Leveraging Social Supports for Improving Personal Expertise on ACL Reconstruction and Rehabilitation
Author(s) -
Jinye Peng,
Naiquan Zheng,
Jianping Fan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
ieee journal of biomedical and health informatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.293
H-Index - 125
eISSN - 2168-2208
pISSN - 2168-2194
DOI - 10.1109/titb.2012.2226737
Subject(s) - bioengineering , communication, networking and broadcast technologies , components, circuits, devices and systems , computing and processing , signal processing and analysis
In this paper, a social health support system is developed to assist both anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) patients and clinicians on making better decisions and choices for ACL reconstruction and rehabilitation. By providing a good platform to enable more effective sharing of personal expertise and ACL treatments, our social health support system can allow: 1) ACL patients to identify the best matching social groups and locate the most suitable expertise for personal health management; and 2) clinicians to easily locate the best matching ACL patients and learn from well-done treatments, so that they can make better decisions for new ACL patients (who have similar ACL injuries and close social principles with those best matching ACL patients) and prescribe safer and more effective knee rehabilitation treatments.
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