{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,28]],"date-time":"2025-10-28T15:00:39Z","timestamp":1761663639289,"version":"3.41.2"},"reference-count":29,"publisher":"Emerald","issue":"7","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,14]],"date-time":"2017-08-14T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1502668800000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/site-policies"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["IMDS"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,14]]},"abstract":"<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Purpose<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>In view of the elderly caregiving service being in high demand nowadays, the purpose of this paper is to develop an intelligent e-healthcare system for the domestic care industry by using the Internet of Things (IoTs) and Fuzzy Association Rule Mining (FARM) approach.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The IoTs connected with the e-healthcare system collect real-time vital sign monitoring data for the e-healthcare system. The FARM approach helps to identify the hidden relationships between the data records in the e-healthcare system to support the elderly care management tasks.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>To evaluate the proposed system and approach, a case study was carried out to identify the association between the specific collected demographic data, behavior data and the health measurements data in the e-healthcare system. It is found that the discovered rules are useful for the care management tasks in the elderly healthcare service.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Knowledge discovery in databases uses various data mining techniques and rule-based artificial intelligence algorithms. This paper demonstrates complete processes on how an e-healthcare system connected with IoTs can support the elderly care services via a data collection phase, data analysis phase and data reporting phase by using the FARM to evaluate the fuzzy sets of the data attributes. The caregivers can use the discovered rules for proactive decision support of healthcare services and to improve the overall service quality by enhancing the elderly healthcare service responsiveness.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/imds-08-2016-0342","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,7,3]],"date-time":"2017-07-03T07:51:12Z","timestamp":1499068272000},"page":"1426-1445","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["Development of an intelligent e-healthcare system for the domestic care industry"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"117","author":[{"given":"Bennie","family":"Wong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"G.T.S.","family":"Ho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Eric","family":"Tsui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2020120613334610100_ref001","first-page":"382","article-title":"Causal association mining for detection of adverse drug reactions","year":"2015","journal-title":"Computing Communication Control and Automation"},{"issue":"17","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref002","first-page":"904","article-title":"Elderly people health monitoring system using fuzzy rule based approach","volume":"4","year":"2014","journal-title":"International Journal of Advanced Computer Research"},{"issue":"6","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref003","first-page":"427","article-title":"The influence of obesity, alcohol abuse, and smoking on utilization of health care services","volume":"38","year":"2006","journal-title":"Fam Med Health Services Research"},{"issue":"17","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref004","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6928","DOI":"10.1016\/j.eswa.2013.06.025","article-title":"Fuzzy association rule mining approaches for enhancing prediction performance","volume":"40","year":"2013","journal-title":"Expert Systems with Applications"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref005","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"591","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1742-1241.2008.01986.x","article-title":"In-hospital mortality and morbidity of elderly medical patients can be predicted at admission by the modified early warning score: a prospective study","volume":"63","year":"2009","journal-title":"The International Journal of Clinical Practice"},{"key":"key2020120613334610100_ref006","unstructured":"Census and Statistics Department (2015), \u201cPattern of smoking (Hong Kong)\u201d, available at: www.censtatd.gov.hk\/hkstat\/sub\/sp380.jsp?productCode=FA100058 (accessed January 31, 2016)."},{"key":"key2020120613334610100_ref007","unstructured":"Census and Statistics Department (2016), \u201cPopulation aged 15 by educational attainment and sex (Hong Kong)\u201d, available at: www.censtatd.gov.hk\/FileManager\/EN\/Content_1149\/T03_01_01A.xls (accessed January 31, 2016)."},{"key":"key2020120613334610100_ref008","unstructured":"Centre for Health Protection (2010), \u201cStatistics on behavioural risk factors\u201d, April, available at: www.chp.gov.hk\/en\/data\/4\/10\/280\/427.html (accessed February 29, 2016)."},{"key":"key2020120613334610100_ref009","unstructured":"Centre for Health Protection (2014), \u201cStatistics on behavioural risk factors\u201d, April, available at: www.chp.gov.hk\/en\/data\/1\/10\/280\/4026.html (accessed March 31, 2016)."},{"issue":"18","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref010","first-page":"6047","article-title":"Efficient mining of association rules for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer\u2019s disease","volume":"56","year":"2011","journal-title":"IOPscience"},{"key":"key2020120613334610100_ref011","unstructured":"Department of Health and Human Services (n.d.), \u201cNorton pressure sore risk assessment scale scoring system\u201d, available at: www.health.vic.gov.au\/__data\/assets\/file\/0010\/233668\/Norton-scale.pdf (accessed February 2016)."},{"key":"key2020120613334610100_ref012","unstructured":"Financial Secretary\u2019s Office HKSAR (2013), \u201cThird quarter economic report 2013\u201d, [Online], available at: www.hkeconomy.gov.hk\/en\/pdf\/er_13q3.pdf (accessed August 1, 2016)."},{"issue":"10","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref013","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"9054","DOI":"10.1016\/j.eswa.2012.02.047","article-title":"Using a Fuzzy association rule mining approach to identify the financial data association","volume":"39","year":"2012","journal-title":"Expert Systems With Applications"},{"issue":"2","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref014","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"255","DOI":"10.1016\/S0165-0114(02)00272-5","article-title":"Fuzzy data mining for interesting generalized association rules","volume":"138","year":"2003","journal-title":"Fuzzy Sets and Systems"},{"key":"key2020120613334610100_ref015","first-page":"586","article-title":"Efficient data mining method to predict the risk of heart diseases through frequent itemsets","year":"2015","journal-title":"Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Eco-friendly Computing and Communication Systems"},{"first-page":"1402","article-title":"Use of cumulative information estimations for risk assessment of heart failure patients","year":"2014","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref016"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref017","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"37","DOI":"10.1620\/tjem.203.37","article-title":"Reliability and validity of the multidimensional health locus of control scale in Japan: relationship with demographic factors and health-related behavior","volume":"203","year":"2004","journal-title":"The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine"},{"issue":"2","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref018","article-title":"Fuzzy association rule mining for fashion product development","volume":"115","year":"2015","journal-title":"Industrial Management & Data Systems"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref019","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"41","DOI":"10.1007\/s13246-011-0054-8","article-title":"Using Fuzzy association rule mining in cancer classification","volume":"34","year":"2011","journal-title":"Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref020","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"190","DOI":"10.1016\/j.archger.2011.07.015","article-title":"Health and nursing problems of elderly patients related to bio-psycho-social need deficiencies and functional assessment","volume":"55","year":"2012","journal-title":"Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics"},{"issue":"7","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref021","first-page":"216","article-title":"Application of Fuzzy association rule mining for analysis students academic performance","volume":"9","year":"2012","journal-title":"Internation Journal of Computer Science"},{"issue":"6","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref022","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1639","DOI":"10.1093\/ije\/dys210","article-title":"The World Health Organization Study on global AGEing and adult health","volume":"41","author":"the SAGE Collaborators","year":"2012","journal-title":"International Journal of Epidemiology"},{"issue":"6","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref023","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"519","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jjcc.2016.01.017","article-title":"Norton scale for predicting prognosis in elderly patients undergoing trans-catheter aortic valve implantation: a historical prospective study","volume":"67","year":"2016","journal-title":"Journal of Cardiology"},{"key":"key2020120613334610100_ref024","unstructured":"Social Welfare Department (2014), \u201cOld age living allowance (Hong Kong)\u201d, February, available at: www.swd.gov.hk\/oala\/index_e.html (accessed March 31, 2016)."},{"issue":"5","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref025","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"33","DOI":"10.5120\/821-1163","article-title":"Using associative classifiers for predictive analysis in health care data mining","volume":"4","year":"2010","journal-title":"International Journal of Computer Applications"},{"key":"key2020120613334610100_ref026","first-page":"81","article-title":"IoT as a service system for eHealth","year":"2013","journal-title":"IEEE e-Health Networking, Applications & Services (Healthcom)"},{"issue":"6","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref027","first-page":"571","article-title":"The value of modified early warning score (MEWS) in surgical in-patients: a prospective observational study","volume":"88","year":"2006","journal-title":"US National Library of Medicine"},{"first-page":"1758","article-title":"A proposed architectural model for vital sign monitoring system","year":"2015","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref028"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2020120613334610100_ref029","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2180","DOI":"10.1109\/TII.2014.2307795","article-title":"A Health-IoT platform based on the integration of intelligent packaging, unobtrusive bio-sensor, and intelligent medicine box","volume":"10","year":"2014","journal-title":"IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics"}],"container-title":["Industrial Management &amp; Data Systems"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/content\/doi\/10.1108\/IMDS-08-2016-0342\/full\/xml","content-type":"application\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/content\/doi\/10.1108\/IMDS-08-2016-0342\/full\/html","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,24]],"date-time":"2025-07-24T21:53:02Z","timestamp":1753393982000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/www.emerald.com\/imds\/article\/117\/7\/1426-1445\/187193"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,14]]},"references-count":29,"journal-issue":{"issue":"7","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,14]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1108\/IMDS-08-2016-0342"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/imds-08-2016-0342","relation":{},"ISSN":["0263-5577"],"issn-type":[{"type":"print","value":"0263-5577"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,14]]}}}