It is one of the major healthcare issues in terms of increasing number of patients, rate of hospitalizations and costs. The main aim of this paper is to present telemedicine applications for monitoring a...

Being the third fastest-growing app category behind games and utilities, mHealth apps are changing the healthcare model, as medicine today involves the data they compile and analyse, information known as Big Data. However, the majority of apps are lacking in security when gathering and dealing with the information, which becomes a serious problem....

A good primary health care is the base for a better healthcare system. Taking a good decision on time by the primary health care physician could have a huge repercussion. In order to ease the diagnosis task arise the Decision Support Systems (DSS), which offer counselling instead of refresh the medical knowledge, in a profession where it is still l...

Objective: The main objective of this research was to develop and evaluate a Web-based mobile application (app) known as "Diario Diabetes" on both a technical and user level, by means of which individuals with diabetes may monitor their illness easily at any time and in any place using any device that has Internet access. Methods: The technologi...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common dementia in developed countries. Between the identified risk factors, one of the most important is the age. Its prevalence reaches 24 % in men and 33 % in women over 85 years. Increase in life expectancy, making it a serious public health problem. Prevention of Alzheimer’s disease represents a major chall...

Currently, many incomplete mobile apps can be found in the commercial stores, apps with bugs or low quality that needs to be seriously improved. The aim of this paper is to use two different tools for assessing the quality of a mHealth app for the self-management of heart diseases by the own patients named Heartkeeper. The first tool measures the c...

The combination of eHealth applications and/or services with cloud technology provides health care staff-with sufficient mobility and accessibility for them-to be able to transparently check any data they may need without having to worry about its physical location. The main aim of this paper is to put forward secure cloud-based solutions for a ran...

Health telematics is a growing up issue that is becoming a major improvement on patient lives, especially in elderly, disabled, and chronically ill. In recent years, information an d communication technologies improvements, along with mobile Internet, offering anywhere and anytime connectivity, play a key role on modern healthcare solutions. In thi...

Obesity that begins in childhood results in excess adult mortality estimated at between 50 and 80%. The medical community developed an understanding of obesity as a chronic condition that must be managed on an ongoing basis. An integrated system based on ICT, including games adapted to the age and profile of the children and youth can be the key to...

Objective: A systematic review of cost-utility and cost-effectiveness research works of telemedicine, electronic health (e-health), and mobile health (m-health) systems in the literature is presented. Materials and methods: Academic databases and systems such as PubMed, Scopus, ISI Web of Science, and IEEE Xplore were searched, using different c...

Este trabajo, realizado en colaboración con el grupo de investigación de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje por Tecnologías de la Comunicación (EATCO) del CITEC de la Universidad de Córdoba (UCO), dio lugar a una Patente de carácter nacional con examen previo. Se trata de un sistema de radar de alta precisión que ha supuesto una contribución al progreso del c...

The growing importance that mobile devices have in daily life has also reached health care and medicine. This is making the paradigm of health care change and the concept of mHealth or mobile health more relevant, whose main essence is the apps. This new reality makes it possible for doctors who are not specialist to have easy access to all the inf...

In a world where the industry of mobile applications is continuously expanding and new health care apps and devices are created every day, it is important to take special care of the collection and treatment of users’ personal health information. However, the appropriate methods to do this are not usually taken into account by apps designers and in...

Gamification can provide new perspectives to help training people with Alzheimer and their caregivers. In this paper is shown the technical and social feasibility of launching on the market a serious game for training of Alzheimer`s caregivers. A use case in the north of Spain has been selected. Before that, a state of art of serious games in the f...

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Gamification can help training people with Alzheimer and their caregivers. In this paper are shown the benefits of gamification for this group of people and the technical and social feasibility of launching a game on the market. A Use Case in the north of Spain has been selected. A deep study about the state of the art in gamification and dementia...

Currently, cardiovascular diseases are the deadliest diseases with a total of 17 million deaths worldwide. Hence, they are the focus of many mobile applications for smartphones and tablets. This paper will assess the ex-ante economic impact as well as will determine the cost-effectiveness analysis that the use of one of this app, CardioManager, by...

Nowadays, there is no doubt that information technology (IT) is an essential driving force for the company’s development, unquestionably aiding the same in improving its competitiveness. However, small and medium-sized enterprises have difficulties in deciding on the best strategy to implement the aforementioned technologies. The present article pr...