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Discovering Key Topics in Emergency Medical Dispatch from Free Text Dispatcher Observations
The objective of this work was to discover key topics latent in free text dispatcher observations registered during emergency medical calls. We used a total of 1374931 independent retrospective cases from the Valencian emergency medical dispatch service in Spain, from 2014 to 2019. Text fields were preprocessed to reduce vocabulary size and filter noise, removing accent and punctuation marks, along with uninformative and infrequent words. Key topics were inferred from the multinomial probabilities over words conditioned on each topic from a Latent Dirichlet Allocation model, trained following an online mini-batch variation...
Source: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics - May 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pablo Ferri Carlos S áez Antonio F élix-De Castro Purificaci ón Sánchez-Cuesta Juan M Garc ía-Gómez Source Type: research

Spanish company testing stretcher with wireless heart monitor
A Spanish startup company is testing and pursuing regulatory approval for a wireless stretcher that allows for continuous monitoring of heart and stroke patients even when patients are being moved. Imaxdi, based in Vigo, Spain, has embedded its own, patented heart monitoring technology into a stretcher and has been testing prototypes for about six months [...]
Source: mobihealthnews - July 2, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Neil Versel Tags: Uncategorized digital health Europe emergency care Europe mHealth health startups heart monitor Imaxdi mBeat remote vital signs wireless stretcher Source Type: news